BLAKE, BODYGUARD BEHIND BARS WHILE COPS SEEK EVIDENCE.Byline: Lisa Sodders and Susan Abram Staff Writers Police seized papers, computers and weapons from the homes of actor Robert Blake's daughter and his bodyguard Friday as they continued their intensive 11-month investigation into the slaying of the wife of the onetime star of TV's ``Baretta.'' Blake and Earle Caldwell remained behind bars after Thursday's arrest. They face arraignment A criminal proceeding at which the defendant is officially called before a court of competent jurisdiction, informed of the offense charged in the complaint, information, indictment, or other charging document, and asked to enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or as otherwise permitted in Van Nuys Municipal Court on Monday, with Blake possibly facing a special-circumstance murder charge for shooting Bonny Bonny (bŏn`ē), town, SE Nigeria, in the Niger River delta, on the Bight of Biafra. In the 18th and 19th cent., Bonny was the center of a powerful trading state, and in the 19th cent. it became the leading site for slave exportation in W Africa. Lee Bakley to death and Caldwell accused of conspiracy to commit murder. Investigators armed with search warrants returned to the Hidden Hills house owned by the daughter of the Emmy Award-winning star, where he was arrested Thursday on suspicion of murdering his wife months after she gave birth to their daughter Rose, now 22 months old. Police also searched the Burbank apartment of Caldwell, Blake's handyman-turned-bodyguard, who is suspected of conspiring to shoot Bakley last May 4. Police removed boxes, a shotgun and two gun cases from Caldwell's second-floor apartment, dusted his Harley-Davidson motorcycle for fingerprints, and poked through a trash bin in the alley behind his building. Investigators also searched another house, reportedly the desert home of one of Blake's friends. The items were seized ``because we thought they may have some evidential ev·i·den·tial adj. Law Of, providing, or constituting evidence: evidential material. ev value or (because) they do, and they have to be examined,'' said Capt. Jim Tatreau, commander of the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Police Department's Robbery-Homicide Division. Los Angeles police are keeping a tight lid on the case, refusing to release details of how they developed their case against Blake and Caldwell over the past 11 months. Investigators also plan to ask a judge to seal all court documents related to the case. But during a news conference Friday, Tatreau reiterated that investigators believe Blake killed Bakley, 44, who was shot twice in the head as she waited in the couple's 1991 black Dodge Stealth. He told police after the slaying that he had gone to retrieve a handgun he'd accidentally left behind in the Studio City restaurant where they had just dined. On Thursday night, Tatreau described Bakley's shooting death as ``a hit by a husband.'' Caldwell was in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden at the time of Bakley's slaying, and Tatreau would not discuss Caldwell's suspected involvement. Tatreau also denied a claim by Blake's high-profile defense attorney, Harlan Braun, that authorities offered to let Caldwell go free in exchange for his cooperation in the case. ``No offer was made to Mr. Caldwell,'' Tatreau said. Police are recommending that prosecutors charge Blake with murder and the special circumstance of lying in wait, which could result in the death penalty if he is convicted. Two counts of solicitation of murder also are pending. Caldwell, 46, was being held Friday in lieu of $1 million bail on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. His attorney, Arna Zlotnik, did not return phone calls. Tatreau said the solicitation involved ``two individuals'' but he would not identify them or say whether they are believed to be professional killers. ``I wouldn't want to characterize it, but they've certainly been interviewed and provided statements,'' he said. Blake, 68, is being held without bail in the medical section of Men's Central Jail, where high-profile inmates are typically housed for their safety. In a phone interview Friday, Blake's attorney again proclaimed his client's innocence and repeated previous statements that he believed many people might have wanted Bakley dead. ``We have a lot of different theories'' about who might have killed her, Braun said, including someone from her past, a random killer or perhaps even someone Bakley had hired to kill her husband. But authorities believe Blake killed Bakley to get out of their troubled relationship. ``We believe the motive is Robert Blake Robert Blake may be:
n. A subdivision or neighborhood, often surrounded by a barrier, to which entry is restricted to residents and their guests. . The couple got married after Bakley gave birth to a daughter, and a paternity test paternity test n. A test using blood group identification of a mother, child, and putative father to establish the probability of paternity. paternity test, n determined that Blake - not Christian Brando Christian Brando (born 11 May, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is the eldest of the offspring of the late actor Marlon Brando. He was convicted of the voluntary manslaughter of his half-sister Cheyenne's boyfriend on 16 May 1990 at Marlon Brando's residence on Mulholland , son of actor Marlon Brando Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3 1924 – July 1 2004) was an Academy Award-winning American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential actors of all time. , as Bakley had suspected - was the baby's father. Bakley and baby Rose, who was born in June 2000, lived in a cottage behind Blake's rustic Studio City home, which he had dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. the Mata Hari Mata Hari (mä`tə hä`rē), 1876–1917, Dutch dancer and spy in German service during World War I. Her real name was Margaretha Geertruida Zelle. Ranch. From the cottage, Bakley ran a ``lonely-hearts'' business, soliciting and receiving money from lonely men who answered her ads in magazines and newspapers. The men sought companionship companionship the faculty possessed by most truly domesticated animals. They are social creatures and have a great need for the companionship of other animals. Animals in groups are quieter and more productive as a rule. , marriage, and, in many cases, nude photos and pornography. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Detectives check out Earle Caldwell's motorcycle during the search of his Burbank apartment. (2) News crews camp out in front of Earle Caldwell's apartment. Tina Burch/Staff Photographer |
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