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Jack McCullough (politician)

New Zealand tinsmith, trade unionist and political activist

John Alexander McCullough (17 January 1860 – 29 July 1947) was a New Zealand tinsmith, trade unionist and political activist.

Biography

He was born in Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland on 17 January 1860.[1]

He was elected a member of the Christchurch City Council from 1912 to 1917.[2]

The Riccarton electorate was contested by three candidates in the 1922 election. George Witty, the incumbent since the 1902 election,[3] was successful, with Bert Kyle coming second and McCullough coming third.[4] The First Labour Government appointed McCullough to the New Zealand Legislative Council on 9 March 1936. At the end of his seven-year term, he was reappointed on 9 March 1943. He remained a member until his death on 29 July 1947.[5]

He died in Christchurch on 29 July 1947 aged 87.[1]

See also

The 1908 Blackball miners' strike

References

77-year-old Belfast man set free in US after 1957 murder as alibi comes to light

Jack Daniel McCullough, a Belfast native, 77, who was convicted of the murder of Maria Ridulph, a 7-year old who was abducted on Dec. 3, 1957 as she played near her home in Sycamore, Illinois, was freed in April 2016 after new evidence was revealed.

The case was a sensation at the time with FBI Director J Edgar Hoover and President Eisenhower getting involved. A massive manhunt seeking the killer ended empty handed.

The crime occurred as Ridulph and a friend were playing under a streetlight and were approached by a man the friend recalled as "Johnny," authorities said. 

The friend left the scene to get mittens, but Maria accepted a piggyback ride from the man. When Maria's friend returned, the two were gone, authorities said.

The child's body was found almost five months later in a wooded area about 120 miles northwest of Sycamore. She had been stabbed to death.

The case was never solved but in an extraordinary twist, the case was re-opened as a cold case in 2011 and McCullough who was living in

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

4.75

Year Crime:

1957

Year Convicted:

2012

Year Cleared:

2016

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Illinois

County or Region of Crime:

DeKalb

City of Crime:

Sycamore

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

"Jack McCullough was 72 when he was wrongly convicted of murder on September 12, 2012 in the cold-case abduction of 7-year-old Maria Ridulph in Sycamore, Illinois on the evening of December 3, 1957 and her murder. Ridulph's body was found five months later in 1958. At the time of Ridulph's murder McCullough was 18 and living in Sycamore. McCullough was questioned by police, and he told them that on the evening of Ridulph's disappearance he was in Rockford, Illinois. Fifty-four years later, McCullough, who had moved to Washington state, was charged in 2011 for Ridulph's murder and extradicted

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