The 7 Strangest Playboy Playmate Deaths of All Time By Robert Wabash  [73 more lists]

What Happened: Playboy Playmate Killed by Husband, Her Body Was Later Defiled.

The Story:
In what is easily a horrible, horrible way to go, Dorothy Stratten gets a high spot on this list because she really just ended up with the wrong guy.

Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten was only 17 when she sent in nude photos to Playboy magazine with the help of a 26-year-old club promoter and (literal) pimp Paul Snider. Though she was underage, the two met while Stratten was working part-time at a Dairy Queen in Vancouver, and they quickly into a romance, much to Stratten's mother's disapproval.

In two years' time, Stratten already moved out to Los Angeles with Snider and was working as a bunny at the Century City Playboy Club with her surname shortened to "Stratten."

After finding success in television and filming her first (and only) major film titled "They All Laughed," Stratten began an affair with the movie's director, Peter Bogdanovich. By then, several people, including Hugh Hefner himself, were warning Stratten about her relationship with Snider, saying that he was a "hustler and a pimp."

Snider, though, wasn't going to let Stratten go without a fight. He hired a private investigator to follow her and on August 14, 1980, when the two arranged to meet at Snider's house to talk about divorce, decided to take it into his hands that no one was ever going to follow her anymore.

He shot Stratten in the face, tied her lifeless body to a "love contraption," had sex with her dead body for a half hour or so (I mean, you don't want to go overboard or anything) and then blew out his own brains.

Snider's roommates discovered both of them lying nude on the floor with ants swarming their bodies.

Stratten was only twenty, and two movies ("Death of a Centerfold" and "Star 80") were later made about her tragic life and death. The girl really did deserve more.

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What Happened: Playboy Playmate and B-Movie Actress Found Mummified in her Own Home.

The Story:
Here's a mummy story for you to get wrapped up in.

Beverly Hills, California. Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B-movie actress who you might know from such cult classics as Attack of the Giant Leeches, Sunset Boulevard and Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. In her first Playboy spread, she was even photographed by Russ Meyer himself.

She was discovered on May 2, 2011 by a friend in a mummified state inside her Benedict Canyon home.

Of course, her organs were not removed and preserved in jars like King Tut & others, but her remains were unrecognizable, having been left undiscovered for what reportedly could have been almost a year.

Susan Savage said she went to check on Vickers after she noticed the 82-year-old's mailbox gathering old letters and cobwebs. After entering her home, Savage made her way upstairs to a room that had a small space heater on (the electrical bill must've skyrocketed) and, sure enough, found Vicker's body, dry and shriveled up, on the floor along with a cordless phone which appeared to have fallen off its cradle.

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What Happened: Playboy Playmate Found Dead in a Suitcase, with Teeth and Fingers Missing.

This is yet another reason not to watch reality shows. Because, frankly, reality, you know the one that's actually real, gets in the way.

Ryan Jenkins was a contestant on the VH1 reality shows "I Love Money" and "Megan Wants a Millionaire" as well as a suspect for the murder of Jasmine Fiore, a Playboy model and his ex-wife.

That's right, Vh1 was actually touting Jenkins as an eligible bachelor when in fact he was a psycho killer. And by psycho, I mean, cut-off-your-fingers-and-pull-your-teeth-out psycho. Megan (and Vh1 and major reality shows everywhere) really lucked out. Jasmine, on the other hand, not so much.

Jasmine's nude body was found on August 15, 2009 strangled and stuffed in a suitcase with her remains mutilated to prevent recognition.

Her fingers and teeth were indeed severed and all identification was removed, except for (wait for it) the serial numbers on her breast implants.

So, like most of the time in life, the fake boobs saved the day and an investigation began with Jenkins being a "person of interest." A few days after the police formally charged Jenkins with murder on August 20, 2009, Jenkins hung himself in a motel room.

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What Happened: Playboy Playmate Decapitated in Accident

The Story:
Jayne Mansfield was one of the original blonde bombshells of Hollywood and Broadway. She was honored as Playboy Playmate of the Month and appeared nude the magazine many times throughout her career.

She was also notoriously known to publicly expose parts of her anatomy ""accidentally"" in a series of publicity stunts, where she'd wear cleavage bearing dresses and purposefully lean or move a certain way as to expose her bitches. AKA, the woman was a hero.

She didn't have as much fun with her funbags, though, on June 28, 1967, when she, along with her boyfriend Sam Brody, driver and children crashed into a tractor-trailer that abruptly slowed down on the road. Not only did their car hit the tractor-trailer, it also went under it, resulting in complete removal of the automobile's top as well as killing all adults riding up front.

Police photographs were captured and, when seen by the public, spawned rumors of Jayne Mansfield's decapitation. There appeared to be a blonde-haired head tangled in the car's windshield which was believed to be Mansfield's, but her death certification only read ""crushed skull with avulsion of cranium and brain.""

The police report also said only that ""the upper portion of this white female's head was severed,"" indicating that her head was not completely chopped off.

Whichever one it was, judging from her gravestone in Fairview Cemetery and Hollywood Forever Cemetery, it really doesn't make much of a difference.

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What Happened: Playboy Playmate Found Half Naked, Dead, Strangled in Bushes

The Story:
Ellen Louise "Star" Stowe who lived the good, celebrity life as Playmate of the Month and then the hard, gritty life as a street prostitute afterwards.

She dated KISS member Gene Simmons at one point and partied with people like Elton John and of course Hugh Hefner. Once her minutes in the limelight were over, however, Star began to work as a prostitute and fell into drugs and alcohol abuse. On March 16, 1997, just days before her 41st birthday, Star was found partially clothed, strangled and dumped in some bushes.

Investigators believed that she was victim of a serial killer as another prostitute's body was found in the same manner three weeks prior. Sandra Kay Walters, the other victim, also had a history of drugs and had similar physical features to that of Star. There were, however, no solid leads to the death and thus, Star's story is another mystery yet to be solved.