Bonnie Lee Bakley

Afterward, Bakley was killed by a gunshot to the head while sitting in the car, which was parked on a side street around the corner from the restaurant. Blake claimed that he had returned to the restaurant to collect a gun which he had left there, and was not present when the shooting occurred. That gun had not fired the fatal shots.

She was buried at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California.

Note that Bakley's claim to have been Glynn Wolfe's 26th wife contradicts the records of Wolfe's marriages (some of which may be apocryphal); Wolfe's own claim, as given by his Guinness Book of World Records listing, holds that his 26th wife was Guadalupe Chavez.

On March 16, 2005, Blake was found not guilty of the murder of Bonny Lee Bakley, and of one of the two counts of soliciting a former stuntman to murder her. The other count of solicitation was dropped after it was revealed that the jury was deadlocked 11-1 in favor of an acquittal. Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley, commenting on this ruling, called Blake a "miserable human being" and the jurors "incredibly stupid." Read Less