PRETTY Maria Ridulph's accused killer is 'absolutely' going to deny murdering the seven-year-old girl back in 1957 his lawyer has revealed..
Former cop, Jack Daniel McCollough, now 71, was a neighbor of the youngster in Sycamore, IL allagedly kidnapped and killed the youngster, after offering a piggy back ride.
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COPS have made an astonishing arrest in a murder case which is more than 50-years old. Back in December 1957 Maria Ridulph was playing with a friend outside her Sycamore, IL home when a young man walked up and introduce himself as "Johnny". She accepted piggyback rides from the mysterious stranger and her friend left her, playing with him. It was the last time the girl dubbed "Pretty Maria" by newspapers at the time, would be seen alive.
For the next five months, almost the entire 7000-strong community, searched alongside FBI agents for the girl but in in April 1958 their worst fears were realised when Maria’s decomposed remains turned up beneath an oak tree near Galena. Now more than half-a-century later