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. I was his sugar daddy, and I was about to be financially killed.". Until he was arrested for murder, Hofer still was using Oldss car regularly, and sometimes the two of them would drive together to visit the schnauzers at a south suburban kennel. At every opportunity, Olds blames his wife's divorce lawyers for "grinding" him down financially. A tearful Lewis later spoke at Martins funeral, which took place on December 28, 1995, at the Pierce Brothers Cemetery in Westwood, California, according to Variety. . The young star's life and . [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. 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. 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. 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. For weeks, he eluded off-duty cops trying to serve him with a subpoena for a deposition in the divorce case. Judge Orr, in addition to denying bond, ordered Hofer to surrender his passport and to undergo a psychiatric examination. Dean died on June 13, 2010, at the age of 81 of natural causes, per Rolling Stone. With Dean Olds. Dennis Dean, the 83-year-old California drifter who in the film cruises community pools looking for well-off women who might . [7] Earlier that day, the girls had spent time at a local pizzeria with Freeman's mother, Kathy. 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. She has the small town values of home, family, and service, said Elizabeth Andrews, associate minister of the Kenilworth Church. Olds, 66, said Thursday he maintains contact with Hofer, who returned to Germany after his acquittal. Then on December 28, 1993, Suzanne was found beaten to death in the driveway of her home. 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.. I just want to pick up his spirits. He was only 24 years old on September 30, 1955, when he was driving down Route 466 in his Porsche 550 Spyder and a car collided with his, killing him almost instantly. Even when she left the Tri Delta house at Northwestern to live with her husband, her neighbors included sorority sisters and friends from college. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. A partner in one of Chicagos hottest law firms, he had amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune. They were married on April 16, 1960, at the First Presbyterian Church near her home. 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. Weve been really good friends, Hofer said in an interview on March 25th, six weeks before his arrest. 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. [9], The disappearances of Bible and Freeman were profiled on America's Most Wanted in 2000,[10] and on Unsolved Mysteries in 2001. 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. Jurors returned the verdict after about 14 hours of deliberation. In the Season 9 episode 23 finale of Supernatural, Dean (Jensen Ackles) makes the ultimate . Oldss client, a small Vermont marketer named Sands, Taylor & Wood, claimed it owned the rights to the trademark Thirst Aid, and that the Gatorade slogan Thirst aid for that deep down body thirst was a blatant infringement. On September 30, 1955, actor James Dean was killed in a two-vehicle accident near Paso Robles, CA. "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. 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. Dean's first encounter with Richard and Emily Gilmore is a disaster. Then he threw it all away for the company of a young charmer named Carsten Hofer. Still, Mrs. Olds tried to conceal what she thought were the worst aspects of the situation from the children. If there was a business at all, it appears to have been a total loss. 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. She was very much a lady, said George Kundaris, her hairdresser. [7], In a 2001 profile on Unsolved Mysteries, it was mentioned that rumors had circulated among locals that the Craig County Police Department had been feuding with the Freemans at the time over the death of their son, Shane, who was shot by a deputy after stealing a car. He had written the check on December 22nd to buy a pair of exercise dumbbells. An 18-year-old must be able to talk to strangers faculty, deans, advisers, landlords, store clerks, human resource managers, coworkers, bank tellers, health care. 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. As a result, Olds moved back into the Wilmette house and has access to what is left of the couples joint assets. My wife had cut off all funds for Germany, he said. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. Dean a young, highly ambitious, Porsche-driving, tassel-loafer-wearing lawyer when he joined the ultra conservative Nixon minions ended up getting fired in 1973 once it became clear he would. Still, the firm decided to ask him leave. Olds male lover, a dashing blond part-time model from Germany, was tried for the crime and acquitted. In late July or early August, we decided to take the matter to the shareholders, Pavlak said. Newfeld, an artist and long-time community activist, had come to know Hofer through Kragness, who is her close friend. 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. [7] The case was later featured on the series Vanished with Beth Holloway. But Olds didnt spend Christmas at home in Wilmette. Outside was a lovely garden. ", 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. ``Whoever killed my wife sort of went bananas, he said. James Dean dies in car accident. Some processing plants were spun off, and an aggressive program of acquisitions and divestitures brought more and more brands and consumer offerings. Dean Martin married his first wife, Elizabeth Anne McDonald, in 1941. Stephen Olds said his father had told him Hofer was a "brilliant law student," when in fact the former Munich store security guard and sometimes fashion model had not even graduated from high school. Hady said Hofer persuaded her to turn over all the transparencies from the photo session, something she wouldnt ordinarily have done. 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.. 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 1993, his law firm insisted that he enter the Betty Ford Clinic when his alcoholism affected his work, his former partner, Roy Hofer, testified. These sums, added to the pension plan withdrawals and other loans, totaled about $2 million, court records show. 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. And theres no denying that the venture was extremely costly. Olds has never been charged in the killing. 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. Hofer was held without bond, despite claims by his attorney that there was no chance he would flee and that the evidence against him was based on innuendo. Hofers supporters, including North Side community activist Charlotte Newfeld, portrayed him as an innocent victim of the media being hounded because he is gay. Police say her attacker was so intent on killing that the blows to her head continued long after the 56-year-old woman died. Former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean has been found guilty of a lesser charge of manslaughter in the death of Atatiana Jefferson. 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. Two nights later-on Stephen Olds' 25th birthday-his mother was bludgeoned to death as she left to walk her golden retriever. . [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. 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.". He chatted about his travel plans and reminisced a little wistfully about his life with Hofer. Unquestionably, the two men spent an enormous amount of Oldss money together. [8] Law enforcement determined the fire had been an arson. Glavin says he believes there are only a very few people who would have had any reason to harm Sue Olds. Jan. 25, 201603:38 1. 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. 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. 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. 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. Their red brick house is at the end of a cul-de-sac and set back from the street. It was a triumph Dean earned millions and turned into a sausage king. Hofer likes to dance all night, Olds said, while he prefers to stay home and go to bed early. 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. Investigators claim that Busick kept repeating "the root cellar," and his stepdaughter alleged that he had forbidden anyone from accessing it. This year, the Dairy Farmers of America reported that its milk sales had dropped to $13.6 billion in 2018, from $14.7 billion in 2017. He then prepared to return to Germany. 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. He was crazy.. The photographer wasnt the only one having a tough time finding Hofer. 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. Her son-in-law found her body. Hofer said the idea was his, hatched when he was working as the assistant to the owner of an incentive travel business in Munich. Blood was found in the car, Geobel said, and DNA tests on the blood showed that it was consistent with Suzanne Oldss blood.. [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. 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. 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Despite the differences in their ages and backgrounds, Olds was captivated by the young man that night, attracted by his style and his manners. ". The Olds family lived well, but not ostentatiously. Dean is the first of Rory's boyfriends they meet and their expectations were high. 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. Their first child, Craig, came in 1942, followed by Claudia in 1944. When they did catch up with him, it was on the boat in Wilmette, where he was sunning with his friends. Dean Ambrose Olds grew up in Wichita, Kansas. The attorneys and Olds family members say they suspect other assets remain hidden, possibly off-shore. DEAN MARTIN'S ROMANCE TALES. James Dean, only 24 years old, died in the crash. 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. Later Years and Death In 2004, while living in semi-retirement, Dean released his autobiography, 30 Years. But I wasnt aware of that for a long, long time, he added. 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. Dean is very intense, said a marketing consultant who worked on trademark cases with him. [8] Initially, no other remains were located, leading local law enforcement to extrapolate that Ashley's father, Danny Freeman, had slain his wife and fled with both girls. We supplied documents we believed complied with the requests, said Charles Sproger, who represented Dean Olds in the divorce case. Getty Dean Martin. 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. Lauria Jaylene Bible (/lr/;[3] born April 18, 1983[4]) and Ashley Renae Freeman (born December 29, 1983[5]) 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. The police investigation centered on Hoer from the beginning, and detectives also closely followed the movements of Dean Olds. [7] Searches of the mine Jones identified proved fruitless, however, and Jones subsequently admitted he had fabricated the story in order to get better food and additional phone privileges in prison. By the following year, Olds was made a partner in his firm, and the couple started planning for children. First, there was a bitter divorce proceeding and a freeze on his assets. 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. Marcyan was able to prove that Olds had regularly violated the injunction against sending more money to Germany. 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. History. I wish my son had had the sophistication at 20 that Carsten had.. 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 . I heard him say he was from Braunschweig, says Olds, who was about 60 at the time. [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. After their chance meeting in the hotel bar in New York, Dean Olds and Carsten Hofer quickly grew close. On October 7, 2021, a new search was conducted in the root cellar of a home formerly occupied by David Pennington, one of the deceased suspects accused by the convicted Busick. Dean sold his company to Sara Lee Foods in 1984, remaining its spokesperson until 2003. Dean seemed to always exude artfulness and talent. 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. Whatever the financial outcome, the families of Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson expressed similar views as Olds' family members on the legal outcome of the civil trials: They are relieved that the truth about the murders, as they see it, has finally come out. 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. Hofer moved back to Germany after his trial and, according to friends, has gone into business painting houses. Over the next three years, Dean's double life would be exposed, and he would end up penniless and alone As a result, divorce court judge Aubrey Kaplan ruled that the court was to take control of all of Dean Oldss funds. Kristen was born in September 1962; Courtney and Stephen followed three years apart. The vote wasnt anywhere near unanimous, Pavlak said. On April 26, 2018, it was reported that Ronnie Dean Busick was being charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the killings of Bible and the Freeman family. 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. [8] In 2020, Busick was convicted and sentenced.[9]. This is something that will never leave me, he said. Ergo, once you have a skunk, you know who killed my wife. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. [7] Both had been shot to death at close range. Soft-spoken and charming, he had been living on little but his looks and his wits for years. The termination from the firm would bring him, according to court documents, approximately $600,000, paid in increments over time. "If these lawyers acted like decent individuals, I am convinced this tragedy would never have occurred," Olds said. 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. Even before the murder, Olds had been on a terrible slide for a year treated for alcoholism, forced to resign from his law firm, deep in debt, and with his savings apparently gone. A partner in one of Chicago's hottest law firms, he had amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune. On May tenth, Wilmette police arrested the 25-year-old Hofer and charged him with first-degree murder in the death of Mrs. Olds. She was program chair of the Forty Acres Bird and Garden Club one year, president another. But the money would be disbursed to him by the receiver only as needed, until the divorce was resolved. 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. "Obviously the Brown and Goldman families felt that way about O.J. I speak a little German, so I tried to help him out.. 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. 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. 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. Then, his partners fired him on allegations of insider trading. The case centered on the disappearing money and turned bitter. Another tape reportedly showed the Ford Taurus leaving Kragnesss parking lot on the evening of the murder. After Hofer was arrested, it because clear that a variety of versions of the alleged murderers life were being melted out. On December 29, 1999, high school friends Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman spent the evening together celebrating Freeman's sixteenth birthday. "She wasn't as fearful of my dad as she was of my father and Carsten," Kristin Olds Glavin testified Thursday in the second day of Hofer's murder trial. His mother died when he was nine years old. 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. 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.. By now, they were deeply concerned. Reports also referred to a map found in the car with the location of the house marked with a star. Dean Olds, too, played a part in disseminating conflicting information about Hofers life. "It's too bad that you have to proceed on a civil basis to determine who murdered an individual, but the Olds children believe that the truth has finally come out," added Shonkwiler, who is chief judge of the 6th Judicial Circuit in Downstate Piatt County. Sue Olds showed a talent for selecting beautiful flowers and arranging them artfully, said her friend Denise Handley. SARAH NORDGREN December 7, 1995 CHICAGO (AP) _ Dean Olds had it all. 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. 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 none of this evidence was presented to Judge Orr at the bond hearing or confirmed officially by police or Goebel. Meanwhile, Wilmette police say their investigation of Dean Olds "is not active at this time.". [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. 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. He worshipped the Old Man as a god for fifty years. 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. 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. The baby grand piano that Martin purchased for the home still .