Chicago Murder Trial Begins for Blonde Former Model
Former Model Killed 3 Beloved Musicians With Car in Bid to End Her Life, Prosecutors Say
They probably never saw her coming.
It was July 14, 2005: lunch hour in Chicago.
Three local musicians who worked day jobs together at an audio electronics company were stopped at a traffic light in a Honda Civic in a suburb north of the city.
At a speed authorities estimated to be 70 mph, a former model who, police said, was trying to kill herself, ran three red lights and hit the musicians from behind in her red Mustang convertible.
Both cars went into the air on impact, witnesses said, and each vehicle landed crushed upside-down on the pavement.
The three young men died. Jeanette Sliwinski, then 23, suffered a broken ankle.
More than two years later, her murder trial begins this week.
Sliwinski's lawyers have denied that she was attempting suicide. Her current attorney did not return a call seeking comment on the case.
The accident and subsequent arrest brought Sliwinski Internet fame. Many blogs and websites have posted modeling pictures of Sliwinski since she was arrested. Click here for pictures.
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