DOROTHY STRATTEN

   Dorothy ruth hoogstraten who took the stage name Dorothy Stratten,was a Canadian playboy playmate,model,and actress.She was born in the 1960s.She was murdered at the age of twenty by her estranged husband/manager Paul Snider,who committed suicide on the same day.In 1977 she was attending High School in Coquitlam when,while working part time at a local Dairy Queen,she met twenty-six- year-old club promoter and pimp Paul Snider,who romanced her.Snider later had professional nude photos taken of her which were sent to Playboy magazine.She was under the age of 18 at the time,and when her mother refused to sign the model release,her mother's signature was forged.In 1979 Dorothy and Paul moved Los Angeles together.She began working at the century city playboy club and became an successful actress.After that,Stratten began an affair with Peter Bogdanovich.Stratten and Snider separated and Stratten moved in with Bogdanovich,planing to file for a divorce from Snider. Shortly after noon on August 14,1980,Snider and Stratten met at Snider's house,where the two had once lived as a couple.Stratten had come to talk about an amicable divorce and brought along $1,000 to give to Snider.At approximately 11 p.m.,Snider's private investigator called the owner of the house Cushner on his private line,saying that he had been trying to telephone Snider for several hours,but Snider would not answer his phone.Cushner broke into Snider's room and found the bodies of Snider and Stratten,both dead from shotgun blasts,both bodies were nude.Police believed that snider raped and murdered Stratten,abused the corpse,then killed himself with the same shotgun.

DOROTHY STRATTEN

PAUL SNIDER

STRATTEN AND SNIDER

SNIDER AND STRATTEN'S

CRIME SCENE