OTTAWA — The 86-year-old man known as the Starved Rock killer won’t get a new trial. On Wednesday, Chester Weger lost his bid to have his conviction overturned in the bludgeoning death of one ...

Chester Weger, center, shows Sheriff Ray Eutsey, right, how he dragged the body of women into a cave at Starved Rock State Park near Ottawa, Ill., Nov. 17, 1960.

I don’t know whether the mystery of this triple homicide ever will be solved. Chester Weger, who was convicted of killing one of three women found deceased in 1960 in Starved Rock State Park ...

Chester Weger, most infamously known as the "Starved Rock Killer," has died at age 86. His longtime attorney Andy Hale confirmed his death, saying he died peacefully Sunday, surrounded by family.

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.

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 ...

Starved Rock killer is dead, a week after losing bid to overturn 1961 conviction Chester Weger, 86, died Sunday in Missouri. He was freed from prison for good conduct in 2020 after spending more ...

Weger spent nearly six decades behind bars. Chester Otto Weger, known as "the Starved Rock Murderer," but who spent nearly six and a half decades working for his exoneration, died on June 22.