Welcome back to Missing. I am Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how are you today?

I'm doing pretty well today, Tim. The story that we are discussing today really leaves you with a lot

of questions, I guess, more than answers, but one question that needs an answer right now is how are you?

Oh, thank you very much for asking. I'm doing great. I'm excited to be here and talking about this case

with our friend Jennifer Amel, who's joining us for this one and this research was brought to us by

Marion White. So thank you very much, Marion. This is a great case to cover on this show. It's

very mysterious. A lot of twists. I had not heard of it either and yeah, I really appreciate

Marion bringing this one to us. The story is the murder of Maria Ridolph and this took place

in Sikamore, Illinois and she disappeared on December 3rd of 1957 at seven years old. She was

abducted and this spans the course of decades and decades generations and it's still in some way or

another continuing to play out today, which is really one of the most mind-boggling aspects of this

case. Yeah, really is Maria Elizabeth Ridolph disappeared on December 3rd, 1957, seven years old

at the time and she was found about five months after her disappearance murdered and there are

just a lot of twists in this case. There's at least a couple of suspects, one pretty good one

who even went to prison and will fully unpack this in the episode. I found it incredibly fascinating

when we were speaking about this that we started off in a period where there was no DNA where lie

detector tests were still sort of in their infancy, same thing with eyewitness accounts and etc etc.

And then you see how technology progresses and contributes to these results that play out as

the investigation continues over the course of decades. So that's a really fascinating element.

Also, check out the links to the sources that we have in the show notes, really good articles in

there, especially the one from the Daily Mail. And I know this case is from a while ago Lance, but

if anyone's got any information that can call Illinois Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.

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