Her marriage, after a two year-engagement, to
Audie Murphy was a disaster. The World War II hero suffered from traumatic stress disorder and was prone to fierce jealousy, yet slept with other women. He kept a gun under his pillow and also gambled away all of Wanda's money betting on horses. Despite breaking up after a year, she continued to love him and was devastated after he died in a plane crash in 1971.