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Jack McCullough,
76, who was released from prison on Friday on the basis of
previously unknown evidence that pointed to his innocence, told
the AP he will sue the state for the suffering that five years
in prison caused him and his family.
A lawyer for McCullough, who was arrested and jailed in 2011 and
convicted the following year, declined to comment on the report.
Last week, DeKalb County Circuit Court Judge William Brady
granted McCullough's request for a new trial and annulled his
conviction. The judge ordered him to remain in Illinois while he
was free on bond.
McCullough was convicted of killing Maria Ridulph, who
disappeared in December 1957 while playing near her home in
Sycamore, Illinois, about 65 miles west of Chicago. Her body was
found about four months later and the case remained unsolved.
McCullough was a teenager when Ridulph went missing and was an
early suspect. He told investigators he was on a train from
Rockford in southern Illinois to Chicago when the girl
disappeared. He later joined the military, moved to Washington
state and became a policeman in Lacey, a town east of Olympia.
(Reporting by Mark Weinraub; Editing by Paul Simao)
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