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It looks like Police Believe Blake Killed Wife
Fri Apr 19, 8:43 AM ET
By LINDA DEUTSCH, AP Special Correspondent
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Police have arrested actor Robert Blake, the tough-talking cop in the old "Baretta" TV series, alleging he shot his wife to death nearly a year ago because he felt "trapped" in his marriage.
Blake was arrested Thursday night at a home in Hidden Hills, a gated suburban community he had moved to shortly after the death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley.
Police said they would seek charges of murder and solicitation of murder, and noted that Blake, 68, could face the death penalty if convicted.
Bakley, 44, was killed a block from a Studio City restaurant where she and Blake had just dined. They were married about five months before the May 4 slaying, after DNA tests proved he fathered her baby daughter, Rosie.
Police also arrested Blake's bodyguard and chauffeur, Earle Caldwell, on Thursday. They said they would seek to have him charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
At a news conference hours after the arrests, police said they believe Blake shot Bakley in the head minutes after the couple left the restaurant.
"We believe the motive is Robert Blake had contempt for Bonny Bakley," said police Capt. Jim Tatreau. "He felt he was trapped in a marriage that he wanted no part of and, quite frankly, the situation was not to his liking at all."
Tatreau confirmed earlier reports that police recovered the murder weapon, a World War II-era German-made handgun, from a trash bin about a day after the killing.
Police Chief Bernard Parks said the investigation was one of the most intensive in the department's history, adding that officers traveled to more than 20 states, interviewed more than 150 witnesses, checked out more than 150 tips and sifted through more than 900 pieces of evidence.
"All other suspects have been eliminated," he said. "The LAPD (news - web sites) case has developed both physical and substantial circumstantial evidence that Robert Blake killed Bonny Lee Bakley."
Blake's attorney, Harland Braun, said many people had a reason to kill Bakley. Stacks of letters, pornographic pictures and meticulously detailed records showed that Bakley, using many aliases, ran a business soliciting money from lonely men who answered her ads in magazines and newspapers.
"Everyone who ever came in contact with her had a motive," he told reporters after the Police Department news conference.
Minutes earlier, Tatreau had dismissed that contention.
"No way did every person that dealt with Bonny Bakley want to kill her," he said.
Blake has said Bakley was shot in the head when he left her alone in his car to return to the restaurant to retrieve a gun he'd accidentally left behind. He was carrying the .38-caliber pistol, he said, to protect her from threats she received.
Blake reacted calmly to his arrest, Braun said.
"His main concern right now is his children," the lawyer said.
Tatreau said Blake told his adult daughter to take care of his baby girl, Rosie, before leaving with officers.
"He was very passive and friendly," Tatreau said, adding that Blake, who has been a suspect in the case almost since the beginning, already knew many of the detectives involved.
District Attorney spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said prosecutors will announce Monday whether they intend to file charges. Arraignment would be that day in Van Nuys Superior Court, she said.
Bakley family attorney Cary W. Goldstein said the woman's family was pleased to learn of Blake's arrest.
"I think people are going to find out who Bonny was and maybe they'll find out a little more about her family, but as I've said from the very beginning, there's nothing that Bonny ever did in her lifetime that justifies her having been murdered," Goldstein said. "Her wrongdoings were picayune, at best."
Bakley became pregnant sometime after she and Blake began dating. She said she was unsure if the child was fathered by Blake or Christian Brando, the son of actor Marlon Brando. DNA tests proved it was Blake's, and the actor said he felt obligated to marry her.
The case thrust Blake back into the limelight after years of semiretirement. The former child star had his greatest success in the 1970s TV series, "Baretta," for which he won an Emmy.
He also received accolades for his performance in 1967's "In Cold Blood" in which he portrayed real-life killer Perry Smith, who was executed for the killings of a Kansas family.