At the time of the killing, the Oldses were engaged in a bitter divorce, and Dean Olds had moved out of the home and was living in a rental apartment downtown. After the slaying, Olds, a once-successful intellectual property attorney who never was suspected of physically carrying out the murder, was nonetheless found responsible for his ex-wife’s death. He moved back into the home after the slaying, and in 1996, a Cook County judge concluded that Olds had squandered the couple’s assets, once believed to be as much as $6 million, and the judge also stripped Olds of his share of the home.
