Wondery Presents: Death of a Starlet

Scene of the Crime

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True Crime

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🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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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, co-producer of Scene of the Crime.
0:05.0	If you enjoy True Crime or History Podcast,
0:08.0	Wandering has a new miniseries that you should check out.
0:11.0	It's called Death of a Starlight. It's about Playboy Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratton.
0:16.0	In August 1980, she was found dead in the home of her estranged husband, shot in the face at close range.
0:24.2	She was just 20 years old, the girl next door with a shy smile and whispery voice who didn't
0:29.8	know her own beauty.
0:31.8	But to Hugh Hefner, she was his next Marilyn Monroe. To famed
0:36.4	Hollywood film director Peter Bogdanovich, she was his dream starlit.
0:41.6	And to her husband Paul Snyder Snyder she was his ticket to fortune in vain.
0:45.8	These three ambitious men needed her. One of them murdered. I'm about to play you a brief clip from the show but while you're listening be sure
0:55.1	to subscribe the death of a starlight on Apple podcast Spotify or you can binge
1:00.1	all six episodes right now by joining Wunderery Plus in the Wondery App.
1:05.0	Wondery. Fill the story.
1:08.0	Enjoy the preview and we'll see you back here soon with an all new episode of Scene of the Crime.
1:13.0	Death of a starlet by Hollywood in Crime contains depictions of violence and strong language.
1:18.0	Please be advised. It's Thursday, August 14th, 1980, 11 p.m.
1:39.0	Private Detective Mark Goldstein sits alone in his car staring at a nondescript two-story house on a quiet street in West Los Angeles.
1:48.0	The guy who lives in the house hired him to tail his wife.
1:52.0	She's having an affair. Hire him to tail his wife.
1:53.0	She's having an affair.
1:55.0	Passing headlights reflect off the windshield and then fade away.
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