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Shame at the end that Michael James Gubitosi didn't spill the truth about the 2001 Murder of Bonnie Lee Bakley, his wife, if he had more truth to tell.

Turns out that Bakley was a real piece of work:
Porn pics
Con woman
Many arrests, minor convictions
Celebrity obsession
10 husbands! Longest marriage was 5 years, many less than a year, "one lasting a single day". She even ended a green card marriage that she was paid for, getting her "husband" deported. "Her eighth husband was Glynn Wolfe, famous for holding the record for the largest number of monogamous marriages." (31) :crazy:
Married Blake 7 months before her murder. It was a weird arrangement.

I guess more than one person had motive.
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From the Bakley wiki: " Blake claimed that he had returned to the restaurant to collect a gun which he had left there, and was not present when the shooting occurred. The gun that Blake claimed he had left in the restaurant was later determined not to have fired the shots that killed Bakley."

Times were different, I guess, or maybe just place and persons, but can you see somebody going back into a restaurant and saying "excuse me, but did I leave my gun in here? It may be back at my table, or maybe in coat check..." "Is one of these yours?" "Yeah, that's my Beretta there. Thanks"

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From the Bakley wiki: " Blake claimed that he had returned to the restaurant to collect a gun which he had left there, and was not present when the shooting occurred. The gun that Blake claimed he had left in the restaurant was later determined not to have fired the shots that killed Bakley."

Times were different, I guess, or maybe just place and persons, but can you see somebody going back into a restaurant and saying "excuse me, but did I leave my gun in here? It may be back at my table, or maybe in coat check..." "Is one of these yours?" "Yeah, that's my Beretta there. Thanks"
A Baretta Beretta?

2001, not that different. I can see a manager agreeing to hold it for a patron as important as Blake, ostensibly for comfort reasons while dining. Could be Blake always intended it as an alibi for the moment of the murder.
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2001, not that different. I can see a manager agreeing to hold it for a patron as important as Blake, ostensibly for comfort reasons while dining. Could be Blake always intended it as an alibi for the moment of the murder.
LOL

I'm gonna have a few cocktails, could you hold my gun?
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Interestingly, it's not illegal for a licensed person to take their gun into a restaurant except - and written into the law - you can't drink.

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GoCubsGo wrote:
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Vrede too wrote:
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2001, not that different. I can see a manager agreeing to hold it for a patron as important as Blake, ostensibly for comfort reasons while dining. Could be Blake always intended it as an alibi for the moment of the murder.
LOL

I'm gonna have a few cocktails, could you hold my gun?
-0-? , but I'd guess that an upscale LA restaurant manager gets asked 10 stranger things every week.

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I read this morning that Jimmy Carter has asked Biden to give his eulogy.

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Woman From Iconic Woodstock Album Cover Dies at 73

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bobbi-erc ... dies-at-73

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They stayed together all this time! I wonder what their post-Woodstock lives were like.
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They stayed together all this time! I wonder what their post-Woodstock lives were like.
" Married for 38 years [as of 2009] with two grown sons, they now live in Pine Bush, 45 minutes southeast of Bethel. Bobbi is an elementary school nurse; Nick, a retired carpenter, is a building inspector for Orange County."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-cul ... -33569550/

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Vrede too wrote:
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They stayed together all this time! I wonder what their post-Woodstock lives were like.
" Married for 38 years [as of 2009] with two grown sons, they now live in Pine Bush, 45 minutes southeast of Bethel. Bobbi is an elementary school nurse; Nick, a retired carpenter, is a building inspector for Orange County."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-cul ... -33569550/
Cool. Honorable professions and more what I would have guessed than:
... "After hearing our story," she says today, "I think some people are disappointed that we were not..."

"...Full-fledged hippies," Nick says.

"That we were not out-and-out flower power and revolution...."
I'm not disappointed at all.
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I haven't watched the show for years, but this still came a shock to me.

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I used to enjoy "Dancing" until they changed hosts, then I dropped it entirely when it went to Disney. Len was a very talented and entertaining guy - had no idea he wasn't well.

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"Daylight come and he wanna go home"
A life well lived, fershure.

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O Really wrote:
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"Daylight come and he wanna go home"
A life well lived, fershure.
All of the world's great venues.


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84 and still touring. Bravo. Perhaps the greatest recognition for an artist is from other artists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Lightfoot
... His songs have been recorded by artists such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Jr., Jerry Lee Lewis, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Harry Belafonte, the Grateful Dead, Olivia Newton-John, and Jim Croce. The Guess Who recorded a song called "Lightfoot" on their 1968 album Wheatfield Soul; the lyrics contain many Lightfoot song titles.

Robbie Robertson of the Band described Lightfoot as "a national treasure". Bob Dylan, also a Lightfoot fan, called him one of his favourite songwriters and said, "I can't think of any Gordon Lightfoot song I don't like. Everytime I hear a song of his, it's like I wish it would last forever.... Lightfoot became a mentor for a long time. I think he probably still is to this day"....
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Sad. The circle keeps getting smaller all the time.

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