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Joseph Majczek and Theodore Marcinkiewicz were two Polish-American men arrested and convicted of the murder of 57-year-old Chicago police officer William D. Lundy[1] on December 9, 1932.[2] Initially, officials held 10 youths in custody on suspicion of killing the officer.[3] Some 11½ years later in 1944, following the intervention of Chicago Times reporters John McPhaul[4] and James McGuire, both men were exonerated of the crime.[5] The real killers have never been identified.
The details of the case formed the basis of the 1948 film Call Northside 777 starring James Stewart, Lee J. Cobb, and Richard Conte.
- ^ ODMP.org, William D. Lundy
- ^ "ILLINOIS: The Reward". Time Magazine. August 27, 1945. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved 2011-03-13.
- ^ "Hold ten, hunt one in slaying of policeman," Chicago Tribune, December 11, 1932, p. 17.
- ^ "McPhaul; investigative reporting won accolades," obituary in Chicago Tribune, Aug. 8, 1983, p. 12: "But the biggest story he worked on was the Joseph Majczek case ... In 1944 McPhaul, then at the Chicago Times, a predecessor of the Sun-Times, collaborated with reporter James McGuire after an ad was placed in the paper by Majczek's mother."
- ^ "Perjury led to Joseph Majczek's wrongful conviction for the murder of a Chicago policeman in 1933". NorthWesterLaw. Retrieved 2011-03-13.