He then prepared to return to Germany. Olds was barred from accessing Suzannes inheritance and joint assets. 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. DEAN MARTIN'S ROMANCE TALES. When Kristin called her mother again later and no one answered, she became concerned. Dean sold his company to Sara Lee Foods in 1984, remaining its spokesperson until 2003. She was frightened about the massive amount of money he had taken out of the country, Marcyan said. In addition to reports of evidence that linked Hofer to Sue Olds murder, TV news coverage alleged that Hofer had serious legal problems in Germany as well. 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. My wife got her teeth into my neck, he said. What I had seen on television was more than an inference that because he was gay he was bad, Newfeld said in an interview several weeks before Hofers arrest. The unanswered questions are: Is Olds hiding some of that untraceable money? 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.. ``Whoever killed my wife sort of went bananas, he said. 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 so-called "shack" that Olds now calls home is actually a luxury apartment located on a flowering hillside with spectacular views of Laguna Beach. After a deposition in the case in November 1993, "He told me that Suzanne's attorney was saying that Dean and Carsten had a homosexual relationship, and that (the accusation) was wrong. . 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. When he was questioned on the night of the murder, Hofer told police he had been driving Dean Oldss Ford Taurus that night, a car he drove often. Her son-in-law found her body. Carlton R. Marcyan, Sue Oldss divorce lawyer, believes that the limousine business may have been a plot to hide money for Olds and Hofer. Olds, the SEC said, had profited illegally from information he obtained from one of his clients, Minnetonka, which was about to announce it was considering putting itself up for sale. Jurors returned the verdict after about 14 hours of deliberation. I had a client there and had been there several times. With Dean Olds. 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. In the late '60s, Dean stepped into the entrepreneurial ring by launching the Jimmy Dean Meat Company. Olds quickly left for a month at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California. It was the biggest trademark infringement award in the history of U.S. law, and is still being appealed by Quaker. 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. At the Kenilworth Union Church, she taught Sunday school and worked on the annual bazaar. 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. 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. . Up until the time Hofer was charged, Dean Olds had been freely admitting that he had a sexual relationship with Hofer, Goebel said. For his part, Olds attributed any problems in their relationship to the 40-year difference in their ages. She said her marriage was over 20 years ago, recalled Kundaris, who styled Mrs. Olds hair twice a week for the last couple of years of her life. The vote wasnt anywhere near unanimous, Pavlak said. Previously, Olds maintained that Hofer was innocent, railroaded by the Cook County state's attorney because "he is gay and a foreigner." On September 17th, shareholders voted to change the name of the firm to Willian Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione. Reports also referred to a map found in the car with the location of the house marked with a star. That supposedly explain where money was going in the German business show lots of transactions at very nice restaurants, hotels throughout Europe, liquor. In a week that saw a multimillion-dollar civil judgment against O.J. "[14] After his arrest, Busick told reporters he wished to speak to the Bibles. [9] He was sentenced to 15 years for the crime, with 10 of the years to be spent in lockup. 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. The attorneys and Olds family members say they suspect other assets remain hidden, possibly off-shore. Hofer likes to dance all night, Olds said, while he prefers to stay home and go to bed early. She never said it was a man But she would ask me questions. Dean Olds, too, played a part in disseminating conflicting information about Hofers life. 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. Nationwide, wrongful-death lawsuits have jumped 175 percent since 1990 in cases where there was criminal violence, according to data compiled by the National Victim Center in Virginia. She slept at night only after securing the front and back doors and locking the deadbolt on her bedroom door. 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. Benny was a vampire in season 8 of the TV show Supernatural. Judge Orr, in addition to denying bond, ordered Hofer to surrender his passport and to undergo a psychiatric examination. However, now re-listed for $1.4M, these pieces are up for negotiation. The second best result is Dean L Olds age 60s in Mesa, AZ. [7][10] The second body was determined to be that of Danny; like his wife, he had also been shot in the head execution-style. Im sure he was tired of playing Monopoly and Battleship, he said. [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. 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. An occasional McDonald's hamburger is "a big night out.". Another shows both men clad only in shorts on a hotel room bed. Dean died on June 13, 2010, at the age of 81 of natural causes, per Rolling Stone. 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. 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. 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. 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. Dean is very intense, said a marketing consultant who worked on trademark cases with him. In the spring of 1993, after acknowledging that he had a drinking problem, he was put on a leave of absence from the law firm. Newfeld, an artist and long-time community activist, had come to know Hofer through Kragness, who is her close friend. Dropping out of school at the same time, he says he drifted through a series of short-term jobs from security guard to house cleaner in Hamburg and Munich. His law partners learned of the SEC action only when their records were subpoenaed. After their chance meeting in the hotel bar in New York, Dean Olds and Carsten Hofer quickly grew close. Many of you are aware that Dean had two strokes in December last year due to an anomaly in his body. I was his sugar daddy, and I was about to be financially killed.". James Dean's Former L.A. Home (Where He Was First Discovered!) . Hofer, then 20, a six-foot four-inch blond, was in New York visiting friends, he says. For instance, the documents. 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. 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. [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. Sue Olds showed a talent for selecting beautiful flowers and arranging them artfully, said her friend Denise Handley. 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. I have a half-dozen good German fiends. 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. 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. 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. [7] Earlier that day, the girls had spent time at a local pizzeria with Freeman's mother, Kathy. Dean Olds and Carsten Hofer were questioned shortly after the murder, and both retained lawyers. 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. Firefighters arrived at the Freeman home shortly after 5:30 a.m. on December 30, when a passerby reported a fire at . Throughout, Dean Olds has been seemingly unmoved by the death of his wife. The garage door, which has an elaborate curtained window faade, was open. No other payments were to be allowed unless approved by the lawyers and the court. James Dean dies in car accident. "Because of the O.J. When people asked about the divorce, she would say her husband was involved with someone. 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. By late 1992, Hofer was losing interest in Rolls-Royce. But the money would be disbursed to him by the receiver only as needed, until the divorce was resolved. SARAH NORDGREN December 7, 1995 CHICAGO (AP) _ Dean Olds had it all. Dean Olds bought him a round-trip ticket to Munich with a May 12th departure date and an open return. If Olds truly had squandered all that cash, he was without any income. Though police did not comment officially on any aspects of their investigation before Hofers arrest, details had leaked, primarily to Channel 7s Chuck Goudie, who reported extensively on the case. Living on the North Shore with an attractive wife, prominent lawyer Dean Olds seem to have it all. In July 1991, Kristin Lynn Olds married Matthew Glavin, a lawyer with the Chicago firm of Ross & Hardies, in a late afternoon ceremony at the Kenilworth Union Church. ``They were the only two people in the world who didnt love her, Courtney Olds said as her eyes filled with tears. [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. It premiered a few weeks ago in theaters and streaming on demand. 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 mother died when he was nine years old. 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 hated (her attorney). By the following year, Olds was made a partner in his firm, and the couple started planning for children. 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 . 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. 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. Suzanne Olds carried Mace when walking her dog. In addition to living in an upscale residence in Laguna Beach, the "penniless" Olds seems to know all the best restaurants in town. In an affidavit, Olds says money represented operating expenses for insurance, import fees, telephone and other overhead. We had talks like real good friends at dinners. Now Olds daughters, who believe their father was involved in their mothers death, are testifying against him this week in a civil case to determine who will get the family fortune. Olds says the last Rolls-Royce was sold in February 1993 to pay off some of the companys debts. 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. 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. Until they are home with us, this will never be over. I believe it was less about money," Anderson said. The young star's life and . Even when she left the Tri Delta house at Northwestern to live with her husband, her neighbors included sorority sisters and friends from college. 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. Even before the Wilmette officers arrested Hofer, he had a run-in with police. I told her to be aware of her surroundings and not to wear headphones" when she went out at night to walk her dog, he said. A partner in one of Chicago's hottest law firms, he had amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune. Outside was a lovely garden. 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. 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. 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. 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. Another tape reportedly showed the Ford Taurus leaving Kragnesss parking lot on the evening of the murder. 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. Hofer took the car on a pleasure trip to visit his grand-aunt, but while driving 100 miles per hour along the autobahn, he said, he swerved to avoid overtaking a slower car and crashed the Rolls into a ravine. . Two nights later-on Stephen Olds' 25th birthday-his mother was bludgeoned to death as she left to walk her golden retriever. Olds is more haggard than a year ago, and the deterioration is plain to see in other ways. 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. [8] In 2010, the Freeman family initiated court proceedings to have Ashley declared legally dead. Dean Winchester does not get a girl pregnant in the series Supernatural. 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. CHICAGO (AP) _ Dean Olds had it all. The termination from the firm would bring him, according to court documents, approximately $600,000, paid in increments over time. 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. He moved to Laguna Beach, California, where he died in 2011. Unquestionably, the two men spent an enormous amount of Oldss money together. After earning degrees from Northwestern and the University of Michigan Law School, and serving two years in the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps, he settled in Chicago and joined the firm that was to become Willian Brinks Olds. 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. 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