In 1978, pretty Vancouver teenager, Dorothy Hoogstraten was working at a local Dairy Queen, thinking she’d become a secretary once she graduated high school.
Within a year, she was in the pages of Playboy Magazine. By April of 1980, she was named Playmate of the Year.
By August of that same year, Dorothy would be brutally murdered by the man who promised to love her until death did them part.
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Photo caption: (L-R) Dorothy, second from right, with her sister Louise, mom, Nelly, and brother John (credit: ReelRundown); Dorothy's school yearbook picture (credit: A&E Biography Dorothy Stratten); Dorothy as a teenager in Vancouver (credit: A&E Biography Dorothy Stratten); In the space of a year, Dorothy went from whipping up Blizzards at Dairy Queen, to posing for Playboy (credit: ABC News)
Photo caption: (L-R) Paul Snider was a known pimp around Vancouver and when he set his sights on Dorothy, he decided he could make her a star (credit: AmIAnnoying); Paul convinced Dorothy to pose for nude pictures, which he then sent to Playboy (credit: ReelRundown); Dorothy and Paul (credit: ABC News); Dorothy and Paul on their wedding day. Paul convinced Dorothy they had a "lifetime bargain" and therefore, had to get married; Dorothy and Paul (credit: ABC News)
Photo caption: Replica of the personalized plates Paul had for his Mercedes. "Star 80" represented Paul's belief that Dorothy would become a major star in the year 1980, taking them both straight to the top. (credit: ABC News)
Photo caption: (L-R) Playboy founder and publisher Hugh Hefner with Dorothy when she was chosen as Playmate of the Year 1980 (credit: ABC News); John Ritter and Dorothy in a scene from the feature film, "They All Laughed," directed by Peter Bogdanovich, which whom Dorothy began an affair during filming (credit: ABC News); Dorothy at the Playmate of the Year Ceremony in 1980 (credit: ABC News); Dorothy and director Peter Bogdanovich (credit: Vulture)
Photo caption: (L-R) Dorothy in "They All Laughed (credit: IMDB); The house where Dorothy and Paul lived and the same house where he would later murder her (credit: ABC News); Dorothy at the Playmate of the Year Ceremony in 1980 (credit: ABC News); Dorothy and director Peter Bogdanovich (credit: Vulture); News article about Dorothy's murder (credit: Newspapers website); News crews outside of the house where Dorothy was murdered (credit: ABC News); Peter and Dorothy's younger sister, Louise, would marry in 1988 when she was 20, he, 49 (credit: The U.S. Sun); Eric Roberts and Mariel Hemingway would star as Paul and Dorothy in the 1983 Bob Fosse-directed feature, "Star 80," which drew its name from Paul's personalized license plates (credit: Harvard Film Archive).
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