He hated Suzanne. Thats the last that Hofer the ventures manager admits to knowing about the business. Olds said he believed in his young friends abilities, even though he had little business experience. 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. She suspected her husband of gutting their $4.6 million estate, in part to support his young lover. He played the violin, he tap-danced, and he sculpted. Ergo, once you have a skunk, you know who killed my wife. [8] Two other suspects Warren Phillip "Phil" Welch II (died 2007) and David Pennington (died 2015)were also identified. 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. 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. Sue Olds decorated in a traditional style, mixing new furnishing with many antiques she had inherited from her family. 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. Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the legendary ocean liner Titanic, which sank on its maiden voyage in April 1912 after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic . [8][13] Following this discovery, the crime scene was reexamined, yet no sign of Bible or Freeman was found. In fact, his drivers license had been revoked after previous traffic violations, including drunk driving. I wouldnt want to be on the other side against him., Olds partners say they didnt notice any change in him as his relationship with Hofer was deepening except that he was taking frequent trips to Germany. . She also had graduated from Northwestern with a teaching degree, and met Olds at the wedding of mutual friends, according to her brother John Shonkwiler, chief judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Illinois. 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. 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. ``That person is highly abnormal. 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 . Still, Mrs. Olds tried to conceal what she thought were the worst aspects of the situation from the children. Though no one was hurt, the car was totaled, Hofer said. If lack of money is indeed a concern, Olds, who is working as a paralegal under California's expansive notion of what law practitioners can do, disguises his poverty well. "[14] After his arrest, Busick told reporters he wished to speak to the Bibles. Featured was an interview with Lauria's mother, Lorene Bible. Murphy was loose on the lawn. Soft-spoken and charming, he had been living on little but his looks and his wits for years. 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. 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. I was his sugar daddy, and I was about to be financially killed.". [7] Earlier that day, the girls had spent time at a local pizzeria with Freeman's mother, Kathy. A judge ruled in the childrens favor, declaring the two men responsible. 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. [7] While walking around the extensive rubble, they discovered what appeared to be another body and notified the police. One night in 1989, stopping for a drink in the hotels Ambassador lounge, he noticed a striking young German seated nearby at the bar. But the money would be disbursed to him by the receiver only as needed, until the divorce was resolved. But I wasnt aware of that for a long, long time, he added. [23][24], Murders of Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman, Last edited on 22 February 2023, at 01:51, "Case of girls missing since 1999 gets new look", "Man Arrested in Nearly 20-Year-Old Cold Case Killing of Teens, Couple", "Murder Charges Filed in 18-Year-Old Oklahoma Abduction Case", "Disappearance of two Okla. girls stumped police for 18 years. . Seven weeks later, on December 28th, Kristen Olds Glavin talked to her mother on the phone at about nine in the evening. A lifelong fan of classical music, Suzanne had ignored her son's advice and was found, slumped over a stoop in the garage, wearing her stereo headphones. On April 19th, Hofer appeared in court on the misdemeanor charge, which was dismissed. What happened to Dean in Season 9 episode 23? Unquestionably, the two men spent an enormous amount of Oldss money together. 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. 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. DEAN MARTIN'S ROMANCE TALES. But Olds didnt spend Christmas at home in Wilmette. By the early 1990s, according to court records, Sue Olds was maintaining the house and her activities with the $13,000 to $16,000 a month she received from her husband in two installments, about half his monthly income. Revisiting a Made-for-Netflix Scandal on the North Shore, 2020 Chicago magazine / A Chicago Tribune Media Group website. He was vacationing in Laguna Beach, California, with Carsten Hofer. By Nancy Millman. 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. Dean's first encounter with Richard and Emily Gilmore is a disaster. The police investigation centered on Hoer from the beginning, and detectives also closely followed the movements of Dean Olds. Standing between Richard Kling and assistant states attorney Steven Goebel, Hofer shook his head in denial while Goebel outlined the case against him. 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. Even before the Wilmette officers arrested Hofer, he had a run-in with police. By now, they were deeply concerned. 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. 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. 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. But in 1990, he won the biggest case of his career representing the little guy in a battle against Quaker Oats and its sports drink Gatorade. "Because of the O.J. 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. Many of you are aware that Dean had two strokes in December last year due to an anomaly in his body. Olds, the SEC said, had profited illegally from information he obtained from one of his clients, Minnetonka, which was about to announce it was considering putting itself up for sale. Olds hired William Kunkle, a prominent criminal attorney and former prosecutor, and Richard Kling of Chicago Kent law schools legal clinic eventually took Hofers case on a pro bono basis. Thats not including what Olds spent on the trips the two took together in the United States and in Germany and Switzerland, nor the $27,000 in cash advances Olds charged on his American Express Gold Card that summer. She was very much a lady, said George Kundaris, her hairdresser. On November tenth, Marcyan got a court order to stop any further payments from the receiver to cover Dean Oldss personal expenses. He even went with Dean to watch his son Steves tennis matches. The car was recovered at marina Towers, Goebel said (where Hofer had been staying with a friend, Bernadette Horan). [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. [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. She has the small town values of home, family, and service, said Elizabeth Andrews, associate minister of the Kenilworth Church. 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. 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. CHICAGO (AP) _ Dean Olds had it all. You could tell that swear words would make her a little uncomfortable.. Dean Olds and his wife Suzanne appeared to have it all -- a nice home, a 30-year marriage, and three grown children. Another reason may be traced to her upbringing. 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. 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. When they did catch up with him, it was on the boat in Wilmette, where he was sunning with his friends. Their red brick house is at the end of a cul-de-sac and set back from the street. 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. News reports after the search wrapped up indicated it had been yet another dead end. 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. Olds began traveling to Germany often, even spending part of the Christmas holidays there in 1990. He is the ally to Dean Winchester and Castiel when the three heroes been trapped in Purgatory. 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. [8] Law enforcement determined the fire had been an arson. It was a triumph Dean earned millions and turned into a sausage king. Subscribe for free today! 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. After arriving in Stars Hollow, Dean pursues Rory romantically, and the two begin dating. 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. And theres no denying that the venture was extremely costly. The prosecutor referred to a photograph of the defendant and Mr. Olds together on a bed in boxer shorts. Olds male lover, a dashing blond part-time model from Germany, was tried for the crime and acquitted. Then on December 28, 1993, Suzanne was found beaten to death in the driveway of her home. Throughout, Dean Olds has been seemingly unmoved by the death of his wife. In late July or early August, we decided to take the matter to the shareholders, Pavlak said. The regular checks to Hofer were to stop. He staggered toward his car and told TV reporters attempting to question him to buzz off.. Olds was an expert in trademark law and had represented and counseled some topflight U.S. companies, including General Mills, American Motors, and McDonalds. Shattered Lives: The Dean Olds Story: Directed by David Rorie. However, the relationship soon proves tumultuous, as Rory finds the relationship moving too fast for her. Richard immediately quizzes Dean about his upbringing and his education . The living room contained several of these heirlooms, including a mahogany baby grand piano. "Don't tell me about double lives," he scolded, pointing a finger. A partner in one of Chicago's hottest law firms, he had amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune. There were people who felt very strongly that Olds should be allowed to remain because of his status in the field and the contributions he had made to the firm. She was program chair of the Forty Acres Bird and Garden Club one year, president another. She never said it was a man But she would ask me questions. When Kristin called her mother again later and no one answered, she became concerned. 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. Hofer was subsequently found not guilty in a jury trial of murdering Suzanne Olds, who was 56. He said he endures court each day, an experience ``about as bad as it gets, because he sorely needs the money remaining in the estate. 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. Hes a fine fellow, Olds said in an interview near the end of March. Living on the North Shore with an attractive wife, prominent lawyer Dean Olds seem to have it all. Hady said Hofer persuaded her to turn over all the transparencies from the photo session, something she wouldnt ordinarily have done. In the. [9] He was sentenced to 15 years for the crime, with 10 of the years to be spent in lockup. At the time the divorce was filed, the court ordered Dean Olds to stop transferring assets out of the country. . 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 . In the months before her slaying on Dec. 28, 1993, Suzanne Olds, who lived alone in the large house, called police on numerous occasions to report signs of a prowler in her garage and a broken basement window pane. He knew how to treat big shots in the right way, Olds said. James Dean's roles in "East of Eden," "Rebel Without a Cause," and "Giant" made him a movie star icon, but his career was cut short when he got in a tragic car accident in 1955 that took his life at just 24 years old. 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. I just want to pick up his spirits. Background. Both Stephen Olds and Kristin Glavin said they were suspicious of their father's relationship with Hofer from the day in 1989 when Dean Olds brought the tall, muscular Bavarian over to the house. 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. Her husband, Matt Glavin, drove over from their home in Evanston to check on Sue. Actor Dain Cain is a doting father, and in an interview in 2019, he said that being a great father to his son Christopher is his number one priority. At the Kenilworth Union Church, she taught Sunday school and worked on the annual bazaar. A year later, baby number three, Gail, was born. His mother died when he was nine years old. As a result, Olds moved back into the Wilmette house and has access to what is left of the couples joint assets. Police say her attacker was so intent on killing that the blows to her head continued long after the 56-year-old woman died. In the late '60s, Dean stepped into the entrepreneurial ring by launching the Jimmy Dean Meat Company. At every opportunity, Olds blames his wife's divorce lawyers for "grinding" him down financially. 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.. Originally from Chicago, Dean Forester moves to Stars Hollow sometime before the start of Gilmore Girls, with May, Randy and Clara Forester. "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. After Hofer was arrested, it because clear that a variety of versions of the alleged murderers life were being melted out. When he was questioned on the night of the murder, Hofer told police he had been driving Dean Oldss Ford Taurus that night, a car he drove often. Hofer insists he knew nothing about the intricacies of Mr. Oldss divorce problems, his financial situation, or any other personal matters when he came to this country. If Olds truly had squandered all that cash, he was without any income. 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. 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. Carsten was trying to get his roots down in the U.S., Olds said several weeks before Hofers arrest. 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