Well, we've all heard stories about glamorous movie stars and singers who were murdered by crazed

fans or maybe a jealous lover.

But one of the most heartbreaking murders was that of 20-year-old Dorothy Stratton.

Yeah, just 20 years old.

I'm Patty Steele.

This is what happens when love turns to obsession

and then becomes lethal.

That's next on the backstory.

We're back with the backstory.

Dorothy Stratton was a rising star in what they called the New Hollywood era. It was the late 1970s and

she was on the cusp of stardom. She was impossibly young, impossibly beautiful, if you like tall slender blondes, and destined to become a

Hollywood icon, at least according to folks like Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.

But that brief moment in time is where it all ended.

A brutal and senseless murder carried out by somebody who was supposed to love her. It's the late 1970s in Vancouver, Canada where Dorothy Hoogstraten, later known as Dorothy Stratton, was born into a working-class family.

As a teenager, she worked a dairy queen.

She was shy and soft-spoken, but again strikingly beautiful, five foot nine, blonde hair, captivating deep blue eyes and an innocence

about her that made her even more appealing.

It was actually her job at Dairy Queen, believe it or not, that changed her life.

Paul Snyder, a guy who ran a little nightclub, was a hustler and sometime pimp,

walked in and saw Dorothy. He was instantly smitten, and he also saw Dorothy as his

ticket to the big time. She was just 18 years old, and Snyder convinced Dorothy to let him groom her for a much bigger life than a Vancouver

dairy queen. She trusted him. And the next year he talked her into posing for nude photographs, which he then sent to Playboy.

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