Dorothy Stratten: Her Story

May, 1981

based in part on the research of John Riley and Laura BernsteinThe worst is public knowledge: Dorothy Stratten, 1980 Playmate of the Year, was murdered. Her estranged husband fired a round from a 12-gauge Mossberg pump shotgun close to her face. Paul Leslie Snider murdered Dorothy and then used the same weapon to kill himself, on August 14, 1980, two years and a day after her arrival in Hollywood. That much you knew, more or less. Her life you don't know. Her life and death are one now, at the e...