Crime & Safety
‘Starved Rock Killer’ Chester Weger To Be Released From Prison Next Week
For Chester Weger, 81, it will mark the first time he has been free since his arrest nearly six decades ago.
PICKNEYVILLE, IL (CBS) — No more delays — Starved Rock killer Chester Weger is set to be released from prison next week. For Weger, 81, it will mark the first time he has been free since his arrest nearly six decades ago. He is serving his sentence at Pinckneyville Correctional Center.
In November, the Illinois Prisoner Review Board voted 9-4 to grant him parole. All 24 of Weger’s previous requests had been denied since 1972.
