Wondery Presents: Death of A Starlet

The Murder In My Family

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True Crime

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Wondery Presents: Death of a Starlet

Nineteen eighty was going to be Dorothy Stratten’s year. Playboy’s Hugh Hefner
thought it might even be her decade. She was just 20 years old, the girl next door with
the shy smile and whispery voice who didn’t know her own beauty. But who was
Dorothy really? And how did her rise to fame ultimately lead to her death?
This is a six-part series about love, sex and murder in 1970s Hollywood when glitter
pants and roller skates were all the rage, and the Playboy mansion hosted the biggest
party in town.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. I'm Mike Morford host to the Murder of my family. If you enjoy
0:05.1	true crime or history podcast, Wondry has a new miniseries that you should
0:09.5	check out. It's called Death of a Starlet. It's about Playboy Playboy Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratton.
0:15.0	In August 1980 she was found dead in the home of her strange husband shot in the
0:21.5	face at close range. She was just 20 years old, the girl next
0:26.2	door with a shy smile and whispery voice who didn't know her own beauty.
0:30.4	But to Hugh Hefner, she was his next Marilyn Monroe. To famed Hollywood film director,
0:37.5	Peter Bogdanovich. She was his dream starlet. And to her husband Paul Snyder, she was his ticket to fortune in vain.
0:45.6	These three ambitious men needed her. One of them murdered her. I'm about to
0:51.6	play you a brief clip from the show, but while you're listening be sure to subscribe to
0:55.5	the death of a starlight on Apple podcast, Spotify, or you can binge all six episodes right now by joining
1:01.9	Wunderry Plus in the Wondery App.
1:04.1	Wondery, fail the story. Enjoy the preview and we'll see you back here soon
1:09.7	with an all-new episode of The Murder of My Family.
1:13.6	Death of a Starlet by Hollywood in Crime contains depictions of violence and
1:17.6	strong language.
1:18.6	Please be advised. It's Thursday, August 14th, 1980, 11 PM.
1:39.8	Private Detective Mark Goldstein sits alone in his car staring at a nondescript two-story house on a quiet street in West Los Angeles.
1:49.0	The guy who lives in the house hired him to tail his wife.
1:56.3	She's having an affair. Passing headlights reflect off the windshield and then fade away. Goldstein unrolls the window and a curl of
2:02.4	cigarette smoke spirals into the night.
2:05.6	He squints at the two cars in front of the house.
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