The Execution of Bonny Lee | For Better, for Worse | 4

Death of a Starlet

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True Crime, Josh Lucas, Tracy Pattin, Exhbit C, Hugh Hefner, Playboy, Peter Bogdanovich, Hollywood & Crime, Dorothy Stratten, Documentary, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

A retired stuntman claims Blake tried to hire him to kill Bonny. Then another witness comes forward, saying a second retired stuntman was approached with the same offer. But when the Homicide Special Squad tries to get him to talk, he clams up. Meanwhile Bonny holds out hope she and Blake can work things out.

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0:00.0	Hollywood and crime contains depictions of violence in strong language.
0:04.0	Please be advised. Detective Ron Edoido races down the hall of the North Hollywood Police Station.
0:18.2	His partner, Steve Aguchi, is on his heels.
0:21.5	It's been nine days since Bonnie Lee Bakley was murdered, and they finally have a break in the case.
0:28.0	30 minutes ago, Edo got an urgent page to head to the North Hollywood station.
0:33.4	A retired stuntman named Gary McClarty
0:36.3	had walked in and said he had firsthand information
0:39.4	about Bonnie's murder.
0:40.9	He said Robert Blake approached him to kill her. The supervisor gives
0:46.7	Edo and a Gucci the lowdown on the way to the interview room. He tells them
0:51.3	McClarty is known as the whiz kid in Hollywood because of his insane stunts.
0:56.8	He's the guy who wrote a motorcycle up a staircase in the movie Animal House.
1:01.5	On Twilight Zone, the movie, he survived a helicopter crash that
1:05.0	killed three people. Another stunt left him with two broken legs and a severed
1:09.9	arm that needed to be reattached. He also worked with Robert Blake as his stunt double
1:15.8	on Beretta. When they enter the interview room, McLarty is seated at the table. Edo sizes him up. He looks like he's in his mid-60s, about 5-10 and beefy. A
1:28.3	jagged scar etches his chin. He could probably take a sucker punch and keep on going. But right now he looks defeated.
1:37.0	McLarty apologizes for not coming in sooner.
1:41.0	He tells the detectives his life has been a mess, a shitty divorce, money problems, but his conscience
1:49.6	is eating him up.
1:51.6	He says he met Blake on Beretta, but hadn't seen him in over 20 years. A couple
1:56.1	months back he got a call from a mutual friend, a stuntman named Roy Snuffy Harrison. Blake wanted to meet with him.
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