Thursday, December 20, 2012
A Cook County judge will look at case law presented by both sides in the murder case against Allan Kustok before deciding whether to allow new cell phone evidence to be admitted.
Authorities have gained additional evidence from a cell phone recently analyzed with technology that wasn't available two years ago, when Allan Kustok, 61, was arrested and charged in the shooting death of his wife, prosecutors said during a hearing Wednesday. Assistant State's Attorney Jennifer Gonzalez said she filed a motion earlier this month to admit evidence found on the cell phone, though she didn't say what the evidence entails. Kustok's attorneys, Rich Beuke and co-counsel Ernie DiBenedetto and Randy Rueckert, are opposed to allowing the new evidence, Rueckert said Wednesday as Kustok stood silently beside him. Beuke was not present at the hearing. Outfitted in an orange Department of Corrections shirt and pants, Kustok also had…
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Prosecutors said Wednesday, Nov. 21 that new technology will allow investigators to gather data off of an old cell phone in the murder case against Allan Kustok, 61, who is accused in the 2010 fatal shooting death of his wife.
A cell phone that has been in the custody of police for more than two years may yield new evidence in the first-degree murder case of Allan Kustok, who is accused of shooting his wife to death in 2010. During a status hearing Wednesday in Judge John J. Hynes' Bridgeview courtroom, Assistant State's Attorney Jennifer Gonzalez said technology that wasn't available in 2010 will allow investigators to take a look at information on the cell phone, including old emails, records of Internet usage and data saved to the SIM card. The phone belonged to the defendant, she said. "The technology that exists today will allow the Orland Park Police Department to go in and retrieve certain data," Gonzalez said. Kustok, 61, stood silently next to his …
Friday, September 28, 2012
The attorney for Allan Kustok, who has been charged with murder in the 2010 shooting death of his wife Anita "Jeanie" Kustok, was absent from court Friday, Sept. 28 due to a family emergency, prosecutors said.
Almost exactly two years after the shooting death of his wife, Allan Kustok stood at the podium for defendants in a Bridgeview courtroom Friday, Sept. 28, clad in bright orange inmate scrubs and flocked only by deputies silently guarding him. His attorney, Rick Beuke, was absent from court due to a family emergency, prosecutor Jennifer Gonzalez told Cook County Judge John J. Hynes. The case has been continued until 9:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 5 in Hynes' courtroom, room 110 at the Bridgeview courthouse. Charged with first-degree murder in the death of Anita "Jeanie" Kustok, Kustok has remained in custody since 2010 on $2 million bond, according to county inmate records, and no trial date has yet been announced. Prosecutors say Kustok put a .…
denise grein
8:52 am on Saturday, January 19, 2013
Are his children still standing by him and defending him as they once were? Hopefully whatever evidence they have on the cell phone records can help bring to light some answers to help solve this case. more ›