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The Starved Rock Murders with Andy Hale

The Starved Rock Murders with Andy Hale

By: Andy Hale
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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.Andy Hale Biographies & Memoirs True Crime
Episodes
  • Manufacturing A Case Against Chester Weger: The Bogus Scratches Evidence

    Manufacturing A Case Against Chester Weger: The Bogus Scratches Evidence
    Feb 13 2026

    In this episode, Andy Hale and Sally Cohen reveal and discuss new evidence that demonstrates the State's "scratches" evidence at trial was not credible. They also discuss the Court's application of the wrong legal standard in assessing the "scratches" evidence.
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    52 mins
  • The Continuing Colossal Coverup

    The Continuing Colossal Coverup
    Dec 10 2025

    Andy and Sally take a deep dive into the Lois Zelensek telephone operator interview and how there was a coverup of the people involved in that telephone call, and how the focus then turned to Chester Weger. They also discuss how the coverup continues to this day.
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • An analysis of false confessions: Andy Hale & Sally Cohen discuss the expert report of Dr. Brian Cutler

    An analysis of false confessions: Andy Hale & Sally Cohen discuss the expert report of Dr. Brian Cutler
    Oct 9 2025

    In this episode, attorneys Andy Hale and Sally Cohen delve into the concept of false confessions by discussing and explaining the expert report of Dr. Brian Cutler, who was retained as an expert witness in Chester Weger's case.
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    1 hr and 9 mins
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only 2 episodes in but was the (elite) hotel cya'ing their not noticing that the women hadn't returned Monday by saying they'd breakfasted tuesday? my immediate thoughts go to a hired hit with the fingertip needed as proof of deed. were husbands looked at? I'm sure you'll cover all this. just had to comment.

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