Did Robert Blake shoot Bonnie Lee Bakley? Where did Robert Blake shot his wife?

On September 18, 1933, Michael James Gubitosi was born in Nutley, New Jersey, and eventually became Robert Blake.

Robert Blake made his acting debut while he was young, playing the lead in the final years of Our Gang (Little Rascals) short film series produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1939 to 1944.

Robert Blake had a lot of promise in the movie industry.

However, his career nosedived following the gruesome murder of his second wife and the subsequent trial which ensued.

Did Robert Blake shoot Bonnie Lee Bakley?

Bonny Lee Bakley (June 7, 1956 – May 4, 2001) was the second wife of actor Robert Blake, who was her tenth husband. 

In May 2001, Bonnie Lee Bakley was fatally murdered while seated in Robert Blake’s parked vehicle outside a restaurant in the Los Angeles region.

Robert Blake was accused with murdering Bonnie Lee Bakley, soliciting murder, conspiring, and specifically laying in wait in 2002. A jury exonerated Robert Blake of the offenses in March 2005.

Robert Blake was held at fault in a wrongful death case filed by Bonnie Lee Bakley’s children seven months later. Officially, the murder of Bonnie Lee Bakley is still unsolved.

Where did Robert Blake shot his wife?

Bonny Lee Bakley, Robert Blake’s wife, was shot while riding alone in the actor’s car in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Studio City.

According to the Blake, he left her alone to go back to the Italian restaurant where they had just had dinner to get a pistol he had left behind. When he returned, he discovered she was dead.