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. 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. Hady befriended Hofer, offering to shoot portfolio pictures for him at a nominal rate. 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. Then, days after Christmas in 1993, Suzannes son-in-law found her bludgeoned to death in her garage. . That supposedly explain where money was going in the German business show lots of transactions at very nice restaurants, hotels throughout Europe, liquor. 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. Soft-spoken and charming, he had been living on little but his looks and his wits for years. But for many years, Sue Oldss life was not what it seemed. 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. Hofers reasons for wanting to return to Germany (as stated by his lawyers) also beg for an explanation. "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. . 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. The prosecutor referred to a photograph of the defendant and Mr. Olds together on a bed in boxer shorts. 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. First, there was a bitter divorce proceeding and a freeze on his assets. [8] Two other suspects Warren Phillip "Phil" Welch II (died 2007) and David Pennington (died 2015)were also identified. 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. 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. She was frightened about the massive amount of money he had taken out of the country, Marcyan said. 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. Olds was an expert in trademark law and had represented and counseled some topflight U.S. companies, including General Mills, American Motors, and McDonalds. Even with things that developed concerning Carsten and Dean, she didnt want us to be suggestive or descriptive in what we were doing in the divorce case In the pleadings we were very general [using terms such as] business associate, friend.. 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. A senior partner with his name on the door of a prestigious firm, Olds was paid more than $400,000 a year (varying with the bonus) and owned a five-percent interest in the firm. Jurors returned the verdict after about 14 hours of deliberation. Dennis Dean, the 83-year-old California drifter who in the film cruises community pools looking for well-off women who might . 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. 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. 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. The Olds family lived well, but not ostentatiously. Dean is very intense, said a marketing consultant who worked on trademark cases with him. Still, Mrs. Olds tried to conceal what she thought were the worst aspects of the situation from the children. . 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. But shortly after the divorce decision, he sounded remarkably chipper during a phone conversation. I have a half-dozen good German fiends. 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 unanswered questions are: Is Olds hiding some of that untraceable money? Hofer moved from Germany to Chicago in 1993 when the business dissolved, and lived there until after his trial. 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 place of business suits, Olds now favors casual shirts, shorts and penny loafers as his workday attire. Getty Dean Martin. But the two insist the business was real, if unsuccessful. ". We felt some of the things had the potential to impact us, Pavlak said. For instance, the documents. Though as a visitor to the United States Hofer was prohibited from working here, he took at least one modeling job. [14] Several witnesses alleged that the three men killed the Freemans over drug money,[14] and that the girls were held captive in Welch's trailer for several days before being murdered. 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. [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. SARAH NORDGREN December 7, 1995 CHICAGO (AP) _ Dean Olds had it all. 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. Kragness was in the shower, and Hofer left for Newfelds house to clean up and change clothes. They were ruining his reputation. 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. However, now re-listed for $1.4M, these pieces are up for negotiation. The case centered on the disappearing money and turned bitter. James Dean dies in car accident. 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. On a mirror was written I love Dean, with the name Carsten underneath, he 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. 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. Time is everywhere we are. [8][13] Following this discovery, the crime scene was reexamined, yet no sign of Bible or Freeman was found. She thought that Dean was less than forthright with her regarding financial matters, said Marcyan, her divorce lawyer. Living on the North Shore with an attractive wife, prominent lawyer Dean Olds seem to have it all. By the following year, Olds was made a partner in his firm, and the couple started planning for children. 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. 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. 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. 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. These days, Dean Olds the famous trademark attorney is lying low. Blood was found in the car, Geobel said, and DNA tests on the blood showed that it was consistent with Suzanne Oldss blood.. [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. The money went to subsidize Carstens lifestyle, Marcyan charged in a recent interview. But none of this evidence was presented to Judge Orr at the bond hearing or confirmed officially by police or Goebel. 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. Mrs. Olds died anyway in a frenzy of violence in her garage. "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. " ". 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. He moved to Laguna Beach, California, where he died in 2011. During his 21 years in that position, Donovan headed investigations into about 4,000 unexplained deaths and homicides, including some of the most notorious crimes in Buffalo over the past century.. 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. She suspected her husband of gutting their $4.6 million estate, in part to support his young lover. The securities and Exchange Commission announced that Olds had signed a consent agreement in a complaint against him alleging inside trading violations. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. It is assumed that the pregnancy occurred close to Rory's 22nd birthday. I don't think that's fair.". Then on December 28, 1993, Suzanne was found beaten to death in the driveway of her home. 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. And I think the Olds family felt that way in regards to the criminal trial of Helmut Hofer.". 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. It was a crime of hatred, not a crime of burglary or robbery, Goebel said. 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. Glavin found the body of his mother-in-law on the floor of the garage. 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. Her son-in-law found her body. The photographer wasnt the only one having a tough time finding Hofer. After a divorce deposition in which Hofer was shown this photograph and others, Hofer told another person that he did not like Mrs. Olds, and that she and her divorce lawyer, Carlton Marcyan, were trying to ruin him because of his relationship with Olds, Goebel told the judge. Olds' fear was so intense that her self-defense arsenal of Mace and panic buttons was expanded in the final days of her life to include a 20-gauge shotgun under her bed and a baseball bat next to her nightstand. 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. He drove away in his blue 1989 Ford Taurus . [7] Danny's brother, Dwayne, claimed that Danny had confided that deputies had tried to intimidate him. [7] While walking around the extensive rubble, they discovered what appeared to be another body and notified the police. Olds private life was in trouble, too. He did not respond to a request for an interview. Hofer stopped returning Hadys calls. "If these lawyers acted like decent individuals, I am convinced this tragedy would never have occurred," Olds said. My wife had cut off all funds for Germany, he said. At every opportunity, Olds blames his wife's divorce lawyers for "grinding" him down financially. 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. Hofer was subsequently found not guilty in a jury trial of murdering Suzanne Olds, who was 56. In an affidavit, Olds says money represented operating expenses for insurance, import fees, telephone and other overhead. Then on December 28, 1993, Suzanne was found beaten to death in the driveway of her home. Sue Olds showed a talent for selecting beautiful flowers and arranging them artfully, said her friend Denise Handley. 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. 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. On televised news coverage, Oldss appearance was disheveled, and he seemed to be intoxicated. Dean sold his company to Sara Lee Foods in 1984, remaining its spokesperson until 2003. Prosecutors refuse to say whether they consider him a suspect. 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. Two nights later-on Stephen Olds' 25th birthday-his mother was bludgeoned to death as she left to walk her golden retriever. [19], On October 6, 2017, this case was covered on the podcast 'Unfound'. Jeanette Hady, a photographer, hired him for some plastic surgery ads. For his part, Olds attributed any problems in their relationship to the 40-year difference in their ages. For a while, trademark attorney Dean Olds and his wife, Suzanne, led a storybook North Shore existence with their three children. Over the next three years, Dean's double life would be exposed, and he would end up penniless and alone 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. . 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. Dean Olds and Carsten Hofer were questioned shortly after the murder, and both retained lawyers. Carlton R. Marcyan, Sue Oldss divorce lawyer, believes that the limousine business may have been a plot to hide money for Olds and Hofer. Even when she left the Tri Delta house at Northwestern to live with her husband, her neighbors included sorority sisters and friends from college. 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. . "Don't tell me about double lives," he scolded, pointing a finger. They shared a room in a beachfront hotel, Hofer said, and Olds paid for the room and he said he could take it mostly off on taxes of whatever. According to tax documents, Olds paid $38,900 for the car and another $1,700 to ship it to Germany. No documents that Olds produced in the divorce case show any income from the business that year. 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. When Hofer was questioned about his whereabouts on the night of the murder, Goebel said, he admitted having exclusive possession of [Dean Oldss] car during the period in which the murder was committed. No other payments were to be allowed unless approved by the lawyers and the court. On March 19, 1992, Sue Olds filed for divorce from Dean Olds on the grounds of mental cruelty and irreconcilable differences. In March 1991, Olds and Hofer visited Fort Lauderdale together, where they bought their first Rolls-Royce, a brown one. In fact, his drivers license had been revoked after previous traffic violations, including drunk driving. 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. While Dean has been born with one vertebral artery, which carries blood to the brain and it has suffered a 50% reduction in usage for most of his life, he remains a remarkably healthy man to live with. 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. 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. "You can go to any corporation or to any church, and you tell me how many people are duplicitous, and then I'll answer your question. 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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