"Don't tell me about double lives," he scolded, pointing a finger. 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. Dean Olds and his wife Suzanne appeared to have it all -- a nice home, a 30-year marriage, and three grown children. 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 November tenth, Marcyan got a court order to stop any further payments from the receiver to cover Dean Oldss personal expenses. "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. 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. In the space of the next two months, Olds sent Hofer close to $40,000, mostly through American Express moneygrams, which Olds listed on his tax return as expenses of doing business in Germany. [7] While his death was ruled justifiable, the Freemans had threatened to file a wrongful death lawsuit. 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. 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. For his part, Olds attributed any problems in their relationship to the 40-year difference in their ages. [9], The disappearances of Bible and Freeman were profiled on America's Most Wanted in 2000,[10] and on Unsolved Mysteries in 2001. 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. Rory and Lorelai warn Dean before entering the lion's den but even Rory doesn't expect the night to go so horribly. [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. Until they are home with us, this will never be over. He sold his company in 1984 but remained a spokesman for it until 2003. Released in July 2020, it is titled Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth and the case of Two Missing Girls. Dean is the first of Rory's boyfriends they meet and their expectations were high. The prosecutor referred to a photograph of the defendant and Mr. Olds together on a bed in boxer shorts. 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 . 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. Why it matters: Dean is the first officer in Tarrant County convicted in an on-duty shooting. [4] After the fire had been extinguished, the bodies of Freeman's parents, Danny and Kathy, were recovered. Hofer said he eventually came to believe that Olds was in love with him. 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. Immediately he was surrounded by police, told he was wanted for the murder of Suzanne Olds, and taken into custody. Suzanne Olds carried Mace when walking her dog. By now, they were deeply concerned. 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.. In May, Hofer was charged in the murder of Oldss wife, and the mystery of Dean Oldss spiraling decline grew darker and deeper. She suspected her husband of gutting their $4.6 million estate, in part to support his young lover. He worshipped the Old Man as a god for fifty years. 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. Hofer, a former live-in companion and business partner of Dean Olds, could face the death penalty if convicted. But for many years, Sue Oldss life was not what it seemed. For instance, the documents. In 1990, Olds withdrew almost all his stake in his law firms profit-sharing fund $675,625 and transferred it to a trust over which he had sole authority. "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. Another shows both men clad only in shorts on a hotel room bed. Mrs. Oldss survivors, her three children and her brother and sister, as well as her many friends, are shattered by the situation. . Oldss major objective was trying to insulate the children, said Marcyan. She was very frightened as far as her image and propriety were concerned, said a friend. For a while, trademark attorney Dean Olds and his wife, Suzanne, led a storybook North Shore existence with their three children. Dean Olds left his Wilmette home early Wednesday afternoon, apparently ending a morning-long stalemate with police and his three estranged children. At the time the divorce was filed, the court ordered Dean Olds to stop transferring assets out of the country. Even though the burden of proof in civil proceedings is much lower than in criminal prosecutions, enforcing monetary judgments can be an extremely difficult exercise for the survivors of murder victims. First, there was a bitter divorce proceeding and a freeze on his assets. The judgment, awarded to Suzanne Olds' estate by Cook County Circuit Judge Calvin Hall, falls short of the sum Suzanne Olds' lawyers believe Dean and Hofer spent, although it comes on top of the $2 million in remaining marital assets that Olds forfeited because of his role in the murder. 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. 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. 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. And she was troubled by how the divorce, and what she was learning about her husbands relationship with Carsten Hofer, would affect the children. . Hofers reasons for wanting to return to Germany (as stated by his lawyers) also beg for an explanation. ". What I thought was just amazing why they produced this to me was beyond me was a whole tape of items, like a cash register tape, with a line entry for condoms. A partner in one of Chicagos hottest law firms, he had amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune. While it is premature to speculate on a possible motive, the evidence we have so far suggests that the offender may have come to the victims home for the express purpose of causing her death.. 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. Up until the time Hofer was charged, Dean Olds had been freely admitting that he had a sexual relationship with Hofer, Goebel said. And she called on Schiller, DuCanto and Fleck, the countrys largest matrimonial law firm. "Obviously the Brown and Goldman families felt that way about O.J. ``She was extremely scared, extremely aware of her life being threatened by my father and Carsten.. I wish my son had had the sophistication at 20 that Carsten had.. A favorite is the chic Renaissance on Forest Avenue, a boulevard where thatched cottages and Swiss chalets evoke an Old World charm, despite the presence of street-corner grunge bands and robed devotees of the Hare Krishna sect. The couple's marriage produced four children. It was the biggest trademark infringement award in the history of U.S. law, and is still being appealed by Quaker. [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. 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. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. In the last few years, Stephen Olds said, he caught his father "in many lies" about Hofer, whom the family had suspected of taking advantage of Dean Olds' affections, as well as the Olds' fortune. 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. Hofer, then 20, a six-foot four-inch blond, was in New York visiting friends, he says. 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. Getty Dean Martin. Olds has never been charged in the killing. Now Olds daughters, who believe their father was involved in their mothers death, are testifying against him this week in a civil case to determine who will get the family fortune. Hofer stopped returning Hadys calls. 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. [7] Both had been shot to death at close range. 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 . 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. Throughout the summer, the board members at Willian Brinks Olds wrestled with how to handle the Olds problem. He was vacationing in Laguna Beach, California, with Carsten Hofer. ``That person is highly abnormal. 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. Dean Martin married his first wife, Elizabeth Anne McDonald, in 1941. [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. 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. 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. Olds daughters told a probate judge that their mother was terrified of Olds and his lover, Helmut Carsten Hofer. The girls had graduated from college and were successful in their own right, and their youngest child, a son, was in college. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. 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. After several weeks of negotiating his separation package, Olds left the firm at the beginning of September. 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. [17] On April 26, 2018, Bible's mother, Lorene, confirmed she spoke with Busick, but that he denied knowing the whereabouts of her daughter or Freeman. . Shortly after 10 p.m. on May tenth, Kragness and Hofer were at Kragnesss apartment and had ordered a pizza, planning to go later to mark Wheelers place nearby. The day after the murder, Charlotte Newfeld invited Hofer to live as a guest at her home in the 3500 block of North Pine Grove Avenue, where he remained until the night of his arrest. Despite his ability to spring back, Olds cannot ignore the drain of the past eight years since he met Hofer at a New York City hotel. Jurors returned the verdict after about 14 hours of deliberation. Though he was willing to talk at length with a reporter, he would not entertain questions about living a dual life, about honesty or justice. I decided I wanted to live with him. Hofer says the man was an American actor who had been on tour in Europe. And I think the Olds family felt that way in regards to the criminal trial of Helmut Hofer.". . 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. On September 17th, shareholders voted to change the name of the firm to Willian Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione. I heard him say he was from Braunschweig, says Olds, who was about 60 at the time. Dean Ambrose Olds grew up in Wichita, Kansas. Despite the differences in their ages and backgrounds, Olds was captivated by the young man that night, attracted by his style and his manners. Then on December 28, 1993, Suzanne was found beaten to death in the driveway of her home. Olds is more haggard than a year ago, and the deterioration is plain to see in other ways. 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. At every opportunity, Olds blames his wife's divorce lawyers for "grinding" him down financially. 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. She thought that Dean was less than forthright with her regarding financial matters, said Marcyan, her divorce lawyer. 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.. 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. 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. Blood was found in the car, Geobel said, and DNA tests on the blood showed that it was consistent with Suzanne Oldss blood.. Still, the firm decided to ask him leave. Olds, 66, said Thursday he maintains contact with Hofer, who returned to Germany after his acquittal. The Olds family has evicted Dean Olds from his home in the Indian Hill Estates section of Wilmette, and attorneys for Suzanne Olds' estate recently sold about 80 acres of woodlands that Dean Olds owned in Michigan, as part of settling a $443,000 judgment against him for dissipation of his wife's money. 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. 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. [11] Bible's parked car was in the driveway of the home with the keys in the ignition. 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. Marcyan was able to prove that Olds had regularly violated the injunction against sending more money to Germany. Afterward, about 200 guests joined the family for cocktails, dinner, and dancing at the Skokie Country Club, where the Oldses were members. Over the next three years, Dean's double life would be exposed, and he would end up penniless and alone, See production, box office & company info. "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. " 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. "[14] After his arrest, Busick told reporters he wished to speak to the Bibles. 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. 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. The police investigation centered on Hoer from the beginning, and detectives also closely followed the movements of Dean Olds. This is something that will never leave me, he said. Jan. 25, 201603:38 1. What Happened Dean Hopper? 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 . A partner in one of Chicago's hottest law firms, he had amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune. 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. His wife had filed for divorce in 1992. When people asked about the divorce, she would say her husband was involved with someone. . . [9] He admitted having withheld information about the involvement of Welch and Pennington. As the news coverage continued to put the spotlight on Hofer, his Chicago friends rallied around him. Sue Olds had gone to work out at the Evanston Athletic Club, stopped for groceries at the Treasure Island, and now was at home, about to take her golden retriever, Murphy, out for a walk. [8] In 2010, the Freeman family initiated court proceedings to have Ashley declared legally dead. 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. If there was a business at all, it appears to have been a total loss. He traveled the world on business and lived in an ample brick house in an exclusive suburb where he and his wife raised their family. Olds was an expert in trademark law and had represented and counseled some topflight U.S. companies, including General Mills, American Motors, and McDonalds. 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. We had an evening meeting and discussed the subject for an hour or more. Finally, they voted on whether to force the resignation of Dean Olds. The jury could have found Dean guilty of murder. They were ruining his reputation. Hofer was arrested on murder charges. Olds' fear . Seven months after the wedding, there was no longer a need for Sue Olds to keep up the pretenses. According to Biography, Dean was a car racing enthusiast, and it was heartbreaking that his love of cars and racing ended up causing his death. When Marcyan began digging into Dean Oldss financial dealings, he found evidence, according to court documents, of yet more money that Olds had spent: loans totaling $150,000 on his life insurance, $400,000 in bonuses from his law firm, and $350,000 in proceeds from the sale of stocks and bonds. Even when she left the Tri Delta house at Northwestern to live with her husband, her neighbors included sorority sisters and friends from college. Benny was a vampire in season 8 of the TV show Supernatural. Their first child, Craig, came in 1942, followed by Claudia in 1944. According to testimony in the probate case, Olds lucrative career as a trademark attorney spiraled steadily to an end. . Coincidentally, that same march, Sue Olds and her lawyer finally put a clamp on the familys hemorrhaging financial situation. Her husband, Matt Glavin, drove over from their home in Evanston to check on Sue. That supposedly explain where money was going in the German business show lots of transactions at very nice restaurants, hotels throughout Europe, liquor. He had been reared by his grandparents and great-aunt, but Hofer says he left home at 15, after his realization he was gay and caused conflicts. The acrimonious divorce and the relationship with Hofer were taking their toll on Dean Olds. Still, Mrs. Olds tried to conceal what she thought were the worst aspects of the situation from the children. 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. Olds male lover, a dashing blond part-time model from Germany, was tried for the crime and acquitted. After Hofer was arrested, it because clear that a variety of versions of the alleged murderers life were being melted out. We felt some of the things had the potential to impact us, Pavlak said. We welcome all information leading to their recovery. I had a client there and had been there several times. Olds said the estate is worth $4 million or $5 million; attorneys for the daughters refuse to say how much its worth. Today, Dean Olds still drives the Taurus that authorities believe Suzanne Olds' killer took to her house in Wilmette on Dec. 28, 1993. However, now re-listed for $1.4M, these pieces are up for negotiation. But shortly after the divorce decision, he sounded remarkably chipper during a phone conversation. [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. "[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. 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. The case centered on the disappearing money and turned bitter. [8][13] Following this discovery, the crime scene was reexamined, yet no sign of Bible or Freeman was found. . His mother died when he was nine years old. 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 . 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. His children, he said, ``are wealthy, but they want to be wealthier. On televised news coverage, Oldss appearance was disheveled, and he seemed to be intoxicated. 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. But none of this evidence was presented to Judge Orr at the bond hearing or confirmed officially by police or Goebel. No other payments were to be allowed unless approved by the lawyers and the court. [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. On May tenth, Wilmette police arrested the 25-year-old Hofer and charged him with first-degree murder in the death of Mrs. Olds. [8] Jones had claimed that he murdered Freeman's parents as a favor for a friend over drug debt, then took the girls to Kansas, where he shot them and threw their bodies into an abandoned mine. 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.. No documents that Olds produced in the divorce case show any income from the business that year. After undergoing several amputations 12 years ago, Dean Winters is still in constant pain. And I thought, This is a nice business full-service luxury auto rental.. 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. 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.
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