Grabowski said she and Hefner, as well as others, opposed the marriage. Loops of tape, used and unused, were lying about and strands of long blonde hair were discovered clutched in Sniders right hand.. By August 1979, she not only became a Playmate, but had married Paul two months earlier. Immediately after Dorothy Stratten was hired as a Playboy Playmate, he got down on one knee. Stratten was killed on the afternoon of Thursday, August 14, when she visited her shared home with Snider to discuss the financial implications of their official separation. He raped the 20-year-old before shooting her in the face at close range and then turned the weapon on himself to take his own life his thinking was; if he couldnt have her, nobody else could either. The investigator even planned to place recording devices on Snider, hoping to record Stratten saying she would take care of him financially. Dorothy Stratten pic.twitter.com/XW5nUM59j7, Ghijath Naddaf (@ghijath) December 25, 2018, The murder scene at the home Paul Snider and Dorothy Stratten once shared was a grisly one. updates His plan actually kind of worked as the couple soon found themselves relocating to Los Angeles, where test runs led to the teen becoming Miss August 1979 and a Playboy Bunny at the club. Hefner let the October issue run with the then-deceased woman on the cover. Bettmann/Contributor/Getty ImagesDorothy Stratten with her husband and future murderer, Paul Snider, in February 1980. While she garnered fame by being named the 1980 Playmate of the Year as well as evolving her profession as a television-film actress, the then-club promoter for Chippendales reportedly grew jealous. After the blast, her body was moved and there were what appeared to be bloody handprints on her buttocks and left leg. It was later reported that Snider had sexually assaulted Stratten before shooting her in the face with the shotgun.
Dorothy Stratten
Dorothy Stratten was going to make him something bigger than a local pimp who got girls to turn tricks.