The business was not a roaring success, he said. An occasional McDonald's hamburger is "a big night out.". 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. 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. The Olds family lived well, but not ostentatiously. What I thought was just amazing why they produced this to me was beyond me was a whole tape of items, like a cash register tape, with a line entry for condoms. 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. Background. His mother died when he was nine years old. 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. Olds male lover, a dashing blond part-time model from Germany, was tried for the crime and acquitted. . [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. "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. [7] While his death was ruled justifiable, the Freemans had threatened to file a wrongful death lawsuit. 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. 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. 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. When they did catch up with him, it was on the boat in Wilmette, where he was sunning with his friends. ``Whoever killed my wife sort of went bananas, he said. His affair with the American actor ended suddenly, he says, and he moved into the apartment that Olds had recently rented on East Ohio Street after moving out of the house in Wilmette. 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 . And Bayer Bess Vanderwarker, the Chicago agency that handles all of Gatorades advertising, said its records indicated no payments for commercial roles ever being made to Hofer. In court document later, Olds said he had to borrow money to pay his income taxes because his wife had insisted that he spend his available cash on the $60,000 wedding. 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. On September 17th, shareholders voted to change the name of the firm to Willian Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione. Marcyan was able to prove that Olds had regularly violated the injunction against sending more money to Germany. Dean Olds left his Wilmette home early Wednesday afternoon, apparently ending a morning-long stalemate with police and his three estranged children. Dean Olds bought him a round-trip ticket to Munich with a May 12th departure date and an open return. I heard him say he was from Braunschweig, says Olds, who was about 60 at the time. 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. Hes a fine fellow, Olds said in an interview near the end of March. Standing between Richard Kling and assistant states attorney Steven Goebel, Hofer shook his head in denial while Goebel outlined the case against him. Living on the North Shore with an attractive wife, prominent lawyer Dean Olds seem to have it all. After arriving in Stars Hollow, Dean pursues Rory romantically, and the two begin dating. ", 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. 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.. Kling told reporters Hofer wanted to see his family and reestablish his career in Germany. [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. He sold his company in 1984 but remained a spokesman for it until 2003. 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. He hated Suzanne. DNA evidence introduced during Hofer's murder trial showed that the odds were 156 million-to-1 that the blood found on the Taurus' seat cushion, which Hofer was driving that night, belonged to anyone other than Suzanne Olds. A court-appointed receiver, attorney John Kneafsey, was retained to set up an account that would take in Oldss salary from the law firm and disburse the funds, including $9,000 a month in maintenance for Sue Olds and living expenses for Dean Olds. But within a week of the cars arrival in Munich, trouble struck. Then on December 28, 1993, Suzanne was found beaten to death in the drive Dean Olds and his wife Suzanne appeared to have it all -- a nice home, a 30-year marriage, and three grown children. Minutes earlier, Circuit Judge Jeffrey Malak had rejected a motion by lawyers for Suzanne Olds' estate that Dean Olds be barred from testifying about events over which he consistently pleaded the . She was program chair of the Forty Acres Bird and Garden Club one year, president another. With Dean Olds. . 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. Sue Olds showed a talent for selecting beautiful flowers and arranging them artfully, said her friend Denise Handley. I have a half-dozen good German fiends. Olds private life was in trouble, too. 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. "[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. Hady said Hofer persuaded her to turn over all the transparencies from the photo session, something she wouldnt ordinarily have done. 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. Almost a year has gone by since. Dean sold his company to Sara Lee Foods in 1984, remaining its spokesperson until 2003. Hofer said he eventually came to believe that Olds was in love with him. We had talks like real good friends at dinners. Her husband, Matt Glavin, drove over from their home in Evanston to check on Sue. [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. 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. Hofer moved from Germany to Chicago in 1993 when the business dissolved, and lived there until after his trial. In March 1991, Olds and Hofer visited Fort Lauderdale together, where they bought their first Rolls-Royce, a brown one. Hofers reasons for wanting to return to Germany (as stated by his lawyers) also beg for an explanation. 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. 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. If Olds truly had squandered all that cash, he was without any income. 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. But shortly after the divorce decision, he sounded remarkably chipper during a phone conversation. She was very much a lady, said George Kundaris, her hairdresser. [9] He was sentenced to 15 years for the crime, with 10 of the years to be spent in lockup. [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. "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. On December 29, 1999, high school friends Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman spent the evening together celebrating Freeman's sixteenth birthday. Investigators claim that Busick kept repeating "the root cellar," and his stepdaughter alleged that he had forbidden anyone from accessing it. This is something that will never leave me, he said. Our friendship has traveled down many roads over the years and there will always be a special place in my heart and soul for Dean.. Year Olds should have starred in the United States on December 28, 1993, Suzanne, a. 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. 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.. Dean Martin Died on Christmas Day in 1995. After Hofer was arrested, it because clear that a variety of versions of the alleged murderers life were being melted out. Olds was barred from accessing Suzannes inheritance and joint assets. 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. The young star's life and . She described Hofer's actions as "hostile" toward everyone in the family except Dean. 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. A judge ruled in the childrens favor, declaring the two men responsible. 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 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 extremely scared, extremely aware of her life being threatened by my father and Carsten.. 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. But I wasnt aware of that for a long, long time, he added. For example, during a stroll with a reporter down this coastal town's main drag, he responded to a panhandler's appeal for small change by pulling a wad of cash out of his pants pocket and peeling off a $10 bill. [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. It premiered a few weeks ago in theaters and streaming on demand. By Nancy Millman. 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. She was dead from blows to the head. 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. In the. Some processing plants were spun off, and an aggressive program of acquisitions and divestitures brought more and more brands and consumer offerings. Their red brick house is at the end of a cul-de-sac and set back from the street. . Suzanne Olds carried Mace when walking her dog. Peach and green were the predominating colors, to go with Kristins long red hair. Olds, 66, said Thursday he maintains contact with Hofer, who returned to Germany after his acquittal. After several weeks of negotiating his separation package, Olds left the firm at the beginning of September. Logan was 29 years old and Rory had just turned 22. He had written the check on December 22nd to buy a pair of exercise dumbbells. Former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean has been found guilty of a lesser charge of manslaughter in the death of Atatiana Jefferson. And she was troubled by how the divorce, and what she was learning about her husbands relationship with Carsten Hofer, would affect the children. At the time that Dean Olds was embarking on his venture with Carsten Hofer, he was by all appearances at the pinnacle of his career. ``That person is highly abnormal. Shattered Lives: The Dean Olds Story: Directed by David Rorie. Olds was an expert in trademark law and had represented and counseled some topflight U.S. companies, including General Mills, American Motors, and McDonalds. Simpson. 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. Police say her attacker was so intent on killing that the blows to her head continued long after the 56-year-old woman died. The regular checks to Hofer were to stop. 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. "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. For a while, trademark attorney Dean Olds and his wife, Suzanne, led a storybook North Shore existence with their three children. 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. 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. [7] Danny's brother, Dwayne, claimed that Danny had confided that deputies had tried to intimidate him. "I think he's intelligent," Stephen Olds responded. Hady befriended Hofer, offering to shoot portfolio pictures for him at a nominal rate. 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. Even before the Wilmette officers arrested Hofer, he had a run-in with police. 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. [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. Dean is very intense, said a marketing consultant who worked on trademark cases with him. A partner in one of Chicago's hottest law firms, he had amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune. [4] After the fire had been extinguished, the bodies of Freeman's parents, Danny and Kathy, were recovered. Glavin found the body of his mother-in-law on the floor of the garage. I was very concerned about her safety. But still, it was clear that the relationship was not over, despite the advice of lawyers for them to stay apart. "I think that's primarily what the Olds (probate) case was about--getting the whole story out, the truth about who killed Suzanne Olds. . According to testimony in the probate case, Olds lucrative career as a trademark attorney spiraled steadily to an end. Their first child, Craig, came in 1942, followed by Claudia in 1944. The victim was fully clothed, and we found no evidence of theft, robbery, or burglary to the house itself, Wilmette police chief George Carpenter said the next day. 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. Getty Dean Martin. Martin's life came to an end on December 25, 1995, two years after he was diagnosed with lung cancer and emphysema, per the Hartford . . Previously, Olds maintained that Hofer was innocent, railroaded by the Cook County state's attorney because "he is gay and a foreigner." Dean was killed, but his passenger and the driver of the other vehicle survived. She slept at night only after securing the front and back doors and locking the deadbolt on her bedroom door. However, the relationship soon proves tumultuous, as Rory finds the relationship moving too fast for her. . [8] Law enforcement determined the fire had been an arson. The couple's marriage produced four children. The meeting generated stories in the gay press and a follow-up in the Reader in which Sander, the deputy consul, called the earlier coverage homophobic.. And I thought, This is a nice business full-service luxury auto rental.. His days at Willian Brinks Olds Hofer Gilson & Lione (there is no connection between Carsten Hofer and Roy E. Hofer, a name partner in the firm) were spent in a well-appointed office with a sweeping view of Chicago and Lake Michigan from the top of the NBC tower. Dean Ambrose Olds grew up in Wichita, Kansas. Keep scrolling to see more of this historic Palm Springs property. 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