Model & Hollywood hottie Ron Marquette killed in a dangerous game of love or Russian Roulette
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Ron Marquette, a Hollywood heartthrob in the 90s, was at the top of Aaron Spelling's short casting list for leading men. His tall, dark, exotic good looks and his charismatic wickedly hot bad boy charm had already made him a sex symbol in the modeling world, and he had slept with the better half of Hollywood's sexiest leading ladies. At 30 years old and with his classic movie star good looks, he was conquering the small screen in tv land before he got involved with the wrong leading lady in one of his last movies.
In Hollywood in the '90s, unwanted partners and spouses frequently met sketchy early ends either by gruesome gun killings like Robert Blake's wife, stabbings like OJ Simpson's wife Nicole Brown Simpson, or tragic pool drownings like William Shatner's wife Nerine Kidd, whom we profiled earlier this season or Tito Jackson's wife, Delores Martes. It seemed that if you were a famous man in Hollywood, it was allegedly cheaper and easier to kill'em than keep'em.
In this tragic love story, the beautiful and talented actress Dedee Pfeiffer has a Deadly Past and that's not only the title of the last movie she and Ron Marquette made together but it is a fact. Dedee Pfeiffer is allegedly the last person to see Ron Marquette alive and the only person playing games with his heart and a gun on that fateful horrific night on September 27, 1994 when Ron was killed. Was it a deadly game of Russian Roulette or did something else really happen? We may never know what really happened but in this first episode of Ron Marquette's double episode of True Crime, Fashion, and Passion podcast Phillip sit down with close friends and family of Ron's who tell a different side of the story. Join Phillip as he talks with Ron's son, Aaron Marquette, one of Ron's long-time girlfriends who had originally discovered him as a model/ actor, and one of his best friends that he grew up with skateboarding and surfing. Learn about an alleged letter that existed where Dedee proclaimed and threatened "if I can't have you no one else will", how Ron's death has changed all their lives tragically forever, and their struggle to find the truth and show the world the true crime story behind what they believe is the murder of Ron Marquette.
True Crime, Fashion, and Passion is recorded and edited at DNR Studios in New York, NY. The podcast is hosted by Phillip Bloch, cohosted by Carol Alt and Pat Cleveland. Our Senior Producer is Annie Quaile. Illustrations created by Antonio Contreras. Follow him at @antonioeldeseo on Instagram.
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