FILE - This July 27, 2011 file photo provided by the DeKalb County Sheriff's Department in Sycamore, Ill., shows Jack McCullough, of Seattle. On Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012, the defense rested its case on behalf of McCullough, 72, who is accused of killing 7-year-old Maria Ridulph, of Sycamore in 1957. McCullough was arrested in Seattle in 2011 and returned to Illinois.
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published Friday, September 14th, 2012
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SYCAMORE, Ill. — Closing arguments are expected Friday at the trial of a former police officer accused of killing an Illinois school girl in 1957 after kidnapping her as she played in a small-town street, marking one of the oldest cold-case murders to make it to court.
