The Playboy Murders Season 1 Episode 2
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00:00Playboy in the 90s was a huge part of popular culture.
00:07It was a mainstream, acceptable presentation of nudity and female sexuality.
00:16Just everything they do is wow.
00:20You have all kinds of things at your fingertips.
00:23You know, the sky's the limit.
00:25But Playboy handles tragedies by burying them and not acknowledging them.
00:33It's just this downward spiral.
00:35And that's when his behavior really starts to get out of control.
00:39I remember telling her, you really should not do this.
00:43I don't think it's a good idea.
00:46Several witnesses were later identified as hearing what they thought was a loud argument.
00:50All the dreams aren't necessarily what's really important.
00:56All the glitter doesn't go.
00:58It was very scary.
01:00If someone's capable of murder, they could murder you.
01:03October 29th of 1991, I was in a gun shop and an individual came down and yelled that there was a gunfight going on outside in the street next to our
01:20building.
01:35Myself and another off-duty officer ran out.
01:39We found two bodies lying in the street with pools of blood around them and spent casings from the .22 revolver.
01:54This was in the middle of the day in public.
01:57So it was a bewildering moment because it involves a celebrity Playboy model, Stacey Arthur.
02:14Stacey Arthur was Playmate of the Month in January 1991.
02:19When you thought of Playboy, you thought of beautiful women.
02:22You thought of nude photography.
02:24A lot of women in the 90s and 2000s, myself included, saw Playboy as a stepping stone to a career.
02:36Oh my gosh, I remember the first time driving through those gates.
02:41And I remember the first time I ever laid eyes on the mansion.
02:45I thought, oh, this place is spectacular.
02:51Just everything they do is wow.
02:55It's just wow.
02:57It's kind of like that, like the stars in their eyes.
03:00And you have celebrities wanting you.
03:03You have all kinds of things at your fingertips.
03:06You know, the sky is the limit.
03:08And I think Stacey kind of had that.
03:10And she thought, wait a minute here.
03:13This is everything.
03:17The beginning of Stacey's story was so incredibly wholesome.
03:21But there were things that allowed this to take a much darker turn.
03:27Stacey graduated from high school in 1986.
03:39She was rather quiet.
03:42Beautiful girl.
03:44Very talented in crafts and ceramic work.
03:48And then by the spring of 88, she was the manager of a craft store in Belle Fountain.
03:55My brother, Jim, opened a tanning salon on the second floor.
03:59And that's where he met Stacey.
04:02He and Stacey hit it off and were soon inseparable.
04:07She was 19 at the time and he was 34.
04:11This would have been when Stacey and Dad first got together.
04:16She has sort of this Woolwood romance with Jim Arthur.
04:20She had been previously married, had a child from her previous marriage.
04:24Jim, he had been married before as well.
04:26She meets Jim and is very smitten with him.
04:31I think they both were really happy together.
04:34And that they found each other.
04:38On June 4th, 1988, they got married.
04:43And that started it all.
04:46Everybody gets in here.
04:48Get your hair, get your head back.
04:51She was the only mom I ever knew for a long time.
04:55My mom and dad separated when I was young and Stacey adopted me in 1989.
05:01Like, when she came into my life, I was still very little.
05:03Like, it was no feat for me to call her mom because she was there.
05:09I don't remember ever not calling her mom.
05:12I think the biggest change for me was not that there was a new woman in the house as much as Stacey brought her daughter with her.
05:19And that was a change because I had always just had an older brother.
05:22Play your mom.
05:23Okay.
05:24Her hair is always pretty.
05:25And she had high heels.
05:26Like, the really high heels.
05:27And, you know, as a little girl, those are so much fun to go in the closet and try on and attempt to walk in them and fail terribly.
05:41She was very photogenic.
05:46She took some great pictures.
05:48And then when they got married, she decided she'd like to go into modeling.
05:53So Jim became her manager and her support staff.
06:00She started out in a pageant.
06:02She did win 32 different pageants.
06:05She had all kinds of trophies and things to show what she had accomplished.
06:11He had put her up for more and more pageants.
06:14And as she kept winning, she gained more confidence over time.
06:19And she won Mrs. Ohio in June 1990.
06:23She was the youngest competitor, and she swept the competition.
06:27So that was obviously a huge highlight for her career.
06:30Usually, people did not win that pageant on their first time.
06:37She was shocked.
06:40Absolutely shocked when they announced that she had won.
06:46This would be her Mrs. Ohio crown.
06:51Every little girl's dream is to have a tiara this big that's not made of plastic.
06:58Jim saw beyond what was happening right in front of her.
07:04And he wanted to help her reach for the stars.
07:07He wanted to help her achieve and be the best she could be.
07:11Which led her to playboy.
07:14A husband wanting his wife to be a playmate might seem weird at first.
07:17Like, why does he want his wife to be naked for everybody else to see?
07:20But based on my experience, I've seen husbands be really excited to have their wives pose.
07:25And, you know, to them, it's like a trophy.
07:28There can definitely be another side, too.
07:30It would take a really secure partner to be able to deal with that and be confident and supportive.
07:36So after she won Mrs. Ohio, she continued to model.
07:42That led her to a gig in Chicago.
07:49And while they were out there, they stopped in at the Playboy headquarters.
07:53Jim said, let's do it while we're here.
07:55And she said, sure, let's go.
07:58I think to outsiders looking in, Playboy looked like a really glamorous, upscale world.
08:04Playboy was such a huge magazine in the 90s.
08:07And it was very, very mainstream.
08:09I mean, you would see Playboy have a presence in, like, family movies.
08:13It was something that was, yeah, it's a little bit racy, but it was so mainstream at the same time.
08:19For Playboy to have a pageant queen as a centerfold was a really big deal.
08:23That was another thing that kind of legitimized the magazine more.
08:27It's like, oh, this Miss America-type person could be a centerfold, too.
08:32Jim made arrangements to get a photo shoot and some videotaping done.
08:38They saw something in her that they really liked.
08:44Just a month later, Stacy was flown out to L.A. for her Playmate shoot.
08:48And that's unheard of.
08:49She was definitely fast-tracked.
08:53It's your first taste of celebrity.
08:56A lot of girls do go on to become household names.
08:59I think Stacy wanted that really badly.
09:02All of a sudden, you're the hometown hero.
09:05And everybody, you know, wants to meet the Playmate.
09:08And, oh, my gosh, she did Playboy.
09:09This must have been a whirlwind for Stacy to go from being from a small town in Ohio and just a month later, you're being flown out to L.A.
09:19You're staying at the Playboy Mansion. You're doing this shoot for a huge magazine.
09:23They used to put the Playmates in the bungalows if we were doing photo shoots, sometimes making appearances there in L.A., and have just let the Playmates stay there.
09:37It was 91.
09:39They had me rooming with Stacy Arthur, probably because we both came out of Chicago.
09:46And Stacy asked me if I wanted to go into the grotto, and I said, yeah.
09:50You know, I may as well. It's like a hot tub and cave.
09:55It was really spectacular.
09:58It's right next to the pool, and the pool kind of flows into it.
10:00So there's all these hot tubs, and then there's like a little, you know, stream you can swim through, and like tunnels you can swim under.
10:07It's really cool. And, of course, it's also, you know, the famous place where supposedly everybody goes to have sex, and certainly many people did.
10:20It's December 1990. Stacy goes to the USSR to compete in the Mrs. America pageant, and that's when the story breaks that she's going to be a Playboy cover model.
10:36As they finished up the Mrs. America pageant, when she was in the top ten, Stacy was on the cover of Playboy in the centerfold for the January 1991.
10:47She was one of the few that were ever selected to be on the cover and the centerfold. Marilyn Monroe was one other.
10:54In the 90s, the cover of Playboy was usually reserved for a celebrity pictorial.
10:58Pamela Anderson is the only other example I can think of. He was a Playmate of the Month who was on the cover immediately.
11:04And that was a big celebration. She was really excited to be this January 1991.
11:11It is unusual to have beauty pageant winners pose for Playboy.
11:14Stacy was the trendsetter. She was the first one of that stature to do it.
11:22It wasn't against the rules because nothing was stated at the time, but some of the pageant people were shocked.
11:30She really relishes the attention. She says, you know, there's nothing wrong with it.
11:34A beauty queen should be sensual. A beauty queen should be out there. And that's something that really resonates.
11:43It's interesting how people react sometimes to a woman posing nude. All of a sudden it becomes everyone else's problem.
11:51Some of them think it grants them some kind of ownership of you.
11:54And there's also a dark underbelly. And you're not really prepared for that. And you don't really see that dark side until you're already in it.
12:02I definitely think that Jim had big aspirations for her.
12:09It wasn't just that Jim was her husband. He was also her manager.
12:12He was the one who was booking all her appearances. He was the one who was kind of making her into this star.
12:19I think in a way she was a trophy for him. If you look at this, they look like different people in a way.
12:30I mean, really like I live in life in the fast lane.
12:34It's a lot to deal with, you know, when you have someone coming from a small town and one of them is all of a sudden making it big.
12:41And not only are they making it big, but they're posing nude in a magazine for everyone to see.
12:45So if you get the wrong type of person or somebody who has the wrong idea about what's appropriate, it can be really dangerous.
12:54And maybe when you're younger, you don't know that. You just don't. You think you're being kind. You think everybody's nice.
13:00You don't want to believe there's monsters out there or people that snap.
13:15From my understanding, my dad always wanted her to be a Playboy Bunny. And that's how we ended up where we are.
13:26I think she did it out of respect for him. Really.
13:29Wow, it's so cute.
13:32She was very modest, I believe. And we would tell her how beautiful she was and she would think, no, you know, she wasn't good, good enough.
13:44She was trying to get a music career started and country music and she was trying to get established in Nashville at the time.
13:56And Playboy had backed her on that. So they were trying to help her with the connections in Nashville.
14:03It was about 18 months timeframe that they went from Stacy's first pageant to Mrs. Ohio to Playboy. It was all very, very quickly.
14:16But to me, she was my mom.
14:19Looky. This is risky.
14:24Can you say hi to risky? Yes, this is your new coffee.
14:27She never came off like she was, oh, I'm all that and a bag of chips. Like it just never, never came off that way to me.
14:39I saw her as what she was, you know, a human being who had to get ready like everybody else and put one shoe on in front of the other, just like everybody else.
14:49When I met Stacy, I felt like she was very well-spoken. I felt like she was much more accomplished than I was, especially, you know, I was just out of high school.
15:04So I thought, wow, and she was Mrs. Ohio. And I looked up to that.
15:09Stacy was on a really clear trajectory. And I know she was probably thinking about Playmate of the Year next and then on into the entertainment industry.
15:21Jim was pretty excited. He was proud of her and proud of the work that she'd done and was ready to continue.
15:28My dad would do her hair and her nails and her makeup. And he just made sure that everything was perfect, picture perfect.
15:41It was always about taking care of her. He would call, oh, I understand you and Stacy are rooming together.
15:47He was so nice and just very concerned about Stacy. It seemed like he was incredibly supportive, very secure, wanted Stacy to go on to be Playmate of the Year and have a country music career and all those things.
16:01In the 90s, when Playmates were competing for Playmate of the Year, the magazine always wanted to know who the readers wanted.
16:14So they would have this 1-900 number people could call to cast a vote, like they would press a number for whatever month.
16:19But also there was this component of it where callers could elect to have a conversation with the actual Playmates and actually speaking to the Playmate over the 1-900 number would make the Playmate seem so much more accessible.
16:36This is news. This year, as in the past, callers can go on record by nominating their choices for Playmate of the Year, but they can also hear messages from their favorite and leave messages for the ladies.
16:45Playmates will answer some calls personally. Stacey was very, very serious about getting Playmate of the Year and very serious about Playboy and it being a catapult in her career.
17:00So she took that phone line very, very seriously and thought that that was going to get her better standing with Playboy.
17:09Fans would call in and the operator would punch you in and they would pick who they want to speak to and put you through.
17:18Mostly young men that had seen the magazine and wanted to talk to the girl in the magazine and they would really ask, is this really you? Why did you pose for Playboy? Simple questions.
17:29So these women were talking to all these anonymous callers that they don't know and they're not trained to handle these conversations.
17:40So they could have been asking these women for any kinds of subtle hints as to where they lived or where they might be during a certain period of time.
17:48We were all told, you don't engage. You've got to be very careful with the things that you say and how you say it.
17:59And they'd get disconnected if they started trying to talk dirty or, you know, anything inappropriate.
18:06The operator would listen in and disconnect if anything went wrong.
18:12We made $150 for three hours of being on the phone lines and fans paid $3 a minute to speak to the girls.
18:25It was interesting and it was kind of fun. You could really make a nice extra chunk of change.
18:31So their finances are always very variable. The Arthur's, they have big expenses, a lot of travel. So they start having money travels around this time where it's not as steady as they would like.
18:49This was a way to keep money coming in and to keep all the lights on and all the businesses running.
18:56The centerfold was always trying to accomplish not only beauty and sexuality, but a sense of intimacy with the subject.
19:06So the reader could feel like they really know this woman. And on the back of the centerfold, they would have this data sheet.
19:14So this is in her handwriting and it would tell you all kinds of things about her from her favorite foods to what her perfect date would be.
19:21And there were pictures of her from when she was a teenager. So the goal was really for this to be a fantasy woman and they could feel like, oh, this is the girl next door. This is somebody I have a chance with, but she's stunning.
19:35I think it was a bad idea to have the playmates be that accessible. I'm sure so many men called and then felt like they really knew these people. And it's kind of shocking to me that the playmates were asked to do that.
19:48I feel like that's kind of crossing a line.
19:51In March of 1991, a fan had began to call Stacy. His name was James Lindberg.
20:06And he loved to talk to the playmates. He would call regularly and stay on the phone for long periods of time.
20:18James Lindberg is a 32 year old man who lives in California. He's really a loner. He doesn't seem to go out that often. He, you know, starts calling this line.
20:29I remember talking to James. He talked about his grandma. He's, he's, you know, missed his grandma, loved his grandma. He wasn't inappropriate. You know, he didn't say anything sexual.
20:44It was just the way he was so emotionally, like serious. He would, you know, didn't have a sense of humor. I noticed that right away. And I thought, that's not right.
20:57He was the only one that made me feel kind of sad and bad.
21:02In my playmate issue, they write up things for the girls in the magazine. And the writer mentioned, we used to water balloon tourists in Las Vegas.
21:16And it would make us laugh. He would say, well, why would you do that? I don't understand. Why would you have done that to people? And I said, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, I feel bad about it. I feel really bad.
21:31You would get very upset and mad, like turn on a dime. That's when he started talking to Stacy more. They had become friends in his mind for certain.
21:48James Lindbergh actually set the record for the most amount of phone calls. He had spent over $15,000 just on this phone line. And keep in mind, this guy was not making a lot of money.
22:01He worked as a trucker and he was out of work for a while. So this was, this was a huge amount of cash to him.
22:07That should have been a red flag right there. It's almost like if somebody was drinking too much at a bar, they might get cut off.
22:17I think with Playboy profit was coming first in that situation for sure. Stacy said, it's okay. I'm fine. He's fine. He's not, he's harmless.
22:26None of us knew the road that she was going would lead to the dead end that it did.
22:33Stacy's life really became quite busy because she was going places to sign autographs. She was still modeling.
22:55She was doing some PR work for Playboy where Playmates would go to car shows or whatever. So things got a little crazy there for a while.
23:07I can relate to Stacy's experience a little bit, but I didn't have it happen as fast as she did. I mean, she was literally going from a small town in middle America to overnight in LA shooting her Playmate layout.
23:21Probably only a few months later, you know, the magazine was on newsstands and it's one of the hugest magazines in the world. Like even I can't imagine how head spinning that would be.
23:30She flew to the mansion or she then would fly to Nashville and then back home and trying to be a mom at the same time.
23:43But she would still sit for hours talking on the 900 number where people would call in.
23:55In March, James Lindbergh starts calling more and more often and for longer and longer.
24:01They ended up putting in a time limit because he spent so long on the phone to her.
24:08When you want to be Playmate of the Year, you want to show that you're the hardest worker and you have the most positive attitude.
24:13She wanted people to keep calling and asking for her and this person on the other end of the line might be getting the wrong idea.
24:20As long as things didn't get too inappropriate, the Playmates were instructed to just go along with whatever went on on the phone.
24:26But one time James Lindbergh got mad.
24:32Don't know how the conversation started, but he didn't like where it was going and he got mad and he hung up.
24:45But then he called back like a week or so later and he apologized to Stacy for his behavior.
24:51And then he started calling her again.
24:53He finds out her favorite color is pink and he sends her 70 pink balloons.
25:00He would kind of latch on to these little details and then show his love with sort of an overabundance.
25:08He knew about her children.
25:11She told him about her marriage.
25:14They have this pseudo friendship and he thinks that this is giving him access, that this is his way of showing his love.
25:24It can definitely get dangerous to make people feel like they know a Playmate.
25:28These are her real interests and it's her real name usually and she's telling people where she's from.
25:35So it's not like the public is even connecting with like a character in a movie.
25:39Like this is the real person.
25:41I just think it's a really weird line that gets blurred with some people.
25:44In late September 1991, he didn't call and she actually finds his number and calls him and says, are you okay?
25:56Did something happen to you?
25:57So you're getting these mixed messages back and forth.
26:01She considers it a fan star relationship, but to him, it's something more to him.
26:08It's she really cares about me.
26:10She gave him her personal number.
26:13She accepted gifts from him.
26:16She wasn't supposed to do that as a playboy center pole.
26:20She meant it as a way to just kind of check it on him.
26:22But she unwittingly makes this huge error where she gives him her personal number.
26:29And now, you know, he has sort of direct access.
26:40Lindbergh knew that Stacy and Jim were headed out to the Playboy Mansion in September.
26:44And he requested that Stacy meet up with him while she was there.
26:51I remember telling her, you really should not do this.
26:54You should not go meet with this guy.
26:57I don't think it's a good idea.
26:59But she may have really made a connection with him.
27:02I definitely think it's dangerous to put yourself in a position where you never know who you're going to meet or what the boundaries are going to be.
27:09She agreed to it, but once she got to California, her schedule was too busy.
27:13So it just didn't work out.
27:14They ended up not meeting.
27:16And that was devastating to him.
27:19And he couldn't handle that.
27:20And it starts this, you know, vicious spiral.
27:25It's really at this gray line between healthy and unhealthy behavior.
27:47Some people just naturally can't stop these thoughts from coming.
27:52I do love you.
27:54I'm in love with you.
27:58That hurts.
27:59I think Stacy started to realize that James Lindbergh may have had some unhealthy tendencies.
28:06I think every woman who's in a professional role, who has a public-facing persona, has had this problem.
28:13And she decides, you know what, I'm going to put a stop to this.
28:17I just really think it's going to be best if we take a break.
28:20I think Stacy was always kind to people.
28:23She always saw the good in people and believed that people were good deep down.
28:29The way Stacy worded that message, it makes me think of how women are always taught to be people pleasers and not offend men and let people down gently.
28:39And I think that's what she was trying to do.
28:41I just don't think it's worth it.
28:43It was nice talking to you and I felt we developed a really good friendship.
28:48Jim was always very protective of Stacy.
28:50He thought he could keep her safe from anything.
28:54And he definitely wasn't going to let this person actually see Stacy.
28:58And that's when James Lindbergh's behavior really starts to get out of control.
29:05It was nice talking to you.
29:11I just really think it's going to be best if we take a break.
29:16Dealing with men could be very tricky as a playmate because you're taught to not hurt anybody's feelings and let people down easily or say,
29:25why don't we take a break rather than cut it off completely.
29:28I believe that message probably made James Lindbergh feel even more desperate.
29:34It may have sparked his impulse to travel from his home over to where Stacy Arthur might be.
29:42You have to keep in mind, in 1991, we didn't even have stalking as a crime nationally.
29:51So, you know, you would not be on high alert for this.
29:55I've had people, you know, come to my home or somehow they get into the gated community and they're like knocking, banging on the door, like screaming my name and stuff.
30:03And it can feel really, really scary.
30:10On October 20th, James Lindbergh set off from Sacramento, California on a train.
30:17And then he traveled to Cincinnati where he rented a car and drove to Belfont, Ohio.
30:29And he checked into a local motel.
30:33It appeared he went looking for Stacy.
30:48James Lindbergh has been in this motel for a few days now.
30:53He's come this far.
30:55He's been frustrated.
30:56This is a guy who had traveled 2,000 miles to be there.
31:03On October 29th, he went to a local gift shop and he bought Stacy gifts.
31:10And he went downtown looking for Stacy, but ran into Jim, her husband, and decided to give him that gift and ask him to give it to Stacy.
31:22Lindbergh also wanted to photograph Stacy and get her autograph.
31:29Lindbergh is very set on accessing Stacy Arthur.
31:34And James Arthur is essentially trying to swat a fly.
31:39He's like, get lost buddy.
31:40And, you know, things escalate from there.
31:43Several witnesses were later identified as hearing what they thought was a loud argument.
31:56So Lindbergh left, and my brother went back in his tanning salon.
32:02And he said, if this gentleman comes looking for me again, or comes in here, called the police because he seems agitated.
32:12So then Jim left the salon and went out to get in his car, which was parked right out front of the building.
32:25He has some lights for his tanning bed.
32:28He's putting them in the trunk of his car.
32:34James Lindbergh is very intent.
32:37His life has culminated up to this point, and this guy is sort of giving him the run around.
32:42One witness said Mr. Lindbergh was kind of shifty, almost like someone who had been caught with her hand in a cookie jar.
32:51And he came running down from the parking lot, yelling, and people were starting to come out and look and see what was going on.
33:01Several witnesses witnessed Mr. Lindbergh produce a handgun and fire multiple times at Mr. Arthur at very close range.
33:18This shooting happened in broad daylight on the street in front of tons of witnesses.
33:23There's like two dozen witnesses.
33:25Lindbergh shot him once in the face, twice in the chest.
33:29And when Mr. Arthur turned away from him, he shot him three times in the back.
33:34Jim was dead almost immediately.
33:44So James Lindbergh runs.
33:48He has had all these shots in the middle of the street.
33:51He runs back to his car.
33:53Mr. Lindbergh, after shooting Mr. Arthur, ran into a parking lot.
34:02A witness saw him raise the gun.
34:05Then he pulled the trigger and shot himself in the head.
34:08I was five.
34:20I had just gotten home from half-day kindergarten, had lunch.
34:25I remember there was a car that pulled up.
34:31And two guys got out.
34:34And they said, hey, I need to talk to your mom.
34:37Next thing you know, Stacy comes running out of the house.
34:42Your daddy's dead. Your daddy's dead.
34:44I remember when I got to the phone and they said, your brother's been fatally shot.
34:53And I remember thinking, so is he dead?
34:54Because the fatal didn't register for a minute.
35:02Nothing can prepare you for that.
35:03Nothing can prepare you for that.
35:04I remember thinking, like, how is that possible that my dad's not coming home?
35:09You can't understand the finality of it at five.
35:10You can't understand the finality of it at five.
35:11I remember thinking, like, how is that possible that my dad's not coming home?
35:30You can't understand the finality of it at five.
35:37When somebody's gone down in cold blood, someone that you love, that's beyond being able to describe the amount of pain that you go through.
35:49I don't believe Stacy ever thought Lindbergh was dangerous.
35:53And I do believe that Jim and Stacy both thought that they could handle whatever came their way.
36:08It wasn't until after James Lindbergh's death that people realized just how obsessed with Stacy he was.
36:14He decorated his motel room with photographs of Stacy Arthur.
36:22There was a calendar where he had circled all her photos and had a lot of that hanging around the room.
36:33We had found in the motel also that he had recorded many conversations and had many cassettes of these conversations in his possession.
36:44He had 31 tapes of all of these conversations that he had with Stacy Arthur.
36:50And they started to get a better picture of, you know, sort of the insane, intense jealousy that he has against James Arthur.
37:03One of those tapes was transcripted and it reads, this message is for Stacy Arthur.
37:10I want her to know that I'm in love with her.
37:13And that's not a good thing because she happened to be married this time.
37:18It kind of goofs me up totally.
37:21And it hurts and I'm in love with you.
37:23Just know there you are and here I am and there your husband.
37:29Lindbergh quit his job in October of 91, almost immediately after Stacy had left him the message about taking a break.
37:39His neighbors basically reported that he was acting a little bit unhinged and getting a little bit less predictable.
37:49It seems to me that he would, in his own logic, would think he'd have to kill James Arthur before he could get to Stacy.
37:56Like the catapult into madness. A crazy fan goes and kills your friend's husband. Your sister playmate were like sisters. That's like a sisterhood.
38:11It was very scary. If someone's capable of murder, they could murder you.
38:18The family and friends of James, Alan, and Arthur.
38:24Deep inside of us, there is a feeling of loss and beworment.
38:29Death has come unexpected and under tragic circumstances.
38:35Everything was taken from me that day.
38:38My dad physically was taken from me, but my brother was never the same.
38:44My sister is never the same. Stacy was never the same.
38:50Stacy was just devastated, as we all were.
38:55Stacy lost the love of her life.
38:58She lost her confidant, her lover, her supporter, her everything.
39:04She was 23 when my dad died.
39:07I can't imagine having three children at 23 and dealing with the trauma that she was dealing with, with all of this.
39:16Like I can't even begin to wrap my mind around it.
39:19You think certain things are such a big deal.
39:23And in the scheme of things, especially, you know, your husband or your family, that is what counts.
39:34That, you know, the other things don't count.
39:37And she learned that the hard way.
39:39So, you know, after Jim's death, it's just this downward spiral.
39:45She says that she was sexually assaulted by three bodyguards at the mansion.
39:51Those bodyguards say that it was consensual.
39:55She sees Playboy as negligent and as using women for promoting their business, but not taking care of their safety.
40:04And obviously the safety of her family around her.
40:07But she was asking for a substantial amount of money.
40:12And I remember that there was nothing to stand on.
40:15There was no real clear, you know, evidence.
40:19But she eventually stops going forward with that case.
40:24And it's dismissed without prejudice, but she never refiles.
40:28This is really the beginning of the end between Stacy and Playboy.
40:32Playboy handles tragedies by burying them and not acknowledging them.
40:37Playboy cut Stacy Arthur off and it was as if she'd never existed.
40:45When I look at Stacy and how she was positioned, to me, as somebody who worked for Playboy,
40:50I see that as she was a definite front runner for Playmate of the Year.
40:54And it's shocking that she didn't get it.
40:56And that's the only reason I can think of is they were trying to distance themselves
40:59and not bring any more attention to the tragedy.
41:03She received all this attention because of this horrible tragedy.
41:07She had essentially given everything to Playboy and then they spurned her.
41:12All the dreams aren't necessarily what's really important.
41:17All that glitters isn't gold.
41:20You're never okay.
41:27It's just that time heals things a little bit, but the hole's still there.
41:34You can't fill that hole.
41:39In 2019, Stacy passed away after a brief illness.
41:43But okay, let me know.
41:44For now.
41:45Let me know.
41:46We'll be right back back.
41:48Bye-bye.
41:49Here we are.
41:50I am.
41:51I am.
41:52Take a look at this.
41:53Your battle.
41:54You can't play.
41:55You can't play it.
41:56To be gentle.
41:57You can't play.
41:58I am.
41:59To be gentle.
42:00You can't play.
42:01I am.
42:02I am.
42:03I am.
42:04I am.
42:05I am.
42:06I am.
42:07You can't play again.
42:08It can't play.
42:09You can't play.
42:10You can't play.