In March 1960, three women from Chicago checked into a lodge at Starved Rock State Park for a four-day break. They had lunch, laced up their boots, and walked out into the canyons. Nobody ever saw them alive again.
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Sources:
Mt. Vernon Register-News, 17 March, 1960 – “Melt Snow for Murder Clues”
The Morning Star, 17 March, 1960 – “Maniac Murders Trio”
Chicago Tribune, 18 March, 1960 – “Hunt Two Suspects”
The Morning Star, 18 March, 1960 – “Home Town of 3 Slain”
Clinton Daily Journal and Public, 19 March, 1960 – “Police Question Two”
The Times, 19 March, 1960 – “Final Respect”
Herald and Review, 20 March, 1960 – “Stable Hand Quizzed”
The State Journal Register, 21 March, 1960 – “Rush Probe”
The Times, 23 March, 1960 – “Two New Possible Clues”
Chicago Tribune, 26 March, 1960 – “Five Describe New Suspect”
Southern Illinoisan, 17 April, 1960 – “Fingerprints Clue in Park Killings”
Daily Review Atlas, 28 June, 1960 – “New Parley”
Rockford Register Star, 12 October, 1960 – “Quiz Suspect”
Chicago Tribune, 10 November, 1960 – “Triple Murder Prober”
Mt. Vernon Register-News, 17 November, 1960 – “3 Women Killed by Dishwasher”
The Times, 17 November, 1960 – “Solve 3 Brutal Murders”
Chicago Tribune, 19 November, 1960 – “Grand Jury Indicts”
The Morning Star, 20 November, 1960 – “Confessed Park Murderer Recants”
Chicago Tribune, 20 November, 1960 – “Kin of Weger”
The Times, 19 December, 1960 – “Weger Pleads Not Guilty”
The Register-Mail, 22 December, 1960 – “Thunderbolt Threat”
Morris Herald-News, 24 December, 1960 – “Continue Weger Hearing”
The Dispatch, 4 January, 1961 –“Seek Death Penalty”
Rockford Register Star, 11 February, 1961 – “State Opens”
The State Journal-Register, 14 February, 1961 – “State Opens”
Morris Herald-News, 14 February, 1961 – “Husband of Victim Breaks Down”
The Times, 14 February, 1961 – “Photographs”
Morris Herald-News, 16 February, 1961 – “Tree Limb”
Rockford Register Star, 17 February, 1961 – “Weger Jury”
The Register-Mail, 20 February, 1961 – “Lab Technicians”
Morris Herald-News, 20 February, 1961 – “State Attempts”
Rockford Register Star, 23 February, 1961 – “Weger”
Rockford Register Star, 24 February, 1961 – “Weger Murder Trial”
The Dispatch, 27 February, 1961 – “Claims Told to Confess”
The Daily Illini, 1 March, 1961 – “Weger Defence”
Mt. Vernon Register News, 4 March, 1961 – “Weger Guilty”
The State Journal Register, 22 March, 1961 – “Weger Seeks New Trial”
The Times, 30 September, 1961 – “Weger Papers”
The Pantagraph, 16 November, 2002 – “Retrial Denied”
NewsTribune, 20 May, 2004 – “Weger Asks Court”
Belleville News-Democrat, 23 January, 2005 – “Man Seeks Pardon”
The Peoria Journal Star, 10 April, 2005 – “Questions Lead to Clemency Hearing”
Chillicothe Times-Bulletin, 25 September, 2008 – “Starved Rock Killer Denied Parole”
NewsTribune, 16 December, 2011 – “Starved Rock Murderer Comes Close to Parole”
Downers Grove Suburban Life, 21 November, 2019 – “Starved Rock Murderer”
Associated Press, 21 February, 2020 – “Inmate Dubbed”
Chicago Sun-Times, 21 February, 2020 – “Man Paroled”
The Herald News, 21 September, 2020 – “Judge Tells Lawyers”
Bureau County Republican, 28 September, 2020 – “The Search for New Evidence”
The Daily Beast, 13 December, 2021 – “Three Women”
Chicago Sun-Times, 20 May, 2022 – “Convicted Starved Rock Killer”
Illinois Valley, 29 May, 2025 – “Final Arguments”
Illinois Valley, 24 June, 2025 – “Chester Weger”
