"Nostalgia" and flimsy evidence led to guilty verdicts in the nation's oldest cold case ever solved, according to the man serving a life sentence for kidnapping and murdering a neighbor's child in ...

SYCAMORE, Ill. (AP) – For most of five decades, it seemed no one would ever be held accountable for the murder of a 7-year-old Illinois girl snatched off a small-town street corner as she played. Now, ...

SYCAMORE, Ill. (AP) — Testimony ended Thursday in the trial of a man charged in the 1957 murder of an Illinois girl, and both sides rested after four days focused on childhood memories and a deathbed ...

SYCAMORE, Ill. (AP) — A 76-year-old man from Washington state who a prosecutor says was wrongly convicted in the abduction and killing of a 7-year-old Illinois schoolgirl in 1957 will be released from ...

Over the years, evidence decays or passes through so many hands it’s rendered useless. Murder weapons disappear, and witnesses’ memories dim or are carried to the grave. Those are the kinds of ...

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A Seattle man accused of killing a 7-year-old girl in 1957 waived extradition on Wednesday and will be returned to Illinois to face a murder charge. Jack McCullough, a 71-year-old ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SYCAMORE, Ill. — Jack McCullough is innocent ...

SYCAMORE (AP) — A 72-year-old man was convicted Friday in the 1957 murder of a 7-year-old girl, with spectators letting out a deafening cheer as the verdict was announced in one of the oldest unsolved ...

SYCAMORE, Ill. (AP) — A defense attorney for a man convicted in the 1957 murder of a 7-year-old Illinois girl has filed a motion asking for the conviction to be overturned and for a new trial. A judge ...

The city of Seattle has paid $300,000 to settle a lawsuit filed against the Police Department and detectives who helped investigate and arrest a Seattle man accused in the abduction and murder of a ...

CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois judge vacated the conviction of a 76-year-old man in a 1957 killing and ordered his immediate release from prison Friday, meaning that one of the oldest cold cases to be ...