[Treonis-Bowen] Slain woman's widower pleads 5th at hearing
Anne Warfield
Slain woman's widower pleads 5th at hearing
By Imran Vittachi
Tribune staff reporter
Published May 13, 2004
Testifying at a hearing on his challenge to a court order barring him
from seeing his children, the widower of a slain Illinois Liquor
Control Board attorney repeatedly took the 5th Amendment on Wednesday
when asked questions related to his wife's murder.
Much of the questioning focused on Bowen's relationship with Dennis
McArdle, a friend of Bowen's who has been charged with murder in the
March 5 shooting of Anne Treonis-Bowen, 42, in a CTA commuter parking
lot in Bridgeport.
"Did you ever offer Dennis McArdle money in exchange for killing your
wife?" Craig Hammond, the attorney representing the couple's two
girls, asked Daniel Bowen.
"Again, Your Honor, based on the 5th Amendment, I refuse to answer the
question," Bowen told Cook County Judge Moshe Jacobius, who heads the
domestic relations division.
Bowen, 43, is in court to challenge an order of protection--part of
divorce proceedings between the estranged couple--preventing him from
seeing his 5- and 6-year-old daughters. The order was in force when
Treonis-Bowen was killed.
Attorneys representing the girls and Treonis-Bowen's parents are
trying to extend the order, contending Bowen abuses drugs and alcohol
and alleging he paid McArdle to kill his wife. The attorneys have
submitted a videotaped confession in which McArdle, 42, is said to
have told police that Bowen paid him to carry out the killing.
During most of the day, Hammond pressed Bowen about his relationship
to McArdle, and in most cases, Bowen took the 5th--even when asked to
state his phone number.
Lawyers for Bowen explained that they had to advise their client to
plead the 5th consistently to ensure that he not say something that
could implicate him in the murder case.
"You have to understand that he has not been charged with anything,"
one of Bowen's lawyers, Charles Katz, told reporters during a break.
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