# Does ANYONE think maybe Robert Blake DIDNT do it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 20, 2001, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-think-maybe-robert-blake-didnt-do-it/65971 "2001-05-20T04:25:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-think-maybe-robert-blake-didnt-do-it/65971/1 "2001-05-20T04:25:30Z")
My mother is convinced that the whole thing was planned, but Ithinkif he wanteds to kill her, he could have just had someone break in and make it look like a botched robbery. She counters with : “well, he must be guilty, its all over the news.” Am I naive to hope he didnt do it? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-think-maybe-robert-blake-didnt-do-it/65971/2 "2001-05-20T04:43:02Z")
I haven’t really read any of the news stories, so I’m unaware of any evidence against him. I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt until I hear of evidence linking him to the crime (which might only take me reading a story on [CNN.com](http://CNN.com)). ---
**Author:** ![Daemon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Daemon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daemon)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-think-maybe-robert-blake-didnt-do-it/65971/3 "2001-05-20T04:46:06Z")
**Revtim** … You do know you’re setting yourself up to be a perfect juror for this trial… ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-think-maybe-robert-blake-didnt-do-it/65971/4 "2001-05-20T04:54:12Z")
I haven’t been following this thing very closely either. But as for the line, “He must be guilty, it’s all over the news…” Remind your mother of that security guard in Atlanta during the Olympics (I forget his name). It was all over the news that he planted the bomb he found so he could play hero. It later turned out to not be true and NBC ended up giving him airtime to dispute what was said about him and an undisclosed amount of money as a court settlement. So keep your hopes up, cuz the news gets things wrong all the time. ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-think-maybe-robert-blake-didnt-do-it/65971/5 "2001-05-20T05:12:15Z")
Oooooooooo, thats a good one Crunchy! thank you!!! I dont know, why but I really _want_ to be innocent. security guard at the olympics - perfect!! ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-think-maybe-robert-blake-didnt-do-it/65971/6 "2001-05-20T05:13:48Z")
want HIM to be innocent. I am really fucking tired. no more typing for me. good thing I have an alibi, that typo looks BAD!! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-think-maybe-robert-blake-didnt-do-it/65971/7 "2001-05-20T06:26:35Z")
And remind her about O.J. Simpson who, despite early media reports which implied he was guilty of murder, was eventually exonerated and found innocent. ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-think-maybe-robert-blake-didnt-do-it/65971/8 "2001-05-20T06:32:47Z")
Just to tie up the loose end, the guy you’re talking about is Richard Jewel. He not only got money out of NBC, but he got some cash from ABC, CBS, and CNN, to name a few. Once again, the FBI ain’t what it claims to be. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-think-maybe-robert-blake-didnt-do-it/65971/9 "2001-05-20T14:01:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kellibelli \* > \*\*Am I naive to hope he didnt do it? \*\* Forgive my ignorance, but who didn’t do what? It wasn’t on any news that I heard ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-think-maybe-robert-blake-didnt-do-it/65971/10 "2001-05-20T14:35:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Little Nemo \* > \*\*And remind her about O.J. Simpson who, despite early media reports which implied he was guilty of murder, was eventually exonerated and found innocent. > > \*\* Except they don’t find people innocent, just “not guilty”. If they’re “pretty sure” you did it , you should be acquitted in criminal court, but lose in civil court. Which OJ did. ---
**Author:** ![Home\_of\_the\_Braves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Home\_of\_the\_Braves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Home_of_the_Braves)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-think-maybe-robert-blake-didnt-do-it/65971/11 "2001-05-20T14:59:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tapioca Dextrin \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by kellibelli \* > > \*\*Am I naive to hope he didnt do it? \*\* > > Forgive my ignorance, but who didn’t do what? It wasn’t on any news that I heard \*\* Blake has been accused in the media of having his wife killed. Apparently, they went to dinner, and she was shot in the car. Blake had left her alone in the car in a contstruction area about a block and half away from the restaurant (which had valet parking) to retrieve a gun he had “forgotten” in the restaurant. Blake claims he was packing the piece because the wife (who was not very morally righteous, IMHO) felt she was being stalked. This case has as many questions surrounding it as the OJ case did. I just hope the media learned its lesson the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-think-maybe-robert-blake-didnt-do-it/65971/12 "2001-05-20T15:05:20Z")
The previous thread is probably outdated by now, but some of the evidence in the case was discussed here: [The Late Mrs. Blake?Mysteriouser and Mysteriouser](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=70177) ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-think-maybe-robert-blake-didnt-do-it/65971/13 "2001-05-20T15:11:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Home of the Braves \* > \*\*Blake claims he was packing the piece because the wife (who was not very morally righteous, IMHO) felt she was being stalked. > \*\* I feel it’s important to recognize the damned near every single piece of information given to the media about the late Mrs. Blake, and most especially that information that portrays her in a negative light, has come from \*\*Mr. \*\* Blakes attorney (who was retained quite soon after the death). And that this never ending stream of negative information has continued even after the police requested publically, that such disclosures stop. On the OP. Yes, his son has come out publically and said his dad had nothing to do with it, as well as a good friend of Blakes, who has stated that he offered to kill her for Blake and Blake refused, saying the he had to make the marriage work. As for me, personally, at this point, it’s hard for me to not believe he had something to do with it. But that’s based on what is available in the media ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-think-maybe-robert-blake-didnt-do-it/65971/14 "2001-05-20T17:52:00Z")
Buckwheat did it. No…wait… It was the BIRD! YEAH!!! ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-think-maybe-robert-blake-didnt-do-it/65971/15 "2001-05-20T17:53:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > I feel it’s important to recognize the damned near every single piece of information given to the media about the late Mrs. Blake, and most especially that information that portrays her in a negative light, has come from \*\*Mr. \*\* Blakes attorney (who was retained quite soon after the death). > \*\* Most but not all. I saw an interview with her brother on Dateline and he pretty much admitted that much of what Mr. Blake’s attorney said was truth. He had horrible things to say about her, but did think that Robert Blake had something to do with his wife’s murder. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-think-maybe-robert-blake-didnt-do-it/65971/16 "2001-05-20T18:00:00Z")
Apparently I live in a cave or something. Who’s Robert Blake, and why should I care whether or not he killed his wife? ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-think-maybe-robert-blake-didnt-do-it/65971/17 "2001-05-20T18:41:10Z")
I presume Blake is innocent, and, in fact, he is innocent until the State **proves** that he is guilty. That’s how our system of laws works, and I like it that way. Being tried in the media is not the same as being tried in a court of law. We don’t know what parts of the story aren’t yet being told, or have not yet been discovered. We cannot weigh the credibility of various parties or witnesses without being present when they speak, we do not have access to all the relevent evidence, nor can we evaluate the merits of the case against Blake _because the State has not yet made its case_. All we have is speculation, and that’s not good enough for me to use to find anyone guilty. Oh, **waterj2** Robert Blake is an actor. He starred in a very popular crime drama in the '70’s (late 60’s?) called _Baretta_. There is no reason why you should care if he murdered his wife, but those of us who know his acting are a bit curious. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2001, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-think-maybe-robert-blake-didnt-do-it/65971/18 "2001-05-20T18:47:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kallessa \* > \*\*Oh, **waterj2** Robert Blake is an actor. He starred in a very popular crime drama in the '70’s (late 60’s?) called _Baretta_. There is no reason why you should care if he murdered his wife, but those of us who know his acting are a bit curious. \*\* And let’s not forget _The Little Rascals_ when he was a wee one. The theme song from _Baretta_: Don’t do the Crime if you can’t do the Time