The couple's marriage produced four children. That life unraveled quickly and thoroughly. On May tenth, Wilmette police arrested the 25-year-old Hofer and charged him with first-degree murder in the death of Mrs. Olds. 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. At the Kenilworth Union Church, she taught Sunday school and worked on the annual bazaar. 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.. Olds' fear . Jared Padalecki was a major part of Gilmore Girls' formative years, where he played Rory's first boyfriend, Dean Forester, but he suddenly left the series in season 5. 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. Olds is more haggard than a year ago, and the deterioration is plain to see in other ways. Its strictly a desire for money., Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. Everything was for the children.. One night in 1989, stopping for a drink in the hotels Ambassador lounge, he noticed a striking young German seated nearby at the bar. She was frightened about the massive amount of money he had taken out of the country, Marcyan said. If Olds truly had squandered all that cash, he was without any income. Their first child, Craig, came in 1942, followed by Claudia in 1944. Their red brick house is at the end of a cul-de-sac and set back from the street. In May, Hofer was charged in the murder of Oldss wife, and the mystery of Dean Oldss spiraling decline grew darker and deeper. 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. 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. [5] Bible received permission from her parents to spend the night at Freeman's home. Then he threw it all away for the company of a young charmer named Carsten Hofer. Then she paid the ultimate price. He marched to his own bear, said John Pavlak, the managing partner, who has acted as the firms spokesman since the murder of Sue Olds. Then on December 28, 1993, Suzanne was found beaten to death in the driveway of her home. Hady befriended Hofer, offering to shoot portfolio pictures for him at a nominal rate. Then on December 28, 1993, Suzanne was found beaten to death in the driveway of her home. . 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. The car was recovered at marina Towers, Goebel said (where Hofer had been staying with a friend, Bernadette Horan). 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. After a deposition in the case in November 1993, "He told me that Suzanne's attorney was saying that Dean and Carsten had a homosexual relationship, and that (the accusation) was wrong. Kragness was in the shower, and Hofer left for Newfelds house to clean up and change clothes. [9], The disappearances of Bible and Freeman were profiled on America's Most Wanted in 2000,[10] and on Unsolved Mysteries in 2001. What happened to Dean in Season 9 episode 23? 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. The termination from the firm would bring him, according to court documents, approximately $600,000, paid in increments over time. The divorce lawyer wanted to protect the estate, but he also was hoping Olds would have to tap into any money he might have hidden. 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. 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. In July 1991, Kristin Lynn Olds married Matthew Glavin, a lawyer with the Chicago firm of Ross & Hardies, in a late afternoon ceremony at the Kenilworth Union Church. When Hofer was questioned about his whereabouts on the night of the murder, Goebel said, he admitted having exclusive possession of [Dean Oldss] car during the period in which the murder was committed. James Dean dies in car accident. The business was not a roaring success, he said. CHICAGO (AP) _ Dean Olds had it all. But matters just got worse. 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 then prepared to return to Germany. Unquestionably, the two men spent an enormous amount of Oldss money together. "Because of the O.J. These sums, added to the pension plan withdrawals and other loans, totaled about $2 million, court records show. 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. [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. And theres no denying that the venture was extremely costly. Olds said he believed in his young friends abilities, even though he had little business experience. "[14] After his arrest, Busick told reporters he wished to speak to the Bibles. Almost a year has gone by since. Hady said Hofer persuaded her to turn over all the transparencies from the photo session, something she wouldnt ordinarily have done. The next year, Hofer was acquitted of all charges, but the government soon deported him for overstaying his visa. 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. Later that year, the Olds children brought a wrongful death lawsuit against him and their father. When they did catch up with him, it was on the boat in Wilmette, where he was sunning with his friends. One shot is of Hofer reclining on the floor in bikini briefs and a polo shirt. Hofer was subsequently found not guilty in a jury trial of murdering Suzanne Olds, who was 56. Kling told reporters Hofer wanted to see his family and reestablish his career in Germany. 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. 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. "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. 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. Dean is the first of Rory's boyfriends they meet and their expectations were high. [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. But for many years, Sue Oldss life was not what it seemed. Investigators claim that Busick kept repeating "the root cellar," and his stepdaughter alleged that he had forbidden anyone from accessing it. These days, Dean Olds the famous trademark attorney is lying low. Olds was ordered by the government to pay about $125,000, Hofer said. 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. 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. As a result, divorce court judge Aubrey Kaplan ruled that the court was to take control of all of Dean Oldss funds. He is the ally to Dean Winchester and Castiel when the three heroes been trapped in Purgatory. 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. After undergoing several amputations 12 years ago, Dean Winters is still in constant pain. Though this massive cash outflow is listed on Oldss 1991 tax return as business expenses, the return shows little of the standard accounting for running a business. 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. Her son-in-law found her body. In fact, his drivers license had been revoked after previous traffic violations, including drunk driving. 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. I was his sugar daddy, and I was about to be financially killed.". 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. It was a crime of hatred, not a crime of burglary or robbery, Goebel said. But after he started spending much of his time and considerable wealth on an attractive young German man named Helmut Carsten Hofer, she filed for divorce. [7] Earlier that day, the girls had spent time at a local pizzeria with Freeman's mother, Kathy. 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 . . "If these lawyers acted like decent individuals, I am convinced this tragedy would never have occurred," Olds said. ", Another witness, Bernadette Horan, who met Hofer in the spring of 1993 and later allowed him to live in her Marina Towers apartment for six weeks, said Hofer had told her Dean Olds owed him money that was tied up in the divorce battle. Immediately he was surrounded by police, told he was wanted for the murder of Suzanne Olds, and taken into custody. We had our plan that we wanted to go live in Los Angeles. But first they were to spend a few months with his boyfriends family in the Chicago suburbs. Civil lawsuits have been used, with some success, in other Chicago area murders. In the. Weve been really good friends, Hofer said in an interview on March 25th, six weeks before his arrest. 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. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. Up until the time Hofer was charged, Dean Olds had been freely admitting that he had a sexual relationship with Hofer, Goebel said. I believe it was less about money," Anderson said. [7] However, law enforcement was unable to find any trace of Bible or Freeman in the rubble of the home. He drove away in his blue 1989 Ford Taurus . Hes bright as hell. Dean Olds and Carsten Hofer were questioned shortly after the murder, and both retained lawyers. 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. A year later, baby number three, Gail, was born. The meeting generated stories in the gay press and a follow-up in the Reader in which Sander, the deputy consul, called the earlier coverage homophobic.. 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. [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. Dean Olds, too, played a part in disseminating conflicting information about Hofers life. Two nights later-on Stephen Olds' 25th birthday-his mother was bludgeoned to death as she left to walk her golden retriever. 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. I speak a little German, so I tried to help him out.. 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 moved back to Germany after his trial and, according to friends, has gone into business painting houses. By the following year, Olds was made a partner in his firm, and the couple started planning for children. And she called on Schiller, DuCanto and Fleck, the countrys largest matrimonial law firm. He worshipped the Old Man as a god for fifty years. But within a week of the cars arrival in Munich, trouble struck. 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. 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. Olds quickly left for a month at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California. 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. 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. We supplied documents we believed complied with the requests, said Charles Sproger, who represented Dean Olds in the divorce case. I want to sponsor him for American citizenship., Olds went to the police station on the night of Hofers arrest because he was concerned about his friend, William Kunkle said. Dean Olds bought him a round-trip ticket to Munich with a May 12th departure date and an open return. "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. According to testimony in the probate case, Olds lucrative career as a trademark attorney spiraled steadily to an end. 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. Hofer, then 20, a six-foot four-inch blond, was in New York visiting friends, he says. [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. On September 17th, shareholders voted to change the name of the firm to Willian Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione. For his part, Olds attributed any problems in their relationship to the 40-year difference in their ages. 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. Before the couple separated in 1949, they had a child Deana, born in 1948. . 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. 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. [8][13] Following this discovery, the crime scene was reexamined, yet no sign of Bible or Freeman was found. Ms. Olds avoided her fathers gaze Wednesday as she told a judge that her mother repeatedly asked her grown daughters how to keep safe. 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. Olds, 66, said Thursday he maintains contact with Hofer, who returned to Germany after his acquittal. Logan was 29 years old and Rory had just turned 22. [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. Dean is very intense, said a marketing consultant who worked on trademark cases with him. 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. Living on the North Shore with an attractive wife, prominent lawyer Dean Olds seem to have it all. 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. 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. 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. We welcome all information leading to their recovery. Olds has never been charged in the killing. Olds was the picture of a Midwestern lawyer, favoring conservative suits and wing-tip shoes, and riding the commuter train to his office each day. 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. 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