Husband Held in Schoolteacher Wife's Killing

Oct. 2, 2010— -- The father of a former star Northwestern University quarterback and a Chicago sports reporter is being held on $2 million bond in the murder of his schoolteacher wife.

A judge Friday rejected a request from Allan Kustok's lawyer to reduce the bond to $200,000, and Kustok was ordered held at the Cook County Jail.

Kustok requested protective custody and after undergoing a mental and physical evaluation, he was being held at Cermak Hospital Friday night. Authorities would not comment on his health.

Although many details of the incident were discuss at Kustok's bond hearing Friday, prosecutors did not say what they thought a possible motive might be in the shooting death of his 58-year-old wife, Anita "Jeanie" Kustok.

Police also did not release any other details in the case during a news conference.

Allan Kustok is facing a first-degree murder charge for allegedly shooting his wife in the face in their Orland Park home, and then waiting approximately 90 minutes to drive her to Palos Community Hospital on Wednesday morning.

Police said that after Kustok drove his wife to the hospital, he gave them a voluntary videotaped statement at the Orland Park Police Department.

According to prosecutors, Kustok said he heard a loud noise Wednesday morning in the bedroom and found his wife dead on the floor with her arms folded across her chest with a gun in her hand.

He said he picked her up in his arms and put the gun to his head but instead shot several rounds into the bedroom armoire, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors also said he waited more than an hour to bring her to a hospital and wrapped her in his own robe and bed sheets.

"I believe any reasonable person would find it unreasonable to wait an hour and a half before you take your loving spouse to a hospital with a gunshot wound to the head," said Peter Troy, an assistant state's attorney with the Cook County State's Attorney's Office.