The Playboy Murders Season 2 Episode 4
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00:00Melanie Hallert was a beautiful girl with a beautiful body she's an actress she got to
00:08work with the greatest actor John Travolta for Melanie Playboy was the next step this
00:15was look at me I'm glamorous I'm sexy unfortunately what Melanie put in C at
00:22the time is that this would have tragic consequences there were a lot of darker
00:27things going on at the Playboy Mansion things being videotaped sexual
00:32boundaries being pushed he was a hedonist on steroids and anything that
00:38would satisfy his lust or his appetite at the moment was fair game what happened
00:47in the 80s if it happened today people would be in jail I just don't know why
00:52no one warned her
00:59on April 13th 1980 this is a New York City bound train this station Southampton next station a train was commuting from Southampton all the way back to New York
01:28a conductor found a young woman her clothes were torn her makeup was smeared and she had bite marks on her neck
01:43the conductor found a portfolio with many pictures in it it was a feature of a spread in Playboy he could see that the young woman lying there bruised and battered was the same woman that was featured in this Playboy spread
02:01the victim was 22-year-old Melanie Holler
02:04Melanie Holler appeared in the March 1980 issue of Playboy being in Playboy in 1980 was really exciting I think in Melanie's issue Bo Derek was on the cover there were all kinds of actresses who were posing some of the covers I remember were like Brooke Shields and Goldie Hawn and you are getting these really good
02:08names
02:29and Goldie Hawn, and you are getting these really big names.
02:34Playboy was huge in the late 70s, early 80s.
02:37It was such a staple in American culture.
02:42Playboy was being read by over 5 million people each month,
02:45so it was really a big deal.
02:47The Playboy world was at the peak of its powers.
02:52Nudity was normal, post-Woodstock generation.
02:55The media empire and the mood was very free.
03:02People lived together. Marriage was out of vogue.
03:05Clubbing was popular. Saturday Night Fever had just come out.
03:09Everybody was discoing and clubbing and partying,
03:12and that was the culture.
03:17The original Playboy Mansion was in Chicago,
03:19but in the early 70s, Hef bought a property in Los Angeles
03:23and called it Playboy Mansion West,
03:25and that turned into his home and his hub for all the parties
03:29and all the things that would become legendary
03:32about the Playboy world.
03:38This was a house when I first got it that sort of turned out to be a blessing
03:41because we were able to do something kind of special.
03:44The Playboy Mansion was a really beautiful building.
03:46It was on several acres of just beautiful grounds,
03:50and it just really felt like an escape.
03:52You could hold these really lavish parties indoors, in the backyard.
03:56It became a really popular place for celebrities to just go and party,
04:01and nobody was going to ask any questions.
04:03They felt like they could indulge themselves,
04:05and it would be private and secret,
04:07and just an appropriate place for them to let loose.
04:17I think a lot of girls come to California
04:19and dream of being in the movies,
04:21and Playboy was an easy stepping stone for them.
04:27I'm Gina Keough.
04:28My playmate name was Gina Tomasino.
04:30I was Miss November 1980.
04:34Playboy discovered me in Chicago.
04:38My modeling agency's building,
04:40it was the Playboy building.
04:42Every time I walked in,
04:43somebody would discover me in an elevator,
04:45and I would say, no, no, no.
04:47But after being around the girls,
04:49all coming in excited to show their pictures and stuff,
04:53after a couple years, it's like,
04:54okay, I want to do this.
04:55I want to be part of the sorority.
04:57Playboy was a stepping stone for me,
05:00and it changed my life
05:02and brought me opportunities
05:03that I would never have had.
05:08I remember meeting Melanie.
05:11She was a beautiful girl.
05:13She was already a working actress,
05:15so I don't know that Melanie needed
05:17any extra boost from Playboy.
05:19She had a lot of talent.
05:21Melanie was born in 1959 in New York City.
05:25She grew up around the arts and theater,
05:27and I'm sure that's where she got her passion for acting.
05:31And Melanie found herself getting some roles.
05:33She got a couple of small movie roles,
05:35including one in The French Connection.
05:38Melanie Hallert was in The French Connection
05:40when she was 12 years old.
05:42She got to work with the greatest actor, Gene Hackman.
05:46That had to be, like, the coolest experience.
05:49But I think Melanie's biggest role was
05:51Welcome Back, Cotter.
05:52Welcome Back, Cotter was a sitcom in the 70s.
05:55It was about a teacher and a classroom full of colorful characters.
05:59All right!
06:00Melanie Hallert got a recurring role as Angie Grabowski,
06:04kind of a gregarious, loving, endearing student.
06:06And that had to be the coolest experience.
06:08But I think Melanie's biggest role was
06:10Welcome Back, Cotter.
06:11Welcome Back, Cotter was a sitcom in the 70s.
06:13It was about a teacher and a classroom full of colorful characters.
06:16All right!
06:17Whoo-hoo!
06:18Melanie Hallert got a recurring role as Angie Grabowski,
06:22kind of a gregarious, loving, endearing student.
06:26This is at a point in time in history
06:28where people only have, like, three TV channels,
06:30so everybody's watching the same thing.
06:32So being on Welcome Back, Cotter back then
06:34was probably like being on Game of Thrones now.
06:36Like, so many eyes are on you.
06:39Welcome Back, Cotter was an extremely popular show,
06:42made even more popular with its star,
06:47John Travolta.
06:48John Travolta, oh, he was my heart ball.
06:52I was in love with him.
06:54How wonderful to work with John Travolta
06:57and the fame that came of that.
07:00Acting alongside John Travolta
07:02while his career was blowing up the way it was
07:04must have made Melanie feel like,
07:06this could happen for me too.
07:12After Melanie's role in Welcome Back, Cotter came to an end,
07:16she got an acting role in the made-for-TV movie
07:19about the hillside strangler.
07:21It really became her star on the rise.
07:24Somebody brought her up to the Playboy mansion
07:28and once Hef would see somebody,
07:31he would just, you know,
07:33and they'd go over and get her information
07:34and her phone number
07:35and see if they wanted to do a pictorial.
07:37And she got discovered by Playboy.
07:43In each issue of Playboy,
07:44there were kind of two types of models
07:46that went into Playboy.
07:47There was like the new undiscovered talent
07:49that was usually the playmate of the month centerfold.
07:53And then there were the celebrities
07:54or the women who had something really interesting
07:56in their background.
07:57I know Playboy and Hef definitely very much wanted
08:01to feature Hollywood stars in the issue.
08:04And Melanie Holler was an established actress.
08:13An actress like Melanie would choose to do Playboy
08:15because it would be a lot of publicity.
08:18Again, this was like 5 million people
08:20reading the magazine each month.
08:22And it's a way for somebody like Melanie
08:24who had been playing teenage roles
08:25throughout the 70s.
08:26She wanted to say,
08:27I'm an adult.
08:28I'm sexy.
08:30She wanted to be seen in a new light.
08:32The name of her March 80 spread
08:35was Welcome Back Howler.
08:38It was a great pictorial.
08:41Melanie is very beautiful
08:43and kind of has that fresh-faced look
08:45like she could have easily been a playmate.
08:47But I think for Playboy,
08:48it was exciting to feature somebody
08:50who not only fits their beauty standard,
08:52but has also been in recognizable projects.
08:55She had some acting chomps,
08:57so I think her pictorial was a little more special
09:00than if she was just a playmate of the month.
09:03She's featured looking sort of tough
09:06and sexy at the same time,
09:08in a leather jacket,
09:09standing in front of a classic car.
09:11She is set up in kind of this backstage
09:15dressing room type area.
09:17It's very pretty and very much,
09:19you know, focusing on the fact
09:20that she's a professional actress.
09:23So the message is very clear.
09:25It's very much geared towards
09:27her being seen in a new light.
09:32I think for her, this was the next step.
09:34This was, you know, look at me.
09:36I'm all grown up and glamorous.
09:38I'm sexy.
09:39And it was a chance for directors
09:40and casting directors to see her
09:42in a different way
09:43and perhaps get more work
09:44and move forward with her career.
09:46It's a lot of eyes on you.
09:49It's a lot of publicity
09:50and it's a way to make a statement.
09:55After Melanie appeared in the magazine,
09:57she was invited to the mansion
09:58and she went quite regularly.
10:00In the entertainment industry,
10:01parties like that are often seen as networking
10:03because so many other important people go as well.
10:06But according to some people who were with Hef in the 70s
10:10and early 1980s,
10:12there were a lot of darker things going on
10:14at the Playboy Mansion,
10:15like things being videotaped
10:16and just like sexual boundaries being pushed.
10:19It seems to be a common theme in that era.
10:22Everyone was doing drugs
10:24and it was just this whole era of promiscuous behavior.
10:29And it was expected of you if you were at the mansion.
10:32If you went there,
10:33you were going to have to party and party hard.
10:36And it was a mandatory part of the job.
10:40Melanie spent a few weeks at the mansion,
10:42but I don't think that this lifestyle was really for Melanie.
10:45The Playboy Lifestyle was one at the time of parties, wild parties.
10:51And these were drug-fueled parties
10:53and there was a lot of sex going on.
10:56What happened in the 80s,
10:58if it happened today, those people would be in jail.
11:02People don't put up with it anymore.
11:15I'm sitting at the dining room table with six girls
11:19and one says to me,
11:21hey, I don't want to sleep with Hef.
11:24You think I can be a centerfold if I don't sleep with him?
11:27And I'm like, oh yeah, sure.
11:29Just tell him you have a boyfriend or you're engaged
11:32or you don't have to sleep with him.
11:34He sleeps with 11 other girls.
11:36You don't have to sleep with him.
11:38A few minutes later,
11:40Gina, Mr. Hefner would like to see you.
11:45So I go up there and he's patting the bed.
11:48Sit down.
11:49I'm sitting there.
11:50I'm like, what the freak is going on?
11:52And then I hear...
11:57You don't have to sleep with him.
11:59He sleeps with 11 other girls.
12:01He had, before any of us even knew what it was,
12:04he had microphones in the dining room.
12:06He could hear everything we were saying.
12:09So he's like, don't you ever tell a girl
12:12that she doesn't have to sleep with me
12:14because she has no chance of being in the magazine if she doesn't.
12:17And at that time, Hefner and his people would say,
12:23oh no, she's here because she wants me.
12:30And that was how they lived.
12:32That was the modus operandi.
12:35You can't stay at the mansion forever.
12:39Melanie stayed a few weeks,
12:41did whatever she had to do PR-wise,
12:43and went home to her mom to get on with her life.
12:49She returned home to live with her mother in New York City.
12:54Unfortunately, what Melanie probably couldn't see at the time
12:57is that this move would have tragic consequences.
13:14My name is Dennis McDougall.
13:16My beat on the newspaper was the darker side of the business of movie making.
13:27I mean, the history of the movie business is,
13:31if you have the talent and the looks,
13:34and by God, you're going to be a star.
13:37Melanie was that woman, that young girl,
13:42who decided she wanted to become a star.
13:46And arguably, she was well on the road.
13:58Shortly after Melanie arrives back to New York,
14:00Melanie was introduced to Roy Radin
14:02by a photographer friend of hers by the name of Ron Sissman.
14:07Roy Radin was a showbiz producer and kind of an agent of sorts.
14:13Ron thought it would be good for Melanie to meet Roy Radin
14:15because this might be branching off in her career,
14:18going from modeling for Playboy
14:20to doing more adult acting roles.
14:27My name is Anthony Hayden Guest.
14:29I described myself as a writer, reporter, and cartoonist.
14:36Roy Radin was a fellow from a show business family
14:40who'd apparently specialized in the fairly defunct form of vaudeville
14:45and found, like, the bearded ladies or whatever, you know,
14:49and he was doing very well with it.
14:52Roy Radin fancied himself as a modern P.T. Barnum,
14:56making his fortune by taking his show on the road.
15:00And his show included animal and human oddities.
15:05And this kind of vaudeville talent really made him a fortune.
15:10Roy Radin was a very successful producer of live events.
15:14He had made a ton of money before he even turned 30.
15:17Roy Radin's father, Alexander Radin, known as Broadway Al,
15:23made his fortune by owning clubs in Manhattan from the 1930s to 1950s.
15:28And these were some very fancy, well-known clubs
15:32where very important people went.
15:34Roy almost certainly got his drive from watching his father,
15:36especially interacting with kind of the elite and celebrities.
15:42Roy Radin wanted to be a producer in the motion picture business.
15:47He based his career on networking and promoting people,
15:52and made enough money to at least put a down payment on this huge mansion
16:02out at the end of Long Island they called Ocean Castle.
16:06In the 1980s, you could find many rich and powerful people in the entertainment industry
16:15having their own mansions where they would have their own decadent parties.
16:19And for the East Coast, the Hamptons was a very sought-after place to go.
16:27The Hamptons is a really expensive, prestigious place
16:31that people on the East Coast like to go during the summer to party.
16:36Roy Radin certainly knew of Hefner and the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles.
16:43And you could make a good case for his trying to turn the Ocean Castle
16:49into Playboy Mansion East.
17:01Melanie had recently started dating a businessman by the name of Bob McKeige.
17:08McKeige was kind of a slick business guy known for loving wild parties,
17:15fancy cars, and really fast times.
17:18Ocean Castle was essentially a huge party house.
17:32It was a non-stop party all the time.
17:35And the idea was to network.
17:40Anyone who was connected remotely in any way shape or form
17:45to the entertainment business or the media
17:48were generally invited to these parties.
17:54It was rumored that at these parties,
17:56he had all types of sexual debauchery,
18:00psychedelic drugs.
18:02Raiden was also known for videotaping these parties
18:06and the sexual endeavors that happened.
18:08He had his own casting couch.
18:18He was kind of the Harvey Weinstein of his era.
18:25It was not unusual for people who were involved in the entertainment business
18:30and who had a kinky side to them
18:32that they would get their own video cameras
18:37and instead of just shooting vacation videos
18:42with the family at Disneyland,
18:44setting it up in the bedroom.
18:46Raiden was also rumored, though, to have much more disturbing videos.
18:51He was rumored to have snuff videos,
18:56which are pornographic videos that feature actual murder.
19:00The plan was for Melanie and her new boyfriend
19:20to go out to the Hamptons and spend the weekend at Roy Raiden's place.
19:23Melanie thought this party would be a great networking opportunity,
19:34so she brought along a portfolio of some of her work,
19:38including her Playboy pictorial.
19:42What she expected was that there'd be some socializing,
19:45but it was supposed to be an opportunity for her
19:48to show Raiden her portfolio.
19:50What Melanie had expected was nothing like what actually happened.
19:55Raiden had notoriety.
19:57He was famed in the field of entertainment,
20:00and he had a lot of money, a lot of powerful friends,
20:04and a lot of influence.
20:05He saw himself as a mover and shaker.
20:06He saw himself as a mover and shaker.
20:08He saw himself as a player.
20:10And he saw himself as a power broker.
20:11And he saw himself as a power broker.
20:13And he saw himself as a power broker.
20:16and he saw himself as a power broker.
20:18and he saw himself as a power broker.
20:21as a mover and shaker, he saw himself as a player,
20:29and he saw himself as a power broker.
20:47When Melanie arrived at the party,
20:49it became clear that Roy was not interested
20:51in networking and things started to take a sexual turn.
20:56Instead of presenting her portfolio,
20:59Raiden kept plying her with drugs and war drugs and alcohol
21:05to the point where she did feel completely in a daze
21:08and completely incoherent.
21:13I think that he was a hedonist on steroids
21:16and anything that would satisfy his lust or his appetite at the moment
21:24was fair game.
21:25One of the scary aspects of the entertainment industry
21:29is historically the lines have been very blurred
21:32between casting and socializing,
21:34and then the casting couch comes into play.
21:37And to top it off, you have this situation with someone with very extreme tastes.
21:42At one point, two of the female guests, one of whom was his fiancée,
21:55Tony Follett, brought out sexual bondage equipment.
22:00I'm not sure how comfortable Melanie was, but her date seemed to be.
22:06Bob McKeige tried to tie Melanie up.
22:09Roy liked to film some of his encounters,
22:13and at some point with Melanie, he brought his camera out.
22:17And set up a tripod in his bedroom.
22:22He was trying to duplicate Hugh Hefner's rumored hobby
22:26of capturing everything on videotape.
22:35This became uncomfortable for Melanie, and she began to resist.
22:38In fact, she began fighting back.
22:42And during that fight, she accidentally broke Roy Radin's camera,
22:54which totally enraged him.
23:00Raiden, Bob McKeige, and the two females begin beating
23:04and sexually assaulting Melanie.
23:10One of the most terrifying layers of this story
23:13is that Melanie's boyfriend was involved.
23:15She learned to trust this person,
23:17and then to have him turn on her like this is just brutal.
23:24After the attack, Melanie's boyfriend, Bob McKeige,
23:33and Roy actually called Melanie's mother.
23:35Raiden told Myra that Melanie was at his house, completely incoherent,
23:43and that he had to find a way to get her home.
23:46Raiden told Myra that Melanie was at his house, completely incoherent,
23:52and that he had to find a way to get her home.
23:55So Myra pleaded with Raiden to please send her home in a limousine.
24:00But Raiden said no, claiming that the $60 price tag was simply too high.
24:16It was also rather heartbreaking, in a way, what happened a day ago.
24:20Start with their incredible meanness in putting on the train these very rich people.
24:25It was really heartless.
24:26They transport Melanie, and they simply throw her on a train
24:37that is headed for New York City.
24:38This is a New York City-bound train.
24:40Next station, Southampton.
24:41Next station, Southampton.
24:43To be assaulted and brutally beaten in that way is a nightmare,
24:46but to then just be dumped, left for dead, on a train car,
24:51it must have been horrifying.
24:52Working out in Southampton, the clientele is pretty wealthy,
25:05and you really have to be careful who you're dealing with.
25:11I was working in the office in Westampton, the seven squad office.
25:15And I received a call saying that they had a body here at Brookhaven Hospital
25:28that had been assaulted.
25:34And when we got there, we were shown into the emergency room,
25:38and Melanie and Hallow was laying there.
25:42And she was a real wreck, but still alive.
25:59Melanie and Hallow was laying there in the hospital gown in the emergency room.
26:03When I got the first look at her, you would never think that she was a playmate,
26:09because she just looked horrible.
26:12She had bruises on her arms and a couple on her face.
26:15Her hair was heavy which way.
26:19And she was like really out of it.
26:21We tried to ask her what happened.
26:23When we were speaking to her, she was really getting worse.
26:27That's when the nurse came in and asked us to come back in the next morning and talk to her.
26:32The only thing she did say is she was in Roy Radin's house.
26:37They called it the Ocean Castle.
26:48Roy Radin put on a lot of variety shows for the police departments and different organizations
26:53all around New York State, Connecticut.
26:55He went all the surrounding area of New York and put on these vaudeville shows.
27:02Anybody that was in any of the police departments knew of him.
27:05He was a good time guy.
27:07If he knew you were a policeman, he'd buy you a drink.
27:10He was that kind of guy.
27:11You know, he wanted to be in tight with the police.
27:13Roy Radin apparently had a very good relationship with the police.
27:17In fact, it was well known that he donated large sums of money to the local police union.
27:23And he played that to his benefit.
27:28If anyone complained about too much noise at Ocean Castle, he'd just say, well, you know,
27:35go ahead and complain to the cops about it and see what happens.
27:39I've got people in high places and they're going to side with me, not with you.
27:46We come back on Monday to talk to Melanie Haller sometime in the morning.
27:57And at that point, she, you know, she looked pretty good.
27:59And she told us at that time that she was assaulted.
28:07And said she was also raped.
28:08She told us about the drugs that they had given her.
28:15And she said that she was in Roy Radin's master bedroom.
28:19And there was a video camera on a tripod at the foot of the bed, facing the bed.
28:26Melanie describes the events that happened.
28:29She also tells Detective Roman that she's pretty sure she saw a gun in Radin's bedroom.
28:34This was all that Detective Roman needed to hear.
28:40He had the information now that he needed to go to the courts and ask for a search warrant.
28:45And that's exactly what he did.
28:51Once we got a detailed statement from Melanie and Haller, on the basis of that statement,
28:57the ADA got us a search warrant.
29:00When we went up to the house, we didn't have any local police with us.
29:06Because at the time, we knew a lot of the local police had been working for Radin.
29:11And we didn't want anybody to drop a dime on us before we got there.
29:18It looked like a castle.
29:19The ocean castle, when you pulled up, was right on the ocean in Southam village,
29:24in the prime real estate area.
29:26I believe it had like 72 rooms in it.
29:35We went in, and we kind of gathered everybody into the living room.
29:40And I sent one guy to each room, and they started searching.
29:43When I saw Roy Radin, he was probably in his maybe 30s.
29:48He wasn't very tall.
29:50He was very overweight.
29:52Fairly good-looking man.
29:53Roy Radin seems to be in disbelief that Detective Roman would dare enter his premises.
30:00He is threatening him with all of the people that he knows, and that he knows the sheriff.
30:08Once he realizes that Roman is not deterred by his rantings and ravings,
30:13he says he's going to call his lawyer.
30:14And instead, he starts calling other people that he knows in the police department.
30:19When we were there, he was making phone call after phone call.
30:23He was calling everybody.
30:25I knew that the people who were calling weren't going to put any pressure on us.
30:28I know the sheriff of Suffolk County knew him, didn't want to be rude to him.
30:33But he wasn't about to tell us to get out of the house and to get the search.
30:37Roman simply tells anyone on the other line that this was none of their business.
30:42He was going to conduct a fair investigation.
30:47Melanie Haller told us that there was drugs in the house,
30:51and it was also, she had seen a revolver in the house, a loaded revolver.
30:58One of the detectives found the drugs in Tony Fellay's room.
31:03And then we found the gun in Radin's room.
31:07Bob McKeege was there.
31:08He was in the living room with everybody else.
31:10He was very quiet. He was like melting into the couch.
31:15He was a distinguished looking guy.
31:17He was dressed to the nines. He had his black rimmed glasses on.
31:21He looked like a school teacher.
31:22He said he didn't know Melanie Haller. Never saw her.
31:26Didn't even know she was there. Had nothing to do with her.
31:30The main thing that we were looking for, she told us about the bedroom with the video camera.
31:36And when we found that room, we knew that's where everything had happened.
31:43We took the video camera with the tape inside of it.
31:52When we got the film, we took it over to the police TV section and asked them if they could find anything on it.
32:07They realized right away that the filament had been erased.
32:17They said probably not going to be able to get any evidence.
32:20Rumor had it as well that Roy Radin had gotten wind of the search from some of his friends in the department.
32:25When they got the tip about the raid on Raiden's house, they had deleted all of that video camera footage.
32:36Our AV department went through the whole tape.
32:40They were two frames that were on the beginning of the tape that was erased.
32:45Then they found them.
32:47I guess when it erased, it didn't get the two that was still inside the reel.
32:50And that was the two frames that showed Bikij and Melanie Hallam on the bed.
32:58He denied that he even knew her.
33:01When we saw that tape, I knew we had him good.
33:03We arrested Roy Radin and we arrested Tony Follet, his girlfriend, and we arrested Bob McKeige for assault.
33:26The story breaks. It becomes national news.
33:30A story like this would attract a lot of attention and intrigue.
33:33You have this person who's a successful producer.
33:36He's throwing all these mysterious, lavish, exclusive parties.
33:40There's all kinds of, you know, scary things going on.
33:43So it captures the public's imagination.
33:47Raiden consistently denied to the press that he was guilty of a crime.
33:51What he said instead was that he and Melanie and his other guests had engaged in consensual sex games.
33:58And to explain her injuries, he said that Melanie had sustained a slip and fall on the stairs at the mansion.
34:07Her issue of Playboy is still on the stands.
34:09And it must have been a terrifying thing to go through on top of what had already happened.
34:15It must have been horrifying.
34:17People are judging you because you still have this nude pictorial on newsstands.
34:20It must have felt incredibly unfair and scary and isolating.
34:23Playboy probably would have tried to distance themselves from this situation and just not comment on it at all.
34:34They don't want any connection to that.
34:38And Playboy was really strict about if there was any trouble, that was it.
34:42You were sent away.
34:44You weren't getting any pictorials.
34:46You weren't getting any work.
34:47You were considered a liability.
34:51And that's what happened to Melanie.
34:53But anytime something happened to a woman, it was talked about amongst all of the people in the mansion.
35:00And it was well known and documented in the press.
35:04And she was a casualty.
35:06And everyone talked about it and how terrible it was.
35:09The press had printed stories that kind of blamed the victim.
35:16They were printing headlines that she must have been complicit somehow.
35:21We've heard this before, that she must have asked for this.
35:26Unfortunately, people can have some prejudices against people who choose to
35:29post-nude or portray themselves in Playboy.
35:32When something like this happens, there can be a lot of victim blaming,
35:35saying, well, you're portraying yourself in a certain way, or you're going to this party,
35:40you know, as if somebody should have known that was going to happen.
35:43People have a way of looking at you, expressing yourself that way, as if you're asking for it.
35:51I think that we who are alive and well in the post-MeToo era may have a little difficulty
35:59reaching back 20, 30, 40 years ago when women like Melanie Haller were viewed as being sluts, prostitutes.
36:12They dressed provocatively. They came on to these men.
36:18But there is an awareness now that people like Melanie Haller were speaking the truth.
36:29The videotape pointed a lot of fingers that she was there partying on her own free will
36:35until the fight broke out. So the DA didn't want to pursue the rape charge.
36:43In the end, Bob McKeish was convicted of sexual assault,
36:47but he only served 30 days in jail for this crime.
36:50I thought because it was a felony, he'd get at least a year. And we were surprised when we heard
36:57that. But at that point, it was over. We couldn't do anything about it.
37:03Roy Radin was not convicted of a sexual offense.
37:07Radin was convicted of possession of an illegal firearm and cocaine and LSD,
37:13for which he paid a thousand dollar fine.
37:1530 days in jail is nothing for assault. It's really scary to me. And Radin did not get any jail time.
37:28At the end of the 70s and into the 80s, Radin kind of fallen on hard times
37:35and wasn't doing as well, in part because he had traded in his notoriety for a roaring coke habit.
37:45So he was completely done with his career.
37:48Because of what happened at Southampton, he was done. No more variety shows,
37:52no more police departments wanting anything to do with him. So he was completely done with his career.
38:00After Roy saw the wisdom in leaving New York, where his name was Mud,
38:07came to Hollywood and tried to break into the movies.
38:16A woman who was married to a major cocaine trafficker did not get on well with Radin.
38:23Her action was to give the order to kill Roy Radin.
38:34And that was the end of both him and his so-called career.
38:50The story is all in the same way. You put out bad karma and it usually comes back to bite you on the butt
39:02or kill you on the butt or kill you.
39:19Today, Melanie has taken herself out of the public eye and lives privately.
39:23I can certainly understand her choice to do so after everything she went through in the entertainment industry.
39:31You have a young, innocent woman doing the right things for her career.
39:36She has aspirations, hopes, dreams. Her career would never recover from the incident.
39:41The two parties responsible for this crime were barely given a slap on the wrist.
39:50I just don't know why no one warned her.
39:52I do not believe justice was served.
39:55Melanie was an up-and-coming, brilliant little actress who had it all going on,
40:02losing in the court system and not feeling like she had anyone to support her.
40:08I think it just made her disappear from everything.
40:18As long as there is an entertainment industry and there's a young woman out there who wants to be a star,
40:26and there's a young man who wants to be a mogul and exercise his right to be a full-blown hedonist
40:37without impunity. The story is never going to end.