Oldest Cold Case Closed After More Than 50 Years

Maria Ridulph vanished from her neighborhood street corner fifty five years ago. Jack Daniel McCullough was identified a couple of years ago, who went as John Tessier at the time. He was 17 years old when he kidnapped Maria. McCullough claimed he was framed by corrupt police, however, he was recently convicted of the abduction and murder of Maria. He was never a suspect because his alibi was that he was miles away at the time and left Sycamore, the town in which the kidnapping occurred, to join the Air Force and eventually the Army.The case went cold, but citizens of the town remembered Maria by putting up a monument in her honor. Maria Ridulph's mother, on her death bed, told Maria's younger sister that "John did it, and you have to tell someone" and the case was finally reopened in 2008. Investigators say this is the oldest cold case to be given a trial and lead to a conviction.


http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/10/justice/oldest-cold-case-sentencing/index.html?hpt=hp_t3