At the Kenilworth Union Church, she taught Sunday school and worked on the annual bazaar. Pavlak termed the leave not entirely voluntary. Though people close to the firm say there were few outward manifestations at the office of Oldss problem, it was something he knew he had to deal with and wanted to conquer, a friend said. The flow of money to Hofer, purportedly to set up a chauffeur business for the two men in Munich, was stemmed by the proceedings. In late July or early August, we decided to take the matter to the shareholders, Pavlak said. On March 19, 1992, Sue Olds filed for divorce from Dean Olds on the grounds of mental cruelty and irreconcilable differences. I was his sugar daddy, and I was about to be financially killed.". As a result, Olds moved back into the Wilmette house and has access to what is left of the couples joint assets. In place of business suits, Olds now favors casual shirts, shorts and penny loafers as his workday attire. By Nancy Millman. The car was recovered at marina Towers, Goebel said (where Hofer had been staying with a friend, Bernadette Horan). History. Actor Dain Cain is a doting father, and in an interview in 2019, he said that being a great father to his son Christopher is his number one priority. When Olds began draining the family retirement accounts to back his business venture and send Hofer regular checks, Suzanne Olds, his wife of 32 years, filed for divorce. In January, David Biro was ordered to pay $41 million to the family of Nancy and Richard Langert of Winnetka for the 1990 murder of the newlyweds. James Dean's Former L.A. Home (Where He Was First Discovered!) A tearful Lewis later spoke at Martins funeral, which took place on December 28, 1995, at the Pierce Brothers Cemetery in Westwood, California, according to Variety. He worshipped the Old Man as a god for fifty years. Olds had set Hofer up in an exclusive car rental business in Munich, but it was Hofer, not rental clients, who drove the companys Rolls-Royce, another of Hofers lovers, Kevin McDermott, testified in a taped deposition. Dean Olds and Carsten Hofer were questioned shortly after the murder, and both retained lawyers. [7] While walking around the extensive rubble, they discovered what appeared to be another body and notified the police. ``That person is highly abnormal. [14], A female witness who lived with Welch a short time after the disappearances provided a sworn affidavit that "she heard conversations between the three men where they disclosed that the murder victims had owed them money," and that Welch kept a briefcase containing the Polaroid photos which showed both girls "bound and gagged with duct tape and lying on a bed," with Welch lying next to the girls in some of the photographs. Hes a fine fellow, Olds said in an interview near the end of March. But shortly after the divorce decision, he sounded remarkably chipper during a phone conversation. For weeks, he eluded off-duty cops trying to serve him with a subpoena for a deposition in the divorce case. Rory and Lorelai warn Dean before entering the lion's den but even Rory doesn't expect the night to go so horribly. Olds male lover, a dashing blond part-time model from Germany, was tried for the crime and acquitted. [20], In September 2018, one of the main witnesses in the case against Ronnie Busick, as well as the cold case investigators who filed the charges, gave their first interviews to the Tulsa World for a special report. The jury could have found Dean guilty of murder. ". Keep scrolling to see more of this historic Palm Springs property. Dean Martin married his first wife, Elizabeth Anne McDonald, in 1941. The unanswered questions are: Is Olds hiding some of that untraceable money? ``They were the only two people in the world who didnt love her, Courtney Olds said as her eyes filled with tears. Before the couple separated in 1949, they had a child Deana, born in 1948. James Dean dies in car accident. According to testimony in the probate case, Olds lucrative career as a trademark attorney spiraled steadily to an end. But I wasnt aware of that for a long, long time, he added. [8] In 2020, Busick was convicted and sentenced.[9]. The girls had graduated from college and were successful in their own right, and their youngest child, a son, was in college. Even with things that developed concerning Carsten and Dean, she didnt want us to be suggestive or descriptive in what we were doing in the divorce case In the pleadings we were very general [using terms such as] business associate, friend.. You could kid around with her, but politely. Almost a year has gone by since Dean Olds made that trip out of Chicago, and even though the case has long since faded from the news, it is not over in the eyes of his estranged children. The so-called "shack" that Olds now calls home is actually a luxury apartment located on a flowering hillside with spectacular views of Laguna Beach. This chance encounter led to an intense relationship between the two men that has coincided with a precipitous plunge in the life and career of Dean Olds. He didnt necessarily follow our unwritten rules. For the most part, the infractions were rather minor, Pavlak said such as telling young associates that they wait to become partner would be shorter than it actually was. She also had graduated from Northwestern with a teaching degree, and met Olds at the wedding of mutual friends, according to her brother John Shonkwiler, chief judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Illinois. "The window spooked me, even if my mom didn't understand why," Stephen Olds, 26, an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps who was home for the Christmas holiday that year, told the court Thursday. In 1993, his law firm insisted that he enter the Betty Ford Clinic when his alcoholism affected his work, his former partner, Roy Hofer, testified. I just want to pick up his spirits. . Judge Orr, in addition to denying bond, ordered Hofer to surrender his passport and to undergo a psychiatric examination. Still Oldss legal skills were celebrated. Olds is more haggard than a year ago, and the deterioration is plain to see in other ways. Many of you are aware that Dean had two strokes in December last year due to an anomaly in his body. Olds private life was in trouble, too. Former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean has been found guilty of a lesser charge of manslaughter in the death of Atatiana Jefferson. Hofer moved from Germany to Chicago in 1993 when the business dissolved, and lived there until after his trial. In September 1955, actor James Dean was driving his brand-new Porsche 550 Spyder to an auto rally in Salinas, California, when he was involved in a head-on collision with a 1950 Ford Tudor. We felt some of the things had the potential to impact us, Pavlak said. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. Minutes earlier, Circuit Judge Jeffrey Malak had rejected a motion by lawyers for Suzanne Olds' estate that Dean Olds be barred from testifying about events over which he consistently pleaded the . As a result, divorce court judge Aubrey Kaplan ruled that the court was to take control of all of Dean Oldss funds. My wife had cut off all funds for Germany, he said. Seven months after the wedding, there was no longer a need for Sue Olds to keep up the pretenses. Mrs. Oldss survivors, her three children and her brother and sister, as well as her many friends, are shattered by the situation. Olds said he believed in his young friends abilities, even though he had little business experience. Then, his partners fired him on allegations of insider trading. In addition to living in an upscale residence in Laguna Beach, the "penniless" Olds seems to know all the best restaurants in town. You could not run the limousine service without ads in the paper saying Rolls-Royce for hire. In the end, the business failed, he said, because of my wife, my wife, my wife.. After undergoing several amputations 12 years ago, Dean Winters is still in constant pain. Then, days after Christmas in 1993, Suzannes son-in-law found her bludgeoned to death in her garage. After arriving in Stars Hollow, Dean pursues Rory romantically, and the two begin dating. Meanwhile, Wilmette police say their investigation of Dean Olds "is not active at this time.". Olds daughters told a probate judge that their mother was terrified of Olds and his lover, Helmut Carsten Hofer. Police say her attacker was so intent on killing that the blows to her head continued long after the 56-year-old woman died. There is no question that Olds is about 10 pounds and several million dollars lighter than when he left his North Shore home last year in an old Ford Taurus sedan stained with the blood of his murdered wife. We supplied documents we believed complied with the requests, said Charles Sproger, who represented Dean Olds in the divorce case. They were ruining his reputation. Suzanne Olds' estate is said to be focusing now on a digital publishing business that Dean Olds operates with a young man in Munich, although German privacy laws may derail those efforts. Hes be telling me about his family, about his business, about his cases and I just knew him as a very nice and very friendly person, he said. . Her husband, Matt Glavin, drove over from their home in Evanston to check on Sue. But his circumstances took a sharp turn for the better in March, when a judge ruled that because at this point there is nothing that says or claims that Mr. Olds was involved with his wifes slaying, the divorce action should end with her death. One point that they and the once-powerful trademark lawyer agree on is that Olds blew much of his wealth providing a pampered lifestyle for a young boyfriend in Germany. His law partners learned of the SEC action only when their records were subpoenaed. On the day that Hady was to photograph him, he arrived with a wardrobe that included a designer tuxedo. First, there was a bitter divorce proceeding and a freeze on his assets. And I think the Olds family felt that way in regards to the criminal trial of Helmut Hofer.". In the spring of 1993, after acknowledging that he had a drinking problem, he was put on a leave of absence from the law firm. Some processing plants were spun off, and an aggressive program of acquisitions and divestitures brought more and more brands and consumer offerings. He said he endures court each day, an experience ``about as bad as it gets, because he sorely needs the money remaining in the estate. Dennis Dean, the 83-year-old California drifter who in the film cruises community pools looking for well-off women who might . Even before the Wilmette officers arrested Hofer, he had a run-in with police. In an interview six weeks before Hofers arrest, Olds still expressed bitterness toward her, blaming the failure of the limousine business on her legal efforts to restrict his funds. Matt Glavin is still brought to tears recalling the horror of finding his mother-in-law lying on the garage floor with her head smashed in. He has been traveling to Florida and Germany, and in March he said he was planning a two-week cruise in July from Norway to the North Pole on a Russian icebreaker. [8] In 2013, it was profiled on the documentary series Disappeared on Investigation Discovery. 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His days at Willian Brinks Olds Hofer Gilson & Lione (there is no connection between Carsten Hofer and Roy E. Hofer, a name partner in the firm) were spent in a well-appointed office with a sweeping view of Chicago and Lake Michigan from the top of the NBC tower. These sums, added to the pension plan withdrawals and other loans, totaled about $2 million, court records show. Under questioning by Hofer's attorney, Richard Kling, Stephen Olds said he didn't remember telling Wilmette police after the slaying that his father was "so intelligent and arrogant that he thought he could get away with murder.". "It's too bad that you have to proceed on a civil basis to determine who murdered an individual, but the Olds children believe that the truth has finally come out," added Shonkwiler, who is chief judge of the 6th Judicial Circuit in Downstate Piatt County. A lifelong fan of classical music, Suzanne had ignored her son's advice and was found, slumped over a stoop in the garage, wearing her stereo headphones. They were married on April 16, 1960, at the First Presbyterian Church near her home. Hofer said the idea was his, hatched when he was working as the assistant to the owner of an incentive travel business in Munich. Olds has never been charged in the killing. "Obviously the Brown and Goldman families felt that way about O.J. But still, it was clear that the relationship was not over, despite the advice of lawyers for them to stay apart. [11][15] Law enforcement also stated they believed the girls' remains could have been "dumped in a cellar that was later covered in concrete. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. She said her marriage was over 20 years ago, recalled Kundaris, who styled Mrs. Olds hair twice a week for the last couple of years of her life. Later that year, Lisa Jackson, a former manager at one of Paula Deen's restaurants, filed a $1.2 million lawsuit against Deen and her brother Bubba Hiers, claiming racial discrimination and sexual . Jurors returned the verdict after about 14 hours of deliberation. During this time, Olds continued to practice law at Willian Brinks Olds. He hated (her attorney). And he can still spin a good yarn, even if the details don't stand up to scrutiny. When a prominent lawyer opened up his bank account to a charming young man, his wife put her foot down. In civil court, where the standard of proof is lower than in criminal court, attorneys say they expect to prove that Olds had a role in the slaying. His children, he said, ``are wealthy, but they want to be wealthier. It had been founded in 1917 by two specialists in what today is called intellectual property law, a practice involving patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and copyrights. Then he threw it all away for the company of a young charmer named Carsten Hofer. For his part, Olds attributed any problems in their relationship to the 40-year difference in their ages. He also was now free to receive the hundreds of thousands of dollars owed to him by his law firm, without the restrictions imposed by the court during the divorce proceedings. Logan was 29 years old and Rory had just turned 22. "Most of the people I've known are too embarrassed to admit they've known me," Olds said, "too embarrassed to even have lunch with me because of the notoriety that I'm a killer. " ``Whoever killed my wife sort of went bananas, he said. In the spring of 1993, having sold everything in his apartment which also served as the office of the limo business Hofer packed up his two schnauzers, a giant and a miniature, and moved to Chicago. In January, Chicago police arrested him in Roscoes, a bar on Halsted Street, and charged him with a misdemeanor in connection with bouncing a $102 check. Subscribe for free today! On November tenth, Marcyan got a court order to stop any further payments from the receiver to cover Dean Oldss personal expenses. Living on the North Shore with an attractive wife, prominent lawyer Dean Olds seem to have it all. They shared a room in a beachfront hotel, Hofer said, and Olds paid for the room and he said he could take it mostly off on taxes of whatever. According to tax documents, Olds paid $38,900 for the car and another $1,700 to ship it to Germany. As the news coverage continued to put the spotlight on Hofer, his Chicago friends rallied around him. [12], On December 31, Bible's parents Lorene and Jay returned to the scene, hoping to find any additional clues that law enforcement may have missed. Olds, who has reddish hair and freckly skin, had a polished and witty way of speaking, his neighbors said, and liked to service and discuss fine wines. The money was supposed to be for Sue and Deans retirement, but it was quickly dissipated on a variety of trips and expenses, purportedly in connection with Dean and Carstens joint business, Hofers Rolls-Royce Service, a limousine rental firm in Munich. Whatever the financial outcome, the families of Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson expressed similar views as Olds' family members on the legal outcome of the civil trials: They are relieved that the truth about the murders, as they see it, has finally come out. Olds said that he regrets losing contact with his children but that they have been misled into believing he is involved in his wifes death. After their chance meeting in the hotel bar in New York, Dean Olds and Carsten Hofer quickly grew close. The Olds family lived well, but not ostentatiously. On May tenth, Wilmette police arrested the 25-year-old Hofer and charged him with first-degree murder in the death of Mrs. Olds. It was a crime of hatred, not a crime of burglary or robbery, Goebel said. Almost a year has gone by since. He had written the check on December 22nd to buy a pair of exercise dumbbells. [19], On October 6, 2017, this case was covered on the podcast 'Unfound'. The case centered on the disappearing money and turned bitter. The ARDC hearing, tantamount to a trial, could result in the disbarment of Olds, who until his wife's murder was earning more than $600,000 a year and was listed in a respected publication called "The Best Lawyers in America. He staggered toward his car and told TV reporters attempting to question him to buzz off.. What I had seen on television was more than an inference that because he was gay he was bad, Newfeld said in an interview several weeks before Hofers arrest. He's still able to scratch out a living, even if it is in the legal profession that he now bitterly blames--along with his dead wife--for triggering a downfall as steep as Southern California's craggy cliffs. That supposedly explain where money was going in the German business show lots of transactions at very nice restaurants, hotels throughout Europe, liquor. Press reports on the case also mention a surveillance videotape from a Winnetka gas station that showed Hofer asking for directions to Sue Oldss Ramona Court address on the day of the murder. "We have not forgotten the fact that he (Dean Olds) owes a judgment, although I doubt we're ever going to find all the money he has hidden," said John Shonkwiler, Suzanne Olds' brother and executor of her estate. Blood was found in the car, Geobel said, and DNA tests on the blood showed that it was consistent with Suzanne Oldss blood.. The termination from the firm would bring him, according to court documents, approximately $600,000, paid in increments over time. I had a client there and had been there several times. On Dec. 26, the day Stephen was to return to Camp Pendleton in California, he first showed his mother how to load and fire his father's shotgun, explaining that it was to be used only "as a last resort.". And Bayer Bess Vanderwarker, the Chicago agency that handles all of Gatorades advertising, said its records indicated no payments for commercial roles ever being made to Hofer. He had credit card debts of about $55,000; he had borrowed $231,000 from Chicagos Northern Trust Bank; he owed the SEC more than $80,000; and he was obligated to pay his estranged wife $9,000 each month. She was very frightened as far as her image and propriety were concerned, said a friend. [5] Bible received permission from her parents to spend the night at Freeman's home. Insurance didnt cover the loss, according to court records, because Hofer did not have the proper type of license. But Christoph Sander, the deputy consul general for Germany in Chicago, said a check of Hofers record there showed only traffic violations, including a drunk-driving conviction, and a report that he was being investigated for embezzlement. A week after Martin was granted a divorce from first wife Betty McDonald, he and 22-year-old Jeanne Biegger wed on Sept. 1, 1949, at the Beverly Hills home of Herman Hover, owner of famed . Tags: Crime & Law, From the Vault, News & Politics. [8] Law enforcement determined the fire had been an arson. Hofer, then 20, a six-foot four-inch blond, was in New York visiting friends, he says. Seven weeks later, on December 28th, Kristen Olds Glavin talked to her mother on the phone at about nine in the evening. ``She was extremely scared, extremely aware of her life being threatened by my father and Carsten.. He knew how to treat big shots in the right way, Olds said. Dropping out of school at the same time, he says he drifted through a series of short-term jobs from security guard to house cleaner in Hamburg and Munich. But the money would be disbursed to him by the receiver only as needed, until the divorce was resolved. The prosecutor referred to a photograph of the defendant and Mr. Olds together on a bed in boxer shorts. Lauria Jaylene Bible (/ l r /; born April 18, 1983) and Ashley Renae Freeman (born December 29, 1983) were American teenagers who disappeared between the evening of December 29 and the early morning hours of December 30, 1999, from Freeman's home in Welch, Oklahoma.. Peach and green were the predominating colors, to go with Kristins long red hair. I don't think that's fair.". People close to the family believe the limousine service was a scheme to stash away money for Olds and Hofer, who they believe were lovers. "Because of the O.J. The money went to subsidize Carstens lifestyle, Marcyan charged in a recent interview. "I think he's intelligent," Stephen Olds responded. This year, the Dairy Farmers of America reported that its milk sales had dropped to $13.6 billion in 2018, from $14.7 billion in 2017. Throughout, Dean Olds has been seemingly unmoved by the death of his wife. After several weeks of negotiating his separation package, Olds left the firm at the beginning of September. Then on December 28, 1993, Suzanne was found beaten to death in the driveway of her home. [7], In April 2018, it was reported that Ronnie Dean Busick, age 66, had been arrested and charged with four counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Bible and the Freeman family. I told her to be aware of her surroundings and not to wear headphones" when she went out at night to walk her dog, he said. But in an hour-long interview with Chicago six weeks before, Hofer never mentioned being a model in Europe, despite detailed questions about his work experience. That life unraveled quickly and thoroughly. After a trial in the spring of 1990, the stunning decision came down from U.S. District Court judge Prentice H. Marshall in December: Quaker was ordered to pay $42.6 million to the Vermont company. Firefighters arrived at the Freeman home shortly after 5:30 a.m. on December 30,[6] when a passerby reported a fire at the residence. . Dean Olds, too, played a part in disseminating conflicting information about Hofers life. Then on December 28, 1993, Suzanne was found beaten to death in the drive Dean Olds and his wife Suzanne appeared to have it all -- a nice home, a 30-year marriage, and three grown children. Then on December 28, 1993, Suzanne was found beaten to death in the driveway of her home. Weve been really good friends, Hofer said in an interview on March 25th, six weeks before his arrest. The family Christmas card that year was made from a wedding photograph. When Dean Olds, a prominent Chicago trademark lawyer, travelled to New York on business, he liked to stay at the United Nations Plaza hotel on the citys East Side. . A partner in one of Chicago's hottest law firms, he had amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune. Hofer was held without bond, despite claims by his attorney that there was no chance he would flee and that the evidence against him was based on innuendo. Hofers supporters, including North Side community activist Charlotte Newfeld, portrayed him as an innocent victim of the media being hounded because he is gay. Without a license to practice law in California, Olds conducts research and writes legal briefs for other, arguably less-gifted, lawyers to use in court. [14] According to The Washington Post, "at least a dozen" witnesses claimed all three men bragged about raping and murdering Bible and Freeman and having taken Polaroid photographs of them. Possibly that is why we take a lot of things about time for granted: for example that the past is fixed and unchangeable, and that the future is open and changeable. Originally from Chicago, Dean Forester moves to Stars Hollow sometime before the start of Gilmore Girls, with May, Randy and Clara Forester. However, Benny fell in love with a Greek woman named Andrea and decided to abandon his maker, who then banished him to Purgatory . A judge ruled in the childrens favor, declaring the two men responsible. [8] Two other suspects Warren Phillip "Phil" Welch II (died 2007) and David Pennington (died 2015)were also identified. The 10-room brick ranch-style house in Wilmette where Suzanne Olds was bludgeoned to death in 1993 and where her ex-husband, Dean Olds, lived until he was evicted by her estate in 1996 sold on . Suzanne Olds, his petite and vivacious wife, presided over an $880,000 house in the Indian Hill Estates section of Wilmette, where the couple had reared three children. There is nothing I would like better than for the truth about this to come out, he said. She was interested in learning more about the gay life., Why she stayed in the marriage can perhaps be explained by the words of her minister at the crowded memorial service last December 31st. He did not respond to a request for an interview. SARAH NORDGREN December 7, 1995 CHICAGO (AP) _ Dean Olds had it all. By the following year, Olds was made a partner in his firm, and the couple started planning for children. "He introduced him as the orphaned nephew of a client of his who was down on his luck," Glavin testified. [22] The show was hosted by the creator of the show and crime writer Jax Miller, who also wrote a book on the girls' disappearances. [14] Several witnesses alleged that the three men killed the Freemans over drug money,[14] and that the girls were held captive in Welch's trailer for several days before being murdered. "If these lawyers acted like decent individuals, I am convinced this tragedy would never have occurred," Olds said. He moved to Laguna Beach, California, where he died in 2011. She described Hofer's actions as "hostile" toward everyone in the family except Dean. [7] However, law enforcement was unable to find any trace of Bible or Freeman in the rubble of the home. While Hofer sat in Cook County Jail awaiting trial, Olds groused about his entrepreneurial woes to Nancy Millman for her 1994 Chicago story Dangerous Liaison., My wife had cut off all funds for Germany, he said. Reflecting on fatherhood, the 54-year-old actor said: "My number-one priority in this entire world has always been to be a father." For example, at a press conference the day after Hofer was arrested, Kling, his defense lawyer, made much of Hofers modeling career in Germany and his success in that field here, even referring to his appearance in a national Gatorade commercial. Dean is the first of Rory's boyfriends they meet and their expectations were high. "[16], In a public address, the Bible family issued a statement in which they stated they had been aware of the alleged photographs "for years," and that "At this time all focus is on finding Lauria and Ashley. The children have little, if any, contact with their father. At the time the divorce was filed, the court ordered Dean Olds to stop transferring assets out of the country. On December 29, 1999, high school friends Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman spent the evening together celebrating Freeman's sixteenth birthday. By now, they were deeply concerned. [10], At approximately 5:30 a.m. on December 30, 1999, a passerby called 9-1-1 reporting that the Freeman home was engulfed in flames. Following the hearing, as his client was headed for Cook County Jail, Kling told reporters he was outraged and angry and convinced that [Hofer] is innocent.. The second best result is Dean L Olds age 60s in Mesa, AZ. Dean was killed, but his passenger and the driver of the other vehicle survived. He was turned into the ancient one known as "The Old Man". An occasional McDonald's hamburger is "a big night out.". Until they are home with us, this will never be over. But Stephen Olds did say he recalled a phone conversation with Dean just a day before the slaying in which his father, in a rage, said of Suzanne: "That bitch, that bitch, I'll see her at the gates of hell. Soft-spoken and charming, he had been living on little but his looks and his wits for years. 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