Starved Rock Killer Chester Weger no longer on Mandatory Supervised Release

CHICAGO — The 85-year-old man who spent decades in prison known as the Starved Rock Killer is no longer on mandatory supervised release through the Illinois Department of Corrections.

The decision to release Chester Weger was made from the Prison Review Board, an IDOC spokesperson confirmed Friday.

“It is accurate he is no longer on Mandatory Supervised Release (MSR),” the spokesperson said in an email to WGN.

Weger was placed on mandatory supervised release as required by state law more than four years ago after he was released from Pinckneyville Correctional Center , where he’d spent 59 years. He entered the prison in 1961 after being convicted in the death of 50-year-old Lillian Oetting. Prosecutors chose not to try him in the deaths of 47-year-old Frances Murphy and 50-year-old Mildred Lindquist.

Weger initially confessed to beating the women to death with a frozen tree branch during a botched robbery attempt but later recanted, claiming he was innocent and that prosecutors had coerced him into confessing.

WGN has reached out to the Prisoner Review Board for more information.

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