The securities and Exchange Commission announced that Olds had signed a consent agreement in a complaint against him alleging inside trading violations. 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. Mrs. Olds died anyway in a frenzy of violence in her garage. 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. 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. In May, Hofer was charged in the murder of Oldss wife, and the mystery of Dean Oldss spiraling decline grew darker and deeper. I was his sugar daddy, and I was about to be financially killed.". 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. 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. [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. . 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. Hofers reasons for wanting to return to Germany (as stated by his lawyers) also beg for an explanation. [8] Two other suspects Warren Phillip "Phil" Welch II (died 2007) and David Pennington (died 2015)were also identified. If there was a business at all, it appears to have been a total loss. Her son-in-law found her body. 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. 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. Later that year, the Olds children brought a wrongful death lawsuit against him and their father. In 1992, while . But matters just got worse. [7] Danny's brother, Dwayne, claimed that Danny had confided that deputies had tried to intimidate him. The garage door, which has an elaborate curtained window faade, was open. 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. 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. [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. On March ninth, Circuit Court judge Jeffrey A. Malak dismissed the pending divorce case, which meant that the couples joint assets, primarily the Wilmette house and its contents, reverted to Olds. They were ruining his reputation. The flow of money to Hofer, purportedly to set up a chauffeur business for the two men in Munich, was stemmed by the proceedings. Her husband, Matt Glavin, drove over from their home in Evanston to check on Sue. He did not respond to a request for an interview. 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. If he was meeting Pavarotti at the airport, he knew how the car had to be polished and how to act. In March 1991, Olds prepared documents that set up the business for Hofer to run. So, Hofer says, he and Olds turned all the operating papers for the limousine service over to a liquidator. [7] However, law enforcement was unable to find any trace of Bible or Freeman in the rubble of the home. 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. 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. Police say her attacker was so intent on killing that the blows to her head continued long after the 56-year-old woman died. I speak a little German, so I tried to help him out.. . He was turned into the ancient one known as "The Old Man". Featured was an interview with Lauria's mother, Lorene Bible. And she was troubled by how the divorce, and what she was learning about her husbands relationship with Carsten Hofer, would affect the children. Unquestionably, the two men spent an enormous amount of Oldss money together. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. 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 . Later Years and Death In 2004, while living in semi-retirement, Dean released his autobiography, 30 Years. History. He was 30 and she was 22 and beginning a career as a teacher in the Northbrook school district. Oldss major objective was trying to insulate the children, said Marcyan. [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. One shot is of Hofer reclining on the floor in bikini briefs and a polo shirt. Dean is very intense, said a marketing consultant who worked on trademark cases with him. Now, with the problems hes had, I dont know. These days, Dean Olds the famous trademark attorney is lying low. [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. 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.. Then he threw it all away for the company of a young charmer named Carsten Hofer. Prosecutors refuse to say whether they consider him a suspect. . Dean Olds bought him a round-trip ticket to Munich with a May 12th departure date and an open return. [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. . 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 Ambrose Olds grew up in Wichita, Kansas. 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. However, now re-listed for $1.4M, these pieces are up for negotiation. On November tenth, Marcyan got a court order to stop any further payments from the receiver to cover Dean Oldss personal expenses. After undergoing several amputations 12 years ago, Dean Winters is still in constant pain. The money was supposed to be for Sue and Deans retirement, but it was quickly dissipated on a variety of trips and expenses, purportedly in connection with Dean and Carstens joint business, Hofers Rolls-Royce Service, a limousine rental firm in Munich. [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. Jeanette Hady, a photographer, hired him for some plastic surgery ads. 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. First, there was a bitter divorce proceeding and a freeze on his assets. Hofer stopped returning Hadys calls. 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. [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. 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. 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. Jan. 25, 201603:38 1. 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. [11][15] Law enforcement also stated they believed the girls' remains could have been "dumped in a cellar that was later covered in concrete. In January, Chicago police arrested him in Roscoes, a bar on Halsted Street, and charged him with a misdemeanor in connection with bouncing a $102 check. 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. Olds quickly left for a month at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California. If so, where is it? However, the relationship soon proves tumultuous, as Rory finds the relationship moving too fast for her. Everything was for the children.. Then on December 28, 1993, Suzanne was found beaten to death in the driveway of her home. 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. He staggered toward his car and told TV reporters attempting to question him to buzz off.. An occasional McDonald's hamburger is "a big night out.". [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. He even went with Dean to watch his son Steves tennis matches. . . Olds began traveling to Germany often, even spending part of the Christmas holidays there in 1990. Getty Dean Martin. He was crazy.. By the following year, Olds was made a partner in his firm, and the couple started planning for children. Richard immediately quizzes Dean about his upbringing and his education . At the dinner, Dean Olds toasted his wife, giving her credit for the success of the celebration and the execution of the many details. He played the violin, he tap-danced, and he sculpted. Olds made about $41,000 on these stock trades, and was ordered to pay back that amount, plus an equal sum as penalty and another $21,000 in interest. If the money that Olds had poured into the limousine business was really gone, Olds was in rather dire financial straits. [7] While his death was ruled justifiable, the Freemans had threatened to file a wrongful death lawsuit. 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. Olds says the last Rolls-Royce was sold in February 1993 to pay off some of the companys debts. Tags: Crime & Law, From the Vault, News & Politics. 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. 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. 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. 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. ", He is aware of the high stakes, complaining that "I've got my jugular vein sitting out on the counter.". Simpson. The couple's marriage produced four children. 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. 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. You could kid around with her, but politely. 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 . [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. Many of you are aware that Dean had two strokes in December last year due to an anomaly in his body. 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. 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. 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 jury could have found Dean guilty of murder. 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. The case centered on the disappearing money and turned bitter. Olds male lover, a dashing blond part-time model from Germany, was tried for the crime and acquitted. Hady said Hofer persuaded her to turn over all the transparencies from the photo session, something she wouldnt ordinarily have done. The police investigation centered on Hoer from the beginning, and detectives also closely followed the movements of Dean Olds. 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. 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. You could tell that swear words would make her a little uncomfortable.. Dean Winchester does not get a girl pregnant in the series Supernatural. And theres no denying that the venture was extremely costly. "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. 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. 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. We had talks like real good friends at dinners. 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. Olds private life was in trouble, too. As a result, Olds moved back into the Wilmette house and has access to what is left of the couples joint assets. When she suggested he might need a black topcoat for the formal shots, he went over to Saks and charged a $1,700 cashmere coat. Hady adds, He implied that he was independently wealthy.. 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. 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.. 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. The girls had graduated from college and were successful in their own right, and their youngest child, a son, was in college. [9], The disappearances of Bible and Freeman were profiled on America's Most Wanted in 2000,[10] and on Unsolved Mysteries in 2001. Immediately he was surrounded by police, told he was wanted for the murder of Suzanne Olds, and taken into custody. 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. He hated (her attorney). The car cost $55,000, according to his tax statements. Mrs. He chatted about his travel plans and reminisced a little wistfully about his life with Hofer. Helmut Carsten Hofer, or Carsten, as he likes to be called, was struggling in a conversation because of his poor English. Olds was barred from accessing Suzannes inheritance and joint assets. In an affidavit, Olds says money represented operating expenses for insurance, import fees, telephone and other overhead. 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. Spending most of the spring and summer Rollerblading, running, partying with his friends on Oldss powerboat in Wilmette harbor, and going to bars at night, Hofer also decided to try his hand at modeling. Meanwhile, Wilmette police say their investigation of Dean Olds "is not active at this time.". 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. 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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