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. The photographer wasnt the only one having a tough time finding Hofer. [7] Searches of the mine Jones identified proved fruitless, however, and Jones subsequently admitted he had fabricated the story in order to get better food and additional phone privileges in prison. Olds, 5-foot-2 and 102 pounds, did so at the urging of her three adult children, who had argued unsuccessfully in late 1993 that their mother immediately leave the half-acre estate in Wilmette. During this time, Olds continued to practice law at Willian Brinks Olds. But Olds didnt spend Christmas at home in Wilmette. For a while, trademark attorney Dean Olds and his wife, Suzanne, led a storybook North Shore existence with their three children. 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. 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. You could tell that swear words would make her a little uncomfortable.. Mrs. Hofer also visited Olds in Chicago, and says he was entertained at the family home and at their country club. [12], In the decade following the disappearance of Bible and Freeman, two convicted killersTommy Lynn Sells and Jeremy Jonesconfessed to murdering them, but subsequently recanted their admissions. But none of this evidence was presented to Judge Orr at the bond hearing or confirmed officially by police or Goebel. In the Season 9 episode 23 finale of Supernatural, Dean (Jensen Ackles) makes the ultimate . 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. For his part, Olds attributed any problems in their relationship to the 40-year difference in their ages. So, Hofer says, he and Olds turned all the operating papers for the limousine service over to a liquidator. . Hofers friend Douglas R. Kragness, an assistant Cook County public defender, accompanied Hofer to the police station when he was questioned, and later stated that Hofer was at his West Cornelia Avenue apartment at the time of the murder. I decided I wanted to live with him. Hofer says the man was an American actor who had been on tour in Europe. For weeks, he eluded off-duty cops trying to serve him with a subpoena for a deposition in the divorce case. Getty Dean Martin. That came when I came over here to the States, and when Ive been living with him. As or romance, Hofer said, There was never from my side anything.. It wasn't Dean Olds, but his mysterious young friend from Germany, who terrified Suzanne Olds the most, family members testified Thursday in the murder trial of Helmut Carsten Hofer. Hofer was arrested on murder charges. Insurance didnt cover the loss, according to court records, because Hofer did not have the proper type of license. Olds male lover, a dashing blond part-time model from Germany, was tried for the crime and acquitted. Our friendship has traveled down many roads over the years and there will always be a special place in my heart and soul for Dean.. Year Olds should have starred in the United States on December 28, 1993, Suzanne, a. Swimming pools, racquetball courts, weight room and fitness center, all the things a 67-year-old who walks stooped over would need to get back into top form. Some of those contrasting themes will play out on Tuesday when the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) looks into Olds' affairs, which include insider stock trading and violating judges' orders to stop transferring large sums of money to Hofer in Germany, pending the outcome of Dean and Suzanne Olds' divorce. [9], The disappearances of Bible and Freeman were profiled on America's Most Wanted in 2000,[10] and on Unsolved Mysteries in 2001. I just want to pick up his spirits. Dean's first encounter with Richard and Emily Gilmore is a disaster. Meanwhile, Wilmette police say their investigation of Dean Olds "is not active at this time.". [7] The case was later featured on the series Vanished with Beth Holloway. He hated Suzanne. . ``They were the only two people in the world who didnt love her, Courtney Olds said as her eyes filled with tears. Dean Olds and his wife Suzanne appeared to have it all -- a nice home, a 30-year marriage, and three grown children. . . By Nancy Millman. When people asked about the divorce, she would say her husband was involved with someone. After undergoing several amputations 12 years ago, Dean Winters is still in constant pain. When a prominent lawyer opened up his bank account to a charming young man, his wife put her foot down. Simpson for the death of his wife, Nicole, and her friend Ron Goldman, the case of Olds raises the same sorts of issues that are being debated in the Simpson case. 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. When they did catch up with him, it was on the boat in Wilmette, where he was sunning with his friends. At the time the divorce was filed, the court ordered Dean Olds to stop transferring assets out of the country. Outside was a lovely garden. We felt some of the things had the potential to impact us, Pavlak said. 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.. [7] Danny's brother, Dwayne, claimed that Danny had confided that deputies had tried to intimidate him. By late 1992, Hofer was losing interest in Rolls-Royce. Today, the company's website reports Dean Foods to still be the largest dairy company in the United States, with 66 manufacturing facilities in 32 states, and revenues of $7.7 billion in 2016. Then one evening, three days after Christmas 1993 and shortly before the case was to go to trial, Mrs. Olds started out to walk the dog and was bludgeoned to death in the garage of her home. On December 29, 1999, high school friends Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman spent the evening together celebrating Freeman's sixteenth birthday. The couple's marriage produced four children. 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. Living on the North Shore with an attractive wife, prominent lawyer Dean Olds seem to have it all. 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. Later that year, the Olds children brought a wrongful death lawsuit against him and their father. He then prepared to return to Germany. Background. Olds, 66, said Thursday he maintains contact with Hofer, who returned to Germany after his acquittal. Yet Dean Olds, a brilliant litigator who in 1990 won what was then the largest trademark-infringement judgment in U.S. history, is optimistic about his future. Then she paid the ultimate price. Soft-spoken and charming, he had been living on little but his looks and his wits for years. In the ensuing weeks, he worked with Mark Wheeler, his civil lawyer, on a libel case against Chuck Goudie charging that reports portrayed Hofer inaccurately and irrelevantly played up his homosexuality. What happened to Dean in Season 9 episode 23? And I thought, This is a nice business full-service luxury auto rental.. [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. Keep scrolling to see more of this historic Palm Springs property. A year later, baby number three, Gail, was born. That supposedly explain where money was going in the German business show lots of transactions at very nice restaurants, hotels throughout Europe, liquor. The day after Hofers bond hearing, Olds told the Chicago Tribune that after Hofers parents walked off and left him when he was a child, he basically put himself through college. But Hofer told Chicago magazine that he left school at 15 did not attend university. Seven weeks later, on December 28th, Kristen Olds Glavin talked to her mother on the phone at about nine in the evening. We supplied documents we believed complied with the requests, said Charles Sproger, who represented Dean Olds in the divorce case. The police reported that speed contributed to the cause to the accident and that Dean was traveling over 65 mph at the time of the impact. He had written the check on December 22nd to buy a pair of exercise dumbbells. No other payments were to be allowed unless approved by the lawyers and the court. Dean seemed to always exude artfulness and talent. James Byron Dean was born in Indiana on February 8, 1931, where he lived for a few years before his father's work had the small family transferred to California. Though police did not comment officially on any aspects of their investigation before Hofers arrest, details had leaked, primarily to Channel 7s Chuck Goudie, who reported extensively on the case. Two nights later-on Stephen Olds' 25th birthday-his mother was bludgeoned to death as she left to walk her golden retriever. "She wasn't as fearful of my dad as she was of my father and Carsten," Kristin Olds Glavin testified Thursday in the second day of Hofer's murder trial. I believe it was less about money," Anderson said. After their chance meeting in the hotel bar in New York, Dean Olds and Carsten Hofer quickly grew close. Dean Olds, who had been named as a suspect, according to his criminal lawyer, appeared at the Wilmette police station on the night of the arrest and was interviewed by detectives. What followed was far worse: On Dec. 28, 1993, his wife, Suzanne Olds, was found bludgeoned to death at their home in Wilmette. By the early 1990s, according to court records, Sue Olds was maintaining the house and her activities with the $13,000 to $16,000 a month she received from her husband in two installments, about half his monthly income. However, the relationship soon proves tumultuous, as Rory finds the relationship moving too fast for her. If lack of money is indeed a concern, Olds, who is working as a paralegal under California's expansive notion of what law practitioners can do, disguises his poverty well. [8] Two other suspects Warren Phillip "Phil" Welch II (died 2007) and David Pennington (died 2015)were also identified. Judge Orr, in addition to denying bond, ordered Hofer to surrender his passport and to undergo a psychiatric examination. As the news coverage continued to put the spotlight on Hofer, his Chicago friends rallied around him. Martin's life came to an end on December 25, 1995, two years after he was diagnosed with lung cancer and emphysema, per the Hartford . You could kid around with her, but politely. "I think he's intelligent," Stephen Olds responded. But Hofer and Wheeler told Chicago in the same March 25th interview that Hofers grandparents, who aside from his great-aunt were the only relatives with whom he was close, had cut off all contact with him. Originally from Chicago, Dean Forester moves to Stars Hollow sometime before the start of Gilmore Girls, with May, Randy and Clara Forester. She suspected her husband of gutting their $4.6 million estate, in part to support his young lover. "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. Dean Olds, too, played a part in disseminating conflicting information about Hofers life. We welcome all information leading to their recovery. Dean a young, highly ambitious, Porsche-driving, tassel-loafer-wearing lawyer when he joined the ultra conservative Nixon minions ended up getting fired in 1973 once it became clear he would. A senior partner with his name on the door of a prestigious firm, Olds was paid more than $400,000 a year (varying with the bonus) and owned a five-percent interest in the firm. The children have little, if any, contact with their father. They were married on April 16, 1960, at the First Presbyterian Church near her home. "Don't tell me about double lives," he scolded, pointing a finger. 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. "I think that's primarily what the Olds (probate) case was about--getting the whole story out, the truth about who killed Suzanne Olds. Sue Olds stopped teaching and stayed home to rear the family. Carsten was trying to get his roots down in the U.S., Olds said several weeks before Hofers arrest. She has the small town values of home, family, and service, said Elizabeth Andrews, associate minister of the Kenilworth Church. 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.. During a press conference at the Wilmette police station the next day, Carpenter insisted that Hofer was not arrested because he planned to leave the country, but because the evidence came together.. Dean sold his company to Sara Lee Foods in 1984, remaining its spokesperson until 2003. 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.. In the following weeks, when she tried to get some of them back, she found that Hofer had moved out of Oldss apartment and into a roommate arrangement with a woman in Marina Towers. As a result, Olds moved back into the Wilmette house and has access to what is left of the couples joint assets. First, there was a bitter divorce proceeding and a freeze on his assets. Their first child, Craig, came in 1942, followed by Claudia in 1944. News reports after the search wrapped up indicated it had been yet another dead end. Experts are already predicting an uphill fight in the aftermath of the judgment against Simpson, in which a jury awarded compensatory and punitive damages totaling $33.5 million against the former football star. But Olds, who still officially lived at the house in Wilmette, ignored the order, according to Marcyan, and continued to send money to Hofer thousands of dollars at a time almost biweekly, totaling about $115,000 in 1992. 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 . Olds quickly left for a month at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California. If so, where is it? "[14] After his arrest, Busick told reporters he wished to speak to the Bibles. The vote wasnt anywhere near unanimous, Pavlak said. Suzanne Olds carried Mace when walking her dog. Though no one was hurt, the car was totaled, Hofer said. Just a month before Hofers arrest, a court ruling put an end to the financial strain that had plagued Dean Olds since the receiver took control of his funds a year before. She was very much a lady, said George Kundaris, her hairdresser. In addition to reports of evidence that linked Hofer to Sue Olds murder, TV news coverage alleged that Hofer had serious legal problems in Germany as well. Hofer denied the two were lovers, but photographs accidentally discovered by one of the Olds daughters show them in intimate situations. Many of you are aware that Dean had two strokes in December last year due to an anomaly in his body. . The unanswered questions are: Is Olds hiding some of that untraceable money? She slept at night only after securing the front and back doors and locking the deadbolt on her bedroom door. 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. The baby grand piano that Martin purchased for the home still . A judge ruled in the childrens favor, declaring the two men responsible. I wouldnt want to be on the other side against him., Olds partners say they didnt notice any change in him as his relationship with Hofer was deepening except that he was taking frequent trips to Germany. Olds has never been charged in the killing. Murphy was loose on the lawn. . Swimming pools, racquetball courts, weight room and fitness center, all the things a 67-year-old who walks stooped over would need to get back into top form. [19], On October 6, 2017, this case was covered on the podcast 'Unfound'. No documents that Olds produced in the divorce case show any income from the business that year. With Dean Olds. . Still Oldss legal skills were celebrated. Dean Olds and Carsten Hofer were questioned shortly after the murder, and both retained lawyers. Tags: Crime & Law, From the Vault, News & Politics. Glavin found the body of his mother-in-law on the floor of the garage. His former office suite in Chicago's NBC Tower--which Olds had decorated with a green-eyed ceramic leopard and a family portrait that showed off his wife, children and dog--is now occupied by another lawyer. A third Rolls-Royce, blue, was purchased in December, his tax documents say, for $51,577. [7] However, law enforcement was unable to find any trace of Bible or Freeman in the rubble of the home. Hofer moved from Germany to Chicago in 1993 when the business dissolved, and lived there until after his trial. His law partners learned of the SEC action only when their records were subpoenaed. On March ninth, Circuit Court judge Jeffrey A. Malak dismissed the pending divorce case, which meant that the couples joint assets, primarily the Wilmette house and its contents, reverted to Olds. Spending most of the spring and summer Rollerblading, running, partying with his friends on Oldss powerboat in Wilmette harbor, and going to bars at night, Hofer also decided to try his hand at modeling. But within a week of the cars arrival in Munich, trouble struck. [7] While walking around the extensive rubble, they discovered what appeared to be another body and notified the police. 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. If the money that Olds had poured into the limousine business was really gone, Olds was in rather dire financial straits. At 5:45 PM on September 30, 1955, 24-year-old actor James Dean is killed in Cholame, California, when the Porsche he is driving hits a Ford Tudor sedan at an . Rufus Turner is the hunter who helped Bobby Singer when his wife, Karen Singer, was possessed by a demon.Rufus exorcised the demon and helped cover up Karen's death. Her husband, Matt Glavin, drove over from their home in Evanston to check on Sue. 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. Olds private life was in trouble, too. Benny was a vampire in season 8 of the TV show Supernatural. Released in July 2020, it is titled Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth and the case of Two Missing Girls. 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. Since her primary goal was to preserve assets for the kids, I think she thought if she tried to isolate herself from potential problems, in the end it was better for the children. He adds that she knew Hofer was playing some role in her husbands life, probably by the end of 1990, but she didnt take any action because she had some family goals she wanted to accomplish.. [18], Busick pleaded guilty July 15, 2020 to being an accessory to first-degree murder in the deaths of Danny and Kathy Freeman, the torching of their home near Welch, Oklahoma, and the abduction and presumed slayings of the two girls. The car cost $55,000, according to his tax statements. Oldss client, a small Vermont marketer named Sands, Taylor & Wood, claimed it owned the rights to the trademark Thirst Aid, and that the Gatorade slogan Thirst aid for that deep down body thirst was a blatant infringement. Hofer said the idea was his, hatched when he was working as the assistant to the owner of an incentive travel business in Munich. Nevertheless, Olds still was a man whose career was in tatters, whose fortune was largely dissipated, and whose existence was still shadowed by the murder of his wife of more than 30 years. 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. The high-top boots were traced to a Chicago shoe store with the help of someone who was with Hofer when he bought them, Goebel said. Then, his partners fired him on allegations of insider trading. [7][10] The second body was determined to be that of Danny; like his wife, he had also been shot in the head execution-style. That life unraveled quickly and thoroughly. Dean Martin married his first wife, Elizabeth Anne McDonald, in 1941. [23][24], Murders of Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman, Last edited on 22 February 2023, at 01:51, "Case of girls missing since 1999 gets new look", "Man Arrested in Nearly 20-Year-Old Cold Case Killing of Teens, Couple", "Murder Charges Filed in 18-Year-Old Oklahoma Abduction Case", "Disappearance of two Okla. girls stumped police for 18 years. Jeanette Hady, a photographer, hired him for some plastic surgery ads. Kling told reporters Hofer wanted to see his family and reestablish his career in Germany. His wife had filed for divorce in 1992. It was the biggest trademark infringement award in the history of U.S. law, and is still being appealed by Quaker. An 18-year-old must be able to talk to strangers faculty, deans, advisers, landlords, store clerks, human resource managers, coworkers, bank tellers, health care. And theres no denying that the venture was extremely costly. DNA evidence introduced during Hofer's murder trial showed that the odds were 156 million-to-1 that the blood found on the Taurus' seat cushion, which Hofer was driving that night, belonged to anyone other than Suzanne Olds. 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. She never said it was a man But she would ask me questions. 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. 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. His affair with the American actor ended suddenly, he says, and he moved into the apartment that Olds had recently rented on East Ohio Street after moving out of the house in Wilmette. 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. Everything was for the children.. Until he was arrested for murder, Hofer still was using Oldss car regularly, and sometimes the two of them would drive together to visit the schnauzers at a south suburban kennel. Goebel also told the court that footprints found in the snow leading to the garage where Mrs. Olds was murdered and leading away from the garage were analyzed and found to be similar to prints of boots owned by Hofer. One night in 1989, stopping for a drink in the hotels Ambassador lounge, he noticed a striking young German seated nearby at the bar. My wife had cut off all funds for Germany, he said. 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. [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. Inhaling deeply on a Marlboro Light in his lawyers office and speaking in accented, nearly fluent English, Hofer described his relationship with the wealthy lawyer. Hits the Market for $3.9 Million Before Dean was a screen legend, he lived and work as a handyman here. 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. Olds began traveling to Germany often, even spending part of the Christmas holidays there in 1990. It was a triumph Dean earned millions and turned into a sausage king. Mrs. Olds died anyway in a frenzy of violence in her garage. Despite the coincidences of timing, Hofer says his arrival in Chicago was not related to the courts control of Oldss money, and that he only went to live with Olds because his building permitted dogs. Olds made about $41,000 on these stock trades, and was ordered to pay back that amount, plus an equal sum as penalty and another $21,000 in interest. In addition to living in an upscale residence in Laguna Beach, the "penniless" Olds seems to know all the best restaurants in town. [8] Inside the home, the charred remains of Kathy were discovered lying on the floor of her bedroom; she had been shot in the head. [8][13] Following this discovery, the crime scene was reexamined, yet no sign of Bible or Freeman was found. "[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. [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. Reports also referred to a map found in the car with the location of the house marked with a star. He moved to Laguna Beach, California, where he died in 2011. The love-life of Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) was key character in Gilmore Girls, and a hot-topic among fans, with frequent debate over which of her on-screen boyfriends (if any) she truly belonged with. At the time that Dean Olds was embarking on his venture with Carsten Hofer, he was by all appearances at the pinnacle of his career. We had talks like real good friends at dinners. Hofer said he eventually came to believe that Olds was in love with him. The family Christmas card that year was made from a wedding photograph. ". There were plenty of warning signs, family members testified, not least of which was a hotly contested multimillion-dollar divorce suit that the 56-year-old woman had filed a year earlier against her husband, Dean Olds. Hofer moved back to Germany after his trial and, according to friends, has gone into business painting houses. I was very concerned about her safety. Even before the Wilmette officers arrested Hofer, he had a run-in with police. CHICAGO (AP) _ Dean Olds had it all. The business was not a roaring success, he said. ``Whoever killed my wife sort of went bananas, he said. 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. Sue Olds decorated in a traditional style, mixing new furnishing with many antiques she had inherited from her family. 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. Olds lost that money when he and his former lover, Helmut Carsten Hofer, were found responsible for the fatal bludgeoning of Suzanne Olds three days after Christmas 1993. Still, Mrs. Olds tried to conceal what she thought were the worst aspects of the situation from the children. And last year, the children of convicted killer Edward Lyng of Palatine were granted a judgment of $66 million in a civil case for the murder of their mother in 1977. 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. Simpson case, we think that that alternative road to justice will become a more widely used option.".