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Model Who Killed 3 Gets 8-Year Sentence

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[November 27, 2007]  SKOKIE (AP) -- A former model was sentenced Monday to 8 years in prison for causing a high-speed crash that killed three people during an apparent suicide attempt.

A tearful Jeannette Sliwinski, 25, apologized to victims' relatives at the sentencing hearing.

"There's not a day that goes by I do not think about the grief and the pain I have caused," Sliwinski said. "I'm sorry."

Cook County Circuit Judge Garritt Howard found Sliwinski guilty but mentally ill last month of reckless homicide and aggravated battery in the July 2005 deaths of rock musicians Michael Dahlquist, 39, John Glick, 35, and Douglas Meis, 29.

Sliwinski allegedly told investigators she had been in a fight with her mother and wanted to take her own life. She was driving at least 70 mph and ran three red lights when her car rammed the musicians' car in this northern Chicago suburb, police have said. Sliwinski broke an ankle.

[Associated Press]

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