In his interview with Carpenter, which appeared in November 1980, Hefner said he decided to publicly talk about it "because there is still a great tendency. . .for this thing to fall into the classic cliché of 'smalltown girl comes to Playboy, comes to Hollywood, life in the fast lane,' and that was somehow related to her death. And that is not what really happened. A very sick guy saw his meal ticket and his connection to power, whatever, slipping away. And it was that that made him kill her."