So...Bonny Lee Bakley's family didn't want to be present at her funeral for "moral reasons", but had no problem being paid to do a commentary on the live-cast. Then they sued the father of her child, who had custody, for millions. The lawsuit derailed Blake's custody, and guardianship of Rose was won by her half-sister, Delinah, Blake's daughter from his first marriage. Rose suffered from anxiety and depression and required therapy for her family issues, but was reconciled with Robert Blake when she was 18. It is always the innocents who suffer. I'm happy she got her life on track. She deserves to be happy.
I'm in the belief that they weren't that saddened by her death. However, they can try & tell all kinds of stories & we'll never get the exact story of what happened. My question is, why did they put him in prison if they couldn't prove he did it?
I remember this when it happened. It just seemed really strange that when Robert went back to the restaurant to "get something", he came back to find her shot in the car. Thanks for this one, Scott!
I was subscribed to Robert Blake's channel. He was a captivating teller of stories....I was a fan...but I doubt I would have much compatibility with his persona....he was, as you indicated...complex and strange.
@@RA82828 She was no angel, she was dealing drugs and wanted to open a restaurant with drug money with Ron Goldman, even Faye Resnick said as much in her book. Things are finally coming out about her behavior.
@@RA82828 No, that is your interpretation of what I wrote, I look at both those women equally, unlike you looking at Robert Blake differently than OJ, because he’s a white man, shame on you!
I loved Robert Blake in Baretta and the Our Gang show. He was an excellent actor. Now, I'm going to have that nauseating song in my head all day. 😬 To this day, I have believed in his innocence. It's sad he became such a recluse. Great upload Scott!! Thank you! 😊
Baretta was a great show but Robert Blake was not innocent and Bonnie was what they call a “skank”, so sad! P.S. That song was like nails on a blackboard!
Blake is a gifted actor who has a lot of baggage from his experiences as a child star, many that stemmed from his own family. No doubt he approaches life differently from many of us. Some things about the crime are questionable. But considering the history of Bonnie behavior it is not surprising that her life ended violently.
She was a marketer of mail order “products”, which she advertised as goods-for-sale in various publications-which she then shipped via the US Postal Service-after securing payment via US Mail Therefore, she made income in the Mail Order business…and had for decades. As such, this was her occupation.
She was also married to Glenn "Scotty" Wolfe, the most married man in The world, according to the Guinness book of world records! The marriage was annulled Shortly afterwards.😊
In a weird way it has aspects of what I’m guessing was a pre custody battle, that RB probably worried about. No mention of it ever, but I wondered if he knew it would be inevitable if he didn’t stay married to her. She sounds like she had a criminal mind
She managed to dupe quite a few stupid men. She wasn't good looking or sexy in any way but she managed.!!!!!! When you use and abuse men for money and profit you run the risk of being exterminated.
What a coincidence that she was killed at the exact moment Blake went back into the restaurant. I think whatever that story was about Blake hiring a couple of old pals to get rid of her sounds about right. Either that, or possibly she was threatening some recording studio that she was going to continue with her singing career.
I think your assumption is correct, too coincidental, he may have shot her and then went back to the restaurant for an alibi - I think I seen a Columbo episode that was similar to this one....he looks like the kind of guy who would do stuff like that.
Robert Blake starred in the film, in cold blood, the true story of the Clutter murders in Kansas. Truman Capote wrote the book which was made into a film and Blake played the part of Perry. Whats really uncanny is how like Perry, Blake actually looked and his co star looked like Hickock, his partner in the crime.
I just watched that video and he said everyone went up to Robert and was talking to him like nothing happened...Shelley wasn't upset he was there, just wondered who invited him.
I remember this case like it was yesterday. Not only was it close to the infamous O.J. case, but I was a big fan of Robert Blake. This just shattered my image of him. I'm glad that I found your channel. You handle these stories professionally and not critically and try to beseechingly treat the victim or suspect. I personally thought that Blake did it, I was mad seeing that another celebrity got away with murder.
Scott, love your channel, love your content and wisdom. Thank you for another great job. I do remember that horrific Yoko Ono single! I agree with your viewers this record Bonnie made is worse! 😅
My dogs are not happy about her singing. She wanted to get her hands on the celebrity men and got pregnant so she would have claim to the money. Women have to understand that the pregnancy will not keep a man. If they pay child support for the child then the child is supposed to be the one who benefits from the support not the mother. Marriage will not work to get money from the husband. She might benefit financially when married but, nothing if divorce happens. Especially when the marriage is over in months.
Hollllllld up. She married her first cousin? She was married ten times? I’m only five minutes into this video and I’m in WTF land. That song didn’t help.
I heard she was married 14 times but by then , whose counting? Would get married clear out the bank account by the next day. I don't think she actually raised any of her 5 kids. The song was kinda interesting. I don't think I have ever heard a voice so utterly tone deaf, made by someone who actually put out a record. Scott was right though. She was a troubled person who never really found happiness.
WTF is right, her first born daughter Jeri wasn't his so she dumped the kid with a ex husband what in the Jeffrey Epstein Hollywood story is going on in this lady's head..
I think he hired someone to kill her. He brought her to dinner, deliberately left a gun, of all things, at the restaurant, which served as the excuse to leave her alone for a moment and to make it look like he did not use his own gun. As she sat in the car his hired gunman shot her and ran off. There is a chilling recording you can find on YT of him talking to her on the phone when she told him she was pregnant..she said she couldn't get pregnant or something like that-then of course she deliberately set out to get pregnant. His seething anger at her deception is very evident on the recording.
This is common. Men seething with anger at a woman for a pregnancy while refusing to take responsibility for the fact that THEY should have used a condom to make sure it was prevented.
I remember hearing the tape recording of that phone call on news program not long after her murder, and it was very disturbing. She was crying and begging for him to forgive her for lying about taking birth control, and he was having none of it. Obviously any man would be angry if he was scammed like that, but his response was chilling. He wasn’t screaming or crying, he was ice cold and just kept telling her: “But you lieeeeed....you lieeeed”, and you could just tell that he wanted her to be exterminated. At the same time it was hard to feel sorry for her once the information came out about her life of scams and crimes. No one deserves to be murdered, but it was clear that her life would end badly. She had to have been a sociopath without a conscience to do the things she did, and it was her unlucky fate to get involved with a dangerous man.
It says a lot about a person that more than one person says "well, one day I always knew she'd piss off the wrong person" about. Clearly if Robert didn't do it, someone would in due time. Why people give this woman's death any more than a shoulder shrug is beyond me.
In 1993 Robert Blake starred in the excellent television movie “Judgement Day: The John List Story”. He played John List, a man who killed his mother, wife, and kids in 1971 and evaded justice for decades until the tv show “America’s Most Wanted” did a show about him. It’s one of the most disturbing movies I’ve ever seen, but what stands out in my mind is that I watched it in 1993 and was freaked out by how well Robert Blake played a such a cold blooded killer, it was like he wasn’t even acting. You can see that movie for free on youtube.
@@RobGa66 Yes, that was also a fantastic performance. But the killer he played in that movie was just a white trash low life. John List was more creepy than Norman Bates: a middle aged, very uptight and religious accountant living in a huge mansion in a very wealthy area of New Jersey who just kills his entire family. The way they were killed and how he arranged their bodies was unbelievably creepy. The way Robert Blake became him, and even looked like him, was so flawless it was scary.
Ghost clothes. My great aunt passed in her 80’s. Mom went to visit her best friend who was elderly and was unable to attend funeral due to health. She told mom that she came to her and described in detail the clothes she was wearing. New clothes that mom had bought for her to be buried in.
I'll go out on a limb with this. Blake started out as a child actor in the 30s. Today, we all know that many child actors are, taken advantage of, and it messes them up for life. Bonny Lee was just another person in Blakes life that wanted something from him and used him. I think he snapped. I don't think he did it himself, but had someone else do it. The man had had enough, she was a grifter and all he really had was a run down ranch and was pretty frugal with his money. As I recall, she wasnt even living with him in the ranch, she was living in a guest house behind the ranch. Her gig was up and he couldnt get rid of her with a divorce, she was threatening him and the relationship was very volatile. Wikipedia also states that he was physically and sexually abused by both of his parents. Great Actor with a lot of bad things that happened to him
The reason I believe that he probably did it, is because NOBODY else would throw the murder weapon right there in the dumpster. If you are a criminal, a thief, a jilted lover, a serial killer, random murderer, juvenile thug, etc., you are going to take your weapon with you. You may get rid of it later, but you are not going to leave it at the scene!! Blake had to dump it there really quickly, as he could not leave the scene. He was trapped there. So, anything else does not make sense!! I know some criminals are not the brightest, but nobody is going to leave the murder weapon there, plus they wiped it clean of fingerprints, first. Nobody else could afford to take that extra time. They would run off with the weapon, and clean it away from the scene, and get rid of it. Very suspicious!! Points to guilt on Blake.
It used to be common for mafia hitmen to drop their weapon at the scene of a hit. They used untraceable guns, and it was far better to leave it behind rather than getting caught with it.
I agree. Mafia hitmen famously ditch the gun as soon as possible. They don't care if it's found by police.They will wear gloves so no fingerprints and the gun is always illegal and untraceable.
@@swimlaps1I disagree. The id etched off is precisely what a hitman would use. And the fact it was a foreign gun is irrelevant. It doesn't make a difference where the gun was manufactured.
@@swimlaps1 The gun was a Walther PPK. It was a German made gun that was made in large quantities during WWII. Because there were so many out there, they were used in a lot of movies, so there were probably many available in LA.
It looks like Dean & Bonnie we’re in the restaurant he regularly had dinner in. Does not prove a relationship. She could have just walked up & asked for a photo. She could have used the photo in a variety of ways.
After Dean Paul’s tragic crash, Martin spiraled into an increasingly deeper depression. He had his dinner at the same hour, same table, exactly specific meal nearly every evening. The restaurant was nearby Martin’s longtime residence; not in The Valley (as is Vitello’s). Martin, so deeply depressed, did not converse with anyone while eating (unless absolutely necessary). B.B. may have found a way to violate a boundary and invade his privacy-however, I know nothing of the said photo.
When it comes to these celebrity crimes,i thought OJ took the cake,but Robert Blake saying he didn't kill a woman who was extorting him and then claim he left her at the car to go back to the restaurant to retrive his gun.....if that were true,imagine the look on the bus boys face when he cleaned that table. Matter of fact that woman also shook down Marlon Brandos son as well. I'm surpised he wasnt the one to do it,since he has some experience in that area...
It says a lot about a person that more than one person says "well, one day I always knew she'd piss off the wrong person" about. Clearly if Robert didn't do it, someone would in due time. Why people give this woman's death any more than a shoulder shrug is beyond me. That's not to say she "deserved it'" just that I'm not wasting tears on a self-serving crummy person. Ya reap what ya sow, lady.
Because after OJ’s high profile case, the media wanted to find another celebrity potentially getting away with murder. They didn’t find very much, so they went with this one
That Record... I mean come on..🥴 I'm cringing all the way over here in Australia... Haha ha... Poor Woman was Delusional ; not to mention an absolute Joke.. LOLOLL
Very simple. The burden of proof in a civil trial is preponderance of the evidence, which means 50.0001% more likely than not. In a criminal case, the burden of proof, as you say, is beyond a reasonable doubt. This is a much more difficult standard than preponderance of the evidence. That's why someone can be found liable in a civil trial and not guilty in a criminal trial for the same act. Now you never have to wonder again.
Looks like he set it up and most likely hired someone. He collected old rare guns. The gun used was an old rare gun. He just happened to walk away at the exact moment. They also wanted the gun found to prove he didn't have his prints on it.
Isn't it true that Bonnie WAY over estimated Robert Blake's "fortune"? Christian Brando didn't have anything either. They were both kinda scuzzy for messing with her. I always felt bad for the child.
I followed this case on CourtTV back when it happened. They had a very active message board community back then. I remember the biggest issue the prosecution had was the timeline and lack to GSR and blood residue. I can't remember the details, but from the time on his CC receipt, to the time he came back in and asked them to call police, it was a very short window of time and given all the things he was known to have done during that time, there wasn't any time for him to have cleaned up. It's entirely possible he had someone else kill her. He hung out with some shady guys who might have been willing to do it, but there really wasn't any evidence for it. I think the jury made the right decision.
I followed this too back then, it was my first real true crime case obsession. I also think he had one of his shady friends do it. It's probably worth another in-depth documentary because although this video was good, there is tons more fascinating info about this case, about her background, and his. He picked the wrong woman to have an affair with, she picked the wrong man to grift from. If I remember correctly there's a book about the case that is worth finding that fills in all the details.
@@VintageFLA no one should be killed like that but there are so many people who had means and reason. I seriously doubt Blake killed her and he didn't hire anyone either. It would be nice and neat if he did and I know so many want him to be the killer but he wasn't. Blake left her alone and in a not so good neighborhood so he lost the civil case.
Many creepy LA happenings! Lived in Tarzana near the 101, then. Saw the police cars and helicopter on 101 coming from west/HiddenHills when he was arrested in 2002.
When my husband and I went to Vitiello’s for the first time about five years ago we walked back to the car and he says to me, “I forgot something in the restaurant I’ll be right back”. Hardy har har funny boy
She had men across the country that were very angry at her for stealing from them in the most cruel way, it could have been any of them that unalived her.
The upward trajectory of the bullets is very interesting. She was sitting in a car. Robert then perhaps ducked down or crouched before firing at her? Maybe she never saw it coming.....
Unfortunately she lived a life of criminality & it caught up with her . The ex seemed to be right about her demise . And yes its obvious Blake was the killer .
Years ago I heard Blake had a place in Pinedale, Wyoming where he threatened some hunters fir inadvertently crossing his property. Appears he was a very troubled and disturbed man and dangerous as well.
Heres the thing though when Blake went and got help and went back to the car his wife was still alive, they said she was breathing if he shot her she would know he did, im saying i dont think he would leave her alive that would be really dumb, so i think he was innocent. And she had so many other enemies idk 🤷♂️
Bonnie had many people who wanted her dead, could have been any one of them. If Blake did it he did it to protect his daughter from a vile grifter and scum who was her mother.
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When that song started playing my cats woke up from a dead sleep, gave me a dirty look, and left the room.
Hahahahahahaha
😂🎉😂❤😂🎉😂❤😂🎉😂
Lol! 😂
Can't say as I blame them!😜😜
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There will always be trouble when you start telling more than one guy they are the father of your kid.
Truth. 😂
Well, it happens and men have to get control of their emotions, too.
Worked just fine for a bargirl who bamboozled an exboyfriend of mine!😂😂😂
She probably didn't know.
Exactly 😳
Bonnie Lee couldn’t carry a tune, even in a bucket! 🪣 🎶
I thought she didn't sound half bad...of course I have an ear , nose, & throat infection as I type this...
No loss… hope Rose is healing!!
If you search her stage name "Leebonny" using the UA-cam music app, you'll find the single. 🎶 😂
So...Bonny Lee Bakley's family didn't want to be present at her funeral for "moral reasons", but had no problem being paid to do a commentary on the live-cast. Then they sued the father of her child, who had custody, for millions. The lawsuit derailed Blake's custody, and guardianship of Rose was won by her half-sister, Delinah, Blake's daughter from his first marriage. Rose suffered from anxiety and depression and required therapy for her family issues, but was reconciled with Robert Blake when she was 18. It is always the innocents who suffer. I'm happy she got her life on track. She deserves to be happy.
She does indeed...
I'm in the belief that they weren't that saddened by her death. However, they can try & tell all kinds of stories & we'll never get the exact story of what happened. My question is, why did they put him in prison if they couldn't prove he did it?
@@pamfuller7130😢😢
@@pamfuller7130like oj & so many more idiots
@@pamfuller7130 Because thats how the justice system works? Its called being Remanded in Custody.
Her record was so bad, it's stuck in my head....thanks Scott
Thanks for the warning! I fast forwarded 😂
Same here. It’s stuck in my head.
How could it? Its so forgettable.
@@Tempe1962Its the emanately forgettable songs...that for awhile... become unfortunately UNFORGETTABLE!...👺🙉
If you search her stage name "Leebonny" using the UA-cam music app, you'll find the single. 🎶 😂
This is one of those cases that its hard to be sad or care that someone like that is dead.
i do not know why people say she was beautiful and i just wanted to rip off my ears when she sang that awful song
I agree. She was ok at best but the song is number 1 material.
The producer of that execrable record ought to have been indicted for crimes against humanity.
Ha......
She was NOT beautiful....
@@judyfowler2023 My cat is better looking than bonnie was.
I remember this when it happened. It just seemed really strange that when Robert went back to the restaurant to "get something", he came back to find her shot in the car. Thanks for this one, Scott!
Everyone that's buried at Forest Lawn just woke up and ran when they heard that song.
Lmao!!!!!!
LMAO good one
😂😂🤣❤️
She was able to buy several houses ? Wow. That's nuts. I had to play it back to make sure i heard it correctly. 😮
Why would anyone in Hollywood give her the time of day?
Blonds have more fun in Holly weird 😂😂😂😂
A lot of alcohol and a master manipulator 😊
Any port in a storm, she was easy
I know, especially with that receding hairline!
She seems to have gotten her due. Too bad she ruined so many lives before karma struck. She was a top predator.
Great you played that song and now all the dying cats in the neighborhood are lining up in my yard.
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😂😂😂
😂😂😂😭
Omg. ROTFLMAO😂😂😂😂
If there are dying cats in your neighborhood, why haven't been taken into shelter long ago
Blake benifitted from the fact she was not the least bit likable. Bonnie was Amber Heard before Amber.
She was a scam artist with people out to get her , which was supposedly why he was carrying a gun for protection
@@nonyabiz550 and you know this how?
And, if possible, worse.
She was a total scammer and had all kinds of people mad at her
@@nonyabiz550citations?
I was subscribed to Robert Blake's channel. He was a captivating teller of stories....I was a fan...but I doubt I would have much compatibility with his persona....he was, as you indicated...complex and strange.
Maybe someone heard that recording and wanted to make sure she didn’t do another one.
Good one!
If you search her stage name "Leebonny" using the UA-cam music app, you'll find the single. 🎶 😂
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Women like Bonnie are a dime a dozen, and men like Robert will always let their ego be first before common sense. Reap what you sow.
She was no different than Nicole Brown Simpson if you ask me, she was just poor and Nicole wasn’t!
@@RA82828 She was no angel, she was dealing drugs and wanted to open a restaurant with drug money with Ron Goldman, even Faye Resnick said as much in her book. Things are finally coming out about her behavior.
@@RA82828 No, that is your interpretation of what I wrote, I look at both those women equally, unlike you looking at Robert Blake differently than OJ, because he’s a white man, shame on you!
@@RA82828not a nice person
@@RA82828 never said anything about being murdered. Just low class people
I loved Robert Blake in Baretta and the Our Gang show. He was an excellent actor. Now, I'm going to have that nauseating song in my head all day. 😬 To this day, I have believed in his innocence. It's sad he became such a recluse. Great upload Scott!! Thank you! 😊
He was always great on The Tonight Show
I like Baretta and his bird.
I was always a fan.
Baretta was a great show but Robert Blake was not innocent and Bonnie was what they call a “skank”, so sad! P.S. That song was like nails on a blackboard!
I believed he was innocent also
"Loneliness can kill you deader than a 357 Magnum" Robert Blake 'Electra Glide in Blue' 1973. Loneliness is why he ended up with a girl like that
Thanks for posting that (prophetic?) quote from one of Blake’s best films.
Blake is a gifted actor who has a lot of baggage from his experiences as a child star, many that stemmed from his own family. No doubt he approaches life differently from many of us. Some things about the crime are questionable. But considering the history of Bonnie behavior it is not surprising that her life ended violently.
Sadly I would have to agree.
@@briansmith5391same
You mean had. He has passed away.
The ripping needle sound on the record was hilarious. Speaking volumes on the voice quality. It seems she was talented at working lonely men.
I prefer the needle sound
Oh my.. that song!
she was a grifter, plain and simple, sad that she told so many lies that resulted in her death.
Was married to Blake but occupation was listed as Mail Order thats strange
Who knows what all she was doing and with whom.
They meant Male Order. ''Gimme 10 husbands and a boatload of money.''
She was a marketer of mail order “products”, which she advertised as goods-for-sale in various publications-which she then shipped via the US Postal Service-after securing payment via US Mail
Therefore, she made income in the Mail Order business…and had for decades. As such, this was her occupation.
@@hollywoodjaded ahh ha yes that makes sense I totally forgot about the old ways of ordering from the catalogue etc...
@@kimmer6 Clever.
Curious to know what ever became of their daughter, Rosie. Thanks for sharing!!
I think Robert Blake's adult daughter immediately took the child and is raising her.
You can find Rosie very easily. She has done some interviews. Very pretty girl.
Yes Blake's oldest Daughter took custody of her and raised her
Poor child, imagine having to hear all the stories about her parents, she probably would want to stay anonymous!
@@juliedepaolo9971 She looks just like her mother minus her hair.
Such a great storyteller… thank you
Bonny and Clod. 😂 Still Fascinating how a not so good-looking woman could have duped these men, Blake was probably angrier at himself. Thanks Scott
How? Lonely people.
That song worse than Yoko Ono single.
I don’t know that it’s worse - Yoko Ono had a terrible screeching “singing” voice. At least Bonnie sounded like a person lol.
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It's *worse* not worst and yes, she sounds like Yoko
Worse than the Shaggs ?
She was also married to Glenn "Scotty" Wolfe, the most married man in The world, according to the Guinness book of world records! The marriage was annulled Shortly afterwards.😊
In a weird way it has aspects of what I’m guessing was a pre custody battle, that RB probably worried about. No mention of it ever, but I wondered if he knew it would be inevitable if he didn’t stay married to her.
She sounds like she had a criminal mind
He pretty much had all that worked out in the prenup I believe. No way was she getting Rosie. And she did not want a divorce.
She managed to dupe quite a few stupid men.
She wasn't good looking or sexy in any way but she managed.!!!!!!
When you use and abuse men for money and profit you run the risk of being exterminated.
She did
What a coincidence that she was killed at the exact moment Blake went back into the restaurant. I think whatever that story was about Blake hiring a couple of old pals to get rid of her sounds about right. Either that, or possibly she was threatening some recording studio that she was going to continue with her singing career.
I think your assumption is correct, too coincidental, he may have shot her and then went back to the restaurant for an alibi - I think I seen a Columbo episode that was similar to this one....he looks like the kind of guy who would do stuff like that.
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He went back in For his gun
@@spankyharland9845 I think he hired someone to do it.
OMG! DIRTY GIRL! 10 marriages by 44?...."Move over Liz." Geeeeezzz...
She was very sleazy and gross.
@@jeanoch8125How can you say that?...ten men made an honest woman of her!...😆
@@brettrobinson2901😂
Robert Blake starred in the film, in cold blood, the true story of the Clutter murders in Kansas. Truman Capote wrote the book which was made into a film and Blake played the part of Perry. Whats really uncanny is how like Perry, Blake actually looked and his co star looked like Hickock, his partner in the crime.
I always remember when Jordan said how Robert Blake came to Shelly Winters party. Everyone was creeped. Uninvited....
Peeking through the bushes wasn't he? 😂
I just watched that video and he said everyone went up to Robert and was talking to him like nothing happened...Shelley wasn't upset he was there, just wondered who invited him.
Shelly Winters was creepy too.
Bonnie should have suspected something was up after Robert parked so far away from the restaurant.
How ever it happened she was a gold digger .I wouldn't trust her with the dog catcher
I wouldn't even trust her with a dog!
Thank you, Scott!
That song made my windows beg to break !
I remember this case like it was yesterday. Not only was it close to the infamous O.J. case, but I was a big fan of Robert Blake. This just shattered my image of him.
I'm glad that I found your channel. You handle these stories professionally and not critically and try to beseechingly treat the victim or suspect. I personally thought that Blake did it, I was mad seeing that another celebrity got away with murder.
Scott, love your channel, love your content and wisdom. Thank you for another great job. I do remember that horrific Yoko Ono single! I agree with your viewers this record Bonnie made is worse! 😅
My dogs are not happy about her singing. She wanted to get her hands on the celebrity men and got pregnant so she would have claim to the money. Women have to understand that the pregnancy will not keep a man. If they pay child support for the child then the child is supposed to be the one who benefits from the support not the mother. Marriage will not work to get money from the husband. She might benefit financially when married but, nothing if divorce happens. Especially when the marriage is over in months.
Hollllllld up. She married her first cousin? She was married ten times? I’m only five minutes into this video and I’m in WTF land. That song didn’t help.
I heard she was married 14 times but by then , whose counting? Would get married clear out the bank account by the next day. I don't think she actually raised any of her 5 kids. The song was kinda interesting. I don't think I have ever heard a voice so utterly tone deaf, made by someone who actually put out a record. Scott was right though. She was a troubled person who never really found happiness.
WTF is right, her first born daughter Jeri wasn't his so she dumped the kid with a ex husband what in the Jeffrey Epstein Hollywood story is going on in this lady's head..
Another great video Scott thanks
I think he hired someone to kill her. He brought her to dinner, deliberately left a gun, of all things, at the restaurant, which served as the excuse to leave her alone for a moment and to make it look like he did not use his own gun. As she sat in the car his hired gunman shot her and ran off.
There is a chilling recording you can find on YT of him talking to her on the phone when she told him she was pregnant..she said she couldn't get pregnant or something like that-then of course she deliberately set out to get pregnant. His seething anger at her deception is very evident on the recording.
This is common. Men seething with anger at a woman for a pregnancy while refusing to take responsibility for the fact that THEY should have used a condom to make sure it was prevented.
I remember hearing the tape recording of that phone call on news program not long after her murder, and it was very disturbing. She was crying and begging for him to forgive her for lying about taking birth control, and he was having none of it. Obviously any man would be angry if he was scammed like that, but his response was chilling. He wasn’t screaming or crying, he was ice cold and just kept telling her: “But you lieeeeed....you lieeeed”, and you could just tell that he wanted her to be exterminated. At the same time it was hard to feel sorry for her once the information came out about her life of scams and crimes. No one deserves to be murdered, but it was clear that her life would end badly. She had to have been a sociopath without a conscience to do the things she did, and it was her unlucky fate to get involved with a dangerous man.
@@Mike-rk8px Yeah, and Blake would say "there are a lot of people who want her dead"....well, he was one of them.
@Mike-rk8px I agree! And to park in THAT location? All planned.
It says a lot about a person that more than one person says "well, one day I always knew she'd piss off the wrong person" about. Clearly if Robert didn't do it, someone would in due time.
Why people give this woman's death any more than a shoulder shrug is beyond me.
Besides Blake, there were many other people she scammed during her lifetime. Did LE bother tho investigate them?
Hey Scott i love when you do stories like this and i bought the 3 books of death certificates I love them
Hi Scott, very interesting as always indeed! Keep them coming...great job man!
Excellent addition to the videos. Great to see you, from an old death hag. 👍
Robert's the only man that I know who carried a gun and didn't wear it in a holster.
How old are you? In the boots, back of waistband, etc. etc.......
@@Lily-wp8olexactly
I think the Walther had been in his waistband, but he removed as he sat in the booth to eat his meal.
Thanks Scott. I think he did it out of love for little Rose. He probably didnt want her growing up around that grifter!
Just made that horrible song my ringtone. Luckily nobody calls me
By the way..what's yer number?...😜
The NSA just developed an app with top engineers to overlay that ring tone onto terrorists phones. You inspired them.
@@rachelrendish9019 😝
If you search her stage name "Leebonny" using the UA-cam music app, you'll find the single. 🎶 😂
If they had played that at David Koresh's compound repeatedly, I am very sure everyone would have left the compound.
Have eaten many times at Vitello’s, & had the “Robert Blake” dish on the menu. Often saw Blake around Studio city. Gruff & curt guy.
I ate that dish too. Also had the Lukather (sp) dish.
In 1993 Robert Blake starred in the excellent television movie “Judgement Day: The John List Story”. He played John List, a man who killed his mother, wife, and kids in 1971 and evaded justice for decades until the tv show “America’s Most Wanted” did a show about him. It’s one of the most disturbing movies I’ve ever seen, but what stands out in my mind is that I watched it in 1993 and was freaked out by how well Robert Blake played a such a cold blooded killer, it was like he wasn’t even acting. You can see that movie for free on youtube.
He also played a killer in the movie ‘In Cold Blood.’
@@RobGa66 Yes, that was also a fantastic performance. But the killer he played in that movie was just a white trash low life. John List was more creepy than Norman Bates: a middle aged, very uptight and religious accountant living in a huge mansion in a very wealthy area of New Jersey who just kills his entire family. The way they were killed and how he arranged their bodies was unbelievably creepy. The way Robert Blake became him, and even looked like him, was so flawless it was scary.
Blake also played a killer " In Cold Blood"
Say what you will he was a good actor.
@@ginajennings1664 maybe he didn't have to act.
Wow what another great informative video
Scott , you are always entertaining !!!!!😊
Ghost clothes. My great aunt passed in her 80’s. Mom went to visit her best friend who was elderly and was unable to attend
funeral due to health. She told mom that she came to her and described in detail the clothes she was wearing. New clothes that mom had bought for her to be buried in.
Scott always has my brain tingling after watching his work. Many thanks to you.
This was the only case I can recall that I knew someone killed another person and I still wanted them to be acquitted.
Same.
Me too. He was trying to protect his daughter from being raised by that liar and grifter con artist of a mother.
Who
Who would park blocks away from the restaurant in the dark with no sreetlight behind a dumpster?
Good point
An that's the name of that tune.....lotta suckers wanted revenge. She took them for 10 houses.
I'll go out on a limb with this. Blake started out as a child actor in the 30s. Today, we all know that many child actors are, taken advantage of, and it messes them up for life. Bonny Lee was just another person in Blakes life that wanted something from him and used him. I think he snapped. I don't think he did it himself, but had someone else do it. The man had had enough, she was a grifter and all he really had was a run down ranch and was pretty frugal with his money. As I recall, she wasnt even living with him in the ranch, she was living in a guest house behind the ranch. Her gig was up and he couldnt get rid of her with a divorce, she was threatening him and the relationship was very volatile. Wikipedia also states that he was physically and sexually abused by both of his parents. Great Actor with a lot of bad things that happened to him
Both his parents? That's horrible
It's incredible that he lived as long as he did. He was certainly a survivor.
The reason I believe that he probably did it, is because NOBODY else would throw the murder weapon right there in the dumpster. If you are a criminal, a thief, a jilted lover, a serial killer, random murderer, juvenile thug, etc., you are going to take your weapon with you. You may get rid of it later, but you are not going to leave it at the scene!! Blake had to dump it there really quickly, as he could not leave the scene. He was trapped there. So, anything else does not make sense!! I know some criminals are not the brightest, but nobody is going to leave the murder weapon there, plus they wiped it clean of fingerprints, first. Nobody else could afford to take that extra time. They would run off with the weapon, and clean it away from the scene, and get rid of it. Very suspicious!! Points to guilt on Blake.
Plus, a unique foreign gun with ID etched off. A hired killer likely would not have.
It used to be common for mafia hitmen to drop their weapon at the scene of a hit. They used untraceable guns, and it was far better to leave it behind rather than getting caught with it.
I agree. Mafia hitmen famously ditch the gun as soon as possible. They don't care if it's found by police.They will wear gloves so no fingerprints and the gun is always illegal and untraceable.
@@swimlaps1I disagree. The id etched off is precisely what a hitman would use. And the fact it was a foreign gun is irrelevant. It doesn't make a difference where the gun was manufactured.
@@swimlaps1 The gun was a Walther PPK. It was a German made gun that was made in large quantities during WWII. Because there were so many out there, they were used in a lot of movies, so there were probably many available in LA.
Scott love ❤️ your channel. Thanks for all you do
Always interesting Scott....
Love your videos. Completely off topic,but I’m in love with the curtains behind you when you’re going over the autopsy results ☺️
I’m surprised that she caught the eye of Dean Martin. Thanks for sharing.
He probably couldn't see well at his old age
By that time, Dean was probably near death or so old he didnt notice or care.
I’m not surprised. He looked like an emaciated skeleton when he met her.
It looks like Dean & Bonnie we’re in the restaurant he regularly had dinner in. Does not prove a relationship. She could have just walked up & asked for a photo. She could have used the photo in a variety of ways.
After Dean Paul’s tragic crash, Martin spiraled into an increasingly deeper depression.
He had his dinner at the same hour, same table, exactly specific meal nearly every evening.
The restaurant was nearby Martin’s longtime residence; not in The Valley (as is Vitello’s).
Martin, so deeply depressed, did not converse with anyone while eating (unless absolutely necessary).
B.B. may have found a way to violate a boundary and invade his privacy-however, I know nothing of the said photo.
When it comes to these celebrity crimes,i thought OJ took the cake,but Robert Blake saying he didn't kill a woman who was extorting him and then claim he left her at the car to go back to the restaurant to retrive his gun.....if that were true,imagine the look on the bus boys face when he cleaned that table. Matter of fact that woman also shook down Marlon Brandos son as well. I'm surpised he wasnt the one to do it,since he has some experience in that area...
I always found it devilishly iron “Hey wife that I hate, I forgot my gun be back!” *Gets shot in car by gun, while forced baby daddy went to get gun*
@@laffytaffy2916 I know! I'm surprised he even mentioned that.... Hey Robert. Your wife was shot... What?! No way!
Christian Brando: he had some experience in that area. LOL
@@laffytaffy2916maybe she just took her own life
@@keepitsimple4629it’s true
Much like the Nicole Simpson Brown gravestone mentioned in the previous video, she has the surname of her ‘probable’ killer listed there
It says a lot about a person that more than one person says "well, one day I always knew she'd piss off the wrong person" about. Clearly if Robert didn't do it, someone would in due time.
Why people give this woman's death any more than a shoulder shrug is beyond me. That's not to say she "deserved it'" just that I'm not wasting tears on a self-serving crummy person. Ya reap what ya sow, lady.
Because after OJ’s high profile case, the media wanted to find another celebrity potentially getting away with murder. They didn’t find very much, so they went with this one
So suspicious, parked so far away from the restaurant. Definitely believe Blake had her murdered.
Her first cousin/husband 😮
And father of her first child! Cue the banjo!
Bwaha!!! Deliverance 🪕
Great video. Thoroughly enjoyed. 😊
I cant help but think there was something poetic about her death. She always wanted to be famous, to be with the stars. Now she is.
That Record... I mean come on..🥴 I'm cringing all the way over here in Australia... Haha ha... Poor Woman was Delusional ; not to mention an absolute Joke.. LOLOLL
_If you search her stage name "Leebonny" using the UA-cam music app, you'll find the single._ 🎶 😂
That song made it justifiable homicide.
Scott thank you for another wonderful video! Wishing you and Troy the best!
Very simple. The burden of proof in a civil trial is preponderance of the evidence, which means 50.0001% more likely than not. In a criminal case, the burden of proof, as you say, is beyond a reasonable doubt. This is a much more difficult standard than preponderance of the evidence. That's why someone can be found liable in a civil trial and not guilty in a criminal trial for the same act. Now you never have to wonder again.
I had immediately assumed Blake had done it,
but then again she ran a lot of scams and made a lot of enemies, so God only knows.
I love watching your channel :) Thank you !
Looks like he set it up and most likely hired someone. He collected old rare guns. The gun used was an old rare gun. He just happened to walk away at the exact moment. They also wanted the gun found to prove he didn't have his prints on it.
I lived in north Hollywood and would see Robert Blake at the store now and then. He made me really uncomfortable, he had a scary vibe.
Sure
As soon as you said how he had to return after forgetting his revolver, I spontaneously said, "As you do" only to hear you say the exact same thing!😊
Isn't it true that Bonnie WAY over estimated Robert Blake's "fortune"? Christian Brando didn't have anything either. They were both kinda scuzzy for messing with her. I always felt bad for the child.
Well, Blake's daughter raised her, so she lucked out, not being raised by Bonnie.
I followed this case on CourtTV back when it happened. They had a very active message board community back then. I remember the biggest issue the prosecution had was the timeline and lack to GSR and blood residue. I can't remember the details, but from the time on his CC receipt, to the time he came back in and asked them to call police, it was a very short window of time and given all the things he was known to have done during that time, there wasn't any time for him to have cleaned up. It's entirely possible he had someone else kill her. He hung out with some shady guys who might have been willing to do it, but there really wasn't any evidence for it. I think the jury made the right decision.
I followed this too back then, it was my first real true crime case obsession. I also think he had one of his shady friends do it. It's probably worth another in-depth documentary because although this video was good, there is tons more fascinating info about this case, about her background, and his. He picked the wrong woman to have an affair with, she picked the wrong man to grift from. If I remember correctly there's a book about the case that is worth finding that fills in all the details.
@@VintageFLA no one should be killed like that but there are so many people who had means and reason. I seriously doubt Blake killed her and he didn't hire anyone either. It would be nice and neat if he did and I know so many want him to be the killer but he wasn't. Blake left her alone and in a not so good neighborhood so he lost the civil case.
I don't believe there wasn't a closer parking space, he'd never walk that far......
I thought the same thing. He parked pretty far away. The hours shown on the police report look like they were there on the later side of the evening.
I'm surprised nobody in the houses around there didn't hear the gun shots?
Parking in LA is not easy to find…
He murdered her
Thanks Scott
BOY SHE WAS A REAL PEACH OF A WOMAN ! GOOD VIDEO SCOTT !!!!
Many creepy LA happenings! Lived in Tarzana near the 101, then. Saw the police cars and helicopter on 101 coming from west/HiddenHills when he was arrested in 2002.
So poor Bonnie has to wear a girdle throughout eternity? 😢
She asked for it
When my husband and I went to Vitiello’s for the first time about five years ago we walked back to the car and he says to me, “I forgot something in the restaurant I’ll be right back”. Hardy har har funny boy
@@ItsStillNotNicole 🤣🤣🤣
Fascinating love your videos!
She had men across the country that were very angry at her for stealing from them in the most cruel way, it could have been any of them that unalived her.
Opped?
The upward trajectory of the bullets is very interesting. She was sitting in a car. Robert then perhaps ducked down or crouched before firing at her? Maybe she never saw it coming.....
Sir you owe us , you owe us BIG TIME for not telling us to turn down the volume before Miss Thang began singing .THAT needed a warning ok ?
I had no idea she was so troublesome. Good video.
Oh my , and I thought Sophie Trudeau singing was bad ! My ear drums . Blake or his wife were awful . Birds of a feather .
The daughter Rose was on Kim Goldman's podcast and it was very interesting.
When was she on the show?
Didn’t know Kim had a podcast; I’ll check it out. She did some on-camera stuff for Crimewatch Daily, and I wanted to like it, but TV wasn’t her bag.
Unfortunately she lived a life of criminality & it caught up with her . The ex seemed to be right about her demise . And yes its obvious Blake was the killer .
Years ago I heard Blake had a place in Pinedale, Wyoming where he threatened some hunters fir inadvertently crossing his property. Appears he was a very troubled and disturbed man and dangerous as well.
Heres the thing though when Blake went and got help and went back to the car his wife was still alive, they said she was breathing if he shot her she would know he did, im saying i dont think he would leave her alive that would be really dumb, so i think he was innocent. And she had so many other enemies idk 🤷♂️
I think he did it.
That song......no words to describe. 😮
Bonnie had many people who wanted her dead, could have been any one of them. If Blake did it he did it to protect his daughter from a vile grifter and scum who was her mother.
Ty Scott for what u do. God bless you.