SEATTLE (AP) — The City of Seattle has paid $300,000 to settle a lawsuit filed against the Police Department and detectives who arrested a Seattle man accused in the murder of an Illinois child in 1957.
Former Washington police officer Jack McCullough was arrested in 2011 after Illinois prosecutors and detectives claimed to have new evidence implicating McCullough in the murder of Maria Ridulph. She disappeared from Sycamore, Illinois, and her remains were found in 1958 near Galena, Illinois.
McCullough was convicted in 2012 of murder and sentenced to life in prison. However, a new prosecutor concluded McCullough could not have committed the crime and eventually all charges were dismissed.