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. Olds was barred from accessing Suzannes inheritance and joint assets. In late July or early August, we decided to take the matter to the shareholders, Pavlak said. Hofer said the idea was his, hatched when he was working as the assistant to the owner of an incentive travel business in Munich. The vote wasnt anywhere near unanimous, Pavlak said. Her husband, Matt Glavin, drove over from their home in Evanston to check on Sue. Getty Dean Martin. On televised news coverage, Oldss appearance was disheveled, and he seemed to be intoxicated. 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. Goebel also told the court that footprints found in the snow leading to the garage where Mrs. Olds was murdered and leading away from the garage were analyzed and found to be similar to prints of boots owned by Hofer. Dean Olds and Carsten Hofer were questioned shortly after the murder, and both retained lawyers. 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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.. Olds private life was in trouble, too. 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. Olds began traveling to Germany often, even spending part of the Christmas holidays there in 1990. But none of this evidence was presented to Judge Orr at the bond hearing or confirmed officially by police or Goebel. But for many years, Sue Oldss life was not what it seemed. He arranged to have some sample photographs of himself taken at the Models Workshop Studio on Kinzie street, a company that trains would-be models. . Roy Hofer, who is not related to Helmut Hofer, said Olds was fired later that year after the Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that he used client information for insider trading. His children, he said, ``are wealthy, but they want to be wealthier. Throughout the year, at least twice a month, Olds sent large checks to Munich payable to Hofer in amounts ranging from $1,075 to $15,000. Throughout, Dean Olds has been seemingly unmoved by the death of his wife. The case centered on the disappearing money and turned bitter. Dean's first encounter with Richard and Emily Gilmore is a disaster. Rory and Lorelai warn Dean before entering the lion's den but even Rory doesn't expect the night to go so horribly. "I think he's intelligent," Stephen Olds responded. Olds had been a full partner in the firm until being ousted for alcoholism, insider stock trading and other misconduct in the summer of 1993. Then he threw it all away for the company of a young charmer named Carsten Hofer. If there was a business at all, it appears to have been a total loss. 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. 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 said he eventually came to believe that Olds was in love with him. 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. Suzanne and Dean Olds' son-in-law, Matthew Glavin, an attorney who discovered his mother-in-law's battered body in the garage of her home, has been hired by her estate to pursue the money trail, but it won't be easy. The termination from the firm would bring him, according to court documents, approximately $600,000, paid in increments over time. 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.. As early as 1987, Sue Olds began filing a separate tax return, and by 1991 she was deeply concerned about the familys financial situation. An occasional McDonald's hamburger is "a big night out.". 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. Hofer likes to dance all night, Olds said, while he prefers to stay home and go to bed early. Seven weeks later, on December 28th, Kristen Olds Glavin talked to her mother on the phone at about nine in the evening. 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. Despite the coincidences of timing, Hofer says his arrival in Chicago was not related to the courts control of Oldss money, and that he only went to live with Olds because his building permitted dogs. Kling told reporters Hofer wanted to see his family and reestablish his career in Germany. 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. 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. 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. It was the biggest trademark infringement award in the history of U.S. law, and is still being appealed by Quaker. 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. Hes a fine fellow, Olds said in an interview near the end of March. Reports also referred to a map found in the car with the location of the house marked with a star. Living on the North Shore with an attractive wife, prominent lawyer Dean Olds seem to have it all. . Seven months after the wedding, there was no longer a need for Sue Olds to keep up the pretenses. Still Oldss legal skills were celebrated. 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. At the time the divorce was filed, the court ordered Dean Olds to stop transferring assets out of the country. He played the violin, he tap-danced, and he sculpted. History. Olds' fear . 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. When Dean Olds, a prominent Chicago trademark lawyer, travelled to New York on business, he liked to stay at the United Nations Plaza hotel on the citys East Side. [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. 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. You could tell that swear words would make her a little uncomfortable.. 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. Hes be telling me about his family, about his business, about his cases and I just knew him as a very nice and very friendly person, he said. Ms. Olds avoided her fathers gaze Wednesday as she told a judge that her mother repeatedly asked her grown daughters how to keep safe. My wife got her teeth into my neck, he said. When a prominent lawyer opened up his bank account to a charming young man, his wife put her foot down. 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. That life unraveled quickly and thoroughly. In a week that saw a multimillion-dollar civil judgment against O.J. By the following year, Olds was made a partner in his firm, and the couple started planning for children. I have a half-dozen good German fiends. The ARDC hearing, tantamount to a trial, could result in the disbarment of Olds, who until his wife's murder was earning more than $600,000 a year and was listed in a respected publication called "The Best Lawyers in America. Now, with the problems hes had, I dont know. 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. 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.. If Olds truly had squandered all that cash, he was without any income. 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. Olds says the last Rolls-Royce was sold in February 1993 to pay off some of the companys debts. Press reports on the case also mention a surveillance videotape from a Winnetka gas station that showed Hofer asking for directions to Sue Oldss Ramona Court address on the day of the murder. Blood was found in the car, Geobel said, and DNA tests on the blood showed that it was consistent with Suzanne Oldss blood.. This is something that will never leave me, he said. I heard him say he was from Braunschweig, says Olds, who was about 60 at the time. Oldss major objective was trying to insulate the children, said Marcyan. 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. Then he threw it all away for the company of a young charmer named Carsten Hofer. Her friends are angry and, in the words of one Wilmette woman, profoundly sad for what those children must deal with for the rest of their lives. And no one who knew Dean Olds and his family can understand how such a seemingly model North Shore existence could have turned around so suddenly and tragically. He was crazy.. [7] While walking around the extensive rubble, they discovered what appeared to be another body and notified the police. Then, his partners fired him on allegations of insider trading. 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. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. She was very much a lady, said George Kundaris, her hairdresser. 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. In March 1991, Olds and Hofer visited Fort Lauderdale together, where they bought their first Rolls-Royce, a brown one. The next year, Hofer was acquitted of all charges, but the government soon deported him for overstaying his visa. ". 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 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. The second best result is Dean L Olds age 60s in Mesa, AZ. Living on the North Shore with an attractive wife, prominent lawyer Dean Olds seem to have it all. When Olds began draining the family retirement accounts to back his business venture and send Hofer regular checks, Suzanne Olds, his wife of 32 years, filed for divorce. On March 19, 1992, Sue Olds filed for divorce from Dean Olds on the grounds of mental cruelty and irreconcilable differences. He moved to Laguna Beach, California, where he died in 2011. 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 . Hofer stopped returning Hadys calls. We had talks like real good friends at dinners. [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. One shot is of Hofer reclining on the floor in bikini briefs and a polo shirt. The girls had graduated from college and were successful in their own right, and their youngest child, a son, was in college. No documents that Olds produced in the divorce case show any income from the business that year. 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, an artist and long-time community activist, had come to know Hofer through Kragness, who is her close friend. Civil lawsuits have been used, with some success, in other Chicago area murders. During this time, Olds continued to practice law at Willian Brinks Olds. Then on December 28, 1993, Suzanne was found beaten to death in the driveway of her home. "He introduced him as the orphaned nephew of a client of his who was down on his luck," Glavin testified. However, Benny fell in love with a Greek woman named Andrea and decided to abandon his maker, who then banished him to Purgatory . 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. Immediately he was surrounded by police, told he was wanted for the murder of Suzanne Olds, and taken into custody. And instead of still directing a sizable staff in a 100-lawyer intellectual-property law practice that has clients all over the globe, Olds sits at a work station in a small law office in Laguna Beach. Some processing plants were spun off, and an aggressive program of acquisitions and divestitures brought more and more brands and consumer offerings. Originally from Chicago, Dean Forester moves to Stars Hollow sometime before the start of Gilmore Girls, with May, Randy and Clara Forester. I just want to pick up his spirits. 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. She never said it was a man But she would ask me questions. [5] Bible received permission from her parents to spend the night at Freeman's home. She described Hofer's actions as "hostile" toward everyone in the family except Dean. I [was] falling in love with somebody at the end of 1992, Hofer said. I decided I wanted to live with him. Hofer says the man was an American actor who had been on tour in Europe. It was a triumph Dean earned millions and turned into a sausage king. 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. "[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. Olds is more haggard than a year ago, and the deterioration is plain to see in other ways. As the news coverage continued to put the spotlight on Hofer, his Chicago friends rallied around him. Benny was a vampire in season 8 of the TV show Supernatural. In an affidavit, Olds says money represented operating expenses for insurance, import fees, telephone and other overhead. . She was a good tennis player, her friends say, and played regularly at Skokie Country Club. 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