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He says in a court filing he’s acted impartially in fighting Chester Weger’s effort to prove his innocence in the 1960 killings of 3 west suburban women. Weger wants Glasgow removed as special prosecutor.
Weger, who was paroled but not exonerated in the killings of three suburban Chicago women in 1960, is trying to prove his innocence in the notorious La Salle County case.
Chester Weger, who was paroled but not exonerated in the killings of three women in 1960, is trying to prove his innocence in the notorious La Salle County case.
His lawyers want a judge to consider a DNA test they say points to another man and witnesses who say they were told a relative of one of the victims arranged for mobsters to kill the three west suburban women.
In March 1960, three middle-aged women from the Chicago suburb of Riverside stepped out of the local lodge at Starved Rock State Park, which sits along the Illinois River, for their first hiking excursion of a planned four-day trip. Frances Murphy, 47; Lillian Oetting, 50; and Mildred Linquist, 54, who were close friends and all attended the same Presbyterian church, wore their galoshes for the slippery winter hike.