Chester Weger, 86, was paroled in 2020 for good behavior in prison but his conviction wasn’t overturned at the time. He had ...

On Wednesday, June 18, 2025, a La Salle County judge denied the 86-year-old’s bid for exoneration in the Starved ... in the murders, but this too Jansz found “not credible.” The judge also concluded ...

FLORENCE — An Arizona man convicted of killing a college student in 1978 was put to death Wednesday after a nearly eight-year hiatus in the state’s use of the death penalty brought on by an ...

“I made a promise to Arizona voters that people who commit the ultimate crime get the ultimate punishment,’’ he said in a prepared statement. “I will continue to fight every day for ...

Weger spent 60 years behind bars for the murder of Lillian Oetting, who was one of three women murdered in 1960 at Starved Rock State Park. On March 14, 1960, three Chicago-land women, Mildred ...

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