John Montgomery Presents This Week's	May 12, 2001	Creep Logo by Alan Fraser
	Robert Blake
	Don't Do The Crime If You Can't Do The Time

I get a lot of email reminding me that under our system of justice, a person is INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY! My response is that while that may be true in a court of law, THIS WEB SITE IS NO COURT OF LAW! Here at The Creep of the Week, we operate not under the rule of law, but on suspicion, intuition, gut feelings, and a keen sense of smell. Some people just reek of guilt and under that system of justice, their official legal status is irrelevant. Unconvicted scum suckers like John and Patsy Ramsey smell as rotten as a four-and-a-half-year-old corpse and as a result they are justifiably inducted into their rightful place in the Creep Hall of Shame. Now it's time to add Robert Blake to the list because he stinks. There's a foul stench coming from that washed-up, has-been actor that contains the strong scent of a murderer.

As the former "Baretta" star tells it, Robert and his wife Bonny Lee Bakley were in their car last week, ready to drive home from a restaurant in LA when he realized he'd forgotten his gun in the restaurant. He left the car, went to the restaurant, picked up the gun and returned to the car, only to find Bonny had been shot in the head and killed.

At that point, Robert started the patented "I may smell like a devious, murdering skunk, but here's a whole bunch of reasons why you shouldn't be suspecting a good little guy like me" routine. His first move was to hire a lawyer, Harland Braun, who set about calling Bonny a criminal, a Hollywood groupie and an all-round slut. The murderer "could be a business associate that hates her. It could be someone she took advantage of,'' says Harland. In addition, Bonny was in a "shady kind of lonely hearts business," and her past "seems to have caught up with her." That's like the Ramseys saying, "JonBenet looked like such a sleazy, butt-wiggling harlot it's no wonder somebody killed her." They haven't said that yet, but give them time.

Robert also picked up another Ramsey device: The mysterious guy lurking in the shadows prior to the murder. Robert and his bodyguard allegedly saw such a man watching the actor's house in recent weeks. He had a crew cut and a black pickup truck. Think anyone in LA matches that description?

During one of Harland's many TV appearances, he was kind enough to answer a few questions for inquiring minds:

• If Bonny was such a dirt bag, why did Robert marry her? Robert is an honorable man and has a policy of marrying any dirt bag he happens to knock up.
• Why was Robert carrying a gun? He was protecting Bonny at her request because she thought she was in danger. She'd been hanging around with a lot of unsavory characters lately, you know.
• Like Robert Blake? Hey, he's a widower, give him a break.
• Who do you think killer her? We believe the police have been remiss in not questioning Fred the Cockatoo and Rooster the Pimp.
• Since this whole cockamamie story sounds so preposterous, why doesn't Robert take a lie detector test? He's too upset!