(AP) - BURBANK, California-A businessman testified that he tried to alert authorities to an alternate theory of who killed actor Robert Blake's wife, but his story apparently was discounted.
Brian Allan Fiebelkorn, who manages one of the nation's largest luxury car dealerships, was called by Blake's defense to testify Monday in his civil wrongful death trial, which is expected to go to a jury later this week. He provided jurors with a story that sounded like the stuff of a movie script.
Fiebelkorn said he became fascinated with a group of men who came and went from a house across the street from his Hollywood Hills home. He said the place looked like "a hippie compound" strewn with debris. "I thought it was cool," he said.
He said he befriended the owner and some of his guests, including a transient named Mark Jones who he said used narcotics. Fiebelkorn said he hired Jones to do work in his house and the two became close.
Once, he said, he saw Jones with Marlon Brando's son, Christian, and a former stuntman, Jerry Lee Petty, who has been linked to the Blake case. He also said that he saw Jones carrying a gun similar to the gun used to kill Blake's wife, Bonny Lee Bakley.
More details are here from the AP via Findlaw.com.