Robert Blakes Murder Trial.

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Robert Blakes Murder Trial.

• By Brandon Brooks

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A night of dining turned into Tragedy

• It was during the cool evening hours of Friday,
  May 4, 2001 that actor Robert Blake, then 67, and
  Bonny Lee Bakley, 44 his wife of only a few
  months Parked their 1991 black Dodge Stealth on
  the south side of Woodbridge street in studio
  city, a Los Angeles suburb located about 2 miles
  from Hollywood.

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The Restaurant

• Robert Blake and his wife Bonny Lee Bakley went
  to dine a Vitellos which is an Italian
  restaurant in Los Angeles. This was one of
  Blakes favorite restaurants. He was known to eat
  there a few times a week over the past 20 years.
  This restaurant was known to the locals as a
  highly rated family-owned eatery, that served
  some of the best Italian food in the San Fernando
  Valley.

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Inside Vitellos

• When Mr. Blake and his wife got inside of the
  restaurant they were seated at a booth near the
  rear of the restaurant which wasnt his usual
  corner booth, although they were still visible to
  the other dining patrons. Both Mr. Blake and his
  wife Bonny ate and drank a few glasses of wine.

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Exist the Restaurant

• Sometime between 930 and 940 pm Mr. Blake and
  Bonny left the restaurant. They both walked back
  to the 91 black Dodge Stealth. After letting
  Bonny into the car Blake realized that he had
  left a handgun at the restaurant. Blake carried
  this licensed handgun because his wife had
  suspicion of someone trying to kill her. Blake
  walked backed to the restaurant to retrieve the
  gun

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Crime Scene

• Upon his return to the car Blake found Bonny
  slumped over in the passenger seat, unconscious
  and bleeding from the gunshot wound to her head.
  After he found Bonny shot in the car he rushed to
  a nearby friends house to get help. His friend
  Sean Stanek went back to the scene to assist him.
  Stanek found Bonny in the same state. He applied
  pressure to her wound as Blake went back to the
  restaurant for help.

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Witnesses

• The police interviewed Andrew Percival and his
  wife who also dined at the same restaurant that
  night. They said they saw a man dressed in black
  who they believed looked like Blake. They also
  said they saw the same man walk past them very
  briskly toward a car parked behind a dumpster.
  Police traveled to more than 20 states and
  interviewed more than 150 witnesses to prepare
  for this case.

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Evidence

• A Walther PPK was found in the garbage not to far
  from the crime scene with its serial number
  shaved off.

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Key facts

• Blake had been eating at Vitellos for 20 years
  without making reservations. But on this night of
  the murder he made reservations.
• An assumed motive for Bonny Lee Bakley murder was
  that she got pregnant in order to make Blake
  marry her. Also it was said that Bakley used to
  scam lonely men into a false relationship in
  order gain financial wealth.
• Celebriphiliac- this is a word that was used to
  describe Bonny Lee Backley condition where she
  was only attracted to famous men.
• She herself always wanted to be famous. But since
  she never reach that goal she just settled with
  being with a famous person.

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Acquittal

• In March 2005, after deliberating for nine days,
  the jury found Robert Blake not guilty. When
  questioned by news reporters, several of the
  jurors said that the prosecution failed to link
  him to the crime. There were no fingerprints, gun
  residue, or blood evidence to tie Blake to the
  murder. Nearly four years after the killing the
  case concluded with Blake going free and leaving
  a case unsolved.
• Mr. Blake was order in to pay 30 million to
  Bonnys kids from the outcome of his civil case.

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BONNIE LEE BAKLEY
THE END