It was a crime of hatred, not a crime of burglary or robbery, Goebel said. 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. 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. When Dean Olds, a prominent Chicago trademark lawyer, travelled to New York on business, he liked to stay at the United Nations Plaza hotel on the citys East Side. Its strictly a desire for money., Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. Hofer moved from Germany to Chicago in 1993 when the business dissolved, and lived there until after his trial. She also had graduated from Northwestern with a teaching degree, and met Olds at the wedding of mutual friends, according to her brother John Shonkwiler, chief judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Illinois. 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. "Obviously the Brown and Goldman families felt that way about O.J. 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. [7] While his death was ruled justifiable, the Freemans had threatened to file a wrongful death lawsuit. 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. Marcyan was able to prove that Olds had regularly violated the injunction against sending more money to Germany. If there was a business at all, it appears to have been a total loss. Then on December 28, 1993, Suzanne was found beaten to death in the driveway of her home. 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. Afterward, about 200 guests joined the family for cocktails, dinner, and dancing at the Skokie Country Club, where the Oldses were members. Reports also referred to a map found in the car with the location of the house marked with a star. Over the next three years, Dean's double life would be exposed, and he wo Dean Olds and his wife Suzanne appeared to have it all -- a nice home, a 30-year marriage, and three grown children. At every opportunity, Olds blames his wife's divorce lawyers for "grinding" him down financially. Dean Olds left his Wilmette home early Wednesday afternoon, apparently ending a morning-long stalemate with police and his three estranged children. In the spring of 1993, having sold everything in his apartment which also served as the office of the limo business Hofer packed up his two schnauzers, a giant and a miniature, and moved to Chicago. 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. Standing between Richard Kling and assistant states attorney Steven Goebel, Hofer shook his head in denial while Goebel outlined the case against him. Just a month before Hofers arrest, a court ruling put an end to the financial strain that had plagued Dean Olds since the receiver took control of his funds a year before. 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. Still Oldss legal skills were celebrated. . Benny was a vampire in season 8 of the TV show Supernatural. On December 29, 1999, high school friends Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman spent the evening together celebrating Freeman's sixteenth birthday. 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. 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. She was a good tennis player, her friends say, and played regularly at Skokie Country Club. As the news coverage continued to put the spotlight on Hofer, his Chicago friends rallied around him. In May, Hofer was charged in the murder of Oldss wife, and the mystery of Dean Oldss spiraling decline grew darker and deeper. 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. 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. She was program chair of the Forty Acres Bird and Garden Club one year, president another. 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. Tags: Crime & Law, From the Vault, News & Politics. His children, he said, ``are wealthy, but they want to be wealthier. As a result, Olds moved back into the Wilmette house and has access to what is left of the couples joint assets. [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. 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. But in an hour-long interview with Chicago six weeks before, Hofer never mentioned being a model in Europe, despite detailed questions about his work experience. He even went with Dean to watch his son Steves tennis matches. Oldss major objective was trying to insulate the children, said Marcyan. History. So, Hofer says, he and Olds turned all the operating papers for the limousine service over to a liquidator. For a while, trademark attorney Dean Olds and his wife, Suzanne, led a storybook North Shore existence with their three children. 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. 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. While Hofer sat in Cook County Jail awaiting trial, Olds groused about his entrepreneurial woes to Nancy Millman for her 1994 Chicago story Dangerous Liaison., My wife had cut off all funds for Germany, he said. . 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. Civil lawsuits have been used, with some success, in other Chicago area murders. [7] Danny's brother, Dwayne, claimed that Danny had confided that deputies had tried to intimidate him. The next year, Hofer was acquitted of all charges, but the government soon deported him for overstaying his visa. And last year, the children of convicted killer Edward Lyng of Palatine were granted a judgment of $66 million in a civil case for the murder of their mother in 1977. Many of you are aware that Dean had two strokes in December last year due to an anomaly in his body. [14] According to the affidavit, Welch, Pennington, and Busick had claimed to have raped and tortured the girls before disposing of their remains "in a pit" or mine shaft in Picher, Oklahoma. Dean Martin married his first wife, Elizabeth Anne McDonald, in 1941. There is nothing I would like better than for the truth about this to come out, he said. "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. " Sue Olds showed a talent for selecting beautiful flowers and arranging them artfully, said her friend Denise Handley. 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. But within a week of the cars arrival in Munich, trouble struck. At the dinner, Dean Olds toasted his wife, giving her credit for the success of the celebration and the execution of the many details. Even before the murder, Olds had been on a terrible slide for a year treated for alcoholism, forced to resign from his law firm, deep in debt, and with his savings apparently gone. Shattered Lives: The Dean Olds Story: Directed by David Rorie. Dean sold his company to Sara Lee Foods in 1984, remaining its spokesperson until 2003. After several weeks of negotiating his separation package, Olds left the firm at the beginning of September. 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. Olds quickly left for a month at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California. If Olds truly had squandered all that cash, he was without any income. The children have little, if any, contact with their father. You could kid around with her, but politely. 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. . The Olds family lived well, but not ostentatiously. 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.. 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. 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 . Olds, who has reddish hair and freckly skin, had a polished and witty way of speaking, his neighbors said, and liked to service and discuss fine wines. By Nancy Millman. Mrs. Olds died anyway in a frenzy of violence in her garage. Dean Olds, too, played a part in disseminating conflicting information about Hofers life. 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 . In the ensuing weeks, he worked with Mark Wheeler, his civil lawyer, on a libel case against Chuck Goudie charging that reports portrayed Hofer inaccurately and irrelevantly played up his homosexuality. This is something that will never leave me, he said. [8] In 2020, Busick was convicted and sentenced.[9]. 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. 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. In 1992, while . 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 think that's primarily what the Olds (probate) case was about--getting the whole story out, the truth about who killed Suzanne Olds. Now, with the problems hes had, I dont know. Weve been really good friends, Hofer said in an interview on March 25th, six weeks before his arrest. 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. 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.". 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. However, now re-listed for $1.4M, these pieces are up for negotiation. Olds had been a full partner in the firm until being ousted for alcoholism, insider stock trading and other misconduct in the summer of 1993. Olds is more haggard than a year ago, and the deterioration is plain to see in other ways. His law partners learned of the SEC action only when their records were subpoenaed. 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. Hits the Market for $3.9 Million Before Dean was a screen legend, he lived and work as a handyman here. I had a client there and had been there several times. 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. But for many years, Sue Oldss life was not what it seemed. 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. 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.. After a deposition in the case in November 1993, "He told me that Suzanne's attorney was saying that Dean and Carsten had a homosexual relationship, and that (the accusation) was wrong. ". But still, it was clear that the relationship was not over, despite the advice of lawyers for them to stay apart. Another reason may be traced to her upbringing. Before the couple separated in 1949, they had a child Deana, born in 1948. Kling told reporters Hofer wanted to see his family and reestablish his career in Germany. "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. His wife had filed for divorce in 1992. He did not respond to a request for an interview. If the money that Olds had poured into the limousine business was really gone, Olds was in rather dire financial straits. Featured was an interview with Lauria's mother, Lorene Bible. 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. 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. Still, the firm decided to ask him leave. An occasional McDonald's hamburger is "a big night out.". Her friends are angry and, in the words of one Wilmette woman, profoundly sad for what those children must deal with for the rest of their lives. And no one who knew Dean Olds and his family can understand how such a seemingly model North Shore existence could have turned around so suddenly and tragically. 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. . "He introduced him as the orphaned nephew of a client of his who was down on his luck," Glavin testified. [7] Both had been shot to death at close range. Everything was for the children.. 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.. 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. The high-top boots were traced to a Chicago shoe store with the help of someone who was with Hofer when he bought them, Goebel said. 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. Soft-spoken and charming, he had been living on little but his looks and his wits for years. We had talks like real good friends at dinners. 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. 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. 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. At the Kenilworth Union Church, she taught Sunday school and worked on the annual bazaar. Olds said he believed in his young friends abilities, even though he had little business experience. Rory and Lorelai warn Dean before entering the lion's den but even Rory doesn't expect the night to go so horribly. Throughout, Dean Olds has been seemingly unmoved by the death of his wife. Hofers reasons for wanting to return to Germany (as stated by his lawyers) also beg for an explanation. [8] Law enforcement determined the fire had been an arson. Hes bright as hell. . In late July or early August, we decided to take the matter to the shareholders, Pavlak said. The police investigation centered on Hoer from the beginning, and detectives also closely followed the movements of Dean Olds. Why it matters: Dean is the first officer in Tarrant County convicted in an on-duty shooting. I heard him say he was from Braunschweig, says Olds, who was about 60 at the time. 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. One reason for the decline is a decrease in cereal. They were ruining his reputation. 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. Still, Mrs. Olds tried to conceal what she thought were the worst aspects of the situation from the children. Jan. 25, 201603:38 1. [7] The case was later featured on the series Vanished with Beth Holloway. She has the small town values of home, family, and service, said Elizabeth Andrews, associate minister of the Kenilworth Church. Her son-in-law found her body. I was very concerned about her safety. 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. In the months before her slaying on Dec. 28, 1993, Suzanne Olds, who lived alone in the large house, called police on numerous occasions to report signs of a prowler in her garage and a broken basement window pane. But the money would be disbursed to him by the receiver only as needed, until the divorce was resolved. She was very frightened as far as her image and propriety were concerned, said a friend. Some processing plants were spun off, and an aggressive program of acquisitions and divestitures brought more and more brands and consumer offerings. The securities and Exchange Commission announced that Olds had signed a consent agreement in a complaint against him alleging inside trading violations. And she called on Schiller, DuCanto and Fleck, the countrys largest matrimonial law firm. 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. Referring to Hofer, who Olds says he believes killed his wife in order to end a judge's injunction that froze marital assets, Olds says: "You get people mad enough and they act irrationally. . Then, days after Christmas in 1993, Suzannes son-in-law found her bludgeoned to death in her garage. Hofer said he eventually came to believe that Olds was in love with him. 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. In an affidavit, Olds says money represented operating expenses for insurance, import fees, telephone and other overhead. In a week that saw a multimillion-dollar civil judgment against O.J. On March 19, 1992, Sue Olds filed for divorce from Dean Olds on the grounds of mental cruelty and irreconcilable differences. 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