Hello Dreamers and welcome back to the second and final part of episode six, the victim blame game.

And as a warning to listeners, this episode contains adult content and descriptions of gun violence.

Listener discretion is advised.

Last week we delved into the world of Bonnie Lee Bakley. We explored her lifelong

exploitive activities, her mail order scams, her various sham marriages, her identity theft and fraudulent

check writing, and of course, her celebrity obsession.

At the time of her death and since then, her family has spoken publicly of Bonnie very little.

A few days after her death in the Los Angeles Times,

her mother, Marjorie Carolyn, confirmed that it was indeed a fact

that her daughter lived on the edge.

She worried about her constantly. To her friends and family, Bonnie Lee told of all the intimate relationships that she had with celebrities.

Then in late 2000, she had finally let them all know

that she had landed the Hollywood husband

she had always wanted, Robert Blake.

Compared to her, Bonnie's three siblings lived

relatively mundane existences.

Her sister Marjorie was a secretary in Dover, New Jersey.

Her brother Joey worked in the construction industry in San Diego, California, and her half-brother Peter worked in the landscaping business back in Tennessee.

But for Bonnie, it was evident from a very early age that she was determined to have more than the simple life, and

her family knew she would never settle for anything less than becoming rich and famous.

As mentioned in part one, Bonnie was raised by her grandmother because of unspecified problems

at home, but if I were to speculate, it was likely Bonnie's free-spiritedness and the lifestyle that

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