Despite his persistent claims of innocence, Chester Weger lived six decades in prison after confessing to the haunting 1960 Starved Rock State Park murders of three suburban Chicago women who were ...

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CLAY COUNTY, Mo. (WTVO/WGN) — Chester Weger, the man convicted of killing one of three women found dead at Starved Rock State Park in 1960, has died at the age of 86. He died Sunday, June 22, in ...

There will be no new trial for the man known as the Starved Rock Killer, convicted in the death of a woman in the Illinois state park in 1960. Attorneys for 86-year-old Chester Weger had been asking ...

SPRINGFIELD — Chester Weger, Illinois’ longest serving prisoner, has been denied parole for the 20th time. Weger, now 76, was convicted in 1961 of killing Lillian Oetting of Riverside while she and ...

A closer look at the Starved Rock murder case and the recent release of the man who spent 60 years in prison. Man fighting ...

Steve Stout, historian and author of the book, “The Starved Rock Murders,” joins John to talk about Chester Weger, the man known as ‘The Starved Rock Killer ...