Forensic lab that’s identified serial killers is inspecting evidence in 1960 Starved Rock killings
By Frank Main Jun 25, 2021
Convicted ‘Starved Rock Killer’ Chester Weger, 82, was paroled last year as a model inmate. Now, he has a court order to let Skip Palenik’s lab inspect the evidence — a first step toward seeing whether it might clear him...
... Elgin forensics lab, Microtrace, is inspecting evidence in the Starved Rock slayings of three women in 1960 in the popular state park 100 miles southwest of Chicago.
That’s because lawyers for Chester Weger — who was paroled for the Starved Rock killings last year after nearly six decades in prison — got permission from a LaSalle County judge to examine the evidence.
Weger, 82, was released from prison in February 2020 after members of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board found he was a model prisoner.
But the courts haven’t deemed him to be innocent of the killings.
Weger — who was the longest-serving inmate in Illinois — says that, despite his initial confession, he didn’t kill anyone and that testing the evidence could prove it...
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Forensic lab that’s identified serial killers is inspecting evidence in 1960 Starved Rock killings
By Frank Main Jun 25, 2021
Convicted ‘Starved Rock Killer’ Chester Weger, 82, was paroled last year as a model inmate. Now, he has a court order to let Skip Palenik’s lab inspect the evidence — a first step toward seeing whether it might clear him...
... Elgin forensics lab, Microtrace, is inspecting evidence in the Starved Rock slayings of three women in 1960 in the popular state park 100 miles southwest of Chicago.
That’s because lawyers for Chester Weger — who was paroled for the Starved Rock killings last year after nearly six decades in prison — got permission from a LaSalle County judge to examine the evidence.
Weger, 82, was released from prison in February 2020 after members of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board found he was a model prisoner.
But the courts haven’t deemed him to be innocent of the killings.
Weger — who was the longest-serving inmate in Illinois — says that, despite his initial confession, he didn’t kill anyone and that testing the evidence could prove it...
LINK:
Forensic lab that’s identified serial killers is inspecting evidence in 1960 Starved Rock killings