For those of you just joining us, this offbeat blog is aimed at humiliating, shaming and highlighting the hypocrisy and offensive behavior of the batshit-crazy members of a certain Facebook group who claim they are trying to prove the innocence of Chester Otto Weger, the infamous Starved Rock killer, who in March 1960 murdered three middle-aged housewives hiking in an Illinois state park. Described by these degenerate dullards as "a really nice guy," Weger was convicted of one of the brutal slayings in 1961 and sentenced on his 22nd birthday to what the jury intended to be life in prison. The longest-serving inmate in Illinois, the now 75-year-old Weger has been denied parole 18 times! (That has to be some sort of record as well, eh?)
The mostly female members of this sick social media clique (whom we have dubbed the Sleuthettes) fancy themselves private investigators and ace detectives and at the expense of their own humanity have spent the past nine months indulging in idle speculation, bizarre conjecture and insane ramblings. They have repeatedly and purposelessly posted, pored over and pondered graphic images of the crime scene showing the bloody, semi-nude bodies of the victims and have even gone so far as to email these photos to the surviving family members of the three murdered ladies from Riverside, Ill. They carry on a regular correspondence with Chester, whom they like to describe as looking like "a young James Dean," and have held two failed fundraisers on his behalf.
In their increasingly desperate witch hunt, they have also battened on one suspect after another, each more unlikely than the last. Since the fall of 2013 when this grim group really got busy, they have accused the husbands of the victims, the Mafia, the manager of Starved Rock Lodge, his nephew, a local hoodlum, aliens and the members of a nearby youth camp. In addition, the Sleuthettes have alleged that the governor, the county and state police, the Kodak company, reporters from around the nation, the crime labs in two states, the Jews, the phone company, a group of cross-dressers, a club of area pilots, the FBI, a love interest from the Marine Corps, his lawyer, and his own father were all in on the plot to frame Chester -- a conspiracy so vast that if it were true would rival the one alleged to have carried out the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Although the SRM group was originally founded by the dangerously demented douchebag we here refer to as Tepid Starch (aka Fearless Leader), Tepid has little to do with the group these days as it seems even he has grown tired of watching the Sleuthettes chase their own tails.
The heir apparent to Starch's loony legacy is Chatty CathyDin O'Barrell who never met a baseless supposition she didn't like. For a senior sales representative with Big Pharma, Chatty is one scary bird. Judging by some of the nonsense she posts regularly on Facebook, many have speculated that she is either a complete eedjit or has been dipping into her sample case.
Take this recent exchange in the SRM group regarding an article that Chatty posted March 18 which references a known "confederate" of two Chicago burglars who was for a time a suspect in the Starved Rock murders. It sounds pretty straightforward, right? Using the word confederate in the sense described below in definition number 4 is pretty commonplace. It is used all the time in books, movies and TV shows dealing with crime and criminals. Now watch how Chatty's rusty steel trap of a mind works:
Mindy Stalker Scamilton: the word confederate as a description makes me wonder when viewed against the word's definition
con•fed•er•ate
[adj., n. kuhn-fed-er-it, -fed-rit; v. kuhn-fed-uh-reyt] Show IPA
adjective
1.
united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy.
2.
( initial capital letter ) of or pertaining to the Confederate States of America: the Confederate army.
noun
3.
a person, group, nation, etc., united with others in a confederacy; an ally.
4.
an accomplice, especially in a mischievous or criminal act.
5.
( initial capital letter ) U.S. History . a supporter of the Confederate States of America.
Posted March 20 at 12:04pm •
ChattyCathyDin O'Barrell: Yes, I was trying to ascertain what they meant too ~ I think this was meant to be a slang term in the racially charged 60's to mean a supporter of the conferate states; as in anti-civil rights; with an emphasis on bigot.
Posted March 20 at 12:24pm • Edited •
How's that for some bizarre mental gymnastics?! Chatty has a real knack for taking something that is simple and obvious to anyone of average intelligence and twisting it around until (at least in her mind) it seems to support whatever outlandish notion she is hung up on at that moment.
Mindy: well maybe that's what people would have wanted others to think it mean but in your context it would have been common place word to mean that then~ if it were slang it probably would have meant united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy.but that's just my perception and also having way older brothers than me ~ it would have been a slang term like we use the word gang to mean 1 thing when there are "subtitles" withing the word
Posted March 20 at 12:29pm •
Huh?! "Subtitles withing the word"? Could "subtext" be the word that Mindy was going for? And what does any of that have to do with her "having way older brothers"? Man, Chester is sooo doomed with these dimwits on his side!
Chatty CathyDin: I was thinking it might have referred to someone who wore a conferate bandana - maybe a motorcycle enthusiast?
Posted March 20 at 12:31pm •
Mindy: could be but that's not as likely back then the bandana were more work hankies~ the blue and red print~ although it is possible but that's a newer thing the printed bandanas~ what if it was a reference to the "rank" of a member in the organization???
Posted March 20 at 12:37pm •
Now that is so typical of the Sleuthettes and their blinkered investigative methods: the truth is right there in front of them and they still can't (or won't) acknowledge it. We are currently "trying to ass-ertain" how in the fuck these people manage to feed and dress themselves every day with such obviously limited mental powers at their disposal!
Chatty: Ceiley and Blaha were involved in a burglary ring in Chicago using local law enforcement to fence stolen goods.
Maybe the term "confederate" was used to reference the civil war - implying a "civil servant" government employee, or elected official was the one asking Ceily and Blaha to fence the stolen goods in Chicago? Maybe why they are never named or forced to take a lie detector test?
Posted March 21 at 5:55am •
So let's see: By Ms. O'Barrell's dead (wrong) reckoning, Civil War = civil servant = crooked cop! We ponder if she uses those dubious math skills when adding up her sales figures for the job that she never seems to work at.
Chatty CathyDin: Maybe "confederate" simply means someone playing on the other team - as in a "bad" cop?
Posted March 21 at 7:34am •
Um, no. Maybe it "simply means" what the damn dictionary says it does about 20 posts ago -- an accomplice. When it suits her, Chatty can make a mountain out of a mole hill. Conversely, if it's necessary to prove her latest goofball theory about Chester's innocence, she will completely ignore any inconvenient elephant in her padded room. Looks like it's high time she had her eyes checked so she can get a new pair of prescription rose-colored glasses!
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