Original subtitles

[Holly] The original Playboy Mansion

was in Chicago.

And that's where Hef held all his legendary parties.

They could get a little wild.

[Holly] And the Bunnies that worked at the Playboy Club in Chicago

could live on the upper story.

[Beverly] Adie decided

that she wanted to live in the mansion.

[Laurie] But the Playboy life

took its toll on Adie.

[telephone ringing]

Adrienne didn't show up at work.

-[camera shutter clicks] -She was found dead.

[Laurie] We agreed immediately

it was murder.

[Michele] The one person that benefited from her death,

whether he wanted it or not, was Hugh Hefner.

Hefner was the epitome

of the evil society.

[Beverly] What was she involved in

that led to her demise?

[Laurie] If she was trafficking drugs,

that's something that could get somebody killed.

[Beverly] We realized there's much more to this

than meets the eye.

[theme music playing]

[David] In September of '73, a man called to report

that his girlfriend was found unresponsive

on their bed in their apartment.

[Michele] When the detectives arrive on the scene,

they locate a victim who is lying in her bed, face down.

She's got blood on her clothing.

And there's also blood coming out of her nose and mouth.

[siren wailing]

The victim is transported to a local hospital,

where she is pronounced dead on arrival.

They don't know exactly what caused her death,

but this is clearly not someone who just died in their sleep.

The victim's name is Adrienne Pollack,

and she is a Playboy Bunny

at the Playboy Club in Chicago.

[Holly] The very first Playboy Club

was opened in Chicago in 1960

to provide a themed environment

where customers could go

to enjoy the world of Playboy.

When people think of Playboy and Hef,

they often think of LA.

But Playboy was actually started in Chicago.

It's where Hef was from.

That's where the original offices were.

It's where the first Playboy Mansion was,

where the first Playboy Club was opened.

So, it was really headquarters for a long time.

And the Playboy Club in Chicago was unique

because it was the one Hef and his friends

would actually go to, since it was in his home city.

It was kind of, like, the test kitchen

for the Playboy clubs,

and it became very popular in Chicago

for the high-society people.

These Bunnies became so iconic.

It was such an exciting job to have,

and not necessarily easy to get.

What Playboy was looking for in a Bunny,

was a beautiful, personable girl

who felt approachable, but not too approachable,

like Adrienne Pollack.

We never did really call her "Adrienne."

We always called her "Adie."

[Beverly] We grew up outside Chicago.

It was a newer, growing, middle-class community called Niles.

Growing up, we did a lot of things together.

Both my parents worked full-time,

so she would watch me after school.

We would sit there and watch the old movies.

And a lot of times, they'd be romantic old movies.

Prior to high school, she was, I would say,

more of a homely-looking person. [chuckles]

She went from having the buck teeth and having the braces

and, uh, the brown curly hair,

to having blond hair,

and this beautiful smile and green eyes.

And at that point, she'd walk into a room,

and people would just want to go towards her.

[Laurie] Adie always liked to be around people.

She did not like to be at home.

She liked having fun and joking around.

[Beverly] She was fun. She was very outgoing, very free-spirited.

She just had a sparkle to her.

When she graduated high school,

she started working towards becoming a dental hygienist.

But she wasn't making enough money, and she wanted a better quality of life.

And then she met somebody that was going to be working

the Evel Knievel motorcycle show.

And she got the job as a promotional model.

When she was there, uh, there was someone from Playboy

that approached her and asked her if she wanted to be a Bunny.

When you're working for a company like Playboy,

it's only natural to kind of have your eyes open all the time

for somebody who might make a great Bunny candidate.

[Angelyn] I worked at The Chicago Club.

At the time, Playboy was an excellent way

for young women who were looking to find their own independence.

[Beverly] I think she had thought about it,

and then she decided to go ahead

and apply for the job.

Because it seemed like, at that time,

being a Playboy Bunny was glamorous

and maybe a stepping stone into something else.

And it was later on, in the early summer of 1972,

where she was finally approved as a Bunny.

There was definitely a cachet that came with being a Playboy Bunny,

especially in Chicago.

The Bunnies that worked there would live on the upper story

of the original Playboy Mansion in Chicago.

They called that "the Bunny Hutch,"

and the girls would kind of dorm in those rooms.

It was not mandatory for the Chicago Bunnies to live at the mansion,

but if they wanted to, there was that option.

[Beverly] Adie realized that it was a long drive for her

to go from Niles to Chicago.

So, she had decided that she wanted to live in the mansion,

and then it would be cheaper than getting an apartment on her own over there.

[Holly] The original Playboy Mansion was where Hef held

all his legendary parties in the '60s and early '70s.

[Angelyn] Life at the mansion

was always very exciting.

The parties were fun,

and they could get a little wild.

[reporter] When Hef throws a party, the magazine comes to life.

His Chicago mansion is a Peeping Tom's paradise.

Forty live-in Bunnies are there to be enjoyed,

but only by the eye of the beholder.

If you wanted to go for a swim, there was an indoor pool.

[reporter] The underground swimming pool

is kidney-shaped and filled with bikinis,

entertainment for the barflies next door.

You would often see Hefner

in the living room, ballroom, with his pipe in his mouth

and just being very casual.

Sometimes after work,

I would go there just to chill out.

It was always fun.

[Beverly] Living at the Playboy Mansion, Adie had indicated

she met many famous movie stars at the time.

Vic Damone, Warren Beatty.

She met a lot of comedians.

They always had a good time when Don Rickles came to town.

Adie had the excitement of meeting new people

and doing things.

She would also do traveling.

She went to different areas like Hawaii,

Jamaica, Florida, Las Vegas, California.

It was a different world for her,

something that she hadn't experienced before.

[Holly] Must have been so exciting to be surrounded

by all these parties all the time.

But that catches up to you pretty quick.

[Beverly] Eventually, she started to get bogged down by the day-to-day grind.

I think part of it was tiredness, traveling,

and dealing with people that were not always so nice.

[Gera-Lind] The Bunnies were like the celebrities themselves.

The constant parties, posing for pictures,

I imagine it got very exhausting for them.

[Holly] It's just parties, parties, parties all the time.

That can have a huge effect

on your mental health.

[Beverly] She had a lot of people that would try to take advantage of her.

Living in the dormitories began to be hard.

People taking her things,

or interested in her.

[Laurie] Eventually, life at the mansion

took its toll on Adie,

and she wanted to move out.

[Beverly] Also at the same time,

she had rekindled her relationship

with her ex-boyfriend, Jerry.

She had met Jerry

in high school in their sophomore year,

and they were dating through all of high school.

[Beverly] They were like magnets.

They would have their fights, they'd grow apart,

and then they would get back together again.

My family initially was okay with Jerry.

But then as time went on,

they saw that he was kind of a bullying-type person.

He was aggressive,

and they really didn't quite like him,

and were hoping that she would meet somebody else.

But in spring of '73,

a year after moving to the mansion,

again, that magnet drawing each other back to each other again.

She was committed to being in a relationship with him.

[Gera-Lind] For the Bunnies to live at the mansion,

there were a lot of strict rules.

Number one.

Your boyfriends cannot come to the mansion.

[Beverly] She wanted to move out

into an apartment with Jerry.

My parents were not ultra-thrilled, but they realized that

they didn't have any say in the matter.

They accepted the fact that they were making a fresh start.

But we really didn't see her all that much

for the next few months.

Then, she did a surprise visit on her birthday.

It was her 23rd birthday,

and it was late at night.

My parents were already in their pajamas and I was outside.

And she had come to the door, and it was her and Jerry.

And we hadn't seen Jerry for a long time,

and he looked quite a bit different.

His eyes, to me, looked really unusual.

They didn't focus.

And, to me, he was dressed kind of unusual.

My sister was wearing this blond wig.

She had this... these red satin pants on,

this sparkly tank top and... and high platforms.

Even though our parents were in their pajamas...

[chuckles] ...we took pictures together.

[camera shutter clicks]

[camera shutter clicks]

But when I hugged her, I know I felt this boniness.

It was no more like this... uh, just a lean girl.

She was really bony.

She had lost an enormous amount of weight.

But she said she was happy.

She had indicated that Jerry and her

were getting an apartment beginning of September.

It was near Playboy.

So, she had a way of getting to Playboy quickly for work.

She was excited.

They were getting their furniture, get their place set up.

And she goes, "I'm gonna have you over, Bevy.

I'm gonna have you over... overnight,

and then we could spend some time together."

And I thought, "Wow, that's exciting."

But that never happened.

[Laurie] One morning in September,

my son was going to be born at any time,

and we still couldn't pick out a name.

So, I remember we were in bed laughing,

picking out these horrible, stupid names for a baby,

and... the phone rang.

[telephone ringing]

And my husband went to answer it,

and all I could hear was,

"Oh, no. Are you sure?

Do you know how it happened?"

And then he came back

in the bedroom and told me,

and all I could remember was...

[sniffles]

Sorry. This is the hard part. [voice shaking] Um... [sniffles]

That, um...

she was dead.

They didn't know when she died.

They didn't have much information,

but they indicated she was found dead in their apartment...

by Jerry.

I was just in shock.

I mean, we were all in shock. We couldn't believe it.

We had all kinds of questions and...

and I just remember, just, feeling crumbled inside.

I just... like, couldn't believe

that I lost my sister.

I mean, it's, like...

That's so traumatic.

I was 18 and she's 23. How could that happen?

And my parents,

I mean, I can only imagine how they feel.

Their child is gone.

[Michele] So, the crime scene investigators are on the scene

-at Adrienne and Jerry's apartment. -[camera shutter clicks]

Adrienne's lying face down.

She's got blood on her clothing.

And there's also blood coming out of her nose and mouth.

They don't know exactly what caused her death at this point.

Because of the fact that this is a young 23-year-old, seemingly healthy female,

you process the crime scene

and treat it the same way you would

if you knew it was a homicide.

So, the apartment is sealed off

until further investigation will take place.

[camera shutter clicks]

[David] And from the very beginning, her boyfriend,

Jerry, would have been the number-one suspect.

So, the detectives interview Jerry.

[David] He was,

as I recall, was kind of squirrelly

in the, uh, interrogation.

And he explains that he and Adrienne went to a concert the night before.

And at the concert, she complained of a really bad headache.

So, they came home, and she took

a couple of Excedrin and went upstairs to sleep by herself.

[Michele] There's no mention of any further contact

with Adrienne after she went to bed.

So, the next morning, Jerry says

he went and got some coffee and donuts,

and he actually came back to the apartment,

and he assumed that Adrienne left for the day.

[telephone ringing]

But at 6:00 p.m.,

Jerry actually got a phone call

from one of the Bunny Mothers,

who was wondering why Adrienne didn't show up at work that day.

And that is when Jerry says he located Adrienne lying in her bed, unresponsive.

Uh, there's a lot of problems with Jerry's statement.

The fact that her boyfriend is sitting downstairs

while she's upstairs,

probably deceased, and doesn't go to check on her.

He doesn't really make any mention of it.

Was there an argument or a fight that led to them not sleeping together?

Or perhaps was he just giving her some space

because she didn't feel good?

Or did something else happen that night?

[David] He had credibility issues.

And that would have also contributed to their,

shall we say, suspicions

about what the actual circumstances were.

[Beverly] The police told us that it was 18 hours

from the time that she apparently went upstairs

to sleep after the concert,

to the time that he found her dead.

We couldn't understand,

in those 18 hours, that he wouldn't have had

some contact with her.

[David] That would have been the first questions officers would have asked.

"When's the last time you saw her?

And you're living in the same apartment with her

and you haven't seen her since the previous evening."

And that doesn't make any sense.

So, they would pretty quickly speak to the family

and get more information about Jerry,

and about the interaction between Jerry and Adrienne.

[Beverly] I told them I did fear Jerry,

and I couldn't understand

why she would go back to him.

He was very, very aggressive, not just verbally.

He did beat her up at times.

[Laurie] What infuriated me,

was that my parents knew this.

But they never reported this.

They never went to the police.

They never did anything to prevent Jerry from visiting

because they didn't want to cause trouble.

[Beverly] I do feel maybe something happened.

Maybe they got into an argument when they got home

from the concert.

Maybe there was something more that happened.

There was no sign of her being beaten or physical abuse,

even though I recall there was some blood at the scene on the bed.

But we needed to do an autopsy

to get to the bottom of cause of death.

[Beverly] When Adie's service was held,

Jerry did come.

He was not excluded from it.

And he was crying.

He said, "Your mother keeps telling me,

'I know you murdered her. I know you murdered her.'"

The next thing we knew is,

he was throwing himself over the casket, crying.

I mean, they... they... It took two men to pull him off the casket.

[Beverly] We were grieving.

There were people that she went to high school with,

relatives, Bunnies, that brought roses there.

Hefner called the funeral home

and gave Jerry his condolences.

But he didn't talk to my parents.

Hef definitely would have been saddened by the death of Adrienne.

But Playboy, as always, tried to distance themselves

from any scandal as best they could.

So, it was never really commented on.

[Beverly] There was also another gentleman there, by the name of Fred.

He said that he knew Adie,

and wanted to come and meet us.

He was a tall, pale-looking gentleman,

cordial, but...

saying really bizarre things to us.

He said, "I was one of the ones that found her dead.

And I was with Jerry, and I was in the apartment."

My parents and I had no knowledge

that anybody else was at the apartment

at the time of her being found dead.

We thought it was just Jerry.

And then he indicated that he knew...

the real reason she died.

[Beverly] The whole thing with Fred was just a...

a very big surprise to us.

We found out he was a man that visited Playboy often.

He befriended a lot of the Bunnies there, especially my sister.

And he wanted to see the apartment

because Adie had said it was really cool.

So, the day she was found dead,

Fred showed up at the door.

[David] And that's around when Jerry had gone upstairs

and discovered her as being unresponsive.

Fred was saying a lot of strange things

to my parents and my sister.

[Beverly] He indicated that Adie did not die of natural causes,

that Adie's death was planned weeks before.

He was concerned about the fact that he knew all this stuff,

and was fearing for his life.

He said that he was going to meet with my mom

at a later date and discuss it with her.

[Laurie] I don't know if he wanted to be

a big deal, or did he really know something?

[Beverly] And then Jerry came in and he said he knew Fred.

He was saying that Fred was an unusual character,

that... that the girls were afraid of him,

and that they really didn't like him.

But he just kind of hung around.

And he was at the apartment.

[David] Fred was questioned, of course, immediately.

And had a lot of wild theories

and hypothetical situations and scenarios.

[Michele] He said that he was an expert of chemicals,

and said he believed that someone threw acid on Adrienne's face.

[David] If you have acid in your face,

trust me, you are going to see the results on one's face.

And there was no indication of that.

Fred also said that she had been drinking at the concert.

[Beverly] But Fred was nowhere near them

during the concert.

He didn't know what she was doing.

So, why would he even say that she was drinking heavily?

[David] Basically, Fred said a lot of things at the time,

but had no credibility.

[Michele] When the autopsy was completed,

there was no alcohol detected.

It also did not show any signs of strangulation

or suffocation.

And there were no signs of violence,

blunt force trauma or bruising.

She had pulmonary edema, and that's just fluid that collects in the lungs.

And a lot of times this fluid has blood in it.

And that would probably account for the blood

that was coming out of her nose and mouth,

and the blood that was seen on the side of the bed.

And it's a typical,

if not common thing, that occurs when you overdose.

The toxicology report basically indicated

she died from an overdose of Quaaludes.

[Holly] A Quaalude is a pill

that will make you very relaxed to the point

where it's very easy to take advantage of someone,

because they basically don't have the inhibitions they would usually have.

Quaaludes were a common theme

with Hef and the Playboy Mansion from the '70s on.

I know he told me that he liked them because, you know,

it made it easier to get a woman in bed.

[Michele] In the 1970s, Quaaludes were basically party drugs.

And they actually called them "the leg spreaders."

[Laurie] My parents didn't know my sister did drugs.

So, them listening to somebody saying she died of Quaaludes

and they're already confused

about all of this.

We weren't sure how she got access to the Quaaludes,

how she took them.

[David] Law enforcement never really had drug units prior to the '70s.

They said, "Jerry is more to blame,"

that it was his lifestyle,

from all indications, that introduced Adrienne to the drugs.

But this is, again, in the early '70s.

You've got to understand

that a homicide detective in Chicago, at that time,

is absolutely swamped with cases.

And unless he's got something to really grab onto

and can solve a situation quickly,

he has to move on to his next file.

And when he had a drug overdose possibility,

they closed the homicide

or potential homicide aspect of the file,

and classified it as a drug overdose.

[Laurie] At the time, that had to be accepted.

Case closed.

And my mother was angry

because she wanted to see Jerry paying for this.

[Michele] Unfortunately, this is a common occurrence.

We often have people who die from overdoses,

and there are people

that may be responsible for their death,

but they're never charged.

Finally, after the investigation was over,

we were able to get into her apartment

and get all her clothing.

[Beverly] After going through her items,

we found different things that were...

were suggestive of the fact that Adie was more involved in...

in drugs than what we had thought.

[David] And that convinced them

that now, they have to ask more questions.

We contacted Jerry because some of the things that we got were probably his.

When he came, he started to reveal some of the information

that we... we didn't have about Adrienne.

He said that Adie was afraid and wanted a gun.

And we found wigs in her belongings,

and he says, "Yeah, she would wear those

as a disguise." And we were like, "A... A disguise? Why?"

And then Jerry dropped a bomb on us.

[Beverly] Jerry said that the reason why Adie did get the wigs

and she wanted the gun,

was the fact that she was trafficking drugs

through the Playboy Club.

[David] Jerry outlined a scenario

where she was basically a drug mule for Hefner.

[Beverly] We didn't want to believe him,

but when we thought about it,

the pieces of the puzzle were coming together.

She did fly on the Playboy jet a lot.

[Beverly] And we're thinking, "Is that why she was traveling to Hawaii, Jamaica,

all these places that she normally couldn't afford?"

Then in her apartment,

we found letters that were from a Bunny

in England, um, asking her to send ludes,

that she needed ludes.

No one's gonna make mention of Quaaludes in a letter and ask to send them some

if they didn't have prior knowledge

that this person can get it for them.

[Beverly] There was a cartoon talking about Quaaludes

talking about the individuals that were at Playboy,

including Jerry, that were depicted in this cartoon picture,

saying that, like, Adie was the head

of this... process.

We were questioning, "Well, maybe this is true. Maybe Jerry's right."

We don't know his involvement but,

apparently, there was something more there than just a simple overdose.

[Laurie] If she was trafficking drugs,

that's something that could get somebody killed.

I have heard a story from one of Hef's girlfriends

from the '70s, Sondra Theodore. She said

that she was sent out to go pick up cocaine for Hef.

And she was like, his 19-year-old girlfriend.

So, I don't disbelieve it.

[Beverly] After that, my mom decided to talk to the investigators

to explain what Jerry had told her.

And they said, "Well, it's just a simple overdose."

And she's like "No, there's much more to this than meets the eye."

But it went nowhere.

So, my mom decided to take things into her own hand,

and she was very persistent about trying to figure out

what really happened.

[Michele] She's contacting anyone that will hear her,

because she wants to get to the bottom

of her daughter's death.

[Beverly] She tried to contact Fred again,

and he was basically gone.

He... He would not return calls,

and he would not return letters or anything like that.

But she didn't know of a senator

who previously lived down the street from us in Chicago,

and contacted his office and talked to him,

and explained to him about what that happened,

and he agreed to send information

to the Cook County State's Attorney,

Bernard Carey, to look into this.

[David] Well, the state's attorney's office

is a political office in a lot of ways. So,

if a higher-ranking official,

uh, or politician is asking you to look at a specific case,

the answer, of course, is, "We'll look into it."

[Michele] In the '70s, drug use was rampant.

Many people died from drug overdoses. And I think

the government wanted to stop it.

And the way of doing that was to do the war on drugs.

We must wage, what I have called, "total war"

against public enemy number one in the United States,

the problem with dangerous drugs.

[David] The war on drugs

is really a number-one subject for, uh,

a lot of the political campaigns.

[Michele] They want to get a conviction, and when you get a conviction,

what happens to your political aspirations?

They get more realized.

And I think that Hugh Hefner basically had an X on his back.

[David] Hefner was sex, drugs, rock and roll,

and he was the epitome of the evil society

by the Conservative politicians.

So, if drug trafficking was proven as linked to Hefner,

it would have taken down Hefner

and all of Playboy Enterprises.

And that was the goal of law enforcement.

[Holly] When I moved into the mansion,

Hef always tried to present himself

as being very anti-drug.

And I kind of came into the situation

thinking that was the case. And on our very first night out,

he offers me a Quaalude.

So, I think that was kind of all a facade.

[David] The assumption that law enforcement took,

looking at Playboy was,

"We know there's got to be drugs there.

We just got to figure out how to make a case."

[telephone rings]

[Beverly] And that's when the investigators, uh, re-contacted my mom

and said that they were going to look into Adrienne's death.

[David] I was personally involved as the investigator

for the state's attorney's office.

And they said, "Go over the case again."

But in the bigger picture,

I wanted us to look at the whole Hefner world

and the Playboy Enterprises,

and find out if they were trafficking drugs.

[Beverly] We realized that Adie was a smaller part

of this particular investigation,

but an important part in understanding

what Hefner was involved with at the time.

[David] We ran an undercover operation.

We went to the Playboy Club in Chicago and tried to solicit sources to see

if there was drugs running in the clubs.

But we had real problems breaking through with the Bunnies.

The staff wouldn't talk to us,

and everybody would just deny anything.

We needed one witness.

If one Bunny had come forward,

one staff member had come forward,

we could have had something.

But we just couldn't get it.

Hefner took care of everybody.

He was hiding witnesses,

protecting witnesses and luring them all up.

[Michele] Then, things got really interesting

in March of 1974.

[Gera-Lind] As the state's attorney office was investigating,

they learned that Bobbie Arnstein,

the top secretary of Hugh Hefner,

was arrested outside the Playboy Mansion, with cocaine.

She was arrested by the Feds.

Not by us, the locals, but by the Feds.

The Feds were already looking at the drug involvement.

So, we were looking at it simultaneously.

Bobbie was charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine.

Bobbie Arnstein was one of Hef's social secretaries

back in the '60s and early '70s.

[Michele] She was his girl Friday. She did everything for him.

She was basically probably his closest confidant.

[David] Potentially, Bobbie Arnstein was the missing link.

She had the knowledge.

If they get Bobbie Arnstein to talk,

they could get Hefner.

[Holly] Police thought Bobbie Arnstein

might be a weak link

that they could exploit to bring Playboy down.

[Michele] She figures, because she is a first-time offender,

she'll be able to probably avoid any jail time

and get probation.

So, Bobbie refuses to talk.

But Bobbie is actually convicted

and sentenced to the maximum in prison, which is 15 years.

The Cook County State's Attorney's Office then decided

to open a grand jury investigation

into Hugh Hefner,

and also the death of Adrienne.

Ideally, in the best case scenario for the Feds

would be for Bobbie to cooperate

with the investigation, and give information about Hef

and about the narcotics distribution

inside the Playboy Mansion.

That would, in turn,

lower her sentence, or at least give her the possibility

of not spending 15 years in prison.

They figured that would be their leverage against Bobbie Arnstein.

I'm sure Hef was very worried about what Bobbie might say.

Bobbie was so close to him.

Bobbie would have known everything he was doing,

everything that was going on in the mansion.

And there's so much pressure on her that anybody could crack.

I mean, he must have been petrified.

[David] The Feds were trying to just squeeze her

in every possible way they could to try and get her to testify.

In fact, they said, "Well, we've heard rumors

that there may be a hit on your life."

They said, "If you don't testify against Hefner,

uh, we can't protect you.

Uh, things could get dangerous for you."

[Michele] The pressure was the highest at this point for Bobbie.

[siren blaring distantly]

And then...

January, 1975,

Bobbie Arnstein is found dead

inside the Maryland Hotel in Chicago.

[Beverly] She died from a drug overdose.

Police suspected suicide,

but it was the day before she was supposed to go to the grand jury.

[Laurie] I had turned on the news,

and said she was dead.

And I immediately called my sister.

I think we were both a little surprised,

a little shocked.

But we agreed immediately.

It was murder.

[Beverly] We never felt it was suicide.

I... I feel like it was so coincidental.

[Michele] There was definitely conspiracies about Bobbie being taken out.

And if you look at it,

the one person that benefited from her death,

whether he wanted it or not, was Hugh Hefner.

[Laurie] Names were going to come out.

Trafficking was going to come out.

I just think he was going to be destroyed.

I think that Bobbie knew enough all these years

that she could take him down.

[David] There's a lot of rumors that she was killed

to prevent her from testifying.

There was no information that we ever learned

that there was a hit out on Bobbie Arnstein's life.

It was just a bluff.

Bobbie committed suicide,

and I'm absolutely sure that that's what it was.

When she was found, there was a suicide note she had left.

And in her suicide letter,

she never, ever said anything to implicate Hefner.

Right to the very, very end.

Did she know about Hefner's drug use? Of course she did.

Of course she did.

But she was loyal to the death.

Hefner bought time

on all the major television stations in Chicago

after Bobbie died.

And gave a very emotional speech,

blaming the government,

saying they did this, they killed her, basically.

An already emotionally-troubled woman...

was pushed beyond endurance.

And she killed herself.

[Holly] When Bobbie passed away,

that must have been incredibly devastating to Hef, and scary.

I know it was

a big regret in his life.

But he probably wouldn't admit he felt responsible for,

even in a remote way,

but probably did.

[Gera-Lind] With Bobbie Arnstein's death, the Hugh Hefner investigation

almost seemed to have vanished,

as well as the investigation

into Adrienne Pollack's death.

[David] And I think a big part of it was the media blitz

that occurred after Bobbie's death,

and Hefner's appearance

on all the television stations.

And all of a sudden, he was somewhat of a sympathetic character.

So now, the publicity was going

against the government at that point.

And the most difficult part of that, quite honestly,

was going with my partner...

back to Adrienne Pollack's house,

and talking to her family,

and saying, "I'm sorry we couldn't give you closure on this."

[Beverly] It was just, like, over with.

It was done. That was it.

[Laurie] It's devastating to know

every one of these people got away with it all.

Nobody paid.

But my sister and... and Bobbie, really,

they paid with their life.

I think of Adrienne's family and how tragic it is

that they probably will never get answers.

It must be so hurtful to have a loved one

just brushed off as an accidental overdose,

when you're so sure there's something else going on.

[Beverly] My mom wrote to so many individuals over the years.

She wrote to whoever she could

to try to find answers or to open this up.

And she did write to Hugh Hefner.

And I do have a copy of the letter,

and I'd like to read it.

[reading] "The truth will be made known, and perhaps not in our time.

But someone will be inquisitive.

And a great movie will be made

with Playboy as the background,

with the glitter, the dazzle, disillusion,

heart-break story

that a sensitive director shall bring to the screen.

I do not believe Adrienne died in vain.

God chose this time to shake up

many young women who had dreams of grandeur,

only to result in tragedy."

Lisa Kaehl went from an unknown waitress

to a Playboy sensation overnight.

I never thought my safety could be at risk.

I saw blood everywhere.

How could someone look at her and do this?