Wondery Presents: The Execution of Bonny Lee Bakley

Unexplained Encounters

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Science, Nature

4.7 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

On May 4, 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley was found fatally shot in a car on a dark North Hollywood street. The prime suspect was her husband, famed actor Robert Blake. But Bonny, a longtime con artist, had plenty of enemies. She left behind a trail of men she’d scammed, and she had a volatile relationship with Christian Brando, the troubled son of movie star Marlon Brando. Not since the O.J. Simpson case had the eyes of the nation been so fixated on a homicide. The search for Bonny’s killer took detectives on an eleven-month odyssey across the country and through Hollywood's underbelly of hustlers, drug addicts, and would-be hitmen. It would be the most expensive murder investigation in LAPD history to date. This is the story of Robert and Bonny’s toxic relationship, her shocking murder, and his chaotic trial. Did actor Robert Blake kill his wife? Or was the murder someone else's vendetta?From Wondery, and the team behind the hit series Hollywood & Crime (The Dating Game Killer, The Wonderland Murders, Death of Starlet) comes a six-part series about love, obsession and fame gone wrong. Co-hosted by Tracy Pattin and Josh Lucas. Listen by subscribing to Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondery App: http://wondery.fm/UE_TEOBLB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Wundry.
0:03.0	People make terribly good monsters,
0:06.0	and what more interesting a place for mysteries and crime is there, then Hollywood.
0:12.0	From Wundry, the execution of Bonnie Lee Backley is a suspenseful new chapter
0:17.0	in the hit Hollywood and Crime podcast series.
0:20.0	Bonnie Lee Backley, a small town girl who always dreamed of being a movie star,
0:25.0	ended up spending most of her life as a con artist, bonking for fame.
0:30.0	After marrying famous actor Robert Blake,
0:33.0	Bonnie would soon instead be discovered fatally shot outside of a diner in North Hollywood.
0:39.0	Robert Blake, her husband, would then enter his most famous role yet,
0:44.0	a suspect in the murder of Bonnie Lee Backley.
0:48.0	You're about to hear a preview of the execution of Bonnie Lee Backley.
0:52.0	While you're listening, follow the execution of Bonnie Lee Backley on Apple Podcasts,
0:57.0	Amazon Music, Spotify, or you can listen ad-free by joining Wundry Plus in the Wundry app.
1:09.0	It's a little after 9.30pm on May 4th, 2001.
1:15.0	Fireworks flash across the sky in Studio City, just over the Hollywood Hills.
1:20.0	Cinco de Mayo has come a day early this year.
1:25.0	Inside a small yellow house on a quiet street,
1:28.0	Sean Stanic sits at a desk in his robe.
1:31.0	He's spending Friday night hunched over his keyboard,
1:34.0	writing a screenplay, hoping to become the next quentin Tarantino.
1:40.0	But tonight, Stanic won't write another word.
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