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Chester Otto Weger (born March 3, 1939) [1] is an American man who was convicted in 1961 of the murder of one of three women found slain at Starved Rock State Park the previous year. He was held at Pinckneyville Correctional Center and at one time was the longest serving inmate incarcerated by the State of Illinois as well as the third longest ...
He was already serving a life sentence on two other, unrelated rape and murder charges, one of a 27-year-old woman and the other of a seven-year-old girl, Melissa Ackerman from Somonauk, Illinois. (Still another girl had escaped at the time.) On November 11, 2009, after deliberating about 10 hours over two days, a DuPage County jury sentenced ...
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A 79-year-old Missouri man is accused of killing a woman in her suburban Chicago home — a crime that happened nearly six decades ago. James Barbier was arrested Monday at his St. Louis County ...
Pages in category "Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Illinois" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Brown’s case has bounced around Illinois’ judicial system for years, having been in front of the Illinois Supreme Court in 2020 and 2022. ... whose corruption sentence was commuted by ...
President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who has been imprisoned for nearly 50 years.. Peltier, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band ...
Name Sentence start Sentence term Country Description Terry Nichols: 1995 162 consecutive life sentences plus 93 years without parole United States Convicted of 161 counts of first degree murder, first degree arson, and conspiracy by the state court of Oklahoma for his part in the Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995; also sentenced in federal court for terrorism and eight counts of ...