She was found guilty of reckless homicide for an incident on July 14, 2005 when she attempted suicide while driving, causing a crash that resulted in the deaths of three local musicians, John Glick, Douglas Meis, and Michael Dahlquist.
[citation needed] On July 14, 2005 after a fight with her mother, Sliwinski burst out the door and took her car out in an alleged attempt to take her own life by speeding down Dempster Street in Skokie, Illinois.
She ran a red light at high speed, colliding with a car carrying John Glick of The Returnables, Douglas Meis of The Dials and EXO, and Michael Dahlquist of Silkworm.
[citation needed] At 5:30 P.M. on the afternoon of July 15 Skokie police officers arrested Sliwinski in her hospital room.
After the crash, Sliwinski underwent surgery for a broken ankle at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston before being transferred to the Cermak Health Services in the Cook County Jail.
In an attempt to prove Sliwiniki's diminished mental state, her attorneys showed records that she had been admitted to a Chicago psychiatric hospital only two weeks before the crash and that she had been released after only one day.
[4] Sliwinski served her sentence at Dwight Correctional Center, a maximum security woman's prison about 80 miles southwest of downtown Chicago.