He knew how to treat big shots in the right way, Olds said. Hofer denied the two were lovers, but photographs accidentally discovered by one of the Olds daughters show them in intimate situations. The police reported that speed contributed to the cause to the accident and that Dean was traveling over 65 mph at the time of the impact. [14] According to the affidavit, Welch, Pennington, and Busick had claimed to have raped and tortured the girls before disposing of their remains "in a pit" or mine shaft in Picher, Oklahoma. I just want to pick up his spirits. 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 . Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. 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. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. . His wife had filed for divorce in 1992. He staggered toward his car and told TV reporters attempting to question him to buzz off.. But the two insist the business was real, if unsuccessful. She described Hofer's actions as "hostile" toward everyone in the family except Dean. 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.. 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. Another shows both men clad only in shorts on a hotel room bed. I decided I wanted to live with him. Hofer says the man was an American actor who had been on tour in Europe. . He had credit card debts of about $55,000; he had borrowed $231,000 from Chicagos Northern Trust Bank; he owed the SEC more than $80,000; and he was obligated to pay his estranged wife $9,000 each month. Over the course of three days last week, the more Olds described his new life in California, the more contradictions emerged. Jurors returned the verdict after about 14 hours of deliberation. 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. Almost a year has gone by since. Sept. 16, 2014 4:52 AM PT. 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. He attributes the initial problems to the Gulf War, but after that, he says, Sue Olds stepped in. [11][15] Law enforcement also stated they believed the girls' remains could have been "dumped in a cellar that was later covered in concrete. 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. [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. 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, the relationship soon proves tumultuous, as Rory finds the relationship moving too fast for her. That July, Olds visited Munich, deducting $7,500 for his travel expenses and another $11,800 in other unspecified business expenses. 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. Dean Olds and Carsten Hofer were questioned shortly after the murder, and both retained lawyers. 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. If Olds truly had squandered all that cash, he was without any income. James Dean dies in car accident. Olds' fear . And she was troubled by how the divorce, and what she was learning about her husbands relationship with Carsten Hofer, would affect the children. "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. Glavin found the body of his mother-in-law on the floor of the garage. Her son-in-law found her body. Murphy was loose on the lawn. 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. Outside was a lovely garden. Then, in May 1991, Olds bought a second Rolls-Royce, a green one this time, to replace the one that had been wrecked. 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. Before the couple separated in 1949, they had a child Deana, born in 1948. There is no question that Olds is about 10 pounds and several million dollars lighter than when he left his North Shore home last year in an old Ford Taurus sedan stained with the blood of his murdered wife. Olds daughters told a probate judge that their mother was terrified of Olds and his lover, Helmut Carsten Hofer. 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. 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, who has reddish hair and freckly skin, had a polished and witty way of speaking, his neighbors said, and liked to service and discuss fine wines. The next year, Hofer was acquitted of all charges, but the government soon deported him for overstaying his visa. 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. You could tell that swear words would make her a little uncomfortable.. But his circumstances took a sharp turn for the better in March, when a judge ruled that because at this point there is nothing that says or claims that Mr. Olds was involved with his wifes slaying, the divorce action should end with her death. Until they are home with us, this will never be over. Featured was an interview with Lauria's mother, Lorene Bible. [14], A female witness who lived with Welch a short time after the disappearances provided a sworn affidavit that "she heard conversations between the three men where they disclosed that the murder victims had owed them money," and that Welch kept a briefcase containing the Polaroid photos which showed both girls "bound and gagged with duct tape and lying on a bed," with Welch lying next to the girls in some of the photographs. 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. "Because of the O.J. They were married on April 16, 1960, at the First Presbyterian Church near her home. There is nothing I would like better than for the truth about this to come out, he said. Carlton R. Marcyan, Sue Oldss divorce lawyer, believes that the limousine business may have been a plot to hide money for Olds and Hofer. "I think he's intelligent," Stephen Olds responded. 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. According to testimony in the probate case, Olds lucrative career as a trademark attorney spiraled steadily to an end. Dean Martin Died on Christmas Day in 1995. 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. [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. Olds said the estate is worth $4 million or $5 million; attorneys for the daughters refuse to say how much its worth. 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. 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. I was his sugar daddy, and I was about to be financially killed.". ". Why it matters: Dean is the first officer in Tarrant County convicted in an on-duty shooting. 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. 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. 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.. Still Oldss legal skills were celebrated. ", 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 early as 1987, Sue Olds began filing a separate tax return, and by 1991 she was deeply concerned about the familys financial situation. She thought that Dean was less than forthright with her regarding financial matters, said Marcyan, her divorce lawyer. [7] However, law enforcement was unable to find any trace of Bible or Freeman in the rubble of the home. Though as a visitor to the United States Hofer was prohibited from working here, he took at least one modeling job. She was frightened about the massive amount of money he had taken out of the country, Marcyan said. 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. 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. The car was recovered at marina Towers, Goebel said (where Hofer had been staying with a friend, Bernadette Horan). "Sometimes the whole story doesn't come out at the first trial," said Kimball Anderson, the attorney who represented Suzanne Olds' estate in the probate case. He was trying to extricate himself from a complicated relationship with Olds at the time of Mrs. Olds slaying but was financially dependent upon him, McDermott said. 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. 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. In 1992, while . 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. . By Nancy Millman. As a result, Olds moved back into the Wilmette house and has access to what is left of the couples joint assets. 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. 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. 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. Olds was barred from accessing Suzannes inheritance and joint assets. For a while, trademark attorney Dean Olds and his wife, Suzanne, led a storybook North Shore existence with their three children. . Despite the differences in their ages and backgrounds, Olds was captivated by the young man that night, attracted by his style and his manners. I have a half-dozen good German fiends. Olds private life was in trouble, too. And I thought, This is a nice business full-service luxury auto rental.. 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. Then, his partners fired him on allegations of insider trading. Im sure he was tired of playing Monopoly and Battleship, he said. 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. One reason for the decline is a decrease in cereal. After Hofer was arrested, it because clear that a variety of versions of the alleged murderers life were being melted out. 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. 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 . 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. James Dean's Former L.A. Home (Where He Was First Discovered!) After a trial in the spring of 1990, the stunning decision came down from U.S. District Court judge Prentice H. Marshall in December: Quaker was ordered to pay $42.6 million to the Vermont company. Kristen was born in September 1962; Courtney and Stephen followed three years apart. 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. 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. It is assumed that the pregnancy occurred close to Rory's 22nd birthday. On the day that Hady was to photograph him, he arrived with a wardrobe that included a designer tuxedo. He even went with Dean to watch his son Steves tennis matches. Olds said he has thought a lot about who committed the crime. Seven months after the wedding, there was no longer a need for Sue Olds to keep up the pretenses. Prosecutors refuse to say whether they consider him a suspect. "[16], In a public address, the Bible family issued a statement in which they stated they had been aware of the alleged photographs "for years," and that "At this time all focus is on finding Lauria and Ashley. A partner in one of Chicagos hottest law firms, he had amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune. I heard him say he was from Braunschweig, says Olds, who was about 60 at the time. Olds quickly left for a month at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California. Oldss major objective was trying to insulate the children, said Marcyan. The Olds family--daughters Kristin Glavin and Courtney Olds, and a son, Stephen Dean Olds--have found some solace amid the tragedy of losing their mother, and in effect, their father too. Mrs. Olds died anyway in a frenzy of violence in her garage. Helmut Carsten Hofer, or Carsten, as he likes to be called, was struggling in a conversation because of his poor English. Peach and green were the predominating colors, to go with Kristins long red hair. 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