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. 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. Living on the North Shore with an attractive wife, prominent lawyer Dean Olds seem to have it all. 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. "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. 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. [8] In 2013, it was profiled on the documentary series Disappeared on Investigation Discovery. We supplied documents we believed complied with the requests, said Charles Sproger, who represented Dean Olds in the divorce case. 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. 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. 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. In 1990, Olds withdrew almost all his stake in his law firms profit-sharing fund $675,625 and transferred it to a trust over which he had sole authority. "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. " Outside was a lovely garden. 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. In January, David Biro was ordered to pay $41 million to the family of Nancy and Richard Langert of Winnetka for the 1990 murder of the newlyweds. While it is premature to speculate on a possible motive, the evidence we have so far suggests that the offender may have come to the victims home for the express purpose of causing her death.. Why it matters: Dean is the first officer in Tarrant County convicted in an on-duty shooting. Benny was a vampire in season 8 of the TV show Supernatural. "He introduced him as the orphaned nephew of a client of his who was down on his luck," Glavin testified. Judge Orr, in addition to denying bond, ordered Hofer to surrender his passport and to undergo a psychiatric examination. Insurance didnt cover the loss, according to court records, because Hofer did not have the proper type of license. But the money would be disbursed to him by the receiver only as needed, until the divorce was resolved. "If these lawyers acted like decent individuals, I am convinced this tragedy would never have occurred," Olds said. According to testimony in the probate case, Olds lucrative career as a trademark attorney spiraled steadily to an end. He was vacationing in Laguna Beach, California, with Carsten Hofer. 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. Though he was willing to talk at length with a reporter, he would not entertain questions about living a dual life, about honesty or justice. 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. 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.. In addition to living in an upscale residence in Laguna Beach, the "penniless" Olds seems to know all the best restaurants in town. 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. "Because of the O.J. As the news coverage continued to put the spotlight on Hofer, his Chicago friends rallied around him. On April 19th, Hofer appeared in court on the misdemeanor charge, which was dismissed. 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. [20], In September 2018, one of the main witnesses in the case against Ronnie Busick, as well as the cold case investigators who filed the charges, gave their first interviews to the Tulsa World for a special report. One reason for the decline is a decrease in cereal. The regular checks to Hofer were to stop. [4] After the fire had been extinguished, the bodies of Freeman's parents, Danny and Kathy, were recovered. Ergo, once you have a skunk, you know who killed my wife. Unquestionably, the two men spent an enormous amount of Oldss money together. 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. Richard immediately quizzes Dean about his upbringing and his education . On televised news coverage, Oldss appearance was disheveled, and he seemed to be intoxicated. He even went with Dean to watch his son Steves tennis matches. Seven weeks later, on December 28th, Kristen Olds Glavin talked to her mother on the phone at about nine in the evening. I decided I wanted to live with him. Hofer says the man was an American actor who had been on tour in Europe. He knew how to treat big shots in the right way, Olds said. Peach and green were the predominating colors, to go with Kristins long red hair. "Many crime victims who have been brutalized don't even realize there is a cause of action called a civil lawsuit," said David Beatty, the center's acting director. Simpson. On November tenth, Marcyan got a court order to stop any further payments from the receiver to cover Dean Oldss personal expenses. Carlton R. Marcyan, Sue Oldss divorce lawyer, believes that the limousine business may have been a plot to hide money for Olds and Hofer. 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. When Kristin called her mother again later and no one answered, she became concerned. Time is everywhere we are. Dean Olds and Carsten Hofer were questioned shortly after the murder, and both retained lawyers. Hofer stopped returning Hadys calls. Hofer also visited Olds in Chicago, and says he was entertained at the family home and at their country club. I believe it was less about money," Anderson said. Some processing plants were spun off, and an aggressive program of acquisitions and divestitures brought more and more brands and consumer offerings. 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. The Olds family lived well, but not ostentatiously. . Olds' fear . 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. Then she paid the ultimate price. The case centered on the disappearing money and turned bitter. 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. In May, Hofer was charged in the murder of Oldss wife, and the mystery of Dean Oldss spiraling decline grew darker and deeper. 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. Carsten was trying to get his roots down in the U.S., Olds said several weeks before Hofers arrest. She was a good tennis player, her friends say, and played regularly at Skokie Country Club. 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. On May tenth, Wilmette police arrested the 25-year-old Hofer and charged him with first-degree murder in the death of Mrs. Olds. [8] Two other suspects Warren Phillip "Phil" Welch II (died 2007) and David Pennington (died 2015)were also identified. She thought that Dean was less than forthright with her regarding financial matters, said Marcyan, her divorce lawyer. A partner in one of Chicagos hottest law firms, he had amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune. 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. "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. 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. Hady befriended Hofer, offering to shoot portfolio pictures for him at a nominal rate. In May, Hofer was charged in the murder of Oldss wife, and the mystery of Dean Oldss spiraling decline grew darker and deeper. 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. [8] In 2010, the Freeman family initiated court proceedings to have Ashley declared legally dead. Dean Ambrose Olds grew up in Wichita, Kansas. Dean sold his company to Sara Lee Foods in 1984, remaining its spokesperson until 2003. In the. 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 divorce lawyer wanted to protect the estate, but he also was hoping Olds would have to tap into any money he might have hidden. If so, where is it? 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.. Over the next three years, Dean's double life would be exposed, and he would end up penniless and alone After arriving in Stars Hollow, Dean pursues Rory romantically, and the two begin dating. She was very much a lady, said George Kundaris, her hairdresser. Murphy was loose on the lawn. In September 1955, actor James Dean was driving his brand-new Porsche 550 Spyder to an auto rally in Salinas, California, when he was involved in a head-on collision with a 1950 Ford Tudor. His former office suite in Chicago's NBC Tower--which Olds had decorated with a green-eyed ceramic leopard and a family portrait that showed off his wife, children and dog--is now occupied by another lawyer. On a mirror was written I love Dean, with the name Carsten underneath, he said. I wish my son had had the sophistication at 20 that Carsten had.. Then, days after Christmas in 1993, Suzannes son-in-law found her bludgeoned to death in her garage. That life unraveled quickly and thoroughly. When people asked about the divorce, she would say her husband was involved with someone. 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. "Don't tell me about double lives," he scolded, pointing a finger. [7] While his death was ruled justifiable, the Freemans had threatened to file a wrongful death lawsuit. That July, Olds visited Munich, deducting $7,500 for his travel expenses and another $11,800 in other unspecified business expenses. Hes bright as hell. Kristen was born in September 1962; Courtney and Stephen followed three years apart. 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. 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 . "[14] After his arrest, Busick told reporters he wished to speak to the Bibles. When a prominent lawyer opened up his bank account to a charming young man, his wife put her foot down. Hofer moved from Germany to Chicago in 1993 when the business dissolved, and lived there until after his trial. 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. [7] While walking around the extensive rubble, they discovered what appeared to be another body and notified the police. A lifelong fan of classical music, Suzanne had ignored her son's advice and was found, slumped over a stoop in the garage, wearing her stereo headphones. 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. 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 . The Olds family has evicted Dean Olds from his home in the Indian Hill Estates section of Wilmette, and attorneys for Suzanne Olds' estate recently sold about 80 acres of woodlands that Dean Olds owned in Michigan, as part of settling a $443,000 judgment against him for dissipation of his wife's money. 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. His children, he said, ``are wealthy, but they want to be wealthier. 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. And she called on Schiller, DuCanto and Fleck, the countrys largest matrimonial law firm. Hofer moved back to Germany after his trial and, according to friends, has gone into business painting houses. Later that year, the Olds children brought a wrongful death lawsuit against him and their father. 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. 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. . 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. ". In March 1991, Olds and Hofer visited Fort Lauderdale together, where they bought their first Rolls-Royce, a brown one. Jeanette Hady, a photographer, hired him for some plastic surgery ads. At the Kenilworth Union Church, she taught Sunday school and worked on the annual bazaar. At 5:45 PM on September 30, 1955, 24-year-old actor James Dean is killed in Cholame, California, when the Porsche he is driving hits a Ford Tudor sedan at an . 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. Dean's first encounter with Richard and Emily Gilmore is a disaster. Revisiting a Made-for-Netflix Scandal on the North Shore, 2020 Chicago magazine / A Chicago Tribune Media Group website. 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. 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. 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. Mrs. The prosecutor referred to a photograph of the defendant and Mr. Olds together on a bed in boxer shorts. 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. Suzanne Olds carried Mace when walking her dog. According to Biography, Dean was a car racing enthusiast, and it was heartbreaking that his love of cars and racing ended up causing his death. . Dean Olds and his wife Suzanne appeared to have it all -- a nice home, a 30-year marriage, and three grown children. 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. [7] Earlier that day, the girls had spent time at a local pizzeria with Freeman's mother, Kathy. The young star's life and . 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. At the dinner, Dean Olds toasted his wife, giving her credit for the success of the celebration and the execution of the many details. 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. The living room contained several of these heirlooms, including a mahogany baby grand piano. [5] Bible received permission from her parents to spend the night at Freeman's home. In the late '60s, Dean stepped into the entrepreneurial ring by launching the Jimmy Dean Meat Company. 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. 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