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. That life unraveled quickly and thoroughly. The next year, Hofer was acquitted of all charges, but the government soon deported him for overstaying his visa. James Dean, only 24 years old, died in the crash. At the time the divorce was filed, the court ordered Dean Olds to stop transferring assets out of the country. In May, Hofer was charged in the murder of Oldss wife, and the mystery of Dean Oldss spiraling decline grew darker and deeper. 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. 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. 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. We felt some of the things had the potential to impact us, Pavlak said. 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. On Dec. 26, the day Stephen was to return to Camp Pendleton in California, he first showed his mother how to load and fire his father's shotgun, explaining that it was to be used only "as a last resort.". 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. Hofer also visited Olds in Chicago, and says he was entertained at the family home and at their country club. [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. 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 . 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. That July, Olds visited Munich, deducting $7,500 for his travel expenses and another $11,800 in other unspecified business expenses. Another tape reportedly showed the Ford Taurus leaving Kragnesss parking lot on the evening of the murder. However, Benny fell in love with a Greek woman named Andrea and decided to abandon his maker, who then banished him to Purgatory . . Apparently, the primary goal was to keep up appearances for the wedding of her daughter Kristin. 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. She was frightened about the massive amount of money he had taken out of the country, Marcyan said. [8] In 2020, Busick was convicted and sentenced.[9]. The prosecutor referred to a photograph of the defendant and Mr. Olds together on a bed in boxer shorts. The termination from the firm would bring him, according to court documents, approximately $600,000, paid in increments over time. 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.. 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.. 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.. 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 . 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. 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. When they did catch up with him, it was on the boat in Wilmette, where he was sunning with his friends. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. . A third Rolls-Royce, blue, was purchased in December, his tax documents say, for $51,577. 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 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. Dean Olds and his wife Suzanne appeared to have it all -- a nice home, a 30-year marriage, and three grown children. But I wasnt aware of that for a long, long time, he added. At 2:30 p.m. on May 12th, Helmut Carsten Hofer, wearing wrinkled jeans and a blue shirt, was escorted by two Cook County deputy sheriffs before Circuit Court judge Marcia B. Orr at the Skokie courthouse. Olds said the estate is worth $4 million or $5 million; attorneys for the daughters refuse to say how much its worth. For weeks, he eluded off-duty cops trying to serve him with a subpoena for a deposition in the divorce case. 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. If so, where is it? I believe it was less about money," Anderson said. Olds was an expert in trademark law and had represented and counseled some topflight U.S. companies, including General Mills, American Motors, and McDonalds. 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. [11][15] Law enforcement also stated they believed the girls' remains could have been "dumped in a cellar that was later covered in concrete. Background. Hofer took the car on a pleasure trip to visit his grand-aunt, but while driving 100 miles per hour along the autobahn, he said, he swerved to avoid overtaking a slower car and crashed the Rolls into a ravine. Time is everywhere we are. I [was] falling in love with somebody at the end of 1992, Hofer said. 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. The attorneys and Olds family members say they suspect other assets remain hidden, possibly off-shore. In addition to living in an upscale residence in Laguna Beach, the "penniless" Olds seems to know all the best restaurants in town. His future bride, Suzanne Shonkwiler, a redhead with a bright smile, grew up the daughter of a lawyer and a housewife in Monticello, Illinois, a village of about 4,500 people between Champaign and Decatur. 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. Over the course of three days last week, the more Olds described his new life in California, the more contradictions emerged. 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. He knew how to treat big shots in the right way, Olds said. 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. Another shows both men clad only in shorts on a hotel room bed. According to testimony in the probate case, Olds lucrative career as a trademark attorney spiraled steadily to an end. I don't think that's fair.". 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. 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. She was a good tennis player, her friends say, and played regularly at Skokie Country Club. Olds said he believed in his young friends abilities, even though he had little business experience. The Wilmette police immediately assembled a task force of about 20 members, including detectives from neighboring towns and members of the state police force and the Cook County states attorneys office. If there was a business at all, it appears to have been a total loss. [5] Bible received permission from her parents to spend the night at Freeman's home. By now, they were deeply concerned. Dean is very intense, said a marketing consultant who worked on trademark cases with him. I heard him say he was from Braunschweig, says Olds, who was about 60 at the time. During this time, Olds continued to practice law at Willian Brinks Olds. 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. 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. When Dean Olds, a prominent Chicago trademark lawyer, travelled to New York on business, he liked to stay at the United Nations Plaza hotel on the citys East Side. 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.. Today, Dean Olds still drives the Taurus that authorities believe Suzanne Olds' killer took to her house in Wilmette on Dec. 28, 1993. 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. Dean Martin Died on Christmas Day in 1995. 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. Reports also referred to a map found in the car with the location of the house marked with a star. Ms. Olds avoided her fathers gaze Wednesday as she told a judge that her mother repeatedly asked her grown daughters how to keep safe. 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. Outside was a lovely garden. The baby grand piano that Martin purchased for the home still . [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. The ARDC hearing, tantamount to a trial, could result in the disbarment of Olds, who until his wife's murder was earning more than $600,000 a year and was listed in a respected publication called "The Best Lawyers in America. He moved to Laguna Beach, California, where he died in 2011. Carlton R. Marcyan, Sue Oldss divorce lawyer, believes that the limousine business may have been a plot to hide money for Olds and Hofer. You could tell that swear words would make her a little uncomfortable.. He did not respond to a request for an interview. The vote wasnt anywhere near unanimous, Pavlak said. Though no one was hurt, the car was totaled, Hofer said. The unanswered questions are: Is Olds hiding some of that untraceable money? 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. Afterward, about 200 guests joined the family for cocktails, dinner, and dancing at the Skokie Country Club, where the Oldses were members. The case centered on the disappearing money and turned bitter. 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. 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. 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 had a client there and had been there several times. There is nothing I would like better than for the truth about this to come out, he said. Hofer said the idea was his, hatched when he was working as the assistant to the owner of an incentive travel business in Munich. The victim was fully clothed, and we found no evidence of theft, robbery, or burglary to the house itself, Wilmette police chief George Carpenter said the next day. 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. In fact, his drivers license had been revoked after previous traffic violations, including drunk driving. Her husband, Matt Glavin, drove over from their home in Evanston to check on Sue. Tags: Crime & Law, From the Vault, News & Politics. On May tenth, Wilmette police arrested the 25-year-old Hofer and charged him with first-degree murder in the death of Mrs. Olds. Hofer likes to dance all night, Olds said, while he prefers to stay home and go to bed early. By the following year, Olds was made a partner in his firm, and the couple started planning for children. People close to the family believe the limousine service was a scheme to stash away money for Olds and Hofer, who they believe were lovers. Hofer moved from Germany to Chicago in 1993 when the business dissolved, and lived there until after his trial. Living on the North Shore with an attractive wife, prominent lawyer Dean Olds seem to have it all. After several weeks of negotiating his separation package, Olds left the firm at the beginning of September. She was program chair of the Forty Acres Bird and Garden Club one year, president another. It was the biggest trademark infringement award in the history of U.S. law, and is still being appealed by Quaker. Glavin says he believes there are only a very few people who would have had any reason to harm Sue Olds. . [21], The case was featured in a new four-part series on HLN titled Hell In The Heartland starting June 2, 2019, which hoped to shed more light on the disappearances of the girls and the main suspects. Still Oldss legal skills were celebrated. 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. Nationwide, wrongful-death lawsuits have jumped 175 percent since 1990 in cases where there was criminal violence, according to data compiled by the National Victim Center in Virginia. Despite the differences in their ages and backgrounds, Olds was captivated by the young man that night, attracted by his style and his manners. In September 1955, actor James Dean was driving his brand-new Porsche 550 Spyder to an auto rally in Salinas, California, when he was involved in a head-on collision with a 1950 Ford Tudor. That life unraveled quickly and thoroughly. ", 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. 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. They were ruining his reputation. ``They were the only two people in the world who didnt love her, Courtney Olds said as her eyes filled with tears. 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. So, Hofer says, he and Olds turned all the operating papers for the limousine service over to a liquidator. When Olds began draining the family retirement accounts to back his business venture and send Hofer regular checks, Suzanne Olds, his wife of 32 years, filed for divorce. [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. 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. She never said it was a man But she would ask me questions. I have a half-dozen good German fiends. [9] He admitted having withheld information about the involvement of Welch and Pennington. 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. 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. The second best result is Dean L Olds age 60s in Mesa, AZ. In 1992, while . "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. " A court-appointed receiver, attorney John Kneafsey, was retained to set up an account that would take in Oldss salary from the law firm and disburse the funds, including $9,000 a month in maintenance for Sue Olds and living expenses for Dean Olds. Mrs. Oldss survivors, her three children and her brother and sister, as well as her many friends, are shattered by the situation. He worshipped the Old Man as a god for fifty years. ". Suzanne Olds carried Mace when walking her dog. [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. He was 30 and she was 22 and beginning a career as a teacher in the Northbrook school district. Another reason may be traced to her upbringing. 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. What Happened Dean Hopper? Until they are home with us, this will never be over. When a prominent lawyer opened up his bank account to a charming young man, his wife put her foot down. No other payments were to be allowed unless approved by the lawyers and the court. Jeanette Hady, a photographer, hired him for some plastic surgery ads. When people asked about the divorce, she would say her husband was involved with someone. [8][13] Following this discovery, the crime scene was reexamined, yet no sign of Bible or Freeman was found. He sold his company in 1984 but remained a spokesman for it until 2003. James Dean's Former L.A. Home (Where He Was First Discovered!) Subscribe for free today! "I think he's intelligent," Stephen Olds responded. Sept. 16, 2014 4:52 AM PT. 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