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Police: Train ticket helps crack 1957 Ill. killing
Associated Press ^
| July 2, 2011
| BARBARA RODRIGUEZ
Posted on 07/03/2011 3:49:17 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: Cicero
He went on to be a cop, maybe his father was a cop?
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posted on
07/03/2011 5:55:12 PM PDT
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
To: EternalVigilance
She found an unused train ticket from Rockford to Chicago dated the day the girl went missing.
Something tells me that this woman knew about the ticket and about the man's possible connection to the dead little girl. She probably had her suspicions.
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posted on
07/03/2011 6:12:34 PM PDT
by
adorno
To: EternalVigilance
Something doesn't sound right. The alibi was that he got on a train to chicago for a doctors appointment for a military physical, called his girlfriend collect from Chicago, took the paperwork back to Rockford, Dad drove him home from Rockford, all on the day of the murder.
However, the police fail to check the train, fail to check the doctor's office to see if he was there, fail to check the recruiter, fail to check phone records. But over 50 years later, the police do a follow-up interview with the ex-girlfriend for an old picture and the unused train ticket magically falls out of the frame.
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posted on
07/03/2011 6:31:37 PM PDT
by
Ophiucus
To: Ophiucus
Can’t understand why they never showed the picture to the girls friend.
Anyway ,back in the day the way to deal with this would have been to leave a pistol with one bullet in it for the perp.
Today such things don’t happen, but I would see to it that he had access to a nice piece of rope in his cell. Even now he might do the right thing.
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posted on
07/03/2011 6:50:19 PM PDT
by
Venturer
To: EternalVigilance
To: Venturer
That too... It doesn’t make sense. Too much incompetence for this story to be complete.
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posted on
07/03/2011 7:03:06 PM PDT
by
Ophiucus
To: EternalVigilance
December 3, 1957--"You Send Me" by Sam Cooke, "April Love" by Pat Boone, and "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley topped the popular music charts, Iran, Libya and Cuba were US allies, Vanguard I was being prepared to blast off into space from Cape Canaveral, and Ayn Rand's bestseller Atlas Shrugged (New York: Random House, 1957) was drawing cheers from Human Events and jeers from National Review
To: 1rudeboy
we dont catch the smart ones.Chapman said police never showed her a photo of McCullough in the days and months after Maria was kidnapped.
And the stupid ones don't catch anyone.
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posted on
07/03/2011 7:33:09 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: boop
Per the link in post #6: He was 18 at the time and fit the description of the young man who approached Ridulph and an 8-year-old friend as they played outside near their homes.
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posted on
07/03/2011 7:34:09 PM PDT
by
elli1
To: Right Wing Assault
Dude, we are talking about Sycamore, Illinois. That’s Barney Fife territory.
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posted on
07/03/2011 7:39:21 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Ophiucus
"However, the police fail to check the train, fail to check the doctor's office to see if he was there, fail to check the recruiter, fail to check phone records."The report says this murderer became a cop. One of the Freepers surmised that probably his father was a cop. If that was the case then we know why no checking was done.
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posted on
07/03/2011 7:42:07 PM PDT
by
Spunky
( “To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abh)
To: EternalVigilance
hat a one-time neighbor had been charged in the kidnapping and killing that captured national attention, including that of the president and FBI chief. >>
what a story, glad the case was solved, as they say, it’s usually someone the victim knows or someone close to the family.
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posted on
07/03/2011 7:53:36 PM PDT
by
Coleus
(Adult Stem Cells Work, there is NO Need to Harvest Babies for Their Body Parts!)
To: Cicero
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I disagree ... "No one" is THAT dumb ...
Someone important was covering for Johnny Tressier ... pure and simple ...
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To: Patton@Bastogne
“Someone important was covering for Johnny Tressier ... pure and simple ... “
I think you hit it. He had a connection someplace that prevented an investigation. Small towns often have a “Boss Hogg” type that could quash something like a murder back then.
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posted on
07/03/2011 8:29:55 PM PDT
by
GenXteacher
(He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart!)
To: elli1
Thanks for the info. I guess he’ll die in prison.
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posted on
07/03/2011 8:46:56 PM PDT
by
boop
("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
To: EternalVigilance
That’s why I always burn unused train tickets. Just in case.
To: EternalVigilance
Great story. Give hope that the Jack Wheeler case will be solved.
To: trumandogz
if the perp showed the police his receipt for the train, they might have accepted it as proof....there were no computer records then...and thousands of people take the train.....and no video cameras either....
I'v be happier if they had some dna...
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posted on
07/03/2011 10:24:42 PM PDT
by
cherry
To: Ophiucus
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posted on
07/03/2011 11:00:38 PM PDT
by
Deo volente
(God willing, America will survive this Obamination.)
To: Spunky
If that was the case then we know why no checking was done. Not enough of a reason as if there was that much evidence, they wouldn't have covered.
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posted on
07/04/2011 1:20:58 AM PDT
by
Ophiucus
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