Newport Beach, California sits just south of Los Angeles.

It's 2012, and the owner of a marijuana dispensary has been kidnapped, tortured, and left for dead in the Mojave Desert.

It began a decade-long game of cat and mouse between investigators and a perpetrator, a mastermind of escape.

He's a psychopath.

Oh, my God, they let Hannibal Lecter out?

Devil in the Desert, coming June 17th.

Welcome to the True Crime Vault, home to 2020's most chilling stories.

Yeah. 2020's most chilling stories. Robert, are you innocent?

Of course I'm innocent.

See, you think I'm a monster, too?

Bipolar? I was tripolar. I would quad polar. Who the hell knows what kind of polar I was.

I said, Chief, who was the shooter? And he said without missing a beat, Robert Blake.

Would you welcome, Robert Blake.

And the winner is Robert Bragg Bletta.

Let the good times roll.

New wife, dare I say, washed up movie star, carrying a gun on the same night.

The wife is dead, and he had a gun. He must have done it.

Wife of actor Robert Blake.

Wife of actor Robert Blake. Bonnie Lee Bakley. She was a professional con artist.

Basically robbing lonely men of their money with the promise of romance and sex.

Randall allegedly said someone ought to put a bullet through that bitch's head.

Many people think that he's still in jail, that he was convicted. I'm still here, you bastards.

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