Judge Orr, in addition to denying bond, ordered Hofer to surrender his passport and to undergo a psychiatric examination. Outside was a lovely garden. Suzanne and Dean Olds' son-in-law, Matthew Glavin, an attorney who discovered his mother-in-law's battered body in the garage of her home, has been hired by her estate to pursue the money trail, but it won't be easy. That July, Olds visited Munich, deducting $7,500 for his travel expenses and another $11,800 in other unspecified business expenses. First put up for sale in 2018 with a price tag of $1.8M, the original listing also included much of the furniture and Martin's baby grand piano. 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. 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.. [7] Danny's brother, Dwayne, claimed that Danny had confided that deputies had tried to intimidate him. I had a client there and had been there several times. 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.". The next year, Hofer was acquitted of all charges, but the government soon deported him for overstaying his visa. "Don't tell me about double lives," he scolded, pointing a finger. 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 . In 1992, while . But I wasnt aware of that for a long, long time, he added. He knew how to treat big shots in the right way, Olds said. Over the next three years, Dean's double life would be exposed, and he wo Dean Olds and his wife Suzanne appeared to have it all -- a nice home, a 30-year marriage, and three grown children. Featured was an interview with Lauria's mother, Lorene Bible. 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. Dean Olds and his wife Suzanne appeared to have it all -- a nice home, a 30-year marriage, and three grown children. Hofer was arrested on murder charges. 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. On April 19th, Hofer appeared in court on the misdemeanor charge, which was dismissed. However, Benny fell in love with a Greek woman named Andrea and decided to abandon his maker, who then banished him to Purgatory . Dean Martin Died on Christmas Day in 1995. "I think he's intelligent," Stephen Olds responded. If so, where is it? She suspected her husband of gutting their $4.6 million estate, in part to support his young lover. SARAH NORDGREN December 7, 1995 CHICAGO (AP) _ Dean Olds had it all. Throughout the months after the murder, the Olds children have refrained from commenting publicly on the case, but family members and friends say that more than anything, they want the murder of Suzanne Olds to be solved. He arranged to have some sample photographs of himself taken at the Models Workshop Studio on Kinzie street, a company that trains would-be models. Sue Olds decorated in a traditional style, mixing new furnishing with many antiques she had inherited from her family. I don't think that's fair.". He then prepared to return to Germany. The Olds family--daughters Kristin Glavin and Courtney Olds, and a son, Stephen Dean Olds--have found some solace amid the tragedy of losing their mother, and in effect, their father too. 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. [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. On April 26, 2018, it was reported that Ronnie Dean Busick was being charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the killings of Bible and the Freeman family. Everything was for the children.. I [was] falling in love with somebody at the end of 1992, Hofer said. "Many crime victims who have been brutalized don't even realize there is a cause of action called a civil lawsuit," said David Beatty, the center's acting director. 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. 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. [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. But shortly after the divorce decision, he sounded remarkably chipper during a phone conversation. And she called on Schiller, DuCanto and Fleck, the countrys largest matrimonial law firm. 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. He moved to Laguna Beach, California, where he died in 2011. [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. [8] Initially, no other remains were located, leading local law enforcement to extrapolate that Ashley's father, Danny Freeman, had slain his wife and fled with both girls. And I thought, This is a nice business full-service luxury auto rental.. 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. On May tenth, Wilmette police arrested the 25-year-old Hofer and charged him with first-degree murder in the death of Mrs. Olds. [11] Bible's parked car was in the driveway of the home with the keys in the ignition. 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. [8][13] Following this discovery, the crime scene was reexamined, yet no sign of Bible or Freeman was found. 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. 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. By late 1992, Hofer was losing interest in Rolls-Royce. As late as the 1980s, the family fortune exceeded $5 million, court records indicate, but by the time of a wrongful-death lawsuit last April, only $2 million appeared to be left. . As a result, Olds moved back into the Wilmette house and has access to what is left of the couples joint assets. Still Oldss legal skills were celebrated. It's Rufus who introduces Bobby to the world of the supernatural, and they hunted together for many years until a hunt goes wrong in Omaha, and a woman important to Rufus (possibly his daughter) dies. He chatted about his travel plans and reminisced a little wistfully about his life with Hofer. Genres as young film buffs become more mature 29.4 % happened between the ages of 18 and.! But the money would be disbursed to him by the receiver only as needed, until the divorce was resolved. By now, they were deeply concerned. 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. 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. She consolidated her own assets close to $1 million in stocks and bonds that had accumulated from the money she inherited, as well as some farmland near Monticello that she held in trust with her brother and sister and changed her will, leaving everything to her children. In March 1991, Olds and Hofer visited Fort Lauderdale together, where they bought their first Rolls-Royce, a brown one. I decided I wanted to live with him. Hofer says the man was an American actor who had been on tour in Europe. Keep scrolling to see more of this historic Palm Springs property. . However, the relationship soon proves tumultuous, as Rory finds the relationship moving too fast for her. Dean Ambrose Olds grew up in Wichita, Kansas. The car cost $55,000, according to his tax statements. One night in 1989, stopping for a drink in the hotels Ambassador lounge, he noticed a striking young German seated nearby at the bar. The regular checks to Hofer were to stop. She was very frightened as far as her image and propriety were concerned, said a friend. 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. 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. At a press conference the next day, police chief George Carpenter said his force was still investigating the possibility that another person may also bear legal responsibility for this crime. At press time, no one else had been charged. [9] He was sentenced to 15 years for the crime, with 10 of the years to be spent in lockup. Sept. 16, 2014 4:52 AM PT. . [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. 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. Jeanette Hady, a photographer, hired him for some plastic surgery ads. LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. Dean Olds wants his family back in Chicago to believe that he's destitute, sleeping on the floor of a "shack" he rents in a "top-secret" Laguna Beach location, maintaining his strength for much of the past year on a diet of sweet rolls. The living room contained several of these heirlooms, including a mahogany baby grand piano. 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. Simpson. 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. Dean was killed, but his passenger and the driver of the other vehicle survived. 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. Hofer said the idea was his, hatched when he was working as the assistant to the owner of an incentive travel business in Munich. Mrs. "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. As the news coverage continued to put the spotlight on Hofer, his Chicago friends rallied around him. The money went to subsidize Carstens lifestyle, Marcyan charged in a recent interview. 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.. On September 30, 1955, actor James Dean was killed in a two-vehicle accident near Paso Robles, CA. 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. 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 says he wanted to get out of the business and move to the United States. 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. When Kristin called her mother again later and no one answered, she became concerned. James Dean dies in car accident. Carsten was trying to get his roots down in the U.S., Olds said several weeks before Hofers arrest. 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. Afterward, about 200 guests joined the family for cocktails, dinner, and dancing at the Skokie Country Club, where the Oldses were members. He was crazy.. Unquestionably, the two men spent an enormous amount of Oldss money together. The baby grand piano that Martin purchased for the home still . 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.. But matters just got worse. She has the small town values of home, family, and service, said Elizabeth Andrews, associate minister of the Kenilworth Church. The children have little, if any, contact with their father. News reports after the search wrapped up indicated it had been yet another dead end. Up until the time Hofer was charged, Dean Olds had been freely admitting that he had a sexual relationship with Hofer, Goebel said. Hes bright as hell. Efforts are under way to prevent Olds, a suspect in the murder from the start but who was never charged criminally in the case, from profiting from his wife's slaying. 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. Apparently, the primary goal was to keep up appearances for the wedding of her daughter Kristin. The jury could have found Dean guilty of murder. The vote wasnt anywhere near unanimous, Pavlak said. 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. Civil lawsuits have been used, with some success, in other Chicago area murders. Olds male lover, a dashing blond part-time model from Germany, was tried for the crime and acquitted. On televised news coverage, Oldss appearance was disheveled, and he seemed to be intoxicated. "[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. He sold his company in 1984 but remained a spokesman for it until 2003. Dean is very intense, said a marketing consultant who worked on trademark cases with him. At the Kenilworth Union Church, she taught Sunday school and worked on the annual bazaar. Insurance didnt cover the loss, according to court records, because Hofer did not have the proper type of license. On the day that Hady was to photograph him, he arrived with a wardrobe that included a designer tuxedo. In a week that saw a multimillion-dollar civil judgment against O.J. "You can go to any corporation or to any church, and you tell me how many people are duplicitous, and then I'll answer your question. Hofer, a former live-in companion and business partner of Dean Olds, could face the death penalty if convicted. She was dead from blows to the head. It premiered a few weeks ago in theaters and streaming on demand. ``They were the only two people in the world who didnt love her, Courtney Olds said as her eyes filled with tears. There is nothing I would like better than for the truth about this to come out, he said. 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. Dennis Dean, the 83-year-old California drifter who in the film cruises community pools looking for well-off women who might . After arriving in Stars Hollow, Dean pursues Rory romantically, and the two begin dating. A third Rolls-Royce, blue, was purchased in December, his tax documents say, for $51,577. I have a half-dozen good German fiends. In fact, his drivers license had been revoked after previous traffic violations, including drunk driving. With Dean Olds. Even when she left the Tri Delta house at Northwestern to live with her husband, her neighbors included sorority sisters and friends from college. For weeks, he eluded off-duty cops trying to serve him with a subpoena for a deposition in the divorce case. The prosecutor referred to a photograph of the defendant and Mr. Olds together on a bed in boxer shorts. His children, he said, ``are wealthy, but they want to be wealthier. "Sometimes the whole story doesn't come out at the first trial," said Kimball Anderson, the attorney who represented Suzanne Olds' estate in the probate case. [9] He admitted having withheld information about the involvement of Welch and Pennington. And I think the Olds family felt that way in regards to the criminal trial of Helmut Hofer.". In addition to living in an upscale residence in Laguna Beach, the "penniless" Olds seems to know all the best restaurants in town. 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. It is assumed that the pregnancy occurred close to Rory's 22nd birthday. I was found guilty (in the civil proceedings), yet the only thing you could get out of the trial was that I was a skunk. For example, during a stroll with a reporter down this coastal town's main drag, he responded to a panhandler's appeal for small change by pulling a wad of cash out of his pants pocket and peeling off a $10 bill. Hofer, Dean Olds' alleged lover, was named as a third-party defendant in the suit, because Suzanne Olds suspected her estranged husband was using Hofer to funnel huge sums of money out of the country. After earning degrees from Northwestern and the University of Michigan Law School, and serving two years in the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps, he settled in Chicago and joined the firm that was to become Willian Brinks Olds. Then on December 28, 1993, Suzanne was found beaten to death in the driveway of her home. Jurors returned the verdict after about 14 hours of deliberation. 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. Hofer denied the two were lovers, but photographs accidentally discovered by one of the Olds daughters show them in intimate situations. 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. Despite the differences in their ages and backgrounds, Olds was captivated by the young man that night, attracted by his style and his manners. She was very much a lady, said George Kundaris, her hairdresser. CHICAGO (AP) _ Dean Olds had it all. [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. Simpson case, we think that that alternative road to justice will become a more widely used option.". Im sure he was tired of playing Monopoly and Battleship, he said. 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. He hated Suzanne. 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. Seven months after the wedding, there was no longer a need for Sue Olds to keep up the pretenses. Standing between Richard Kling and assistant states attorney Steven Goebel, Hofer shook his head in denial while Goebel outlined the case against him. Revisiting a Made-for-Netflix Scandal on the North Shore, 2020 Chicago magazine / A Chicago Tribune Media Group website. Throughout the summer, the board members at Willian Brinks Olds wrestled with how to handle the Olds problem. 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. And, Hofer said, his salary from Dean Olds in 1991 and 1992, purportedly for managing the limousine business, was his primary means of support while living in Munich during that time. Over the next three years, Dean's double life would be exposed, and he would end up penniless and alone The car was recovered at marina Towers, Goebel said (where Hofer had been staying with a friend, Bernadette Horan). ". The couple's marriage produced four children. [7] While his death was ruled justifiable, the Freemans had threatened to file a wrongful death lawsuit. . Olds had been a full partner in the firm until being ousted for alcoholism, insider stock trading and other misconduct in the summer of 1993. On December 29, 1999, high school friends Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman spent the evening together celebrating Freeman's sixteenth birthday. Meanwhile, Wilmette police say their investigation of Dean Olds "is not active at this time.". Prosecutors refuse to say whether they consider him a suspect. These days, Dean Olds the famous trademark attorney is lying low. For his part, Olds attributed any problems in their relationship to the 40-year difference in their ages. When a prominent lawyer opened up his bank account to a charming young man, his wife put her foot down. 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. Immediately he was surrounded by police, told he was wanted for the murder of Suzanne Olds, and taken into custody. That life unraveled quickly and thoroughly. Over the next three years Olds who was married and the father of three grown children and lived with his wife in an exclusive Wilmette neighborhood spent as much as $2 million with Hofer, setting him up in a purported limousine rental business in Munich; taking him on trips to resorts in the mountains of Europe and on American beaches; and subsidizing him in a Chicago apartment the two shared. 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 . Reports also referred to a map found in the car with the location of the house marked with a star. 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 . In the following days, Olds defended his young friend to reporters, and tried to debunk the evidence authorities had presented against the German national. Then on December 28, 1993, Suzanne was found beaten to death in the driveway of her home. But for many years, Sue Oldss life was not what it seemed. The termination from the firm would bring him, according to court documents, approximately $600,000, paid in increments over time. Hady said Hofer persuaded her to turn over all the transparencies from the photo session, something she wouldnt ordinarily have done. Referring to Hofer, who Olds says he believes killed his wife in order to end a judge's injunction that froze marital assets, Olds says: "You get people mad enough and they act irrationally. Though no one was hurt, the car was totaled, Hofer said. 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. It was the biggest trademark infringement award in the history of U.S. law, and is still being appealed by Quaker. Olds quickly left for a month at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California. I wish my son had had the sophistication at 20 that Carsten had.. He was trying to extricate himself from a complicated relationship with Olds at the time of Mrs. Olds slaying but was financially dependent upon him, McDermott said. For instance, the documents. The same cant be said for his wife, however. On October 7, 2021, a new search was conducted in the root cellar of a home formerly occupied by David Pennington, one of the deceased suspects accused by the convicted Busick. Newfeld and other gay-rights activists organized a meeting with the gay and lesbian press at the office of Richard Kling and voiced their concerns. "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. " ". . Hofer said he eventually came to believe that Olds was in love with him. No other payments were to be allowed unless approved by the lawyers and the court. 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.. He staggered toward his car and told TV reporters attempting to question him to buzz off.. Living on the North Shore with an attractive wife, prominent lawyer Dean Olds seem to have it all. She thought that Dean was less than forthright with her regarding financial matters, said Marcyan, her divorce lawyer. Almost a year has gone by since. Rory and Lorelai warn Dean before entering the lion's den but even Rory doesn't expect the night to go so horribly. Stephen Olds said his father had told him Hofer was a "brilliant law student," when in fact the former Munich store security guard and sometimes fashion model had not even graduated from high school. 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