In 2012, investigators seemingly brought long-awaited closure to one of the nation's oldest and most high-profile kidnapping cases, solving it after more than 50 years. But less than five years after ...

Jack McCullough had been found guilty in the 2012 murder of Maria Ridulph, who was kidnapped December 3, 1957 while playing in the snow outside her home. An Illinois man wrongfully convicted of the ...

In 2012, investigators seemingly brought long-awaited closure to one of the nation's oldest and most high-profile kidnapping cases, solving it after more than 50 years. But less than five years after ...

DeKalb County’s chief prosecutor is again seeking to strike efforts to have his decisions reviewed in the 1957 murder of a Sycamore girl whose convicted killer was freed after the prosecutor dismissed ...

(CBS) - Steal a necklace and hide out long enough: you can't be prosecuted. Time limits on the filing of criminal charges, known as "Statutes of Limitations," vary from state to state and from crime ...

The murder of young Maria Ridulph almost 60 years ago became further cemented as a cold case Friday when a DeKalb County judge declined a bid to review decisions that freed the man convicted of the ...

CHICAGO — A judge on Friday ordered an Illinois man, convicted in 2012 for kidnapping and murdering a 7-year-old girl in 1957, to be released from prison and his life sentence annulled based on ...

Thursday's testimony began with yet another jailhouse informant claiming that McCullough shared details about the murder of Maria Ridulph with him LAST YEAR AND admitted to killing her. "No matter ...

The Illinois special prosecutor investigating whether authorities manipulated evidence to convict an innocent man of a 1957 child murder soon may be answering to a special prosecutor himself. Brian ...