190: The Devil’s in the Details. Starved Rock State Park & National Historic Landmark. Part 3.
National Park After Dark
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🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
We wrap up our series on the Starved Rock murders by discussing Chester’s confession, physical evidence reports, explore additional possible suspects, hear from an original juror and get up to speed with where Chester Weger’s case stands now. Be sure to listen to part 1 & 2 before diving in.
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Sources The Murders at Starved Rock (HBO Documentary Series), Chicago Sun Times, WSPY News, The Andy Hale Podcast, Rolling Stone, Daily Journal, Starved Rock Lodge, Iowa Cold Cases, Medium
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello everyone and welcome back to National Park After Dark, part three of the Starved Rock State Park murders. |
| 0:28.0 | Danielle's first three-parter and we're here. We're at the finish line. We're going to learn the rest about this case. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm so sorry to have put you guys through a three-parter. |
| 0:36.5 | Like I said... We like three-parters. Do we like... |
| 0:39.9 | Do we like... Yes, we like three-parters. Okay, well, I'm still on the fence, much like I'm on the fence to what the hell is going on with this case. |
| 0:50.8 | And I think a lot of people would agree with that. So where we left off, again, if you |
| 0:58.3 | haven't listened to part one and part two, stop listening now. Turn Now, do not pass go. |
| 1:04.1 | You got some homework. |
| 1:05.4 | You have homework. |
| 1:06.2 | You have listening to do. |
| 1:07.8 | We'll wait. |
| 1:09.6 | Okay, you're back. |
| 1:11.4 | So, you listen to part one in part two but just as a refresher where we left off at the end of part two is we were going over a lot of physical evidence that was found at the scene of the crime that didn't exactly jive |
| 1:26.1 | with Chester's original confession and a lot of the information about that physical evidence |
| 1:31.7 | that was disclosed in various reports that the jury about that |
| 1:35.0 | physical evidence that was disclosed in various reports |
| 1:34.3 | that the jury never had access to. |
| 1:37.2 | So there's a lot of information |
| 1:38.6 | that we have knowledge of now that sways |
| 1:42.3 | maybe our minds one way or another but the jury had no idea that any of this physical evidence had been either analyzed or what the results of those findings were. |
| 1:54.1 | So there's a lot going on. |
| 1:56.1 | We also met a lot of a lot of potential people |
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