Victor Yehling

Ex-Rockford Fire Chief Dies At 67

Victor Yehling — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 01:56:21 +0000

Rockford Ald. D. William “Bill” Robertson, I-14, who served as Rockford Fire Chief for 17 years before entering politics, died Saturday morning after an extended battle with cancer.

Flags on city buildings were ordered flown at half staff in his honor.

Ex-Dixon Comptroller Gets 19.5 Years

Susan Stephens and Victor Yehling — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:32:03 +0000

Former Dixon Comptroller Rita Crundwell was sentenced today to serve 235 months -- 19 years and 7 months -- in prison on one federal count of wire fraud resulting from her embezzlement of more than $53 million in public funds from the City of Dixon.

Congressional Race: 17th District

Victor Yehling — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:52:00 +0000

There are several similarities between the candidates in Illinois’s 17^th Congressional District, which includes Democratic-leaning chunks from Rockford and Peoria as well as wrapping through the Quad Cities and across rural northwestern Illinois.

Convicted By His Own Words On All Charges

Victor Yehling — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 02:23:41 +0000

"Maria's got her justice."

Jack McCullough heard his guilty verdict Friday in a packed courtroom on the third floor of the DeKalb County Courthouse, less than 10 blocks from where he snatched Maria Ridulph on the snowy evening of Dec. 3, 1957.

Known in those days as John Tessier, the 72-year-old convicted kidnapper and murderer sat through five days of a bench trial before Judge James Hallock and heard a parade of prosecution witnesses detail circumstantial evidence that tied him to the seven-year-old girl’s disappearance from the corner of Archie Place and Center Cross Street in Sycamore.

Testimony Ends; Defendant Doesn't Testify

Victor Yehling — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:51:24 +0000

Testimony is over in the murder-kidnap trial of Jack Daniel McCullough, accused of abducting and killing 7-year-old Maria Ridulph from a street corner just three doors from her Sycamore home on the evening of Dec. 3, 1957.

The child's badly decomposed body was found a few months later in a wooded area off U.S. 20 near Woodbine in Jo Daviess County.

The defendant's fate is now in the hands of Judge James Hallock.