"I think he's intelligent," Stephen Olds responded. 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. Originally from Chicago, Dean Forester moves to Stars Hollow sometime before the start of Gilmore Girls, with May, Randy and Clara Forester. That came when I came over here to the States, and when Ive been living with him. As or romance, Hofer said, There was never from my side anything.. Hofer said he eventually came to believe that Olds was in love with him. Still Oldss legal skills were celebrated. He moved to Laguna Beach, California, where he died in 2011. As the news coverage continued to put the spotlight on Hofer, his Chicago friends rallied around him. Olds was barred from accessing Suzannes inheritance and joint assets. On March 19, 1992, Sue Olds filed for divorce from Dean Olds on the grounds of mental cruelty and irreconcilable differences. ", He is aware of the high stakes, complaining that "I've got my jugular vein sitting out on the counter.". And he can still spin a good yarn, even if the details don't stand up to scrutiny. Dean is the first of Rory's boyfriends they meet and their expectations were high. 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 moved from Germany to Chicago in 1993 when the business dissolved, and lived there until after his trial. He was vacationing in Laguna Beach, California, with Carsten Hofer. But still, it was clear that the relationship was not over, despite the advice of lawyers for them to stay apart. It is assumed that the pregnancy occurred close to Rory's 22nd birthday. 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. 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. 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. Revisiting a Made-for-Netflix Scandal on the North Shore, 2020 Chicago magazine / A Chicago Tribune Media Group website. Reflecting on fatherhood, the 54-year-old actor said: "My number-one priority in this entire world has always been to be a father." These sums, added to the pension plan withdrawals and other loans, totaled about $2 million, court records show. 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. As late as the 1980s, the family fortune exceeded $5 million, court records indicate, but by the time of a wrongful-death lawsuit last April, only $2 million appeared to be left. 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. 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. ". . 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. Investigators claim that Busick kept repeating "the root cellar," and his stepdaughter alleged that he had forbidden anyone from accessing it. 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. Since her primary goal was to preserve assets for the kids, I think she thought if she tried to isolate herself from potential problems, in the end it was better for the children. He adds that she knew Hofer was playing some role in her husbands life, probably by the end of 1990, but she didnt take any action because she had some family goals she wanted to accomplish.. Still, the firm decided to ask him leave. I wish my son had had the sophistication at 20 that Carsten had.. 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. ". I find they have more presence, more grace, than their American counterparts. One shot is of Hofer reclining on the floor in bikini briefs and a polo shirt. [12], On December 31, Bible's parents Lorene and Jay returned to the scene, hoping to find any additional clues that law enforcement may have missed. Some processing plants were spun off, and an aggressive program of acquisitions and divestitures brought more and more brands and consumer offerings. [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. The jury could have found Dean guilty of murder. The meeting generated stories in the gay press and a follow-up in the Reader in which Sander, the deputy consul, called the earlier coverage homophobic.. Later Years and Death In 2004, while living in semi-retirement, Dean released his autobiography, 30 Years. Sue Olds stopped teaching and stayed home to rear the family. . On a mirror was written I love Dean, with the name Carsten underneath, he said. "[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. Helmut Carsten Hofer, or Carsten, as he likes to be called, was struggling in a conversation because of his poor English. He played the violin, he tap-danced, and he sculpted. A partner in one of Chicago's hottest law firms, he had amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune. ``Whoever killed my wife sort of went bananas, he said. Spending most of the spring and summer Rollerblading, running, partying with his friends on Oldss powerboat in Wilmette harbor, and going to bars at night, Hofer also decided to try his hand at modeling. The car cost $55,000, according to his tax statements. No documents that Olds produced in the divorce case show any income from the business that year. 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. Kling told reporters Hofer wanted to see his family and reestablish his career in Germany. He drove away in his blue 1989 Ford Taurus . At the Kenilworth Union Church, she taught Sunday school and worked on the annual bazaar. 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. [7] While walking around the extensive rubble, they discovered what appeared to be another body and notified the police. 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. If lack of money is indeed a concern, Olds, who is working as a paralegal under California's expansive notion of what law practitioners can do, disguises his poverty well. Though this massive cash outflow is listed on Oldss 1991 tax return as business expenses, the return shows little of the standard accounting for running a business. Featured was an interview with Lauria's mother, Lorene Bible. . 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. 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 crazy.. 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. 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. "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 Olds and his wife Suzanne appeared to have it all -- a nice home, a 30-year marriage, and three grown children. Under questioning by Hofer's attorney, Richard Kling, Stephen Olds said he didn't remember telling Wilmette police after the slaying that his father was "so intelligent and arrogant that he thought he could get away with murder.". I [was] falling in love with somebody at the end of 1992, Hofer said. Weve been really good friends, Hofer said in an interview on March 25th, six weeks before his arrest. He was 30 and she was 22 and beginning a career as a teacher in the Northbrook school district. 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. 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. The next year, Hofer was acquitted of all charges, but the government soon deported him for overstaying his visa. When Marcyan began digging into Dean Oldss financial dealings, he found evidence, according to court documents, of yet more money that Olds had spent: loans totaling $150,000 on his life insurance, $400,000 in bonuses from his law firm, and $350,000 in proceeds from the sale of stocks and bonds. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. Lauria Jaylene Bible (/lr/;[3] born April 18, 1983[4]) and Ashley Renae Freeman (born December 29, 1983[5]) were American teenagers who disappeared between the evening of December 29 and the early morning hours of December 30, 1999, from Freeman's home in Welch, Oklahoma. In 1992, while . Hofer denied the two were lovers, but photographs accidentally discovered by one of the Olds daughters show them in intimate situations. Sue Olds showed a talent for selecting beautiful flowers and arranging them artfully, said her friend Denise Handley. In the late '60s, Dean stepped into the entrepreneurial ring by launching the Jimmy Dean Meat Company. In the following days, Olds defended his young friend to reporters, and tried to debunk the evidence authorities had presented against the German national. Throughout, Dean Olds has been seemingly unmoved by the death of his wife. His mother died when he was nine years old. 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. 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. If the money that Olds had poured into the limousine business was really gone, Olds was in rather dire financial straits. First, there was a bitter divorce proceeding and a freeze on his assets. He had written the check on December 22nd to buy a pair of exercise dumbbells. "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. A third Rolls-Royce, blue, was purchased in December, his tax documents say, for $51,577. 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. [11] Bible's parked car was in the driveway of the home with the keys in the ignition. The Olds family lived well, but not ostentatiously. 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. The money went to subsidize Carstens lifestyle, Marcyan charged in a recent interview. ", 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. But matters just got worse. She suspected her husband of gutting their $4.6 million estate, in part to support his young lover. However, the relationship soon proves tumultuous, as Rory finds the relationship moving too fast for her. No other payments were to be allowed unless approved by the lawyers and the court. A partner in one of Chicagos hottest law firms, he had amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune. . [7], In April 2018, it was reported that Ronnie Dean Busick, age 66, had been arrested and charged with four counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of Bible and the Freeman family. 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. He hated Suzanne. Olds' fear . He says he wanted to get out of the business and move to the United States. Kragness was in the shower, and Hofer left for Newfelds house to clean up and change clothes. 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. 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. 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. During this time, Olds continued to practice law at Willian Brinks 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. My wife got her teeth into my neck, he said. He attributes the initial problems to the Gulf War, but after that, he says, Sue Olds stepped in. 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. People close to the family believe the limousine service was a scheme to stash away money for Olds and Hofer, who they believe were lovers. In fact, his drivers license had been revoked after previous traffic violations, including drunk driving. He is the ally to Dean Winchester and Castiel when the three heroes been trapped in Purgatory. [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. Hes bright as hell. 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. Dean Olds and his wife Suzanne appeared to have it all -- a nice home, a 30-year marriage, and three grown children. The garage door, which has an elaborate curtained window faade, was open. ". For instance, the documents. 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. Olds daughters told a probate judge that their mother was terrified of Olds and his lover, Helmut Carsten Hofer. Olds private life was in trouble, too. Shattered Lives: The Dean Olds Story: Directed by David Rorie. The children have little, if any, contact with their father. By late 1992, Hofer was losing interest in Rolls-Royce. 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. But shortly after the divorce decision, he sounded remarkably chipper during a phone conversation. 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. As a result, divorce court judge Aubrey Kaplan ruled that the court was to take control of all of Dean Oldss funds. 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. However, now re-listed for $1.4M, these pieces are up for negotiation. At every opportunity, Olds blames his wife's divorce lawyers for "grinding" him down financially. 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. Sue Olds decorated in a traditional style, mixing new furnishing with many antiques she had inherited from her family. 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. [5] Bible received permission from her parents to spend the night at Freeman's home. The couple's marriage produced four children. His days at Willian Brinks Olds Hofer Gilson & Lione (there is no connection between Carsten Hofer and Roy E. Hofer, a name partner in the firm) were spent in a well-appointed office with a sweeping view of Chicago and Lake Michigan from the top of the NBC tower. SARAH NORDGREN December 7, 1995 CHICAGO (AP) _ Dean Olds had it all. Hady said Hofer persuaded her to turn over all the transparencies from the photo session, something she wouldnt ordinarily have done. Seven weeks later, on December 28th, Kristen Olds Glavin talked to her mother on the phone at about nine in the evening. [17] On April 26, 2018, Bible's mother, Lorene, confirmed she spoke with Busick, but that he denied knowing the whereabouts of her daughter or Freeman. Hady befriended Hofer, offering to shoot portfolio pictures for him at a nominal rate. Dean seemed to always exude artfulness and talent. . As early as 1987, Sue Olds began filing a separate tax return, and by 1991 she was deeply concerned about the familys financial situation. 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. . 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. 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. 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. Hofer also visited Olds in Chicago, and says he was entertained at the family home and at their country club. She was very frightened as far as her image and propriety were concerned, said a friend. Despite the differences in their ages and backgrounds, Olds was captivated by the young man that night, attracted by his style and his manners. 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. On September 17th, shareholders voted to change the name of the firm to Willian Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione. "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. 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 . "If these lawyers acted like decent individuals, I am convinced this tragedy would never have occurred," Olds said. Hofer stopped returning Hadys calls. In a week that saw a multimillion-dollar civil judgment against O.J. When Kristin called her mother again later and no one answered, she became concerned. Sept. 16, 2014 4:52 AM PT. 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. 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.. Throughout the summer, the board members at Willian Brinks Olds wrestled with how to handle the Olds problem. [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. 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. 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. The police investigation centered on Hoer from the beginning, and detectives also closely followed the movements of Dean Olds. In the Season 9 episode 23 finale of Supernatural, Dean (Jensen Ackles) makes the ultimate . I just want to pick up his spirits. 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. 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. 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. I have a half-dozen good German fiends. On November tenth, Marcyan got a court order to stop any further payments from the receiver to cover Dean Oldss personal expenses. But for many years, Sue Oldss life was not what it seemed. James Dean's roles in "East of Eden," "Rebel Without a Cause," and "Giant" made him a movie star icon, but his career was cut short when he got in a tragic car accident in 1955 that took his life at just 24 years old. Police say her attacker was so intent on killing that the blows to her head continued long after the 56-year-old woman died. After Hofer was arrested, it because clear that a variety of versions of the alleged murderers life were being melted out. Many of you are aware that Dean had two strokes in December last year due to an anomaly in his body. 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. Dean Olds left his Wilmette home early Wednesday afternoon, apparently ending a morning-long stalemate with police and his three estranged children. She was dead from blows to the head. 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. 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. Her son-in-law found her body. Simpson case, we think that that alternative road to justice will become a more widely used option.". Marcyan was able to prove that Olds had regularly violated the injunction against sending more money to Germany. 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. Dean Martin married his first wife, Elizabeth Anne McDonald, in 1941. James Dean dies in car accident. ``She was extremely scared, extremely aware of her life being threatened by my father and Carsten.. And I think the Olds family felt that way in regards to the criminal trial of Helmut Hofer.". He even went with Dean to watch his son Steves tennis matches. Living on the North Shore with an attractive wife, prominent lawyer Dean Olds seem to have it all. Two nights later-on Stephen Olds' 25th birthday-his mother was bludgeoned to death as she left to walk her golden retriever. Background. Benny was a vampire in season 8 of the TV show Supernatural. [11][15] Law enforcement also stated they believed the girls' remains could have been "dumped in a cellar that was later covered in concrete. This is something that will never leave me, he said. The baby grand piano that Martin purchased for the home still . At the time the divorce was filed, the court ordered Dean Olds to stop transferring assets out of the country. 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. Blood was found in the car, Geobel said, and DNA tests on the blood showed that it was consistent with Suzanne Oldss blood.. 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. The case centered on the disappearing money and turned bitter. He did not respond to a request for an interview. I speak a little German, so I tried to help him out.. [7] Both had been shot to death at close range. News reports after the search wrapped up indicated it had been yet another dead end. We welcome all information leading to their recovery. 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. 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 . I believe it was less about money," Anderson said. Her husband, Matt Glavin, drove over from their home in Evanston to check on Sue. 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.