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===August 1980=== On the night of July 31, 1980, Snider, by now aware that his estranged wife was back in Los Angeles and living with Bogdanovich, hid among the shadows just outside the director's estate carrying a borrowed [[handgun]], intending to shoot anyone who appeared at the entrance to the property. After several hours of inactivity, Snider grew impatient and left, drove up into the hills overlooking the city and, he admitted later to a friend, had thoughts of [[suicide]].{{sfn|Rhodes|1981|p=228}} At approximately noon on Friday, August 8, Stratten and Snider saw each other for the first time in nearly three months at Snider's (and Stratten's former) house in West Los Angeles. After having already persuaded Stratten to pose for ''Playboy'' and then marry him, Snider was supremely confident before the meeting that he would convince his wife to take him back. But his hopes of a reconciliation were quickly dashed when Stratten admitted that she had fallen in love with Bogdanovich and wanted to finalize their separation. A dejected Snider agreed to meet Stratten one more time the following week to discuss a monetary settlement.<ref name="carpenter"/>{{sfn|Rhodes|1981|p=230}} Later that afternoon, less than a week before Stratten's murder, Snider had to return the borrowed gun to its owner.<ref name="carpenter"/> Over the next five days, he would become obsessed with getting another. On August 9, the day after his meeting with Stratten, Snider and the private detective he had hired went to a local gun store. After being told that the store could not sell him a firearm because of his Canadian citizenship, Snider asked the private detective to buy the gun Snider wanted for him; the detective refused.{{sfn|Rhodes|1981|p=232}} When Snider saw the private detective again the following day, he tried to convince the man to buy him a [[machine gun]] for "home protection", but the detective talked him out of the idea.<ref name="carpenter"/> The next day, August 11, Snider drove out into the [[San Fernando Valley]] to look at a gun he had found for sale in a newspaper. He got lost, however, and eventually gave up and went home before finding the owner's address.{{sfn|Rhodes|1981|p=232}}
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