[8] Law enforcement determined the fire had been an arson. But the two insist the business was real, if unsuccessful. The money was supposed to be for Sue and Deans retirement, but it was quickly dissipated on a variety of trips and expenses, purportedly in connection with Dean and Carstens joint business, Hofers Rolls-Royce Service, a limousine rental firm in Munich. 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. My wife got her teeth into my neck, he said. 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. "I think that's primarily what the Olds (probate) case was about--getting the whole story out, the truth about who killed Suzanne Olds. 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. He says he wanted to get out of the business and move to the United States. That life unraveled quickly and thoroughly. Dean Olds bought him a round-trip ticket to Munich with a May 12th departure date and an open return. His wife had filed for divorce in 1992. He drove away in his blue 1989 Ford Taurus . A tearful Lewis later spoke at Martins funeral, which took place on December 28, 1995, at the Pierce Brothers Cemetery in Westwood, California, according to Variety. 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 flow of money to Hofer, purportedly to set up a chauffeur business for the two men in Munich, was stemmed by the proceedings. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. And I thought, This is a nice business full-service luxury auto rental.. 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. Hady befriended Hofer, offering to shoot portfolio pictures for him at a nominal rate. During this time, Olds continued to practice law at Willian Brinks Olds. . He hated Suzanne. Hofer stopped returning Hadys calls. 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. James Byron Dean was born in Indiana on February 8, 1931, where he lived for a few years before his father's work had the small family transferred to California. 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.. I decided I wanted to live with him. Hofer says the man was an American actor who had been on tour in Europe. 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. Featured was an interview with Lauria's mother, Lorene Bible. "He introduced him as the orphaned nephew of a client of his who was down on his luck," Glavin testified. 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.. He was only 24 years old on September 30, 1955, when he was driving down Route 466 in his Porsche 550 Spyder and a car collided with his, killing him almost instantly. 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 private life was in trouble, too. Still Oldss legal skills were celebrated. Over the course of three days last week, the more Olds described his new life in California, the more contradictions emerged. LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. Dean Olds wants his family back in Chicago to believe that he's destitute, sleeping on the floor of a "shack" he rents in a "top-secret" Laguna Beach location, maintaining his strength for much of the past year on a diet of sweet rolls. Though no one was hurt, the car was totaled, Hofer said. 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. 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. The Olds family--daughters Kristin Glavin and Courtney Olds, and a son, Stephen Dean Olds--have found some solace amid the tragedy of losing their mother, and in effect, their father too. Immediately he was surrounded by police, told he was wanted for the murder of Suzanne Olds, and taken into custody. 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. In 1992, while . Still, the firm decided to ask him leave. [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. He was turned into the ancient one known as "The Old Man". According to testimony in the probate case, Olds lucrative career as a trademark attorney spiraled steadily to an end. The children have little, if any, contact with their father. Olds, 66, said Thursday he maintains contact with Hofer, who returned to Germany after his acquittal. One night in 1989, stopping for a drink in the hotels Ambassador lounge, he noticed a striking young German seated nearby at the bar. Despite the differences in their ages and backgrounds, Olds was captivated by the young man that night, attracted by his style and his manners. [8] In 2020, Busick was convicted and sentenced.[9]. Background. 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. The couple's marriage produced four children. 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. Prosecutors refuse to say whether they consider him a suspect. The day after the murder, Charlotte Newfeld invited Hofer to live as a guest at her home in the 3500 block of North Pine Grove Avenue, where he remained until the night of his arrest. 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. One shot is of Hofer reclining on the floor in bikini briefs and a polo shirt. James Dean, only 24 years old, died in the crash. 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. After their chance meeting in the hotel bar in New York, Dean Olds and Carsten Hofer quickly grew close. She was program chair of the Forty Acres Bird and Garden Club one year, president another. He moved to Laguna Beach, California, where he died in 2011. Then one evening, three days after Christmas 1993 and shortly before the case was to go to trial, Mrs. Olds started out to walk the dog and was bludgeoned to death in the garage of her home. Suzanne Olds' estate is said to be focusing now on a digital publishing business that Dean Olds operates with a young man in Munich, although German privacy laws may derail those efforts. 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. [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. Oldss client, a small Vermont marketer named Sands, Taylor & Wood, claimed it owned the rights to the trademark Thirst Aid, and that the Gatorade slogan Thirst aid for that deep down body thirst was a blatant infringement. 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. She was frightened about the massive amount of money he had taken out of the country, Marcyan said. Previously, Olds maintained that Hofer was innocent, railroaded by the Cook County state's attorney because "he is gay and a foreigner." The prosecutor referred to a photograph of the defendant and Mr. Olds together on a bed in boxer shorts. 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 . 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. Oldss major objective was trying to insulate the children, said Marcyan. Peach and green were the predominating colors, to go with Kristins long red hair. Insurance didnt cover the loss, according to court records, because Hofer did not have the proper type of license. The case centered on the disappearing money and turned bitter. [7] Earlier that day, the girls had spent time at a local pizzeria with Freeman's mother, Kathy. Standing between Richard Kling and assistant states attorney Steven Goebel, Hofer shook his head in denial while Goebel outlined the case against him. 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. What followed was far worse: On Dec. 28, 1993, his wife, Suzanne Olds, was found bludgeoned to death at their home in Wilmette. 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. But Olds didnt spend Christmas at home in Wilmette. Simpson. Dean was killed, but his passenger and the driver of the other vehicle survived. 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. But Olds, who still officially lived at the house in Wilmette, ignored the order, according to Marcyan, and continued to send money to Hofer thousands of dollars at a time almost biweekly, totaling about $115,000 in 1992. Richard immediately quizzes Dean about his upbringing and his education . On the day that Hady was to photograph him, he arrived with a wardrobe that included a designer tuxedo. 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.. [8] In 2010, the Freeman family initiated court proceedings to have Ashley declared legally dead. Her son-in-law found her body. But Christoph Sander, the deputy consul general for Germany in Chicago, said a check of Hofers record there showed only traffic violations, including a drunk-driving conviction, and a report that he was being investigated for embezzlement. Thats the last that Hofer the ventures manager admits to knowing about the business. "[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. But the money would be disbursed to him by the receiver only as needed, until the divorce was resolved. A favorite is the chic Renaissance on Forest Avenue, a boulevard where thatched cottages and Swiss chalets evoke an Old World charm, despite the presence of street-corner grunge bands and robed devotees of the Hare Krishna sect. He hated (her attorney). After undergoing several amputations 12 years ago, Dean Winters is still in constant pain. Dean seemed to always exude artfulness and talent. 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. Thats not including what Olds spent on the trips the two took together in the United States and in Germany and Switzerland, nor the $27,000 in cash advances Olds charged on his American Express Gold Card that summer. [23][24], Murders of Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman, Last edited on 22 February 2023, at 01:51, "Case of girls missing since 1999 gets new look", "Man Arrested in Nearly 20-Year-Old Cold Case Killing of Teens, Couple", "Murder Charges Filed in 18-Year-Old Oklahoma Abduction Case", "Disappearance of two Okla. girls stumped police for 18 years. 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