Blake Attorney Turns Over Evidence

May 10 -- The attorney for Robert Blake said today he had turned over new evidence to police investigating the shooting death of the former Baretta star's wife.

Attorney Harland Braun told a Los Angeles news conference he had earlier taken some of Bonny Lee Bakley's personal effects — including several pieces of luggage containing tapes and papers — from the couple's home Sunday. He said he thought investigators should see these.

The move came one day after police conducted a second search of Blake's Studio City, Calif., home, and for the first time the lead detective on the case has said the actor has not been ruled out as a suspect.

"We have not ruled anyone out as a suspect in this case and information that indicated that we had is just quite frankly wrong," said Capt. Jim Tatreau, commander of the Los Angeles Police Department's robbery-homicide division.

In an interview with ABCNEWS, Tatreau said, "We have certainly not ruled out Mr. Blake."

‘They Need Every Scrap of Evidence’

Bakley was shot in the head Friday night as she sat in a car outside a restaurant. Blake, 67, said he had gone back inside to get a gun he had forgotten in the eatery, and found her wounded when he returned. She was taken to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Blake has said he was carrying the gun because he feared for his wife's safety.

Addressing reporters this afternoon, Blake's attorney expressed no surprise over the second search of his client's house.

"I think they [police] realize this is a very difficult case and they need every scrap of evidence they can get," Braun said.

Braun described the slain woman as a "pack rat" who kept extensive personal documents, including 90 minutes of taped conversations.

"She tape-recorded her own conversations," he said. "[She's] discussing whether Blake is the right guy to go after, or [Christian] Brando, and which she would get more money from."

Blake and Bakley married after DNA tests proved he was the father of her baby daughter. Previously, Bakley had named Brando, son of actor Marlon Brando, as the father of the child, Rose, now 11 months old.