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 ...

In March 1960, the bodies of west suburban Riverside friends Lillian Oetting, 50, Frances Murphy, 47, and Mildred Linquist, 50, were found outside a cave at Starved Rock State Park after they went ...

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 ...

Recent testing showed the hair was a genetic match to three brothers, one of whom died on March 16, 1960 — the same day the women’s bodies were discovered at Starved Rock State Park, the judge ...

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 ...

Chester Otto Weger was convicted of the murder of a Chicago woman at Starved Rock State Park in 1961. Weger maintained his initial confession for the murder came after threats.

Chester Weger, then 77, in Illinois' Pinckneyville Correctional Center, Dec. 6, 2016. He was sentenced to prison for the 1960 Starved Rock State Park murders. (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune/TNS ...