[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. 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.". Whatever the financial outcome, the families of Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson expressed similar views as Olds' family members on the legal outcome of the civil trials: They are relieved that the truth about the murders, as they see it, has finally come out. Still, the firm decided to ask him leave. I decided I wanted to live with him. Hofer says the man was an American actor who had been on tour in Europe. They were ruining his reputation. 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 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. Dean Martin married his first wife, Elizabeth Anne McDonald, in 1941. 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. Former Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean has been found guilty of a lesser charge of manslaughter in the death of Atatiana Jefferson. Shortly after 10 p.m. on May tenth, Kragness and Hofer were at Kragnesss apartment and had ordered a pizza, planning to go later to mark Wheelers place nearby. But still, it was clear that the relationship was not over, despite the advice of lawyers for them to stay apart. 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. The regular checks to Hofer were to stop. He is the ally to Dean Winchester and Castiel when the three heroes been trapped in Purgatory. Olds was ordered by the government to pay about $125,000, Hofer said. 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. 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. Despite his ability to spring back, Olds cannot ignore the drain of the past eight years since he met Hofer at a New York City hotel. Why it matters: Dean is the first officer in Tarrant County convicted in an on-duty shooting. Then, days after Christmas in 1993, Suzannes son-in-law found her bludgeoned to death in her garage. 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. Olds says the last Rolls-Royce was sold in February 1993 to pay off some of the companys debts. "He introduced him as the orphaned nephew of a client of his who was down on his luck," Glavin testified. 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. 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. With Dean Olds. . He moved to Laguna Beach, California, where he died in 2011. 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. 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.. 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. Olds was an expert in trademark law and had represented and counseled some topflight U.S. companies, including General Mills, American Motors, and McDonalds. 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. [7] Danny's brother, Dwayne, claimed that Danny had confided that deputies had tried to intimidate him. They shared a room in a beachfront hotel, Hofer said, and Olds paid for the room and he said he could take it mostly off on taxes of whatever. According to tax documents, Olds paid $38,900 for the car and another $1,700 to ship it to Germany. What happened to Dean in Season 9 episode 23? Olds has never been charged in the killing. He was 30 and she was 22 and beginning a career as a teacher in the Northbrook school district. Olds said the estate is worth $4 million or $5 million; attorneys for the daughters refuse to say how much its worth. When people asked about the divorce, she would say her husband was involved with someone. 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. 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. After several weeks of negotiating his separation package, Olds left the firm at the beginning of September. 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. 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. Kling told reporters Hofer wanted to see his family and reestablish his career in Germany. In addition to living in an upscale residence in Laguna Beach, the "penniless" Olds seems to know all the best restaurants in town. I speak a little German, so I tried to help him out.. The living room contained several of these heirlooms, including a mahogany baby grand piano. Carlton R. Marcyan, Sue Oldss divorce lawyer, believes that the limousine business may have been a plot to hide money for Olds and Hofer. Unquestionably, the two men spent an enormous amount of Oldss money together. History. "[14] After his arrest, Busick told reporters he wished to speak to the Bibles. Time is everywhere we are. As early as 1987, Sue Olds began filing a separate tax return, and by 1991 she was deeply concerned about the familys financial situation. 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.. . Dean died on June 13, 2010, at the age of 81 of natural causes, per Rolling Stone. The girls had graduated from college and were successful in their own right, and their youngest child, a son, was in college. [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. A week after Martin was granted a divorce from first wife Betty McDonald, he and 22-year-old Jeanne Biegger wed on Sept. 1, 1949, at the Beverly Hills home of Herman Hover, owner of famed . I find they have more presence, more grace, than their American counterparts. . Oldss major objective was trying to insulate the children, said Marcyan. 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. [5] Bible received permission from her parents to spend the night at Freeman's home. [19], On October 6, 2017, this case was covered on the podcast 'Unfound'. [8] In 2010, the Freeman family initiated court proceedings to have Ashley declared legally dead. [8] Law enforcement determined the fire had been an arson. Jan. 25, 201603:38 1. His former office suite in Chicago's NBC Tower--which Olds had decorated with a green-eyed ceramic leopard and a family portrait that showed off his wife, children and dog--is now occupied by another lawyer. 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. ``Whoever killed my wife sort of went bananas, he said. Hofer was held without bond, despite claims by his attorney that there was no chance he would flee and that the evidence against him was based on innuendo. Hofers supporters, including North Side community activist Charlotte Newfeld, portrayed him as an innocent victim of the media being hounded because he is gay. 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. Over the course of three days last week, the more Olds described his new life in California, the more contradictions emerged. Mrs. Oldss survivors, her three children and her brother and sister, as well as her many friends, are shattered by the situation. 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.. Roy Hofer, who is not related to Helmut Hofer, said Olds was fired later that year after the Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that he used client information for insider trading. The police investigation centered on Hoer from the beginning, and detectives also closely followed the movements of Dean Olds. 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. The couple's marriage produced four children. One shot is of Hofer reclining on the floor in bikini briefs and a polo shirt. [9] He admitted having withheld information about the involvement of Welch and Pennington. Hady said Hofer persuaded her to turn over all the transparencies from the photo session, something she wouldnt ordinarily have done. The money went to subsidize Carstens lifestyle, Marcyan charged in a recent interview. [20], In September 2018, one of the main witnesses in the case against Ronnie Busick, as well as the cold case investigators who filed the charges, gave their first interviews to the Tulsa World for a special report. That life unraveled quickly and thoroughly. James Dean dies in car accident. During his 21 years in that position, Donovan headed investigations into about 4,000 unexplained deaths and homicides, including some of the most notorious crimes in Buffalo over the past century.. His law partners learned of the SEC action only when their records were subpoenaed. Hofers reasons for wanting to return to Germany (as stated by his lawyers) also beg for an explanation. His mother died when he was nine years old. Simpson case, we think that that alternative road to justice will become a more widely used option.". He sold his company in 1984 but remained a spokesman for it until 2003. . A third Rolls-Royce, blue, was purchased in December, his tax documents say, for $51,577. Dean Olds bought him a round-trip ticket to Munich with a May 12th departure date and an open return. Despite the coincidences of timing, Hofer says his arrival in Chicago was not related to the courts control of Oldss money, and that he only went to live with Olds because his building permitted dogs. [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. And he can still spin a good yarn, even if the details don't stand up to scrutiny. Dennis Dean, the 83-year-old California drifter who in the film cruises community pools looking for well-off women who might . Ergo, once you have a skunk, you know who killed my wife. Pavlak termed the leave not entirely voluntary. Though people close to the firm say there were few outward manifestations at the office of Oldss problem, it was something he knew he had to deal with and wanted to conquer, a friend said. Their first child, Craig, came in 1942, followed by Claudia in 1944. Blood was found in the car, Geobel said, and DNA tests on the blood showed that it was consistent with Suzanne Oldss blood.. During this time, Olds continued to practice law at Willian Brinks Olds. The car was recovered at marina Towers, Goebel said (where Hofer had been staying with a friend, Bernadette Horan). 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. Sue Olds stopped teaching and stayed home to rear the family. At every opportunity, Olds blames his wife's divorce lawyers for "grinding" him down financially. 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. Richard immediately quizzes Dean about his upbringing and his education . Background. In place of business suits, Olds now favors casual shirts, shorts and penny loafers as his workday attire. Afterward, about 200 guests joined the family for cocktails, dinner, and dancing at the Skokie Country Club, where the Oldses were members. Dean Olds, too, played a part in disseminating conflicting information about Hofers life. A year later, baby number three, Gail, was born. If so, where is it? 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. Dean a young, highly ambitious, Porsche-driving, tassel-loafer-wearing lawyer when he joined the ultra conservative Nixon minions ended up getting fired in 1973 once it became clear he would. A partner in one of Chicagos hottest law firms, he had amassed a multimillion-dollar fortune. If there was a business at all, it appears to have been a total loss. Hes bright as hell. For example, during a stroll with a reporter down this coastal town's main drag, he responded to a panhandler's appeal for small change by pulling a wad of cash out of his pants pocket and peeling off a $10 bill. [7] Both had been shot to death at close range. 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. ", 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. On the day that Hady was to photograph him, he arrived with a wardrobe that included a designer tuxedo. Though as a visitor to the United States Hofer was prohibited from working here, he took at least one modeling job. ". Previously, Olds maintained that Hofer was innocent, railroaded by the Cook County state's attorney because "he is gay and a foreigner." 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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. However, now re-listed for $1.4M, these pieces are up for negotiation. [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. Glavin says he believes there are only a very few people who would have had any reason to harm Sue Olds. 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. On September 17th, shareholders voted to change the name of the firm to Willian Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione. I don't think that's fair.". 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. An 18-year-old must be able to talk to strangers faculty, deans, advisers, landlords, store clerks, human resource managers, coworkers, bank tellers, health care. For instance, the documents. Olds male lover, a dashing blond part-time model from Germany, was tried for the crime and acquitted. In May, Hofer was charged in the murder of Oldss wife, and the mystery of Dean Oldss spiraling decline grew darker and deeper. 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. 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. Apparently, the primary goal was to keep up appearances for the wedding of her daughter Kristin. My wife got her teeth into my neck, he said. In May, Hofer was charged in the murder of Oldss wife, and the mystery of Dean Oldss spiraling decline grew darker and deeper. But the money would be disbursed to him by the receiver only as needed, until the divorce was resolved. A judge ruled in the childrens favor, declaring the two men responsible. Over the next three years, Dean's double life would be exposed, and he would end up penniless and alone As a result, divorce court judge Aubrey Kaplan ruled that the court was to take control of all of Dean Oldss funds. Olds was barred from accessing Suzannes inheritance and joint assets. He had written the check on December 22nd to buy a pair of exercise dumbbells. Living on the North Shore with an attractive wife, prominent lawyer Dean Olds seem to have it all. 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