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The Playboy Murders on ID: What happened to former Playboy Playmate Star Stowe?

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Robert Young

Updated on January 29, 2026

In Walk 1997, previous Playboy model and mother-of-one Star Stowe, pronounced the Close friend of the month in the February issue of 1977, was viewed as choked to death behind a pharmacy in Coral Springs, Florida.

At the hour of her homicide, Stowe had wandered a long way from her brilliance days and was functioning as a s*x laborer in Stronghold Lauderdale. She was allegedly last seen getting into the vehicle of one of her clients. Her case stays inexplicable to date. Besides, investigators have associated her demise to various comparative cases, accepting it could have been crafted by a chronic executioner.

An impending episode of ID’s The Playboy Murders is booked to return to the many years old strange instance of Star Stowe on Monday, February 20, 2023, at 10 pm ET. The rundown of the episode, named The Young lady With the Star Tattoo, states:

“Star Stowe overwhelms the world when she becomes Close friend of the Month, however all that the magazine has to offer lures Star into a universe of misuse and fixation and sends her down a heartbreaking path.”Star Stowe’s body was found behind Eckerd drug store in Coral Springs, Florida

Star Stowe was last spotted alive, getting into a client’s vehicle on Walk 15, 1997. She was tracked down lying face-down and choked to death in the early evening the next day. Her half-exposed body was found in the city behind a Coral Springs Eckerd drug store around three days before her 41st birthday.

The main data the specialists had on Stowe’s homicide case was that Sandra Kay Walters, one more s*x laborer, had additionally been choked to death and tracked down in comparative conditions. There were no leads in both of the examinations. In any case, when a couple of other female casualties were found killed in and around the area, specialists began to accept that a chronic executioner might have been involved.

In spite of the fact that analysts had the option to connect Star Stowe’s homicide to indistinguishable killings of other female s*x laborers, their examination hit a stopping point because of an absence of leads. They ran record verifications on various individuals however neglected to accuse anyone in association of the killings. Stowe’s case stays perplexing to date.

Once, Close companion of the month, Star Stowe was battling to earn enough to pay the bills at the hour of her homicide in FloridaStar Stowe was named Close companion in the February 1977 issue of Playboy (Picture by means of Listal)
Star Stowe was born and raised in Little Stone, Arkansas, as Ellen Lousie Stowe, who moved to Los Angeles, California, during the 1970s to seek after her fantasies.

Pursuing her fantasy about turning into an expert artist, she began working at a neighborhood strip club. Ultimately, she got the attention of a Playboy scout while functioning as a colorful artist. Her profession took off not long later.

As a component of Playboy, which was the most renowned men’s magazine, thinking back to the 70s, Stowe had the opportunity to collaborate with unmistakable stars, including Hollywood Superstars, and had the option to lay out attaches with them. That is the point at which she met Quality Simmons of the band KISS, and the two began dating not long after. Stowe postured for numerous ads close by KISS.

Stowe was then made Close companion of the month in the magazine’s February 1977 issue, impacting the world forever as the absolute first Close companion to have a noticeable tattoo. In any case, her relationship with Simmons was brief, and she wound up wedding a man named Peter Milago and had a child with him. Be that as it may, the marriage didn’t keep going long. After her separation, she moved to Ft. Lauderdale with her child in 1986.

While in Florida, Stowe got back to fascinating moving to take care of the bills. In any case, as she progressed in years, she was much of the time supplanted by more youthful artists and before long fostered a medication propensity. She at last went to prostitution to earn enough to get by and support her dependence.