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small town girl, bonnie, lee bakley always

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dreamed a movie star, girl,

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obsession, with celebrities resulted in nine,

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divorces until bonnie eventually

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married famous actor, robert blake

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however, bonnie learned being

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close to the spotlight comes with consequences within

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a year of her marriage her hollywood dream

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came to a tragic end when she was

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found, fatally shot outside of a a in

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north hollywood bonnie's traveling

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path complicated detectives, almost

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a year investigation into her murder

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which have the lapd raking

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through hollywood's underbelly of gangsters

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drug addicts and would be hit men

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her husband robert blake remain the prime

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suspect in her murder that the media pointed

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the finger back at bonnie saying

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she had it coming from wonder

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he the execution of bonnie lee bailey

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is a thrilling new chapter in the his

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hollywood and crime yeah theory robert

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blake new body spent most of her life the

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con artist who dreamed of being famous

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that when robert blake reluctantly let bonnie

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stay in his guest house it began the

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though he become most famous for

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an accused murderer

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a little after nine thirty pm on

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may fourth two thousand and one fireworks

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, across the sky in studio city

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just over the hollywood hills cinco

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de maya has come has day early this

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inside a small yellow house on a quiet

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street sean stanek sit

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at a desk and his robe he

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spending friday night hunched over his keyboard

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writing keyboard screenplay hoping to become

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the next quentin tarantino but

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tonight

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the neck

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right another word

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reading are you have to help my

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wife she's , she's been

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beads they better off off my

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gosh call nine one nine minute

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clicks jesus robert

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blake the actor stanek seen him

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around seen neighborhood where issues

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blake points across the street to a black dodge

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parked in front of a dumpster stance

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confused how did blake's weiss

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get into the car if she was beaten

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was their domestic squabble stanek

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racist his bedroom dials nine one

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racist

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crap we

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need a woman we have almost how this

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oh my

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gosh breathing breathing ,

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he other com and and

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operator to stand to get a dry towel

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stop any bleeding he

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still in his room

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he runs to the bedroom to change clothes

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and here's blake ya from the other room got

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back to the restaurant

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white and black going to the car to help his

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wife five

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years or late fog history

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and dark ,

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set he sees the car next to the dumpster

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and rushes over he veers

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into the driver's window and spots the woman

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are you okay

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danica door the

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, tears management blood a

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good here replacing

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the towel around her head and apply pressure

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and , years play calling from down the block

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what's wrong with her apps

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danny turns back to the injured woman

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he kills at her face stomach

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jumps is a gaping hole

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gaping the right side of her head

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minutes later paramedics arrived and transfer

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the women into an ambulance static

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, blake's to the on the curb curb

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sits next to him and puts his arm around

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his around by

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now the street is teeming with squad

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cars one of the officers

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thanks moistened allow shaky that

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, wife wife knew this was going

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to happen and knew and she

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was afraid she know i carry

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my know for protection the

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officer asks if he still has it on

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him like pulls the gun

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from his pocket he

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tries to piece together the cruise he

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did to see as a directory get a woman trusted

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whoever did this a , a killer

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walked up and said something to her and then

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too late late come to

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one of the hazards of work in hollywood everything

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feels like a movie

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danica won't be the first to speculate about

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what happens in the next

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few hours newspapers and tv crews

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soup onto the scene hungry for

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headlines it's been a slow

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news cycle and this story

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has all the makings of a film

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noir thriller, the faded

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hollywood actor is murdered

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wife everyone

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wanting to know who is

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this mysterious woman who

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wanted her dead?

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