The Starved Rock Murders with Andy Hale

By Andy Hale

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Episodes: 30

Description

In the winter of 1960 three women were found brutally murdered in a cave at the Starved Rock State Park. After months of dead ends, a manhunt ensued that ultimately pinned the crime on a 21-year-old dishwasher at the Starved Rock State Park Lodge, Chester Weger. In spite of contradictory physical evidence and under immense pressure from the police, Chester confessed to the crime. He has spent the last 60 years in prison, maintaining his innocence to this day. Join Andy Hale, a civil rights attorney who specializes in investigating wrongful convictions, as he dives deep into parts of the case that have been left out of previous coverage. As Chester Weger’s attorney, he is actively investigating the case and has won the right to test DNA from the crime scene for the first time in 60 years. If Chester is innocent, this will become the longest wrongful conviction case in United States history. This limited series podcast will re-examine the story you think you know, provide real-time case updates, including DNA testing, and access to documents and photos previously unreleased to the public, to uncover the truth of what really happened in Starved Rock State Park over half a century ago.

Episode Date
Chester Names Names
Mar 15, 2024
You Never Know Who You Might Run Into At The Grocery Store
Mar 07, 2024
Will County & Genetic Genealogy Results - Part Two
Jan 04, 2024
Will County Continues To Refuse To Vacate Chester's Conviction
Dec 28, 2023
A Christmas Conversation With Chester And His Sister Mary
Dec 21, 2023
Case Update: A Genetic Genealogy Bombshell
Dec 14, 2023
Case Update: Chester Weger Receives A Great Court Ruling
Sep 14, 2023
Case Update: Chester Weger Seeks Additional DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy Testing
Jul 27, 2023
BONUS: The Motion for a New Special Prosecutor + Whitny's Sinister Suspicions
May 23, 2023
BONUS: The Petition for Post-Conviction Relief
Mar 02, 2023
BONUS: Christmas Conversation with Chester and State's Attorney's Office Part Two
Dec 21, 2022
BONUS: The State's Attorney's Office Declines to Vacate Chester's Conviction
Dec 08, 2022
BONUS: The Steve Stout Documents
Oct 14, 2022
BONUS: The DNA Results
Aug 01, 2022
BONUS: A Massive Break In The Case
Jul 21, 2022
EP 14: A Conversation With Chester
May 26, 2022
EP 13: More on the Palmatier Brothers (and our Top 25 list)
May 19, 2022
EP 12: Motives for Murder (and answers to questions from listener emails)
May 14, 2022
EP 11: The Trial of the Century, Part 2
May 05, 2022
EP 10: The Trial of the Century, Part 1
Apr 28, 2022
EP 9: The Red Fibers (and Chester's cousin is mysteriously found dead)
Apr 21, 2022
EP 8: The Tip (the Smokey Wrona story)
Apr 14, 2022
EP 7: The Smoking Gun (bloody overalls and the conversation overheard by the telephone operator)
Apr 07, 2022
EP 6: False Confessions (and the truth about how a person confesses to a crime they did not commit)
Mar 31, 2022
EP 5: Andy's Case for Premeditation (and why the law student turned FBI agent on the case thought so too)
Mar 24, 2022
EP 4: Two Key Suspects: Gerald + George (one of which bludgeoned a girl to death a month later)
Mar 17, 2022
EP 3: The Crime Scene (and why the evidence doesn’t point to Chester)
Mar 10, 2022
EP 2: Why the State’s Narrative Can’t Be Right (and where’s the missing finger?)
Mar 04, 2022
EP 1: The Enduring Mystery of Starved Rock
Mar 03, 2022
Trailer: The Starved Rock Murders with Andy Hale
Feb 17, 2022