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"...Blake's house was in disarray after the shooting, and there was writing
on the walls saying 'I'm not going down for this.'..."

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20010514/ts/blake_010514_1.html

Police Find Gun Near Bakley Slay Site
By ABCNEWS.com

Police have found the gun they believe was used to kill actor Robert Blake's
wife, ABCNEWS has learned. The Baretta star's alibi is also now in question.

Los Angeles police found the gun they believe was used to kill actor Robert
Blake's wife in a dumpster a block and a half away from where the shooting
 took place, ABCNEWS has learned.There was still one bullet in the gun, a
Walther pistol described as a collector's item, which matched the two
bullets used to kill Blake's wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, as she sat in the
actor's car on May 4 waiting for him to return from a restaurant where the
couple had just had dinner.

Police said Bakley, 45, was shot once in the shoulder and once in the head.

Blake, 67, who said he had gone back to the restaurant to get a pistol he
forgot when the couple left after dinner, is a gun collector. The Walther, a
gun that used to be carried by German army officers, was not registered to
him.

Blake, who says he was carrying a gun to protect his wife, said he found her
wounded when he returned from the restaurant. Bakley was pronounced dead at
a nearby hospital.

In a search of Blake's home, police found a box of ammunition of the same
kind that was found in the gun, but the casings on those bullets did not
match the casing of the bullet in the weapon, ABC's David Wright reported on
Good Morning America.

The brand of ammunition, Remington Peters, is a popular brand, though.

Wright reported that Blake's house was in disarray after the shooting, and
there was writing on the walls saying "I'm not going down for this."

Two Sides to Story

Blake's alibi that he want back to the restaurant to retrieve his pistol was
contradicted by a busboy, who told police he cleared the table where the
couple ate before the actor returned, and found no gun there, Wright
reported.

Last week, the lead detective on the case said Blake has not been ruled out
as a suspect and that it was "very likely" he will be questioned again about
his wife's slaying.

"We have certainly not ruled out Mr. Blake," said Capt. Jim Tatreau,
commander of the Los Angeles Police Department's robbery-homicide division.
"We have not been able to develop enough evidence that, as far as
eliminating Mr. Blake, that takes us in another direction."

Bakley's friends and relatives have accused Blake of abusing her. They claim
the couple's baby daughter Rose was a source of friction. Blake, they said,
wanted to keep Bakley away from the baby and would have killed for the
child.

"I just said if I were you I would let him have that baby and let him raise
it and get away from him," said Marjorie Lois Carlyon, Bakley's mother.

Blake's close friend, John Solari, agrees that Blake is extremely protective
of Rose and recalled his friend carrying the baby around the house and
singing to her. Blake, Solari told ABCNEWS, was miserable in his marriage to
Bakley. Blake was embarrassed and ashamed when he discovered she was sending
old nude photos of herself to men, Solari said.

But as disturbed as he was about his troubled marriage, Solari said Blake
would not have killed or had his wife killed. After all, Solari said he
offered to kill her himself and Blake turned him down.

"I said, 'Robert, I'll take her off the count, please.' He says, 'John, I
can't do that,'" Solari recalled. "'I gotta make this work.'"

Solari said if Blake wanted Bakley killed, he would have ordered a hit
through him. But Blake wouldn't do it because of their daughter.

"He begged me. He says, 'John ... John don't. Never. I gotta make this work
because this is my daughter, and I don't want her to grow up and know this
happened,'" Solari said.


Search for Financial Records, Diary

Authorities initially said the star of the 1970s cop show Baretta was not
considered a suspect in the death of his wife.

But the tone shifted last Wednesday when police said they had not ruled
anyone out as a suspect. Police also searched Blake's home again Wednesday
night.

Blake's attorney on Thursday delivered to police numerous items he said he
believes should be examined by police. The items included boxes, suitcases
and steamer trunks filled with the property and belonging to Bakely
including tapes, letters and articles related to her life as well as some
business documents and photos.

The attorney, Harland Braun, has said his client welcomes the scrutiny, and
he hopes investigators will uncover clues to find out who killed his wife.

"We want the LAPD (news - web sites) to investigate Robert Blake, because
the more they investigate, they'll find out he didn't do it," Braun said.

Sources told ABCNEWS police were looking through financial records during
the Wednesday night search. They say several recent cash withdrawals are
unaccounted for.

They were also looking for a second diary kept by Bakley - a diary friends
and family members of the victim say detailed threats made by Blake.
However, sources said police did not find that diary.

Born Michael Gubitosi, Blake began his acting career at age 5, appearing in
MGM's Our Gang series. He appeared in a number of films, including The
Treasure of the Sierra Madre and In Cold Blood, but is best known for
Baretta.

In the 1970s series, he played a tough cop with a soft side who had a pet
cockatoo named Fred and got tips from a pimp named Rooster. The popular
Baretta theme song warned, "Don't go to bed with no price on your head ...
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time."

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