- 5/14/2025
The Playboy Murders Season 2 Episode 2
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00:00Ace, sexy, curvy women, and Victoria was all of those things.
00:04Victoria Vetri saw what Playboy had done for actresses before her.
00:09She wanted to emulate the likes of Bridget Bardot and Sophia Loren.
00:14I'm gonna be a star!
00:17There were so many triggers with her life and what happened to her and the Playboy lifestyle.
00:25I think it just did things to her that you can't come back from.
00:30The Manson murders were exceptionally gruesome.
00:34The fact that there was a beautiful up-and-coming actress who appeared in Playboy, the center of it, was horrifying.
00:41Victoria was supposed to be at Sharon Tate's home.
00:44The people who murdered her friends were out to get her.
00:49Victoria's story is really a cautionary tale.
00:52Fame and success aren't a cure-all to everything.
00:55You have it all, and then when it falls from your grasp, it's sad to see how a life can unravel.
01:02Love you, too.
01:14mehr
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01:18On Saturday, October 16th, 2010, Los Angeles Police Department received multiple 911 calls
01:41describing a shooting in progress with a victim down.
01:48When they arrived, the officers slowly and methodically approached the location.
01:57It's a two-story multi-unit apartment building.
02:00It looked like a sort of a typical apartment complex in the heart of Hollywood.
02:05I wouldn't call it luxury apartments by any stretch of the imagination.
02:11As they're approaching the location, they don't know what they're walking into.
02:17The responding units see our victim down in the outside hallway.
02:27The victim had a gunshot wound to the upper left chest.
02:30When investigators look in the apartment, they see evidence of a struggle.
02:36The place looks disheveled, and what they discover is something very odd.
02:42They notice that there are torn-up Playboy magazines on the floor.
02:46They come to realize that the woman featured on these Playboy magazines is Playmate of the Year in 1968, Victoria Vetri.
02:56Victoria Vetri was a California girl.
03:08She went to Hollywood High.
03:10She was a beautiful girl, Italian heritage, and was pursuing a career as an actress.
03:18Her father was a successful restaurant owner, and her mother was a successful model.
03:26She started in 1962.
03:28For some reason, she didn't think her name was movie marquee, and she changed it to Angela Dorian.
03:38She landed a number of guest spots.
03:40I was just looking at myself in the water, Miss Sarah.
03:44On Ozzie and Harriet, Cheyenne.
03:46She wanted to emulate the likes of Brigitte Bardot and Sophia Loren, and she really was making some headway.
03:55She was quite striking.
03:56Beautiful woman, and she was starting to get roles.
03:59Do you like it?
04:00There was something called the Hollywood Debstar Ball, and they would take nominees from TV shows, movie studios, talent agencies each year.
04:11And with her first year in Hollywood, Victoria Vetri was a Hollywood Debstar of 1962, and that was pretty prestigious.
04:18So she started out really like gangbusters.
04:21I saw you from the window when you said good evening to the senora.
04:24Now you can say good evening to me.
04:26But for some reason, she wasn't getting the big film roles.
04:30And then Playboy came along.
04:34When Playboy came out in the 50s, it was really a revolutionary magazine, not only because it featured nude photos, but because it was done in the context of a lifestyle magazine.
04:43Nobody had really combined sex and aspiration before.
04:50Well, hi. I'm sorry I didn't see you coming in.
04:52I'm your host.
04:53You're really arrived just in time because it's going to be a wild and swinging evening.
04:57As Playboy continued to grow throughout the 60s, the magazine became more and more of a household name.
05:02Therefore, it was more exciting for women to pose and seen as a bigger opportunity.
05:06And in some cases, it could lead to a Hollywood career.
05:08The magazine became more than a magazine. The magazine became a kind of a handbook for a whole way of life.
05:17The first issue of Playboy featured a photograph of Marilyn Monroe.
05:23Because of the Marilyn Monroe connection, a lot of women saw Playboy as a place to launch their careers.
05:29Victoria Vetri saw what Playboy had done for actresses before her.
05:35And I think that Victoria saw Playboy as a springboard for future success in the field of acting.
05:42Each issue of Playboy in the 60s reached about five million readers.
05:46So appearing as a centerfold in the magazine could get as many eyes on you as appearing in a Hollywood movie.
05:51So it was a really big deal.
05:52We don't know exactly who invited Victoria to the Playboy parties for the first time.
05:57But a young, beautiful actress like her always would have been welcomed.
06:04I worked for Hugh Hefner for four and a half years.
06:08And I started out as his butler.
06:12I saw Victoria Vetri at the mansion at the big parties.
06:17She was always sought after.
06:19Guys would just chase her.
06:21Tell her that, you know, she's beautiful and they were a producer, showrunner.
06:26They would get her a part.
06:29She had that magnetism.
06:32You know, she was an actress.
06:34This is a time to show your stuff.
06:36I'm sure if Hef saw Victoria at a party, she definitely would have caught his attention.
06:43Hugh Hefner offered her the opportunity to pose and to have her own spread to be featured in her own edition.
06:50Posing for Playboy was kind of a risk at the time.
06:52For the 60s, it was still a bit of a dilemma for a lot of these actresses because, you know, they were raised on 1950s values.
07:01The old guard in Hollywood, they were very moralistic.
07:05The actresses deciding if they wanted to pose for Playboy had to make decisions.
07:09Do you want to go in Playboy, you get the publicity, but does it really help your career or hurt it?
07:16She was breaking barriers and hoping that by posing, and also posing in the nude, would lead to success.
07:24But it was a risk that she took.
07:26Victoria first modeled for Playboy in September of 1967.
07:33So she was the playmate of the month.
07:36Victoria's pictorial was really beautiful and really unique.
07:39There were photos of her laying out on this tiger rug.
07:41Her centerfold was her laying in a hammock.
07:45This is the issue with Victoria's playmate pictorial.
07:48In the 60s, they didn't publish very many nude photos of a woman in her playmate pictorial.
07:55Here's part of her centerfold, which would have been the main nude photo.
07:59They really want to show that Victoria is an actress.
08:01They have her here studying a script.
08:04So they want her to appear as well-rounded as she is.
08:08It was just really beautiful and sexy and tastefully done and really stood out.
08:12She was a little bit different than your traditional playmates.
08:16Because Hugh Hefner seemed to favor blondes.
08:19And Victoria, being of Italian descent, was darker.
08:22She was a brunette.
08:24Nonetheless, she was an absolute stunner.
08:27There was just something about her that was extra, extra cute.
08:30The readers absolutely loved Victoria.
08:33She became so popular that she was asked to come back as Playmate of the Year in 1968.
08:39Being chosen Playmate of the Year was really exciting.
08:43You were being chosen as the favorite from among 12 stunning women.
08:48It was always really something that every playmate wanted.
08:51In the 60s, the Playmate of the Year would get a number of prizes,
08:54but one of the prizes was always a car, and the car would be painted a shade of pink called Playmate Pink.
09:00Victoria received a pink AMX, which kind of rivaled the Corvette at the time.
09:07It was a classic beauty just like her, and she loved that car.
09:22Victoria was already a working actress when she posed for Playboy, but after her centerfold came out,
09:26and after she got Playmate of the Year, she just got more and more attention and bigger roles.
09:30She was very lucky to be at the right place at the right time.
09:36Roman Polanski was making Rosemary's Baby, and she got a part in the film.
09:42The role of the friend of Mia Farah was vacant.
09:47They meet in the laundry room.
09:48Nice to meet you. I'm Rosemary Woodhouse.
09:51We're new tenants here.
09:52Victoria was the Playmate of 1968 at the time, but still under Angela Dorian.
09:57After Rosemary's Baby came out, she rewrote it to Victoria Vetri.
10:05Rosemary's Baby was, of course, a huge international critical hit, a box office smash for Roman Polanski,
10:12and she got a lot of publicity from that.
10:14So 1968 was a really big year for Victoria.
10:17At that time, Polanski had been living with Sharon Tate.
10:24Roman, Sharon?
10:26Fine.
10:27This is the very beautiful Sharon Tate.
10:30I'm sure you've seen in films.
10:31And Roman Polanski, best known for his original film, Night in the Water.
10:36She wrote and directed, and he's also responsible for Rosemary's Baby.
10:38Sharon was on set every day because she wanted to be there.
10:45Sharon Tate was a beautiful girl.
10:49She was a model.
10:51She was the epitome of the 60s.
10:53Doe eyes, beautiful face, just a stunning girl.
10:57She was born in Texas. She was an army brat.
11:08Her father and mother were in the army.
11:10I think her father was a colonel.
11:12And when she was 16, they moved to Italy.
11:16And she was, I believe, in Verona.
11:19And they shot a lot of films in Rome, Verona.
11:23The word up was, oh, let's go watch them make the movie.
11:29And she met Jack Palance, who was a very famous actor.
11:34He was making a film, and he noticed her, and he said,
11:37you know, you should probably get into acting.
11:39You'd be great.
11:48And they moved back to the United States.
11:51She went to Hollywood and said, I want to get an agent.
11:54And she got an agent.
11:57Victoria Vetri and Sharon Tate both appeared in Playboy.
12:00They became close friends and bonded over the fact that they were both stunningly beautiful women
12:05who were at that point using Playboy as a stepping stone in their career.
12:09Sharon Tate's Playboy pictorial, it's one of my favorites because it's so unique.
12:13It's so camp.
12:15It's not the typical Playboy pictorial at all, but I love it.
12:18Robin Polanski was the photographer for this shoot.
12:23There are some very interesting photos.
12:25One of them features Tate in a bubble bath, scantily covered.
12:31Other photos feature her face-to-face with a vampire.
12:35An obvious nod to the movie.
12:37They had just shot together the fearless vampire killers.
12:40Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski were eventually married in 1968.
12:52And they were married at the London Playboy Club.
12:55Then she became pregnant and they decided to nest here in Los Angeles.
13:10Sharon Tate had a couple of her friends over.
13:12Victoria was among those guests.
13:14And this wasn't uncommon.
13:16Victoria was at their home a lot.
13:19And at this gathering, something odd happened.
13:23Tate received a knock at the door from a stranger.
13:26He had long, straggly hair, a long beard.
13:39You know, in some regards, he looked a little bit disheveled.
13:43He seemed a little bit scary.
13:46And it was Victoria who said something to the effect of,
13:52this guy is creeping me out.
14:00As it would turn out, the man at the door was none other than Charles Manson.
14:16I'm Sarah Levine. I'm the co-host of Not Another True Crime Podcast.
14:25Charles Manson was kind of a hippie running this group called The Family.
14:35Manson was living out on the spawn ranch out in the valley.
14:39And he had a lot of followers.
14:41Young girls, hippies, they were living on a commune.
14:46He was a charismatic person to them.
14:49And he had them under his spell.
14:52He would target people that were very vulnerable
14:55and just kind of speak to their vulnerabilities.
14:58And he would just play on people's insecurities and seduce them.
15:01Victoria said something to her friends to the effect of, this guy is a creep.
15:19And she thought Manson overheard her.
15:24And that must have angered him.
15:27Tate was entertaining a couple of guests at her home.
15:33Victoria was invited to Sharon's house that night, but had been feeling sick earlier in the day and decided not to go.
15:54The Manson family members arrive up to the house at 150's Yellow Drive.
16:06They park at the bottom of the hill and begin walking up the driveway.
16:12They cut the phone lines.
16:16They made it impossible for the people to call for help.
16:24Manson told his tribe, he called it his tribe.
16:27He said, I want you to kill everybody that's there.
16:39I mean, it was gruesome.
16:42You can't even imagine how horrible it must have been.
16:46They strung up, tied up Sharon by the legs and the hands.
16:51They slashed her to death, killed her baby.
16:54I mean, it was so sick and so deranged.
16:57Sharon Tate, her good friend Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Roman Polanski's childhood friend,
17:04Wojtek Frykowski, they're all brutally killed by the Manson family.
17:08I think if any murder is evil, it's this one.
17:11I mean, they targeted complete strangers who they didn't know,
17:15killed a woman who was eight and a half months pregnant in the most absolutely gruesome way possible.
17:20Do we have any solid needs?
17:22It's anyone's guess, of course, at this point.
17:25Two days later, Lino Labianca and his wife, Rosemary,
17:30were brutally killed by members of the Manson family.
17:34The Los Angeles Police Department have seven people who are dead,
17:37and they have no solid suspects.
17:39The Manson murders were truly graphic and horrifying,
17:43and of course, the fact that there was an up-and-coming actress
17:45who was extremely beautiful and appeared in Playboy at the center of it
17:48garners a lot of attention.
17:53When Victoria found out about these murders, she was absolutely horrified.
17:58She was supposed to be there that evening,
18:01so she realized that she could have easily been one of the victims.
18:06It was very scary.
18:10Everybody in Hollywood was on alert.
18:13Everybody was getting guard dogs and alarm systems.
18:15Everybody was scared.
18:16Today, warrants have been issued for the arrest of three individuals in connection with the murders on Cielo Drive in West Los Angeles.
18:29The named suspects and others lived at the Spawn Movie Ranch.
18:43The Manson family members got caught because members of the family were stealing cars.
18:52There was a raid on Spawn Ranch.
18:55Charles Manson, Tex Watson, Linda Kasabian, Patricia Kronwinkle, and Susan Atkins.
19:01They were arrested in this raid related to auto theft.
19:06And while in prison, Susan Atkins started confessing to a few of the people that she knew in prison
19:14that she had committed the murders and how they'd committed the murders.
19:18People were feeling huge amounts of relief when Manson was arrested.
19:21Los Angeles and even other parts of the country had been on edge for months.
19:28Charles Manson was unique in that most people dub him a serial killer, but in fact, he never killed anyone.
19:34He commanded others to do so.
19:36I think Playboy would generally keep itself far away from a story like this and not weigh in or not comment on.
19:45It's not really the type of attention they're looking to attract.
19:48Everybody in Hollywood, everybody that ran in that circle were terrified.
19:54It really changed the culture.
19:55After that murder, there was no more hippie, trippy love.
19:59It was really the end of the 60s in so many ways.
20:02Everyone started buying guns because they thought, my God, they could come to my house and it could happen to me.
20:11Victoria Vetri was so afraid of Charles Manson and his followers.
20:15She remembered those words that she had uttered that this guy had creeped her out.
20:22And Victoria was concerned that the reason her friends were murdered was revenge.
20:30She thought that the people who murdered her friends were out to get her.
20:34So she lived in a constant state of fear.
20:44Even after Manson's arrest, Victoria did not feel safe.
20:48She was worried that Manson or one of his followers would come after her.
20:51According to Victoria, not long after the murders, Roman Polanski gave her a gun so she could feel like she could protect herself.
20:58She was a recognizable actress, the former playmate of the year, and easily felt like she could be the next target.
21:06The Manson murders really shook Victoria.
21:22She didn't work for a while.
21:25She had a lot of paranoia about possibly being the next to be attacked.
21:28It affected her very deeply.
21:31Victoria's career, while once thriving, really stalled.
21:35It was likely because of this fear that she had of Manson and the PTSD that she suffered.
21:41Victoria did start to work again, but she found the roles she was getting cast for were more and more the type of sexy roles compared to what she'd been in before she posed for Playboy.
21:50When dinosaurs ruled the earth.
21:53They thought of her like a sex symbol.
21:56Which is why she was offered and accepted when dinosaurs ruled the earth.
22:01She's a blonde cave girl of a blonde tribe where they were dominated by the dark haired people and she was supposed to be sacrificed.
22:08When a woman poses for Playboy, it's always a risk because yes, you're getting all this exposure, but also you risk being seen as just that naked girl.
22:16Not everybody is going to take you seriously.
22:20It must have been really frustrating for Victoria.
22:23After When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, she had the lead roles in two bee movies.
22:28One was called Invasion of the Bee Girls about these women who are basically bees and they have sex with men and kill them.
22:37And then she was in another bee movie called Group Marriage, which was a sex romp about, you know, open marriages at the time.
22:46And then she sort of just did a couple of more TV things.
22:50And in 1975, she stopped acting and just faded away.
22:54Victoria's kind of retired at this point.
23:06That being said, she would get a very big opportunity.
23:11In fact, Playboy would come back into her life.
23:14In 1984, Victoria was invited to participate in a special edition called Playmates Forever Part Two.
23:24This is really a compilation of the top Playmates throughout all time.
23:29After being out of the public eye for like nine years, she was coaxed by Playboy to do another pictorial for them.
23:36Victoria was thrilled to pose again for Playboy. Not only was it validation, but she also looked stunning and, you know, it made her feel like she still had that magic.
23:53After that new pictorial, Victoria was named one of the top 100 centerfolds of all time.
24:03This special edition was something that you had to get voted into.
24:07So this probably just reinforced the fact that the readers really loved Victoria.
24:14It must have been really exciting for Victoria.
24:16It must have felt really validating, you know, amongst all these beautiful women.
24:20You're chosen as one of the top.
24:23Unfortunately, the tragedy of Sharon Tate and the murders always loomed over Victoria.
24:28She was haunted for the rest of her life.
24:36After Playmates Forever, Victoria's career dropped off again.
24:41Victoria took a job waitressing at a cafe, and this marks a different time in her life.
24:47Bruce Rathke met Victoria when they were working together at a restaurant in Los Angeles.
24:52So that's where their relationship starts.
24:57Bruce was a chef and part-time musician.
25:01The two became a hot item pretty quickly.
25:05And they began a romance.
25:07And I believe within a couple of years they were married.
25:11Victoria will have this man.
25:14In 1987, the pair would marry at Bruce's father's home in La Jolla, California.
25:19You can see a video of the wedding.
25:24They're cutting the cake.
25:25They're smiling.
25:26They're laughing.
25:28They look really happy.
25:30She had this wonderful relationship that blossomed.
25:34Looking back at that video, that happy couple that was smiling, beaming.
25:43However, Victoria Vetri never could leave the Manson family murders behind.
25:49She couldn't really move beyond her feelings about the crime and the trauma.
25:54She lived in a state of perpetual fear.
25:57There's a lot of chaos at a scene like this.
26:12You have a shooting, shots fired, victim down.
26:16You have the paramedics providing life-saving treatment.
26:18But law enforcement has the role to gather as much information that you can about what happened.
26:25At this point, the police are canvassing the apartment building, speaking to the neighbors.
26:31None of the neighbors saw what happened.
26:34They were all heard only.
26:36Heard signs of a struggle.
26:38Heard a lot of movement.
26:39A lot of loud noises.
26:40And then a loud pop.
26:46The neighbor heard a loud noise which resembled a gunshot.
26:50And then he came outside and saw Bruce Rathkep lying on the floor with a gunshot wound to his chest.
26:57They see Bruce laying in a pool of his own blood, obviously in a very weakened state, barely conscious.
27:11Bruce was still alive.
27:12The paramedics transported Bruce to Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles.
27:22This could be a potential homicide.
27:25And they began to work the case while maintaining status of the victim as he's going through medical treatment at the hospital.
27:31At this point, the police enter Victoria and Bruce's shared apartment.
27:45It did have signs of a struggle.
27:48Things had been pushed over and knocked over.
27:52They have a limited amount of information.
27:54They don't know what they're going to find.
27:56What they come to realize pretty quickly is that none other than 66-year-old Victoria Vetri is standing right before them.
28:26The detectives are focused on getting good, solid information from the witnesses.
28:31Victoria was able to provide a statement.
28:33What did you hear? What did you see?
28:35Victoria gives a statement about what happened.
28:39That a drug dealer by the name of Lee had shot Mr. Rathkep because Mr. Rathkep had owed the drug dealer money.
28:49When you come to a scene like this for the officers that are responding,
28:52you've got an immediate statement that says that there's a drug dealer involved and it's a drug-related shooting.
28:58And a good detective doesn't lock in on the easiest path through the investigation.
29:03They're going to follow every lead they can to gather as much evidence.
29:08When police are examining where Mr. Rathkep is found on the ground,
29:13they find what appears to be a bindle containing a white powdery substance resembling methamphetamine.
29:19And they find a .38 caliber shell casing.
29:28Victoria says that Bruce was actually headed to get money out of her account to pay this guy back.
29:35And this is when Bruce was shot in the hallway.
29:37At that point in time, Bruce is still unconscious. He's intubated. He's on a ventilator.
29:49Bruce's injuries are quite severe. And at this point, it's not clear if he's going to survive.
29:54In the mindset of the detectives at the scene, they're treating it as if it's a homicide.
30:05Victoria gives the police the address of the supposed drug dealer.
30:10And police officers head out immediately to go question this man.
30:13They did locate and identify the drug dealer that Victoria had said was the shooter.
30:33He cooperated and went to the station to provide a statement.
30:42So he said he knew him and he could explain the relationship.
30:48He provided an alibi with witnesses on where he was.
30:52And they verified that his alibi was solid.
30:58The detectives didn't feel that they needed to go further down the road of looking into him.
31:08So at this point, now Victoria is a suspect.
31:15Detectives go back to Victoria.
31:17Victoria was transported to the station and she's in a holding tank.
31:26Then she started in with another story.
31:33She's telling them about her life with Bruce.
31:37They'd been married over 20 years.
31:40She had a history in the entertainment world that she was a former Playboy model and a former TV star.
31:47And that he was a musician.
31:49But they had on and off again struggles with addiction and money issues.
31:55Victoria carried with her a tremendous fear of Manson.
32:00She was debilitated in many ways.
32:04She tells detectives that they had a very good relationship, a strong relationship, until around the year 2000.
32:10And that's when drug use began to interfere with their dynamic and their relationship.
32:17This was a former Hollywood superstar.
32:20But at this time in their lives, they were just another couple struggling with substance abuse issues.
32:24Essentially what Victoria has to say is that she's broke.
32:31Victoria was gifted a AMX vintage car by Hugh Hefner.
32:38And unfortunately, she was in financial ruins.
32:42She felt it necessary to sell this vehicle.
32:44She's down to her last $800 and they're living off of Social Security at this point.
32:52Her marriage was breaking down.
32:55She was in dire financial straits.
32:58Being in Hollywood as a woman can be tough.
33:01In fact, so many Playmates die from drug overdoses and suicide.
33:05So something about that lifestyle can easily feed into substance abuse issues.
33:12If you look into Playmates and Bunnies, the casualty rate for mental health and drug addiction and alcoholism is one of the highest of any job in the world.
33:25It's horrible.
33:27And that's what happened in Victoria.
33:28Victoria is pretty clear that she blames Bruce for their financial problems.
33:38Victoria says that they had split up and Bruce had left the home.
33:43But he came back in an effort to reconcile.
33:47However, things didn't quite go that well.
33:49The pair have a couple of drinks, but unfortunately, after a couple of drinks...
33:54It's over. It's over. Everything is over.
33:56Things get ugly quickly.
33:59This is when Bruce started damaging some of her items.
34:04Get out of here! Stop it! Stop it!
34:08She starts describing that Bruce had torn up her Playboy magazines and they were arguing over money.
34:16She admitted that he said he was leaving and he was going to the elevator and she wanted to have no more of this.
34:23And she just shot him.
34:26When the news broke in 2010 that Victoria had shot her husband, it was very shocking.
34:42You're always surprised to hear that a Playmate of the Year was involved in something like that.
34:46It's a little bit of a cautionary tale.
34:50Just making it in Hollywood doesn't solve every problem. It doesn't make every relationship perfect.
35:01It just doesn't match up with the dreams of what, you know, having a life in Hollywood or being a pinup model means to most people.
35:09She had admitted to doing it. The next thing is, where's this gun?
35:21So they asked her and she said the gun was in the apartment in a box.
35:24And they received her written consent to go back into the apartment to recover the evidence.
35:31A Walter PPK 380 auto pistol.
35:34There's an irony to this shooting and the gun because this was the very gun Roman Polanski gave her in 1969 in order for her to defend herself against Charles Manson and his followers.
35:50And it's this very gun that she uses to shoot her husband.
35:55Some of the neighbors report that after Victoria shot Bruce and just before she walks away, she says to Bruce, no more Charlie, no more Charlie.
36:07It appeared that Victoria may have been confusing Bruce with Charles Manson.
36:11She thought that Charles Manson, the people who murdered her friends, were out to get her.
36:20She believed that she would be targeted at some point.
36:23Victoria never really got over the murder of her friend Sharon Tate and unfortunately that ended up setting the stage for another brutal crime.
36:31In a way you might argue that Manson is almost responsible for the shooting of Bruce.
36:36It was Manson's actions that seemed to have precipitated lifelong tragedy, trauma and fear in Victoria Vetri.
36:49She was so either far gone mentally and there were so many triggers with her life and what happened to her and her journey and the Playboy lifestyle.
37:00For whatever reason, and I don't understand it, she tried to kill her husband.
37:23The primary detective now goes back to the hospital to try to follow up and do an interview with Bruce.
37:28He's lucky to be alive, three inches closer to the center of his chest and he'd be dead.
37:35The detectives asked Bruce about his relationship with Victoria.
37:39According to Bruce, he felt that Victoria was experiencing mental health issues.
37:47And that she was kind of paranoid about him cheating on her and she was constantly accusing him, even though he says that he was always loyal.
37:54Unfortunately, when the pair sat down together and tried to work things out, they began arguing again and it escalated to something much more serious.
38:03The trauma of her past, the trauma of her past, the trauma of that moment, all of these factors may have just produced a delusion that she was being harmed or that she was about to be harmed by Charles Manson.
38:24At this time, Victoria was facing 25 years in prison for the attempted murder.
38:39Essentially, Victoria pleads guilty to attempted voluntary manslaughter and receives a sentence of nine years in prison.
38:45Some might think that nine years was kind of a light prison sentence for an attempted murder.
38:54The court considered Victoria's mental health when they delivered the sentence.
38:58When you think about the story of Victoria and Bruce and from where they came and especially where she was and the substance abuse and the mental health resulting in her eventually shooting him there in the hallway.
39:16You have it all. And then when it falls from your grasp, it's sad to see how a life can unravel.
39:25Victoria's story is really a crazy Hollywood tale.
39:30You start out with a stunning working actress, poses for Playboy, gets chosen Playmate of the Year, becomes best friends with one of the most famous actresses now who sadly was killed by the Manson family.
39:46And then to later have a tragedy happen, you know, between her and her husband.
39:50This case is a tragedy all around. You have someone who was shot. He almost lost his life. But you also have a woman who lived her life in fear.
40:04She lived under the shadow of an event that she simply could not escape.
40:08Victoria and Bruce would ultimately divorce while Victoria was still in prison.
40:22Victoria was released from prison in 2019 and she moved to Arizona.
40:27She wanted to put the whole incident behind her and start a new chapter in her life.
40:31Victoria was able to track down the person who purchased that pink car from her.
40:35After everything that happened, Victoria...
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