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Robert Blake, 70, faces charges of murdering Bonny Lee Bakley and soliciting two other men to kill her. Bakley, 44, was shot to death on May 4, 2001, as she sat in Blake's sports car in an alley behind the Los Angeles-area restaurant where the couple had just dined. Blake starred in the 1970s TV cop show "Baretta." See profiles of: Actor Robert Blake and Bonny Lee Bakley
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Police investigating the murder of Robert Blake's wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, are requesting tapes of an angry conversation between the couple from The National Enquirer, a tabloid newspaper, on Tuesday. Blake's attorney, Harland Braun, said he believes that the cops are "grasping at straws," Reuters reports. The tapes reportedly capture the 67-year-old actor accusing Bakley of getting pregnant to trap him into marriage and then pressing her to get an abortion. Braun concedes that the taped phone conversations were authentic but claims they proved nothing and that the detectives were still trying to pin the murder on his client, rather than solving the crime. According to the transcripts, Blake was recorded as saying, "You are who you are and you do what you do. If that's the way you can live and you can live with yourself doing stuff like that its gonna come down on you."
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This is the criminal complaint filed today (4/22) charging Robert Blake with the murder of Bonny Lee Bakley, the actor's 44-year-old wife. The Los Angeles District Attorney ... charged Blake with two counts of solicitation of murder and conspiracy in the May 2001 shooting death of Bakley. Blake, 68, could face the death penalty since he was charged with the special circumstance of "lying in wait" in connection with the killing. Blake's bodyguard, Earle Caldwell, 46, was charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
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Supermarket tabloid The Star has offered actor Robert Blake $100,000 to take a lie detector test in connection with the murder of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. Neither Blake nor his attorneys have responded to the offer. In an interview with Thursday's New York Post, Star editor-in-chief Tony Frost commented: "If Mr. Blake has nothing to hide, what better way is there of removing the umbrella of suspicion? The results of a polygraph are not admissible in a court of law, but they do go a long way to convincing the court of public opinion."
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Blake said his toddler daughter, Rose -- his child with the woman he is accused of killing, Bonny Lee Bakley -- is scheduled to visit him next week. It will be the first time he has seen her since being arrested in April in connection with the slaying of Bakley, who was shot in the head in front of a Studio City restaurant in July 2001.
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Court TV reported today that the estate of Bonny Lee Bakley sued Robert Blake and Earle Caldwell for wrongful death in connection with the woman's May 2001 murder. The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. Suing on behalf of Bakley's four children, the estate did not attach a dollar amount to the damages claimed.
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