"Because of the O.J. 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. 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. He hated Suzanne. She was program chair of the Forty Acres Bird and Garden Club one year, president another. 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. He had written the check on December 22nd to buy a pair of exercise dumbbells. Two nights later-on Stephen Olds' 25th birthday-his mother was bludgeoned to death as she left to walk her golden retriever. In the following days, Olds defended his young friend to reporters, and tried to debunk the evidence authorities had presented against the German national. 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. Like many women of her generation, Sue Olds, who was 56 when she was killed, led a sheltered life. "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. " I was very concerned about her safety. It wasn't Dean Olds, but his mysterious young friend from Germany, who terrified Suzanne Olds the most, family members testified Thursday in the murder trial of Helmut Carsten Hofer. No other payments were to be allowed unless approved by the lawyers and the court. Time is everywhere we are. [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. Hes a fine fellow, Olds said in an interview near the end of March. [11][15] Law enforcement also stated they believed the girls' remains could have been "dumped in a cellar that was later covered in concrete. Today, Dean Olds still drives the Taurus that authorities believe Suzanne Olds' killer took to her house in Wilmette on Dec. 28, 1993. 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. Hofer, a former live-in companion and business partner of Dean Olds, could face the death penalty if convicted. However, the relationship soon proves tumultuous, as Rory finds the relationship moving too fast for her. Dean died on June 13, 2010, at the age of 81 of natural causes, per Rolling Stone. . [22] The show was hosted by the creator of the show and crime writer Jax Miller, who also wrote a book on the girls' disappearances. 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. Hofer insists he knew nothing about the intricacies of Mr. Oldss divorce problems, his financial situation, or any other personal matters when he came to this country. On September 17th, shareholders voted to change the name of the firm to Willian Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione. 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. Hady befriended Hofer, offering to shoot portfolio pictures for him at a nominal rate. 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. He was crazy.. The money went to subsidize Carstens lifestyle, Marcyan charged in a recent interview. 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.. He is the ally to Dean Winchester and Castiel when the three heroes been trapped in Purgatory. The unanswered questions are: Is Olds hiding some of that untraceable money? She never said it was a man But she would ask me questions. What happened to Dean in Season 9 episode 23? As a result, divorce court judge Aubrey Kaplan ruled that the court was to take control of all of Dean Oldss funds. An occasional McDonald's hamburger is "a big night out.". Judge Orr, in addition to denying bond, ordered Hofer to surrender his passport and to undergo a psychiatric examination. By the following year, Olds was made a partner in his firm, and the couple started planning for children. My wife got her teeth into my neck, he said. Later that year, Lisa Jackson, a former manager at one of Paula Deen's restaurants, filed a $1.2 million lawsuit against Deen and her brother Bubba Hiers, claiming racial discrimination and sexual . Olds said he believed in his young friends abilities, even though he had little business experience. "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. Mrs. Olds died anyway in a frenzy of violence in her garage. 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. 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.. Marcyan was able to prove that Olds had regularly violated the injunction against sending more money to Germany. Still Oldss legal skills were celebrated. On Dec. 26, the day Stephen was to return to Camp Pendleton in California, he first showed his mother how to load and fire his father's shotgun, explaining that it was to be used only "as a last resort.". 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. 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. 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 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. Im sure he was tired of playing Monopoly and Battleship, he said. Hofer, then 20, a six-foot four-inch blond, was in New York visiting friends, he says. She was interested in learning more about the gay life., Why she stayed in the marriage can perhaps be explained by the words of her minister at the crowded memorial service last December 31st. [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. 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. Insurance didnt cover the loss, according to court records, because Hofer did not have the proper type of license. 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. I [was] falling in love with somebody at the end of 1992, Hofer said. [8] In 2013, it was profiled on the documentary series Disappeared on Investigation Discovery. 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. But in 1990, he won the biggest case of his career representing the little guy in a battle against Quaker Oats and its sports drink Gatorade. Then, days after Christmas in 1993, Suzannes son-in-law found her bludgeoned to death in her garage. If so, where is it? Throughout the months after the murder, the Olds children have refrained from commenting publicly on the case, but family members and friends say that more than anything, they want the murder of Suzanne Olds to be solved. 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. Olds was ordered by the government to pay about $125,000, Hofer said. The securities and Exchange Commission announced that Olds had signed a consent agreement in a complaint against him alleging inside trading violations. In place of business suits, Olds now favors casual shirts, shorts and penny loafers as his workday attire. In addition to living in an upscale residence in Laguna Beach, the "penniless" Olds seems to know all the best restaurants in town. Actor Dain Cain is a doting father, and in an interview in 2019, he said that being a great father to his son Christopher is his number one priority. 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. What Happened Dean Hopper? 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. "He introduced him as the orphaned nephew of a client of his who was down on his luck," Glavin testified. . 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.. Released in July 2020, it is titled Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth and the case of Two Missing Girls. As early as 1987, Sue Olds began filing a separate tax return, and by 1991 she was deeply concerned about the familys financial situation. For example, at a press conference the day after Hofer was arrested, Kling, his defense lawyer, made much of Hofers modeling career in Germany and his success in that field here, even referring to his appearance in a national Gatorade commercial. But for many years, Sue Oldss life was not what it seemed. He was 30 and she was 22 and beginning a career as a teacher in the Northbrook school district. And I thought, This is a nice business full-service luxury auto rental.. Though as a visitor to the United States Hofer was prohibited from working here, he took at least one modeling job. "She wasn't as fearful of my dad as she was of my father and Carsten," Kristin Olds Glavin testified Thursday in the second day of Hofer's murder trial. [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. Investigators claim that Busick kept repeating "the root cellar," and his stepdaughter alleged that he had forbidden anyone from accessing it. On November tenth, Marcyan got a court order to stop any further payments from the receiver to cover Dean Oldss personal expenses. Dean Winchester does not get a girl pregnant in the series Supernatural. As the news coverage continued to put the spotlight on Hofer, his Chicago friends rallied around him. 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. This is something that will never leave me, he said. On May tenth, Wilmette police arrested the 25-year-old Hofer and charged him with first-degree murder in the death of Mrs. Olds. 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. Despite his ability to spring back, Olds cannot ignore the drain of the past eight years since he met Hofer at a New York City hotel. Some processing plants were spun off, and an aggressive program of acquisitions and divestitures brought more and more brands and consumer offerings. We felt some of the things had the potential to impact us, Pavlak said. Living on the North Shore with an attractive wife, prominent lawyer Dean Olds seem to have it all. 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. [8] Law enforcement determined the fire had been an arson. I was his sugar daddy, and I was about to be financially killed.". 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. Still, the firm decided to ask him leave. CHICAGO (AP) _ Dean Olds had it all. [4] After the fire had been extinguished, the bodies of Freeman's parents, Danny and Kathy, were recovered. 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. On a mirror was written I love Dean, with the name Carsten underneath, he said. 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. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. Shattered Lives: The Dean Olds Story: Directed by David Rorie. 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 . Possibly that is why we take a lot of things about time for granted: for example that the past is fixed and unchangeable, and that the future is open and changeable. 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. Genres as young film buffs become more mature 29.4 % happened between the ages of 18 and.! Oldss major objective was trying to insulate the children, said Marcyan. So, Hofer says, he and Olds turned all the operating papers for the limousine service over to a liquidator. 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 . 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 the divorce was filed, the court ordered Dean Olds to stop transferring assets out of the country. 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. I find they have more presence, more grace, than their American counterparts. 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. He worshipped the Old Man as a god for fifty years. 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. On September 30, 1955, actor James Dean was killed in a two-vehicle accident near Paso Robles, CA. She was very much a lady, said George Kundaris, her hairdresser. And I think the Olds family felt that way in regards to the criminal trial of Helmut Hofer.". Olds male lover, a dashing blond part-time model from Germany, was tried for the crime and acquitted. Olds has never been charged in the killing. 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. 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