Word: bakley
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According to Blake, he and Bakley had walked back to the car after dinner when he recalled that he had left his licensed handgun on a seat in Vitello's. He said he rushed back to retrieve the weapon, which he carried because Bakley said she was being stalked. When he got back to the car, he found her shot and gasping for air. Blake ran for help, first to a nearby house and then to the restaurant. However, while Restivo and his employees at Vitello's remember seeing Blake rush in for help, they do not recall his doubling...
Though comparisons are being drawn, the Blake-Bakley case is not quite the O.J. Simpson saga. The glamour quotient is low, and no high-speed white Ford Bronco chase has hypnotized the nation. Last week the police were only calling Blake a witness, though they have not ruled him out as a suspect. They dusted him for gunpowder traces the night of the crime and found none. Still, there is some incredulity at the split-second timing of events in the tale he tells...
...home twice, taking away two 9-mm handguns and more than 100 rounds of ammunition from his collection. At the insistence of Harland Braun, the criminal lawyer retained by Blake after the murder, the police have also carted away three steamer trunks, five boxes and six suitcases of Bakley's documents, photos and recordings. "She was a pack rat," said Braun. "She kept every document involved with her." The documents, he says, will help identify Bakley's enemies and perhaps pinpoint a suspect from the countless scams she worked, including trying to pass hundreds of thousands of dollars...
Blake met Bakley at a Los Angeles nightclub in 1999. Braun said that his client had done the honorable thing by marrying her. "It was a situation where he had not intentionally created a child and felt an obligation toward his daughter." Blake had a prenuptial agreement drawn up saying Bakley should not get into any more trouble with the law, but it was never signed. Bakley lived in a guest house behind Blake's ramshackle home in Studio City, but even so she was rarely around. A nanny cared for her baby, Rose Lenore Sophia, who lived in Blake...
...Bakley's defenders are few and mostly kin (or lawyers they have hired). Her half brother Peter Carlyon of Memphis, Tenn., says that Bakley had phoned to say she was afraid of Blake and that if she ended up dead he would be to blame. But sympathy has emerged from the L.A.P.D. Responding to Braun's lurid tales, police spokesman Lieut. Horace Frank said, "It's kind of unfair. Here's a person who's been murdered, and now they start painting her as a bad person." He added, "The focus of the investigation is not on her past...