GUILTY IL - Anita 'Jeanie' Kustok, 58, shot to death, Orland Park, 29 Sept 2010

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LNL said:
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I wonder if he remembered to wipe the gunshot residue from her hand right hand when he wiped the blood from her face. Bet he spent part of those 90 minutes giving her a little sponge bath to remove evidence.

I think when this goes to trial, we will hear that Allan has some anger management issues and that all was not as perfect as friends are saying.
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You never know what people are capable of in certain situations.

I think she busted him out on the girlfriend that morning - maybe he came home late and she waited up. She had to suspect something. No time to tell the kids or make a phone call.

Lay down and try to use your right hand and pretend you were shooting yourself in the left cheek, under the eye, exit wound on right side of neck. Wouldn't it be easier to do it on the right side? Maybe he was thinking his right, not hers. Big mistake. Huge.

He had to mess himself up with blood because he was laying next to her. One would think there would be splatter marks on him. If you want to get into forensics, there should be more than blood on him, not to be graphic, that is, if he was laying next to her.

So, hold your dead wife and contaminate the scene. Drive her to the hospital and you've destroyed everything.
 
  • #43
Agreed.

I guess I was trying to get at whether or not he told the police that in addition to wiping the blood off her face that he wiped it off her hands. If he did it would be a convenient way for him to explain why her hands may not have any gun powder residue on them. If he never said that he wiped off her hands and there is no gunpowder residue, then that does not look too good for him. He probably took a shower and washed off any blood on his body, although in his mug shot he does look like a mess.

I think this statement is very telling....

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-orland-park-homicide-1002-20101001,0,7593975.story

"The children know that their father could not have committed these acts the state accused him of," attorney Pete Rush said on behalf of Sarah Kustok, a reporter for Comcast SportsNet, and her brother, Zak, who led Northwestern to a Big Ten football title in 2000 before a brief stint in the NFL.

"Jeannie Kustok was a saint," Rush said. "She lived her life for everyone else — for her family, for God."

The statement addresses the victim not the alleged perp. He says nothing of the father. She was a saint. He did not say that Allan was a saint.

Just think it is an sneaky tactic to try to make him sound good when in fact the lawyer is talking about the victim.
 
  • #44
LNL said:
Agreed.

I guess I was trying to get at whether or not he told the police that in addition to wiping the blood off her face that he wiped it off her hands. If he did it would be a convenient way for him to explain why her hands may not have any gun powder residue on them. If he never said that he wiped off her hands and there is no gunpowder residue, then that does not look too good for him. He probably took a shower and washed off any blood on his body, although in his mug shot he does look like a mess.

I think this statement is very telling....

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-orland-park-homicide-1002-20101001,0,7593975.story

"The children know that their father could not have committed these acts the state accused him of," attorney Pete Rush said on behalf of Sarah Kustok, a reporter for Comcast SportsNet, and her brother, Zak, who led Northwestern to a Big Ten football title in 2000 before a brief stint in the NFL.

"Jeannie Kustok was a saint," Rush said. "She lived her life for everyone else — for her family, for God."

The statement addresses the victim not the alleged perp. He says nothing of the father. She was a saint. He did not say that Allan was a saint.

Just think it is an sneaky tactic to try to make him sound good when in fact the lawyer is talking about the victim.
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I think he placed her hand on the gun and fired a shot to get the residue on her hands. Then he fired 5 shots into the curio. Plenty of residue on him = multiple shots fired. Less on her hand - only one shot fired with the assistance of him after she was dead. She was a saint, was so loved, why would she want to leave this world? She had so much positive in her life. We'll find out that she had talked to the kids, nothing amiss; possibly talked to others, had future plans, and whether or not she left a note would be KEY. Her kids would want an answer. She seems like the type that would give them that. If that were my father - I'd want a note before I stood behind him. The girlfriend will surface soon. There will be more dirt coming out of this horrible trajedy. For the love of those beautiful children, I hope I'm wrong. That was a quick 1st degree charge. They didn't sit around for a couple of months and gather evidence while he walked the streets. Look at the husbands that killed their wives and walked for months before being charged. There's more to this...
 
  • #45
Woe.be.gone said:
The only info I can find is that he's in protective custody in the hospital. I don't think he's out.

I'm watching NBC news now and they are airing footage from court today. The grown children are standing behind the reporter and Sarah is smiling and doesn't look distressed - she speaks to her brother and he smiles and nods. I don't know if they're in shock or what but they sure seem pulled together considering their current situation.
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My Mom past away last year. I was numb for months. They're in shock.
 
  • #46
LNL said:
Agreed.

I guess I was trying to get at whether or not he told the police that in addition to wiping the blood off her face that he wiped it off her hands. If he did it would be a convenient way for him to explain why her hands may not have any gun powder residue on them. If he never said that he wiped off her hands and there is no gunpowder residue, then that does not look too good for him. He probably took a shower and washed off any blood on his body, although in his mug shot he does look like a mess.

I think this statement is very telling....

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-orland-park-homicide-1002-20101001,0,7593975.story

"The children know that their father could not have committed these acts the state accused him of," attorney Pete Rush said on behalf of Sarah Kustok, a reporter for Comcast SportsNet, and her brother, Zak, who led Northwestern to a Big Ten football title in 2000 before a brief stint in the NFL.

"Jeannie Kustok was a saint," Rush said. "She lived her life for everyone else — for her family, for God."

The statement addresses the victim not the alleged perp. He says nothing of the father. She was a saint. He did not say that Allan was a saint.

Just think it is an sneaky tactic to try to make him sound good when in fact the lawyer is talking about the victim.
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The kids are supporting dad, what a surprise. Here we go again, just like that case in FL where NO ONE in the family stood up for the poor wife.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-orland-park-homicide-1002-20101001,0,7593975.story

snipAnita Kustok, whom friends and family called "Jeanie", lay flat with her arms crossed atop her chest. In her right hand was the .357-caliber Smith and Wesson the defendant had bought a year ago, Allan Kustok told police.

It was an improbable story, prosecutors said at a news conference Friday, considering the medical examiner's office determined the bullet that killed Kustok entered her left cheek below the eye and exited the right side of her neck — an awkward shot for somebody holding a gun in their right hand.snip


The original Tribune story included the info about the gunshot through the left side exiting the right, and the gun being in the right hand, but did NOT point out that was really, really odd. It's the first thing I noticed, I read it 5 times to make sure and even reenacted it. I'm sure if someone saw me they would have thought I was a complete wacko.

I see in this updated story they caught on. I want to know how the kids explain this one.
 
  • #47
After looking again, the kids don't even look sad. No red eyes?? I can't imagine you wouldn't be crying your eyes out. Odd.
 
  • #48
I thought about this...

If she were lying on the bed next to him - say he's to her left (side by side), the shot might have gone through and grazed him had she shot herself on the right (exit trajectory left). So he thought it through. He can't shoot her on the right and explain how he's not grazed by a bullet or worse. He can't move her, she may wake up. It may be that the kids know where she sleeps on the bed. I knew which side my Mom slept on.

He thought about this long and hard. The only way he could do it to the left side to go with the theory that she may have done it. Tough call because its almost impossible for her to do herself, but reasonable doubt may play into it - an expert might say it could have been done. Strange that she would go that odd route but nevertheless gives a jury reasonable doubt. Although forensics will figure out the trajectory, he may have purposefully shot her on the left, so as to explain why he wasn't hit, grazed or covered in splatter. Confusing?

Crazy to think that someone might have thought this out that well.
 
  • #49
It's possible a jury could have reasonable doubt, EXCEPT the circumstantial evidence will do him in, imho. IF she had shot herself, he wouldn't have waited 90 minutes to take her to the hospital. He would have called 911. No, he waited so long because he was trying to clean her up and the house too and trying to THINK up a story.

I imagine the children are in shock. They may WANT to believe their dad and are telling everyone he didn't do it, but I DOUBT they really believe that.

This doesn't look good for the husband.

It's too sad. Such a wonderful family, all down the tubes because of one selfish individual. :(

JMHO
fran
 
  • #50
I,m a weirdo too. I also reenacted this . I couldn't get the gun flush with my cheek. If I would have shot myself in this manner, the bullet would have exited just to the left of midline on the rear of my neck. To get the bullet to come out the right side of my cheek someone would have to place the barrel directly on my left cheek so the exit would is almost straight across. No way in hell could I do this to myself. Its impossible.
 
  • #51
I would assume anyone who was going to shoot themselves would place the gun in a manner that was comfortable for them. Why go through contortions to place it somewhere else? That makes no sense. The wound site is going to convict him alone.
 
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Has the Sun Times blocked that article? I went to their site and clicked on the story but it comes up as a blank page, same from your link...I can't get it to open...
 
  • #55
I was able to access the second link from Woe.be.gone.
 
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I got into that one too. Here it is:

October 2, 2010

BY MICHAEL SNEED Sun-Times Columnist

Sneed is told Orland Park businessman Allan Kustok, 59, who was charged with the murder of his wife, Anita, reportedly led a shadow sex life.

• To wit: Police are investigating reports that Kustok had a five-year affair with another woman and might have used an Internet site for married people interested in having sex with others.

Police are investigating whether Allan Kustok, who is charged with killing his wife, had a five-year relationship with another woman.

• The Kustoks' children, Zak and Sarah, an anchor for Comcast SportsNet, were apparently unaware of any infidelity.

• The .357 magnum used to kill Anita Kustok, whose dead body, wrapped in bedsheets, was taken by Kustok to Palos Community Hospital shortly after she was killed early Wednesday morning, was reportedly purchased at Chuck's Gun Shop in Riverdale.

• Blood evidence: Kustok, a medical supplies salesman, was wearing medical scrubs when he showed up with his wife's body at the hospital. Contrary to Kustok's claim that his wife shot herself with a gun he had given her as an anniversary gift, sources tell Sneed there was no blood spatter indicating such a scenario.

"The blood pattern definitely indicates Mrs. Kustok was killed while she was lying in bed," the source said. "There was also no gunshot residue on her hands."

http://www.suntimes.com/news/sneed/2766742,CST-NWS-SNEED03.article
 
  • #58
dr dona said:
I,m a weirdo too. I also reenacted this . I couldn't get the gun flush with my cheek. If I would have shot myself in this manner, the bullet would have exited just to the left of midline on the rear of my neck. To get the bullet to come out the right side of my cheek someone would have to place the barrel directly on my left cheek so the exit would is almost straight across. No way in hell could I do this to myself. Its impossible.
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According to what chicagofa13 posted the bullet DID exit out of her neck on her right side, NOT her right cheek.

BBM

chicagofa13 said:
The kids are supporting dad, what a surprise. Here we go again, just like that case in FL where NO ONE in the family stood up for the poor wife.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-orland-park-homicide-1002-20101001,0,7593975.story

snipAnita Kustok, whom friends and family called "Jeanie", lay flat with her arms crossed atop her chest. In her right hand was the .357-caliber Smith and Wesson the defendant had bought a year ago, Allan Kustok told police.

It was an improbable story, prosecutors said at a news conference Friday, considering the medical examiner's office determined the bullet that killed Kustok entered her left cheek below the eye and exited the right side of her neck — an awkward shot for somebody holding a gun in their right hand.snip


The original Tribune story included the info about the gunshot through the left side exiting the right, and the gun being in the right hand, but did NOT point out that was really, really odd. It's the first thing I noticed, I read it 5 times to make sure and even reenacted it. I'm sure if someone saw me they would have thought I was a complete wacko.

I see in this updated story they caught on. I want to know how the kids explain this one.
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I am left handed but bat, golf and shoot right handed. So I would imagine it is possible for a right handed individual to shoot naturally left handed also. I would think that which ever hand you feel the most comfortable holding the gun in, is which hand you use to shoot with. I think this is something a defense attorney would have brought up in court to create reasonable doubt if it had not been for Allan's own account of how he found his wife lying in bed as reported by a close source to the investigation in that she had the gun in her right hand with her arms crossing her chest. That might of been his big mistake in the case telling LE this piece of information.

Allan shooting the gun into the piece of furniture was also a very clever way to get GSR on his own hands in an attempt to mask his crime IMO. But if there is no GSR on either of hers hand it blows his story out of the water. It is too bad the GSR information has not been released yet, which I doubt it will be until trial. Obviously any GSR evidence that was found didn't point to her being the one to pull the trigger.

With what is known about the trajectory of the bullet entering her left cheek just below the eye and exiting out of her right neck, I would not consider this an "instant" fatal wound unless the bullet might of severed her carotid artery. I suspect the bullet would have missed her brain, went down through her mouth and exited her neck and she could have very well been alive for sometime until she bled out and finally died. This might have accounted for some of the 90 minutes between the time he shot her and then finally arriving at the hospital. If she didn't die immediately he couldn't have shot her again, that would have made the suicide story undoubtedly impossible. I would think the ME could have determined if she died suddenly or not if there was blood inhaled into her lungs. JMO I'm just puzzled why he thought it was a good idea to driver her to the hospital instead of calling 911. Perhaps he thought it would mess up the investigation if LE didn't view the position of the body at the time of death.
 
  • #59
Wow, is all I can say to the mortgages! Yikes.

I have a feeling more stuff is going to come out. He seemed to be living a life for appearances with no way to really support that lifestyle. I wonder what kinda debt they had in addition to mortgage debt.

I also wonder if the kids knew he had been a janitor at Cook County Jail from 2004 -2007. Maybe he put on a suit and tie everyday, went to work and no none was the wiser.

I think a whole lot more may come out in addition to today's news.

JMO
 
  • #60
I think what will get this husband convicted is the information LE finds during their investigation. The truth will out....
 
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