Trial by Goudie, Part 2
Here they come again, hanging Helmut Carsten Hofer. On January 21 Channel Seven reported that the “baffling murder of a North Shore socialite appears on the verge of being solved,” the socialite being Suzanne Olds of Wilmette, the prime suspect being Hofer, a gay German model and a business partner of Olds’s estranged husband, Dean Olds.
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A month ago the state’s attorney dropped the spurious check-kiting charge, and Hofer made plans to go back to Germany. On May 10, the day before he intended to leave, he finally was arrested for murder.
Goudie came on to report that Dean Olds was under suspicion himself. “Sources say he is still a suspect in the plot.”
The New Republic lectured Staples like a child. “Those ‘pork chops’ and ‘crazy buffaloes’ come from Humboldt’s Gift, where they’re the awful appellations for black people uttered by a tawdry little hood named Rinaldo. Not Bellow; Rinaldo.”
Staples is dead certain he’s what set Bellow off. “I think that clearly you can see structurally what that piece is talking about,” he told us. “I’m the lacuna at the heart of that piece.”
