77-Year-Old Man Convicted In Starved Rock Triple Murder Asks For Parole
(CBS) -- It was a triple murder that stunned the Midwest in March 1960: the killings of three Riverside women whose bodies found in Starved Rock State Park.
Thursday, the man convicted of those murders is asking for parole again.
The 1961, trial of Chester Weger was the first case for then-26-year-old prosecutor Anthony Raccuglia.
"If they let that man loose, every person that investigated this case, every lawyer that assisted in the trial, the judge, the witnesses -- over 100 witnesses -- will all roll over in their grave," says Raccuglia, now 83, tells WBBM's Steve Miller.
"I'm probably -- along with Mrs. Porter, the lone juror in this case -- are the only two people alive."
That would be juror Nancy Porter, who is 92.
"He should've been freed a long time ago, as far as I'm concerned," she says.
Porter now thinks Weger is innocent. She believes Weger was too small a man to have killed the three women.
Weger is now 77 and serving a life sentence. He has been asking for parole since the early-1970s.
