Maria Ridulph, the oldest, coldest case - conclusion

Already Gone Podcast

Nina Innsted

True Crime, Mystery, Missing, History, Murder, Truecrime, Unsolved

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🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In 1957 Maria Ridulph disappeared from Sycamore Illinois, her case captured the imagination of the nation, yet it remains unsolved.

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0:00.0	This is part two of the case of Maria Rudolph, a seven-year-old girl who vanished from
0:24.7	Sikamora, Illinois on a wintry evening in 1957. Her badly decomposed remains would be found
0:31.3	about a hundred miles from her home in April of 1958. Our story picks up about 40 years after
0:38.8	her murder, with the family of early suspect Johnny Tessier, now Jack McCullough, telling law
0:45.2	enforcement what they know and what they've heard about their older brothers' involvement in the case.
0:50.4	But before we continue delving in to Jack McCullough's potential involvement in the murder,
0:55.8	we need to talk again about William Henry Redmond. The suspect, who, in 1997, was considered the
1:03.5	prime candidate for having committed this crime. In fact, Lieutenant Solar, the investigator in charge
1:09.5	of the case labeled the Rudolph murder, closed but not solved. Only because Redmond died in 1992,
1:17.2	years before he could be thoroughly investigated for her murder. But a phone call from one of Jack
1:23.2	McCullough's sisters had investigators looking into the case once again, which leads us back to a 2008
1:29.6	interview with Jack's sister, Kathy. Kathy told police that in the days following the disappearance
1:35.9	of Maria, officers came by the house and asked if a Johnny lived there. Kathy said that her parents
1:42.4	told them yes and that her parents said that he had been home the entire evening of the third.
1:49.5	So what Kathy is saying is that her parents gave Jack an alibi, which is the opposite of what
1:54.7	they did when the FBI did show up. Her parents did not provide him an alibi. Her parents told them that
2:02.0	Jack was in Rockford, Illinois, getting his Air Force physical on the night of the third.
2:06.9	Regardless, Kathy said that when the police left, her parents turned to the children and said,
2:12.8	Jack had been there all night, remember? And they said it in a way that would convince the kids
2:18.0	that it was true. Then Kathy said that Ralph took Jack to Rockford and listed him in the Air Force and
2:24.2	shipped him out as quickly as he could, which again, we know is not true because Jack was already in
2:30.3	the process of enlisting in the Air Force in the days before Maria's kidnapping. And all of this
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