Jack Daniel McCullough Says Unused Train Ticket Doesn’t Prove He Committed Murder

This week Jack Daniel McCullough was arrested for the 57-year-old murder of 7-year-old Maria Ridulph in Sycamore, IL. Police say an unused train ticket to Chicago directly links the man to the crime and now McCullough is speaking out.

According to the accused murderer he didn’t use the train ticket because he received a ride from his stepfather that day so he could arrive on time to take military medical exams, noting “I have an iron-clad alibi.”

Currently residing in a Seattle jail McCullough says he received a partial ride home from someone he just met and called his stepfather from a pay phone to pick him up and take him the rest of the way home, phone records from the time do show that McCullough placed a two-minute call to his stepfather at 6:57pm which has led him to proclaim:

“How am I involved in a kidnapping at 6pm in Sycamore?” while he adds, “A fifth-grader can figure this out.”

The accused killer also says police can clear his name by checking military personnel records at the National Archives repository in St. Louis.