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Podcast: True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer
Episode: LAST MAN STANDING -- ok he was a real jerk, but he didn't do the crime. Great book by Alan R.Warren
Description: t was a shattering death bed confession by a heartbroken mother. But would it solve the oldest cold case murder case in American jurisprudence?
In January 1994, Eileen Tessier told Jack McCullough's half-sister Janet Tessier that he, her son, kidnapped 7-year-old Maria Ridulph from their neighborhood in Sycamore, Illinois and killed her in December 1957. It was a case that tore the child’s family apart, as well as dividing and terrifying the town as the days, then the months, and finally the years passed with no arrest.
In 2008 the Illinois State police reopened the case against Ja...