Cops: Blake's Gun Was Used in Wife's Death

The Daily News ^ | Sunday, April 21, 2002 | By JIM CROGAN

[sonserae]

Doesn't look too good for Baretta....

[sonserae]

bump

[b4its2late]

Keep your eye on the sparrow.....

[poindexter]

Don't do the cri-hime if you can't do the tiiimmme....No!....Don't do it!

[gaijin]

Freepers should never file the numbers off.

The metal lying beneath the filed region is tested with an acid solution, which reveals for a short time those parts of the metal which received some RESIDUAL STAMPING PRESSURE when the serial number was originally tooled into the weapon.

The investigator then photographs this transient re-emergence of the serial number, and your goose is cooked, just like that.

You must remove the serial number portion of the firearm entirely, or thoroughly dimple the underlying region, so as to obscure this completely invisible evidence.

[caa26]

Who cares about this crap? (No offense to you for posting the story.) The Middle East is a tinder box waiting to explode. The world has real problems to worry about, and now the media is descending on this like vultures on a dying animal.

I can't wait until the trial starts to see what the media circus is like. This only proves the media cares about sensationalism, and not real news. The country is going to fall asleep again, and after the next terrorist attack happens everyone will awake up from their slumber and wonder what happened.

Maybe people have wised up, and will tune out the Blake trial coverage. I'm not holding my breath.

[Wolfie]

I think its rather amazing that nobody offed this woman before Blake ever met her.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Didn't he have enough money to buy another gun, for example, one stolen in another state?

[geege]

Thank You.....I couldn't care less either about this Blake and his whore dead wife......

[Deguello]

The way to remove the numbers is to drill out each number to a depth of at least 3/16th of an inch. Going out to 1/4 inch is fine and who is worried about the firearm if it is to be trashed.

If the firearm is to be totally trashed, use an arc welder at the highest setting. Use a 220 volt setup and not a 110 wire welder.

[Revolting cat!]

Here's the cat's version of events (Beretta's attorneys pay attention!) Blake and his loveable spouse Bakley leave the restaurant where Blake leaves the gun by mistake. They reach their fine American made automobile, Bakley gets inside while Blake realizes he left the gun at the restaurant. He turns around and goes back. The restaurant is several blocks away (Dude, do you know how difficult it is to find parking in LA?) In the meantime, the real killers find the gun at the restaurant, run to Blake's car, murder Bakley, run back to the restaurant and return the gun to where they had found it and where now Blake retrieves it. More details to come as the script develops.

[sonserae]

It's real comforting to know you guys know all to well how to get rid of serial numbers off of guns. Glad you don't know where I live.

[Registered]

Oh, come on. Do you really believe Blake did it? No way. The guy looks like a little cream puff. Ever see how cute and innocent he was in Little Rascals?

[Charles Martel]

...In the meantime, the real killers find the gun at the restaurant, run to Blake's car, murder Bakley, run back to the restaurant and return the gun to where they had found it and where now Blake retrieves it. More details to come as the script develops.

You missed a crucial detail: The Real Killers obviously used a different route between the restaurant and Blake's car, otherwise they would've passed Blake twice! ;-)

It is odd, though, that Blake failed to notice that the gun was a bit warm...

[Balata]

.38-caliber Walther PPK handgun

This is what James Bond carries. Robert Blake must see himself as a cross between Baretta and James Bond.

[medlarebil]

I guess he was wearing gloves or there would have been evidence that he fired a gun on his hand(s)...any gloves found near the scene?

[Kenny Bunk]

Gaijin, I thought everybody already knew this. I saw it on "Barretta," myself.

also, btw, on "Murder She Wrote," that isn't really a very good imtation of the way we speak around here. Maybe (oops "mebbe")they seen too many Peppridge Fahm Commoeshalls in the olden days?

[1234]

DAMN IT; thought it was endlessly reported that BARETTA was gonna go to court today-how can i sleep tonite?

[1234]

NOW i note that this is 1 day stale article-sorry for whining....

[Kenny Bunk]

Your thesis solves many LA Crimes. Why these wily perps had plenty of time to stop by Nicole's place in Brentwood, too. Then they swing by the Menendez pad, and back to Vitello's with seconds to spare, having already dumped Chandra's body, suitably weighted of course, in the Catalina Channel. I saw it all from my vantage point on a grassy knoll.

Story conference over. Wadda we do for next week?