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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.
CHICAGO — 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 ...
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 ...
Her remains were found in Starved Rock’s St. Louis Canyon along with the brutalized bodies of Frances Murphy, 47, and Mildred Lindquist, 50, in a crime that made national headlines and continues ...
The women were hiking together in Starved Rock State Park in northern Illinois when they were attacked. Their remains were found in the park’s popular St. Louis Canyon, which is framed by a ...
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CHICAGO — The 85-year-old man who spent decades in prison known as the Starved Rock Killer is no longer on mandatory supervised release through the Illinois Department of Corrections.
Weger was convicted in the 1960 slayings of 50-year-old Lillian Oetting, 47-year-old Frances Murphy and 50-year-old Mildred Lindquist. The women were hiking together in Starved Rock State Park in ...