The Execution of Bonny Lee | United Singles Incorporated | 1

Death of a Starlet

Wondery

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

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Bonny Lee Bakely is found dead in a car in Studio City. When the press learns she is the wife of someone famous, all hell breaks loose. Detective Ron Ito and his team of Homicide Special detectives have their work cut out for them. Bonny Lee was a con artist who had fleeced hundreds of men out of money, but it’s her husband, Robert Blake, who is of primary interest.

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0:00.0	Hollywood in Crime contains strong language and some depictions of violence which may not be suitable for everyone. It's a little after 9.30 p.30 PM on May 4, 2001.
0:26.0	Fireworks flash across the sky in Studio City, just over the Hollywood Hills.
0:31.0	Cinco de Mayo has come a day early this year.
0:36.0	Inside a small yellow house on a quiet street, Sean Stanek sits at a desk in his robe.
0:42.0	He's spending Friday night hunched over his Stanek sits at a desk in his robe.
0:42.9	He's spending Friday night hunched over his keyboard, writing a screenplay, hoping to become the next
0:48.9	Quentin Tarantino.
0:52.0	But tonight, Stanek won't write another word.
0:57.0	Outside his door is a man.
1:03.0	He looks familiar.
1:05.0	About 60-something.
1:06.0	Short.
1:07.0	He's breathing hard.
1:08.0	You have to help my wife.
1:10.0	She's bloody and she's been beaten.
1:12.0	They beat her up. Oh my God call 911
1:15.0	Then it clicks Jesus it's Robert Blake the actor
1:19.0	Stanek seen him around the neighborhood. Where is she? Blake points across the street to a black
1:24.2	Dodge parked in front of a dumpster. Stanick's confused. How did Blake's wife
1:28.6	get into the car if she was beaten? Was there a domestic squabble?
1:34.4	Stanek racist to his bedroom, dials 911.
1:37.4	Fire from X438, address is emergency.
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