SYCAMORE – An anonymous jailhouse informant testified Wednesday that Jack McCullough told him in detail how in 1957 he killed a Sycamore girl.

John Doe, a prisoner who stayed on the same cellblock at the DeKalb County Jail as McCullough between Aug. 30 and Sept. 5 of this year, said McCullough – who “would ramble a lot” – told him he was giving a little girl a piggyback ride and ran down an alley when he slipped and fell. The girl hit her head, McCullough told him, and it was an accident.

Doe said McCullough then told him he used garbage cans to climb into a window of his house, carrying the girl. McCullough told him his mother knew he had the girl in the house.