Set us as preferredOn the night of her murder, Robert Blake took his new wife to dinner at Vitello’s Italian Restaurant in Studio City. Bonny Lee Bakley, Blake’s second wife, was a small-time scam artist. He thought Blake wanted him for bodyguard work. By the stuntman’s account, Blake took him to the Mata Hari Ranch and suggested he might slip into Bakley’s guest house and “bump her off while she was asleep” for $10,000. Acquitted of murder, Robert Blake cuts off his electronic ankle bracelet outside the Municipal Courthouse in Van Nuys.