Episode 121: The Starved Rock Murders

In March 1960, a quiet day trip to Starved Rock State Park ended in tragedy. Three women set out to hike the trails and never came home.

What followed was a confession, a conviction, and decades of lingering doubt. The man who admitted to the crime later recanted, raising unsettling questions about how the case was handled and whether the truth was ever fully uncovered.

In this episode, we walk through what happened that day, the investigation that followed, and why the Starved Rock murders still feel unresolved more than 60 years later.