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Championship, investigation and conviction: The year in review

In some years, the vote among Daily Chronicle staff members on the top local story of the year is a close one.



This year, the conviction of Jack D. McCullough in the 1957 kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Maria Ridulph was the unanimous choice for the most important local story of the year.



McCullough’s being charged in the case was our top story for 2011.

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