However, the relationship soon proves tumultuous, as Rory finds the relationship moving too fast for her. Dean seemed to always exude artfulness and talent. 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. Carlton R. Marcyan, Sue Oldss divorce lawyer, believes that the limousine business may have been a plot to hide money for Olds and Hofer. After their chance meeting in the hotel bar in New York, Dean Olds and Carsten Hofer quickly grew close. . Peach and green were the predominating colors, to go with Kristins long red hair. 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. 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. [19], On October 6, 2017, this case was covered on the podcast 'Unfound'. He then prepared to return to Germany. First, there was a bitter divorce proceeding and a freeze on his assets. 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 . 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. [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. He worshipped the Old Man as a god for fifty years. If there was a business at all, it appears to have been a total loss. Outside was a lovely garden. Following the hearing, as his client was headed for Cook County Jail, Kling told reporters he was outraged and angry and convinced that [Hofer] is innocent.. 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. Sue Olds decorated in a traditional style, mixing new furnishing with many antiques she had inherited from her family. Mrs. Unquestionably, the two men spent an enormous amount of Oldss money together. 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. . 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. If Olds truly had squandered all that cash, he was without any income. [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. History. 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. [9] He was sentenced to 15 years for the crime, with 10 of the years to be spent in lockup. 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. [8] In 2020, Busick was convicted and sentenced.[9]. Hofer, then 20, a six-foot four-inch blond, was in New York visiting friends, he says. Revisiting a Made-for-Netflix Scandal on the North Shore, 2020 Chicago magazine / A Chicago Tribune Media Group website. In addition to living in an upscale residence in Laguna Beach, the "penniless" Olds seems to know all the best restaurants in town. Still, Mrs. Olds tried to conceal what she thought were the worst aspects of the situation from the children. On April 19th, Hofer appeared in court on the misdemeanor charge, which was dismissed. [18], Busick pleaded guilty July 15, 2020 to being an accessory to first-degree murder in the deaths of Danny and Kathy Freeman, the torching of their home near Welch, Oklahoma, and the abduction and presumed slayings of the two girls. 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. Seven weeks later, on December 28th, Kristen Olds Glavin talked to her mother on the phone at about nine in the evening. He had credit card debts of about $55,000; he had borrowed $231,000 from Chicagos Northern Trust Bank; he owed the SEC more than $80,000; and he was obligated to pay his estranged wife $9,000 each month. "I think that's primarily what the Olds (probate) case was about--getting the whole story out, the truth about who killed Suzanne Olds. Over the next three years, Dean's double life would be exposed, and he would end up penniless and alone, See production, box office & company info. Featured was an interview with Lauria's mother, Lorene Bible. 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. He drove away in his blue 1989 Ford Taurus . No documents that Olds produced in the divorce case show any income from the business that year. Olds male lover, a dashing blond part-time model from Germany, was tried for the crime and acquitted. 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. They were ruining his reputation. And she called on Schiller, DuCanto and Fleck, the countrys largest matrimonial law firm. 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, 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. He marched to his own bear, said John Pavlak, the managing partner, who has acted as the firms spokesman since the murder of Sue Olds. Released in July 2020, it is titled Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth and the case of Two Missing Girls. I was found guilty (in the civil proceedings), yet the only thing you could get out of the trial was that I was a skunk. In the last few years, Stephen Olds said, he caught his father "in many lies" about Hofer, whom the family had suspected of taking advantage of Dean Olds' affections, as well as the Olds' fortune. Murphy was loose on the lawn. 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. Then on December 28, 1993, Suzanne was found beaten to death in the driveway of her home. Blood was found in the car, Geobel said, and DNA tests on the blood showed that it was consistent with Suzanne Oldss blood.. He moved to Laguna Beach, California, where he died in 2011. But the two insist the business was real, if unsuccessful. "The window spooked me, even if my mom didn't understand why," Stephen Olds, 26, an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps who was home for the Christmas holiday that year, told the court Thursday. 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. 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. 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. Her husband, Matt Glavin, drove over from their home in Evanston to check on Sue. But matters just got worse. During a press conference at the Wilmette police station the next day, Carpenter insisted that Hofer was not arrested because he planned to leave the country, but because the evidence came together.. The unanswered questions are: Is Olds hiding some of that untraceable money? In March 1991, Olds and Hofer visited Fort Lauderdale together, where they bought their first Rolls-Royce, a brown one. The family Christmas card that year was made from a wedding photograph. 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. He's still able to scratch out a living, even if it is in the legal profession that he now bitterly blames--along with his dead wife--for triggering a downfall as steep as Southern California's craggy cliffs. Olds' fear . 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. But Stephen Olds did say he recalled a phone conversation with Dean just a day before the slaying in which his father, in a rage, said of Suzanne: "That bitch, that bitch, I'll see her at the gates of hell. Thats the last that Hofer the ventures manager admits to knowing about the business. . After a trial in the spring of 1990, the stunning decision came down from U.S. District Court judge Prentice H. Marshall in December: Quaker was ordered to pay $42.6 million to the Vermont company. 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. ". "Obviously the Brown and Goldman families felt that way about O.J. The baby grand piano that Martin purchased for the home still . This chance encounter led to an intense relationship between the two men that has coincided with a precipitous plunge in the life and career of Dean Olds. She suspected her husband of gutting their $4.6 million estate, in part to support his young lover. 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.. 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. . Another shows both men clad only in shorts on a hotel room bed. Im sure he was tired of playing Monopoly and Battleship, he said. 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. Mrs. Olds died anyway in a frenzy of violence in her garage. [8] In 2013, it was profiled on the documentary series Disappeared on Investigation Discovery. The flow of money to Hofer, purportedly to set up a chauffeur business for the two men in Munich, was stemmed by the proceedings. Olds private life was in trouble, too. [7] While walking around the extensive rubble, they discovered what appeared to be another body and notified the police. Glavin says he believes there are only a very few people who would have had any reason to harm Sue Olds. 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. The judgment, awarded to Suzanne Olds' estate by Cook County Circuit Judge Calvin Hall, falls short of the sum Suzanne Olds' lawyers believe Dean and Hofer spent, although it comes on top of the $2 million in remaining marital assets that Olds forfeited because of his role in the murder. 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.". 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. In late July or early August, we decided to take the matter to the shareholders, Pavlak said. "[14] After his arrest, Busick told reporters he wished to speak to the Bibles. Immediately he was surrounded by police, told he was wanted for the murder of Suzanne Olds, and taken into custody. 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. He sold his company in 1984 but remained a spokesman for it until 2003. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. [9] He admitted having withheld information about the involvement of Welch and Pennington. [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. 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. Getty Dean Martin. James Dean's Former L.A. Home (Where He Was First Discovered!) Still, the firm decided to ask him leave. Olds was barred from accessing Suzannes inheritance and joint assets. After Hofer was arrested, it because clear that a variety of versions of the alleged murderers life were being melted out. "Don't tell me about double lives," he scolded, pointing a finger. 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. Standing between Richard Kling and assistant states attorney Steven Goebel, Hofer shook his head in denial while Goebel outlined the case against him. ``Whoever killed my wife sort of went bananas, he said. 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. He staggered toward his car and told TV reporters attempting to question him to buzz off.. These sums, added to the pension plan withdrawals and other loans, totaled about $2 million, court records show. Hofer said the idea was his, hatched when he was working as the assistant to the owner of an incentive travel business in Munich. Hofer said he eventually came to believe that Olds was in love with him. If so, where is it? ", 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. Everything was for the children.. Dean's first encounter with Richard and Emily Gilmore is a disaster. Living on the North Shore with an attractive wife, prominent lawyer Dean Olds seem to have it all. 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. . Reflecting on fatherhood, the 54-year-old actor said: "My number-one priority in this entire world has always been to be a father." I was his sugar daddy, and I was about to be financially killed.". By Nancy Millman. 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. He even went with Dean to watch his son Steves tennis matches. For instance, the documents. Kling told reporters Hofer wanted to see his family and reestablish his career in Germany. "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. " Dean is very intense, said a marketing consultant who worked on trademark cases with him. 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. She thought that Dean was less than forthright with her regarding financial matters, said Marcyan, her divorce lawyer. But his circumstances took a sharp turn for the better in March, when a judge ruled that because at this point there is nothing that says or claims that Mr. Olds was involved with his wifes slaying, the divorce action should end with her death. It was a crime of hatred, not a crime of burglary or robbery, Goebel said. He had written the check on December 22nd to buy a pair of exercise dumbbells. There is nothing I would like better than for the truth about this to come out, he said. ``She was extremely scared, extremely aware of her life being threatened by my father and Carsten.. He has been traveling to Florida and Germany, and in March he said he was planning a two-week cruise in July from Norway to the North Pole on a Russian icebreaker. He hated (her attorney). It premiered a few weeks ago in theaters and streaming on demand. 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. 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. Rory and Lorelai warn Dean before entering the lion's den but even Rory doesn't expect the night to go so horribly. The car cost $55,000, according to his tax statements. At the dinner, Dean Olds toasted his wife, giving her credit for the success of the celebration and the execution of the many details. 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