Chester Weger

Um, and I, same thing here now.

I mean, it was s- brick wall in Peoria with Cleve Heidelberg, brick wall with Chester Weger.

Yesterday, I, I'm kind of, like, beaten down.

Like, I was presenting the case like, like, like everybody I tell this to is just going to have this reaction.

As if, as if you couldn't get an expert like Brian Cutler or, or Dr. Kassin to look at this and say, "Well, I don't got too much to say about that.

It looks, you know, it, it looks, it looks legitimate." No.

[laughs] I mean, we checked every box, so it literally, it literally is like, to me, like, uh, uh, uh, a, if you want a, a, a little example of a false confession in, in, in Wikipedia, let's take the Chester Weger case.

And yet-

Judge Jans in his opinion, starts at page 15, talks about Randy Reynolds.

And what he says is, this is the quote, "Chester Weger was innocent, but I got the son of a bitch to admit to it." That was May 13th, uh, court testimony.

And this is the part I really take issue with, and I, I, I just cannot ...

Words do not allow me to say this as strong as I feel.

That's ridiculous.

But let me continue.

"The court accepts that Reynolds attended the party, but the court finds that the surprisingly detailed comment about what Dummett said, namely that Chester Weger was innocent and I got him to admit to it, is not believable." Let me say that again.

"Is not believable, especially since he could remember few details about who was present for the statement.

Well, the family of the so-called Starved Rock killer is asking for a posthumous pardon.

Chester Weger served nearly 60 years in prison for the deaths of three women.

All their bodies were found at Starved Rock back in 1960.

Weger was released on parole in 2020.