[Christopher] Paula wanted to be in Playboy.
It would've taken her away and gotten her out of Detroit.
The 50th anniversary Playmate was presented as being like a very special Playmate.
It doesn't matter if you pose nude in Playboy. That doesn't give somebody
access or the rights.
But it's really important as a woman going out to really be
on your guard, you know, there's people trying to slip things into your drinks.
There's people trying to grab you as you walk across the room.
You never know who you're surrounded by.
It can be really scary.
It's one of the most heinous cases that I've ever worked.
This is an animal out there that did this.
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[Christopher] Paula was this very dainty sweet girl.
She had a little dog that she loved.
She always took care of her family.
I met Paula through a friend at a party.
We started hanging out and kind of hit it off at the party.
She was a little shy at first, so,
I welcomed her, made her feel comfortable,
and from that point forward, we hang out a lot, do a little partying.
We would go out to a club called Elektricity in Pontiac.
And this was before she was 21.
So they had an 18-over night on Sunday nights and we'd go dancing there.
Paula was the life of the party.
She always wanted to have fun.
She looked like a movie star, a model.
We were coming back home from an out-of-town music festival
and we're in our Mustang, 'vertible, top down
and she's doing about 90-95 mph.
And I look behind us and I'm like, "Paula,
there's a state trooper behind you."
And the state trooper just pulls up next to her,
gets on the loud speaker and goes,
[mimics bullhorn] "You're hot."
And drove off. [laughs]
My name is Robere Lett. I own a modeling talent agency in Detroit.
I happened to meet Paula Sladewski
around 2003 just through auditions
and, you know, having the models come in.
Paula was, what I call, one of those perfect in betweens.
She wasn't the tallest, skinny runway model
or the young, All American, sort of, ingenued.
She was that really pretty in-between, very curvy.
Paula had amazing eyes.
We thought she was very striking,
had a really good look and we decided to take her on.
We did auto shows and Paula was great for those opportunities
because we did shows in Vegas
and all across the country where they wanted the sexier model
to be in front of the Charger, or the, you know. [laughs]
The big rig or whatever.
But Paula's more swimsuit, um, kind of lingerie look.
So booking her was a little bit more of a challenge
in Detroit because we're Mid-West.
We're not a swimwear crowd.
That was all being done pretty much on the West Coast.
We're not actively into the magazines that display the very sexy.
The prototype for that was the Playboy mansion in LA.
And I know Paula had interest in being a Playboy Playmate.
And I felt if she wanted to really attain
the Playmate facade, you gotta hang around at the parties,
you've gotta be seen with the people
who make those decisions.
And so, LA would've been the market
and a better stepping stone than trying to do it from the Mid-West.
[Holly] Around the time Paula moved to LA,
Playboy was doing a search for their 50th anniversary Playmate.
So it was the perfect time for her to try out.
Paula was 19 when she tried out for Playboy.
When you're a young woman looking to get into the entertainment industry,
or into modeling, there is so much emphasis placed on youth.
I remember when I first came to LA,
I was told I was getting too old at 19.
You can really start to feel like,
I need to do it now or never.
[Christopher] Paula definitely changed once she went to LA.
She got a little bit Hollywood I guess, you could say.
She got extensions on her hair
and boob job when she was out in LA.
She looked like a totally different person, but still Paula.
Gorgeous as all could be.
[Holly] Playboy magazine got its start in 1953.
Throughout the 1960s, it continued to grow.
It was a huge part of the sexual revolution.
By the time you hit the '70s and '80s,
it's this main stay in American pop culture.
By the time you get to the '90s,
you have celebrities in the magazine,
coming from the magazine like Pamela Anderson
and Anna Nicole Smith.
But going into the new millennium
being a magazine featuring nude women
is no longer the dominant form of that kind of entertainment.
So Playboy had a lot of adjusting to do.
They've been getting into the home video arena
and the online arena, and by the time
you got to 2003, it was the magazine's 50th anniversary.
Golden anniversary.
And we're looking for a golden girl.
[Holly] And perhaps the 50th anniversary
was a time to get more publicity.
[Amber] The 50th anniversary search tryouts,
there were former Playmates there
with all the paperwork, making you feel comfortable,
making you feel welcome.
When you go to a Playboy casting call,
you would be called into the room,
you fill out a piece of paper giving all your stats
and your contact information.
I'm in cosmetology school.
I work in Preston Tech. I work for the state of California.
Electrical engineering and computer science.
[Christopher] Paula was ready for stardom.
She wanted modeling to get into the Playboy
and Playboy to get her into the movies.
You would go into a room, usually privately
to take some test photos and usually that would involve
like getting topless or maybe nude.
[man] Beautiful.
To be in Playboy is kind of a dream come true.
The photographer asked me, "Do you mind if I get
a couple of shots of you topless?"
And I kind of looked at him like he was weird [chuckles]
and said, "Well, why do you think I'm here?
I'm here to try out for Playboy."
That's beautiful, right now.
A search like this could be a really big deal
for a woman trying out because of the huge prize.
You're trying to make it in the entertainment industry,
to be able to say you have this Playboy title
sets you apart from the crowd.
Paula would try to be the center of attention.
[Amber] You drop your robe and then quickly, you kinda have to get over
the fact that there's a lot of people there.
But you know they're gonna make you look good.
And everyone's very professional.
The Playboy shoots are designed to make the woman feel very comfortable
and confident and good about ourself.
Playboy's always been about celebrating the female form
and you can tell in Paula's video
she's probably getting a lot of positive reinforcement
from the crew. She seems very confident,
very lively, very secure in her beauty and who she is.
I felt empowered. This is everything that I wanted.
I felt good and I felt strong and I felt confident.
They've got people doing your nails and sending you
to salons in Beverly Hills doing your hair.
All of a sudden you're swept up in a dream world of Playboy.
[Christopher] The magazine was a stepping stone for Paula
to get into other modeling jobs, uh, maybe movies, TV.
Anything like that, you know, the sky was the limit for her.
She was a beautiful woman.
[Colleen] But when you're young and you've just shot with Playboy
and you're the center of attention and you're up doing
the late nights and the partying,
you never know who you're surrounded by,
what this person's background is.
I think that girls can really get in some very bad situations.
[Holly] After the tryouts,
all the photos were looked over
and the top candidates from all over the country
were chosen to take part in test shoots.
So from the test shoot, they could choose the 50th anniversary Playmate,
which was presented as being like a very special Playmate.
You got paid a little bit more, you're given prizes.
As the 50th anniversary Playmate search was winding down,
there were probably thousands of women
waiting to find out if they made it.
This could've been a career making opportunity for Paula.
But unfortunately, she wasn't chosen
as the 50th anniversary Playmate.
I'm Colleen Shannon and I'm the 50th anniversary Playmate.
I was chosen as the 50th anniversary Playmate.
It was a lifelong dream for me.
[Amber] I ended up appearing in the issue
as a finalist for the 50th anniversary.
[Christopher] I don't think not getting into
the 50th anniversary magazine would've been viewed as
a setback for Paula.
I think she took it as, okay, I've gotta get into the next thing for it.
[Holly] Paula was in the DVD extras
for the 50th anniversary search.
As Playboy home video went into the '90s
and early 2000s, of course, they sold a lot of things on DVD.
And the early 2000s, the home video portion
of Playboy enterprises was huge for the company.
[Amber] A lot of the girls, they appeared on
Playboy video, went on to become Playmates
and I think anyone that had any kind of connection to Playboy,
whether you did a tryout or appeared
in a clip of a video, or a background of a party at Hef's,
there's always that dream that they still got eyes on you,
and you could make it to the top, eventually.
Doing a shoot with Playboy, you know, you are taking a risk, like,
you don't know if it's gonna help your career
or hinder your career.
Cover girls of Playmates have made a career out of it,
and then there's girls where it's like,
okay, well, once it's done, like, it's done.
[Holly] Paula was still in her early 20s.
She wanted to move back to Detroit,
but she still was interested in pursuing jobs in the modeling industry.
After Paula was in Playboy, I didn't get to book her a ton.
Back in the day, Detroit had a very conservative client base
and if they find out that you were a Playmate model,
then they would cancel you.
I would always tell models, be careful as to how much skin you showed,
and where you showed it because
as you move through life, this will always be out there.
And sometimes will come back to bite you.
[Colleen] Becoming a Playmate can be the high point of your life.
But the new girls, they're coming in on the daily,
you know, and it's like, once it's up, it's like,
well, what are you gonna do next?
Playboy didn't work out for Paula as far as
furthering her modeling career,
but she did find another way to capitalize on her good looks.
After the search, Paula went into exotic dancing.
She would build herself as a Playboy model
and have like the Playboy bunny
projected behind her on stage and things like that.
It can really help you stand out in a crowd.
You're still pretty and you're Playboy, you can dance now.
You can come to the club and make a thousand dollars a night.
When that kind of money is offered to you,
people definitely are drawn to that.
I think Hef in Playboy did not like it
when their brand was associated with strip clubs.
They wanted to keep it a little more elevated.
But because she was in a Playboy video,
it is fair for her to say she was in Playboy.
Paula liked to be able to purchase nice things.
And she was making money as an exotic dancer.
She always paid her way and she always had nice clothes, nice car
for a 21 year old driving around in a convertible Mustang
that she paid for. She was proud of that car.
Paula was somebody who partied hard,
would entail drinking and drug use.
I think working in that environment,
those things go hand to hand.
You'll see drugs and a lot of drinking,
and stuff like that in that industry.
There definitely were some pitfalls.
I know she would get groped and stuff like that.
So it was definitely some unwanted attention there.
Paula also had been in tumultuous relationships.
When I knew her, she was dating a guy.
His name was Robie.
I don't think he treated her very well.
She called me on several occasions when they'd gotten in fights.
And I had to come rescue her.
I know he hit her a couple of times.
It was always hard for me to see her being in that kind of situation.
I always was like, you should just get rid of him.
You're young. You can do a lot better than him.
Our friendship would take breaks
every once in a while where I was slowing down.
I'm not partying or I wouldn't see her.
At some point, she ended up down in Miami
with a guy she was dating. I didn't even know who he was.
Never heard anything about him.
[David] Kevin Klym was a realtor working in Detroit.
Kevin and Paula seemed to have been together
for a couple of years to the best of my recollection.
Uh, maybe less.
Paula and Kevin flew in from Michigan
down to Miami during New Year's eve, 2009.
Paula and Kevin were in Miami to celebrate the New Year.
This was going to be the ultimate fun filled weekend.
After a Lady Gaga concert, Paula and Kevin were
hitting all of the clubs and then the after clubs.
Paula was, I would say, Kevin's meal ticket.
I don't think he was making a lot of money at that point in his life.
And so, he was pretty much rolling along with Paula.
[Christopher] Paula was making a lot of money.
And I'm sure that he was taking advantage of her
if he was being supported by her.
But man, I couldn't imagine Paula would've allowed that for long.
Paula was pull no punches kinda girl.
She wouldn't hold back if she didn't like something you said or did.
She would've let you know.
Paula did whatever she wanted to do,
when she wanted to do it. It wasn't...
Nobody ever was gonna tell her no and stop her from doing that.
For a tourist, if you're coming in town
and you don't know the streets of Miami,
you're in for a rude awakening.
There's areas in Miami that are just beautiful
and gorgeous, Key Biscayne, Pinecrest, Palmetto Bay, Coral Gables.
But at night, you gotta be careful what street you're on.
This night club neighborhood is not a nice neighborhood.
There's pan handlers out on the street,
there's drug sales going on on the street.
Paula would go out to the night clubs and go dancing
whenever she could.
She was kinda like the energizer bunny.
She kept going and going, and going.
[David] Most bars in Miami, they close at 5:00 am.
Club Space was a different animal.
They opened at eleven o'clock in the evening
and they closed at 2:00 in the afternoon.
So it was a late night, early morning club where
people did Mollys and Xanax and different kinds of drugs.
[Christopher] I was always worried about Paula.
Being as free spirited as she was, I always worried about her.
But I was shocked when I got a call from my friend Nicole
and said, hey, put on the news right now.
Something happened with Paula.
[Meghan] Kevin wakes up the next morning
in their hotel around 11:30 am
and he's very surprised that Paula has not returned.
Kevin reaches out to the police
to file a missing persons report.
But they say that it's too soon.
So Kevin started calling around and was able to find
a private investigator just that day
to help him locate his girlfriend.
[David] Kevin Klym called me early January 3rd.
The weekend had been New Year's eve
and while I'm in the office, I got the call.
And he told me his girlfriend was missing, he seemed desperate.
And I said, why don't I take you down to the city at Miami police station.
And we'll get a detective that's gonna help us out
and get this thing moving.
I had contacts in Miami. I've been in law enforcement.
I've been working in the system for a long time.
And so, fortunately, I got to somebody that got us
in the right hands very quickly.
And Kevin went down there. I didn't hear the story
until the detective, me and Kevin
were sitting there at the city of Miami police station
and he was telling the two of us what had happened.
Kevin tells police that he and Paula were in Miami
to celebrate the New Year with some very hard partying.
[David] According to Kevin, he and Paula went into Club Space
at approximately 5:30 in the morning.
They arrived by 10:00.
They seem to be drinking heavily.
Paula was a type of gal that people would turn their heads
to look at her 'cause she was special.
She was pretty, she was sexy,
and she had all eyes on her when she was in that club.
[Holly] Being a beautiful woman walking into a night club,
there can be a lot of benefits.
People wanna buy you drinks, people wanna let you into VIP area.
You know, you can get everything comped or for free.
But it's really important as a woman going out to really be on your guard.
You know, there's people trying to slip things into your drinks,
there's people trying to grab you as you walk across the room.
Kevin saw somebody he thought he knew in the upstairs part
of the club. So he went up
to try to find that person and say hello to him.
Being an attractive woman is, it kind of makes you a magnet.
And sometimes you're attracting
the wrong attention, you know?
Kevin told us, when he came back down,
a situation around Paula was out of control.
Paula was dancing.
Guys were grinding next to her.
At that point, Kevin grabbed her and said,
"Paula, come on, babe. Let's go."
And she picked her arm up to push him away.
That was Paula to a tee. Nobody was gonna tell her
what she could or couldn't do.
She was gonna do what she wanted, when she wanted.
Within seconds, bouncers were on Kevin.
Kevin was escorted out of the club about 7:15 in the morning.
He gets outside.
Kevin told us that he was upset because
he's thrown out, Paula pushed him away,
she wouldn't come with him.
Kevin decides, well, I'm just gonna go back to the hotel in Miami beach.
Takes a cab back to his hotel.
But as far as he knew, Paula's still there at Club Space.
He thought she might be partying for a while.
He thought she may go somewhere else to another club.
But for her not to return after several hours,
after he woke up, he seemed worried about her.
With that information that he had given us,
me and the detective went back to Club Space
and we had contacted a manager
who was able to get access to the video room.
So we started going through tapes of camera footage
of them in the club.
[Meghan] The surveillance cameras in this particular club were
were aimed at the door and at the bar, at the cash register.
So what they're really surveilling is their employees
to make sure nobody's stealing and that they're doing the right thing.
But what they're not looking at
is the whole area of the club with their patrons.
Kevin was seen on video being escorted out of the club.
And then Paula was escorted out
less than ten minutes after Kevin.
It's common practice at many night clubs
where if a couple is in an altercation inside the club,
they will be separated and escorted out at different times.
Kevin was actually holding Paula's cellphone
when he was ejected from the club.
So by the time Paula's out of the club,
she has no way to contact him or anyone else.
The security footage, a grainy footage, it was not real clear.
There was a number of men that actually followed her out as soon as she passed.
All of the security cameras at Club Space
were inside the club.
So after Paula has left the club,
no one can account for her movements.
[Meghan] Wasser and Kevin, they take to the streets.
They're handing out flyers, showing her picture
and asking anyone if they've seen Paula.
[David] I'm there as a private investigator.
I have no authority.
My job is to help try to find her
and you wanna check out as many places as you can to find Paula.
But I'm giving Kevin advice, hey, let's start calling hospitals.
Let's start calling the medical examiner.
Let's call local jails, you know.
Let's eliminate all the places we can so we can keep our focus to where she is.
He got hold of the medical examiner's office
and learned that there was a body
that had been located in North Miami
and they wanted to talk to Kevin.
[Meghan] When Kevin gets to the medical examiner's office,
they show him some earrings that belonged to a female,
but the earrings were badly burned.
And Kevin didn't really recognize the first two earrings they showed him.
But then they showed him a third earring,
and Kevin immediately recognized that item
as an earring that belonged to Paula.
[narrator] Sladewski's burned body was found in a North Miami trash can.
You know, we can't even... We can't even give her an open casket.
We can't even see her again.
[narrator] The 26 year old woman's family
has said she was strangled before she was set on fire.
She had to be identified using dental records.
[Amber] What happened to Paula, that's just devastating.
It's horrifying.
It's just... a tragedy.
When the police discover a body,
what becomes very critical is getting the medical examiner
to identify the body and work with whatever
remains they have, no feet injuries.
Was this a case of a strangulation?
Or was there a potential shooting?
In this case, all the police discovered of Paula in that dumpster
were charred human remains.
There wasn't much left, unfortunately.
So it was not possible for the medical examiner
to identify how Paula was murdered
before her body was burned.
[David] It is no longer a missing persons case.
It becomes a homicide and there should be
a lot more investigation now being conducted.
North Miami got hold of Kevin and started interrogating him
for an awfully long time.
And I could tell he was very concerned.
[Meghan] When they initially bring Kevin in
to interview him, Kevin speaks without a lawyer
and it winds up being a 12 hour interrogation.
Police find out Kevin and Paula had a tumultuous relationship.
Kevin had broken Paula's nose once.
Kevin has a documented criminal history of domestic violence.
Kevin now looks like a prime suspect in this case.
[Meghan] With Kevin Klym,
police now have a boyfriend who has used violence
in the past against his girlfriend.
They've been drinking all weekend long.
They have a fight.
Paula is found dead.
Things aren't looking that good for him.
Domestic violence, unfortunately,
is a huge concern amongst Playmates or women who are
in the modeling industry.
You meet men who are really attracted to that,
but then they become possessive and jealous,
and that can play into the arguing.
It can play into things escalating, unfortunately.
Kevin denied any involvement in Paula's murder
and the police didn't have any reason to hold him.
So they released him, but advised him to stay in Miami.
[David] I felt that the police are trying to close this case and arrest Kevin.
I didn't know him from Adam,
and I wanted to feel more comfortable
that he was my client and who has was.
So I wanted to go back to the hotel where he was
just to see the room, to see what I can see
if there's anything that stood out to me that was unusual.
[Meghan] To burn a victim's body, it's a way to make sure
that this victim can't be identified quickly,
and that no biological material, including DNA
can be traced back to the offender.
So in this mindset, it's all about the cover up.
I was looking around, there's nothing else standing at the room
other than what he described, you know,
stuff from her getting dressed to go to see Lady Gaga.
Her clothing in there, no blood,
nothing that looked like there had been a struggle in his room.
Anything like that.
So while I was looking, I also start providing information
to North Miami police.
Paula was missing from Club Space,
which is downtown Miami.
She was found about 12 minutes to the north
in an industrial area in North Miami.
North Miami police get the jurisdiction,
that they take the case.
Kevin didn't know Miami. He did not have a vehicle, which becomes very paramount
because it was clear that whoever had
murdered Paula would've had to transport her body,
probably to a location that was known to the assailants
and Kevin just didn't have the means.
He didn't have knowledge about the area,
and so, given that, the police are starting to think that
he might not be the perpetrator.
[David] I also went back to a gas station
where we covered a video which showed Kevin coming in
and presenting a picture of Paula to the clerk
and asking if he'd seen her around.
There was a window of approximately 14 hours
between the time that Paula left the club
and the time that she was discovered burned in a dumpster.
Kevin's activities were known during that period of time.
After that, the police cleared Kevin
of any wrongdoing or any suspicion.
He was no longer a person of interest for North Miami.
And so, he was no longer involved in the case.
After police cleared Kevin, he returns to Detroit.
It's part of the tragedy of this case.
Had Kevin just waited around for 20 minutes,
he could've possibly been there
to stop whatever vicious attack happened on his girlfriend.
I'm sure that that's something he has to live with everyday.
As part of their investigation,
the police are naturally going to go back to the club.
They wanna interview potential witnesses.
Did anyone see Paula leaving with anyone?
[David] Do you remember a white gentleman named Kevin?
I started to canvas that whole Club Space neighborhood.
There were some street artists
and vendors close by.
As it would turn out, they got lucky in that regard.
And that they found some witness
who said that he saw a woman matching Paula's description
walking the way from the club
with an African-American male.
North Miami police came up with a sketch
that was based upon that witness
that had said that this man was walking out of Club Space
hand in hand with Paula.
When Paula's case was covered in the news,
she was often referred to as a Playboy model.
I'm not sure how much news of Paula's murder
affected the Playboy community.
Usually, if Playboy can, they try not to comment
or distance themselves from bad publicity.
There was initially an accusation
that the man in the sketch was one of the bouncers at the club.
But the police had interviewed all the bouncers and there were surveillance,
there were cameras that showed their whereabouts.
And so, the police were able to determine
that it was not one of the bouncers
at the club that was in this sketch.
There was nothing that I know of that came of that sketch.
There's never been any mention of
who this guy was or anything like that.
So as time moved along, there were no new leads in this investigation.
I was a major crimes investigator
and worked on a lot of murder cases.
I kind of knew a little bit about investigation
and what was going on and this was striking me as
just inadequate work.
I felt very strongly that we needed to find the perpetrator that did this.
It's one of the most heinous cases that I've ever worked and ever seen.
This is an animal out there that did this.
And that guy should not be walking the streets.
Paula's family hired David to keep investigating
and keep trying to find clues that might lead to an arrest in Paula's case.
[David] I spoke to Kelly, Paula's sister
on the telephone and we'd had several conversations.
She wanted to fly in and do what she could to help out.
I can't see myself living a normal life
until I know whoever did this has paid for it.
I can only pray that somebody will come forward
and somebody had to have seen something.
[David] I met her and we designed a poster.
We were posting these posters all over the area where
Paula was found, hoping that
we could get some information. We were talking to neighbors down the street
and to try to find out if anybody even saw the fire
or remembered anything.
A lot of homicide cases go those first 48 hours,
and then if they don't start getting some concrete information,
they just sit there.
I felt that during that time, the police spent way too much time on Kevin
and they missed opportunities at Club Space
going through a lot of investigation
that would've taken hours and hours and a lot of manpower.
This is a type of case, there were so many witnesses in this club,
so many people that needed to be talked to.
And to this day, I don't know
what the police did or didn't do.
One of the weird questions that struck me is
being so important in this case is,
none of the people that we were talking to
had been visited by the police.
And that's just police work 101 in homicide.
Canvas the neighborhood where Paula was found, ASAP.
They hadn't even talked to these neighbors yet.
[Meghan] Initially, Kevin and Wasser had gone to the Miami police department.
However, when Paula's body was discovered,
it was actually located in a suburb just outside of Miami proper,
in an area called North Miami.
So now the police were essentially directing Kevin
to deal with North Miami police department
and not Miami police department.
I was way ahead of 'em and I was dumbfounded
why they hadn't done that.
Now mind you, North Miami is a very poor city
located in North Miami, Florida.
And North Miami's quality of homicide investigations
at that time was, I'm sorry to say,
but below the standards in my opinion,
of anywhere in Dade County.
[Meghan] Some killers do their homework.
They might target certain women
or in the same way, they gather intel about
the jurisdiction they're in,
looking for a location where the police can't pay attention to them.
[David] North Miami police does not share
and they don't have to share their information
in our open homicide case with anybody.
But I do believe that this was one of those cases
that private investigators could've really helped and made a difference.
I was not there to solve a homicide.
I was there in the beginning
to try to help find Paula and then it turned into...
The police don't seem like they're really, really
following this thing too strongly,
and we need to keep this case alive.
Maybe somebody will come forward that saw something.
Eventually, I was able to find a witness
who was in one of the tall condominiums,
upscale building on Biscayne Boulevard,
and a block away from Club Space,
and that guy was a really credible witness to me.
He was a professional.
It bothered him 'cause he didn't wanna be involved.
But he reached out to me and told me,
he was walking his dogs on the same corner
of the street that Club Space is on.
And he saw this woman who matched Paula's description
coming up the sidewalk.
And he thought it was very strange
that a woman dressed like Paula was dressed...
with a short skirt and a long, blond hair,
it caught his attention.
And then he saw a truck driving down the street in the wrong direction,
it's a one way street.
And Paula gets into the truck.
The truck turned a corner and left.
Now that would have to be some coincidence
for a person to be traveling at that time,
on that road, at the exact moment
that Paula was walking out.
It's possible, but I still think
it's more likely that the perpetrator
knew her from inside the club, or at least spotted her
and targeted her earlier.
[David] I think that it was somebody that she had
contact with that night, in the club.
Or connected with somebody that either
worked in the club or they were in the club
that saw an opportunity to take advantage of her in her condition.
I would say that the motive is likely
a sexual assault and the perpetrator
did not wanna leave a witness.
[Christopher] I think the hard part for me was
imagining you're... sorry.
Imagining her having to go through that.
[sighs]
[Amber] Leaving a club on New Year's eve
is supposed to be a celebratory evening,
not being in a city you know...
and ending up cold, and lost, and separated from her boyfriend.
It's gotta be terrifying. Absolutely.
You would hope humanity would wanna help you and somebody would
do the right thing, but unfortunately,
in our world, you never know, like, I don't, it's...
hard to trust people these days.
Paula's story, it's very scary because
I feel like I can relate. I remember, you know,
so many times when I would go out with a few friends
and kind of have to find my way back home,
then I just feel like this is the kind of thing
that could happen to anybody and it's really terrifying.
Police continue to search for clues that might lead them to Paula's murderer.
But as no new leads came in, Paula Sladewski's
brutal murder is now considered a cold case.
[David] I believe that this case can be solved
and should be solved and there's still avenues
to go down to solve this case.
But the question is, will somebody else
work this case and move forward on it?
It certainly deserves it.
[Christopher] I think Paula would've been in movies.
She would've been there.
She wouldn't let anything hold her back.
I would've loved to have seen Paula
have fully realized her dreams.
You know, done whatever she had, you know,
wanted to accomplish in life.
[Amber] It doesn't matter what you wear as a woman,
how you carry yourself
in someone's perceived notion.
It doesn't matter if you pose nude in Playboy.
That doesn't give somebody access or the right.
There shouldn't be a why.
Why were they attracted to this person?
That's not a question.
Why did it happen is the question.
What happened to Paula should never happen to anyone.
[Man] Jillian was extremely focused about her goal that
"I'm going to be in Playboy."
[Woman] I don't think Jillian knew exactly what she was
getting herself into when she was pursuing this dream.
You're always going to wonder,
especially when you have someone like Jill in that book,
I'm sure made a lot of enemies...
...a lot of enemies.