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. Olds said the estate is worth $4 million or $5 million; attorneys for the daughters refuse to say how much its worth. Its strictly a desire for money., Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. "[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. As a result, Olds moved back into the Wilmette house and has access to what is left of the couples joint assets. I had a client there and had been there several times. 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.. Their red brick house is at the end of a cul-de-sac and set back from the street. She slept at night only after securing the front and back doors and locking the deadbolt on her bedroom door. "He introduced him as the orphaned nephew of a client of his who was down on his luck," Glavin testified. Another shows both men clad only in shorts on a hotel room bed. 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. 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. The car cost $55,000, according to his tax statements. 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. The unanswered questions are: Is Olds hiding some of that untraceable money? Then, his partners fired him on allegations of insider trading. Oldss major objective was trying to insulate the children, said Marcyan. Im sure he was tired of playing Monopoly and Battleship, he said. For instance, the documents. One night in 1989, stopping for a drink in the hotels Ambassador lounge, he noticed a striking young German seated nearby at the bar. 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 regular checks to Hofer were to stop. 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. 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. Olds' fear . 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. Olds quickly left for a month at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California. In late July or early August, we decided to take the matter to the shareholders, Pavlak said. By Nancy Millman. 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. 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. 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.". [8] Inside the home, the charred remains of Kathy were discovered lying on the floor of her bedroom; she had been shot in the head. Mrs. Olds died anyway in a frenzy of violence in her garage. Yet Dean Olds, a brilliant litigator who in 1990 won what was then the largest trademark-infringement judgment in U.S. history, is optimistic about his future. So, Hofer says, he and Olds turned all the operating papers for the limousine service over to a liquidator. What Happened Dean Hopper? "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. He was crazy.. But within a week of the cars arrival in Munich, trouble struck. Like many women of her generation, Sue Olds, who was 56 when she was killed, led a sheltered life. Jared Padalecki was a major part of Gilmore Girls' formative years, where he played Rory's first boyfriend, Dean Forester, but he suddenly left the series in season 5. In addition to living in an upscale residence in Laguna Beach, the "penniless" Olds seems to know all the best restaurants in town. 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. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. At the Kenilworth Union Church, she taught Sunday school and worked on the annual bazaar. [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 police reported that speed contributed to the cause to the accident and that Dean was traveling over 65 mph at the time of the impact. [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. 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. 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. Olds, 5-foot-2 and 102 pounds, did so at the urging of her three adult children, who had argued unsuccessfully in late 1993 that their mother immediately leave the half-acre estate in Wilmette. 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. Despite the differences in their ages and backgrounds, Olds was captivated by the young man that night, attracted by his style and his manners. 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. Olds says the last Rolls-Royce was sold in February 1993 to pay off some of the companys debts. [7] However, law enforcement was unable to find any trace of Bible or Freeman in the rubble of the home. Olds made about $41,000 on these stock trades, and was ordered to pay back that amount, plus an equal sum as penalty and another $21,000 in interest. The next year, Hofer was acquitted of all charges, but the government soon deported him for overstaying his visa. 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. Olds hired William Kunkle, a prominent criminal attorney and former prosecutor, and Richard Kling of Chicago Kent law schools legal clinic eventually took Hofers case on a pro bono basis. Hes be telling me about his family, about his business, about his cases and I just knew him as a very nice and very friendly person, he said. Dean died on June 13, 2010, at the age of 81 of natural causes, per Rolling Stone. The car was recovered at marina Towers, Goebel said (where Hofer had been staying with a friend, Bernadette Horan). A partner in one of Chicagos hottest law firms, he had amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune. 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. One shot is of Hofer reclining on the floor in bikini briefs and a polo shirt. "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. 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. 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. In May, Hofer was charged in the murder of Oldss wife, and the mystery of Dean Oldss spiraling decline grew darker and deeper. Lauria Jaylene Bible (/ l r /; born April 18, 1983) and Ashley Renae Freeman (born December 29, 1983) 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.. It is assumed that the pregnancy occurred close to Rory's 22nd birthday. 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. An occasional McDonald's hamburger is "a big night out.". And she called on Schiller, DuCanto and Fleck, the countrys largest matrimonial law firm. Released in July 2020, it is titled Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth and the case of Two Missing Girls. "It's too bad that you have to proceed on a civil basis to determine who murdered an individual, but the Olds children believe that the truth has finally come out," added Shonkwiler, who is chief judge of the 6th Judicial Circuit in Downstate Piatt County. 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. He played the violin, he tap-danced, and he sculpted. In the space of the next two months, Olds sent Hofer close to $40,000, mostly through American Express moneygrams, which Olds listed on his tax return as expenses of doing business in Germany. [7] While his death was ruled justifiable, the Freemans had threatened to file a wrongful death lawsuit. ``Whoever killed my wife sort of went bananas, he said. It was the biggest trademark infringement award in the history of U.S. law, and is still being appealed by Quaker. Ergo, once you have a skunk, you know who killed my wife. 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. Tags: Crime & Law, From the Vault, News & Politics. ``They were the only two people in the world who didnt love her, Courtney Olds said as her eyes filled with tears. The police investigation centered on Hoer from the beginning, and detectives also closely followed the movements of Dean Olds. I speak a little German, so I tried to help him out.. Hofer denied the two were lovers, but photographs accidentally discovered by one of the Olds daughters show them in intimate situations. I [was] falling in love with somebody at the end of 1992, Hofer said. Coincidentally, that same march, Sue Olds and her lawyer finally put a clamp on the familys hemorrhaging financial situation. "I think he's intelligent," Stephen Olds responded. [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. In the. He even went with Dean to watch his son Steves tennis matches. [10], At approximately 5:30 a.m. on December 30, 1999, a passerby called 9-1-1 reporting that the Freeman home was engulfed in flames. After a divorce deposition in which Hofer was shown this photograph and others, Hofer told another person that he did not like Mrs. Olds, and that she and her divorce lawyer, Carlton Marcyan, were trying to ruin him because of his relationship with Olds, Goebel told the judge. Olds lost that money when he and his former lover, Helmut Carsten Hofer, were found responsible for the fatal bludgeoning of Suzanne Olds three days after Christmas 1993. 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. 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. 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. [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. It's Rufus who introduces Bobby to the world of the supernatural, and they hunted together for many years until a hunt goes wrong in Omaha, and a woman important to Rufus (possibly his daughter) dies. Dennis Dean, the 83-year-old California drifter who in the film cruises community pools looking for well-off women who might . Kling told reporters Hofer wanted to see his family and reestablish his career in Germany. This is something that will never leave me, 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. As a result, divorce court judge Aubrey Kaplan ruled that the court was to take control of all of Dean Oldss funds. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. [8][13] Following this discovery, the crime scene was reexamined, yet no sign of Bible or Freeman was found. Then he threw it all away for the company of a young charmer named Carsten Hofer. However, Benny fell in love with a Greek woman named Andrea and decided to abandon his maker, who then banished him to Purgatory . . 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. 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. [7] Both had been shot to death at close range. When Hofer was questioned about his whereabouts on the night of the murder, Goebel said, he admitted having exclusive possession of [Dean Oldss] car during the period in which the murder was committed. The prosecutor referred to a photograph of the defendant and Mr. Olds together on a bed in boxer shorts. 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. Hady befriended Hofer, offering to shoot portfolio pictures for him at a nominal rate. The photographer wasnt the only one having a tough time finding Hofer. 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. Thats the last that Hofer the ventures manager admits to knowing about the business. 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. Some of those contrasting themes will play out on Tuesday when the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) looks into Olds' affairs, which include insider stock trading and violating judges' orders to stop transferring large sums of money to Hofer in Germany, pending the outcome of Dean and Suzanne Olds' divorce. However, the relationship soon proves tumultuous, as Rory finds the relationship moving too fast for her. 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