Further reading on Bonnie Lee Bakley:

Blood Cold: Fame, Sex, and Murder in Hollywood

2008 Florida State University graduate, 23 year old Rachel Hoffman was under court ordered supervision for the possession of 25g of weed. About a year later, someone reported the smell of weed drifting from Rachel’s apartment, they reported it to the police for them to come and investigate stating they thought the apartment was a drug den. The police when then searching her apartment found another 151g of weed, 4 ecstasy pills and 2 vallum. The officer in charge new she was a small time drug dealer but since this wasnt her first offense they knew they had her in a corner. So he tries to make her a deal, they try to persuade her to identify the other drug dealers in the area to avoid charges. She refused.

Rachel, however, was pressured by the police to become and confidential informant in a drug sting. Two narcotics officers arranged for her to buy drugs at a specific location, the goal of the sting was for her to buy 1,500 ecstasy pills, 2 oz of cocaine, and two handguns. It was later deemed that the police had insufficient manpower to protect Rachel and still apprehend the suspects.

When she went for the drug buy, the police were monitoring Rachel but the suspects changed locations, before police could tell her not to follow them to the new location, there were technical issues and Rachel did not receive the instructions from the police. The Police lost track of her as she had gotten into the stolen silver BMW the suspects were driving, and the suspects allegedly executed her with the gun she was supposed to be buying from them.

Old school Hollywood Murder:

Bonnie Lee Bakley was on her tenth husband, Robert Blake, he was a well known child actor, who went on to make a carrier in movies and tv. On May 2001, Blake and Bakley went to dinner at Vitello’s restaurant in Studio City. After dinner, Bakley went to the car as Robert Blake claims he had to go back into the restaurant to get a handgun he had accidently left at the table. When he got to the car Bakely was found dead with a gunshot wood to her head, the car was parked on the side street around the corner from the restaurant. Blake uses the alibi of going back into the restaurant to prove he was not at the scene of the crime when it happened.

Blake was tried and acquitted in 2005, then was found liable of her wrongful death.

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