In this episode, Payton and Garrett dive into the case of Maria Ridulph. A little girl who disappeared one night after playing with her friends. NEW MERCH LINK: https://mwmhshop.com Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/themwmh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/murderwithmyhusband/ Discount Codes: https://mailchi.mp/c6f48670aeac/oh-no-media-discount-codes Watch on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@murderwithmyhusband Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-dark/id1662304327 Listen on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/36SDVKB2MEWpFGVs9kRgQ7?si=f5224c9fd99542a7 Case sources: CBSNews.com - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jack-mccullough-man-wrongly-convicted-in-ill-girls-1957-murder-is-released/ https://www.cbsnews.com/video/extra-jack-mccullough-on-why-he-changed-his-name/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/maria-ridulph-murder-will-the-nations-oldest-cold-case-to-go-to-trial-ever-get-solved/ CNN.com - https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/08/us/oldest-cold-case/ DailyChronicle.com - https://web.archive.org/web/20130813071537/http://www.daily-chronicle.com/mobile/article.xml/articles/2011/07/07/99996529/index.xml NBC.com - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/72-year-old-ex-cop-convicted-slaying-illinois-girl-1957-flna998974 The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/us/maria-ridulphs-killer-gets-life-55-years-after-her-death.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes The Pittsburg Press - https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19580427&id=Fw0fAAAAIBAJ&pg=7248,3139354 The National Registry of Exonerations - https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=4875 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Who was Maria Ridulph?
So it's around this time as they're playing Duck the Cars that a young blonde man approaches the two little girls. The man then told them his name was Johnny and asked if either of them wanted a piggyback ride. So Maria is like, heck yes, adult Johnny.
What the freak, Johnny?
I would like a piggyback ride. So Johnny carries her up and down the street. She was laughing the entire way. And when they get back, Maria decided she wanted to get her favorite doll to join her on the next piggyback ride, which is just like devastating.
Yeah.
So she ran back to her house, leaving Kathy alone with Johnny because she's going to get her doll. And while Maria was gone, Johnny asked Kathy if she wanted a piggyback ride. But Kathy said no. So they just sat there and waited for her friend to return. So by now the snow was starting to fall and Kathy was actually getting cold.
So when Maria got back a few minutes later, Kathy looked at her and said, hey, now that you're back from your house, I'm going to run home and go get my mittens because my hands are cold. She was like, can you come with me? And Maria said, no, I'll just stay here. So Kathy goes home alone.
And when she comes back, I can't listen to this.
Als sie ein paar Minuten später zurückkommt, sind Maria und der altblonde Johnny-Mann weg. Okay. Kathy wandert ein bisschen draußen herum. Erinnere dich, es wird dunkel und sie ruft Maria an. Und dann geht sie tatsächlich nach Riddles Haus und fragt Maria's 11-jährigen Bruder Chuck um Hilfe. Sie geht da rüber und fragt sie, kann ich dir helfen, deine Schwester zu suchen?
Now Chuck knew this was not the first time that Maria had gone missing. She had also disappeared a year before while playing a game and turned up about an hour later. She was just out wandering. So Chuck, the 11-year-old, isn't seriously worried. He's like, oh my gosh, she's done it again.
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