Murder Case Paperwork Makes it to Court, Alleged Murderer Doesn't

A hearing in the murder case of an Orland Park man charged with gunning down his wife never happened after no one brought the alleged killer to court.

"Although his papers have been sent, the body was not," said Rick Beuke, the attorney for Allan Kustok.

Kustok was to appear at the Bridgeview courthouse Monday morning, but no one picked him up from where he is being held at the Kankakee County jail. Kustok was taken from the Cook County Jail to Kankakee shortly after his arrest when officials learned he had worked as a sanitarian at the jail from 2004 to 2007 and is familiar with the inner workings of the facility.

Beuke said he did not know why his client wasn't in court Monday. Cook County Judge John Joseph Hynes reset the hearing for May 8.

Kustok faces a murder charge for allegedly gunning down his wife, Anita Kustok, in September 2010. She was killed with a .357 Magnum she had received as an anniversary present. Beuke has contended in previous interviews that his client awoke that morning to a gunshot and found his wife dead.

Anita Kustok was shot in the head.

Prosecutors want to use technology developed since the 2010 killing to further delve into Kustok's cell phone in hopes of recovering email and Internet records.

Even though Kustok wasn't in court, Beuke was still able to provide prosecutors with reports from two expert witnesses, including one from blood pattern expert Paul Kish. Kish testified at last year's Christopher Vaughn murder trial in Joliet.

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