The Starved Rock Murders: Chester Weger
Deathbed Confessions - A podcast by Spotify Studios
It shook the people of LaSalle County, Illinois to their core in 1961. Three friends, savagely beaten to death while out hiking. No witnesses, no apparent motive. Police eventually charge 21-year-old local man Chester Weger with the killings. When he confesses in custody, it seems a slam dunk, until Weger recants, claiming police had bullied him into signing it. This is just the start of one of the longest running sagas in Illinois legal history, as Chester Weger begins a decades long fight to clear his name, and prove once and for all what really happened that snowy spring day at Starved Rock. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
