Assistant: Blake Couldn't Stand Wife

This just in: Robert Blake "couldn't stand" his late wife, Bonny Lee Bakley.

The non-earth-shattering news is latest to emerge from the actor's murder trial as prosecutors continue to introduce testimony to show the actor had a motive to kill Bakley. Of course, Blake himself hasn't hid the fact that he wasn't a huge fan of Bakley.

On Monday, the Baretta star's former assistant told the court that she unwittingly helped him kidnap his baby daughter in October 2000 because he "couldn't stand" the girl's mother, Bakley because of her shady past.

Cody Blackwell said the actor asked her to pose as a nurse, before the couple was married, to get Bakley to hand over the baby. She says Blake told her he had gotten a woman pregnant and that he "hated her." After Blackwell snatched the baby, she said Blake then took the toddler to an undisclosed location in Calabasas.

Blackwell says she realized she was party to a kidnapping and immediately feared that the mother was going to be "done away" with. She also said she now regrets never going to the police with the story.

Instead, she banked an $8,000 payday for selling the story to tabloids after Bakley was killed in May 2001--a point hammered home during cross-examination.

"I'm really ashamed of this," Blackwell said tearfully. "I should have called the police and I didn't because I thought I'd be arrested...I thought about myself."

Bakley filed a child-stealing report at the time of the incident but withdrew it three days later.

Further testimony regarding the baby-snatching was on tap Tuesday.

A police official named Karen Crawford testified that she was called by Bakley on Oct. 2, 2000. Crawford said she classified the case as child stealing.

Los Angeles Police Detective Hollis Berdin also testified, adding that she investigated the report but dropped the case at Bakley's request three days later.

Private investigator William Jordan earlier testified that he was contacted by Blake to do a background check on Bakley in hopes of getting custody of their child. Jordan says he was the mastermind behind the plan to snatch the baby from Bakley.

Jordan said he told Blake that Bakley's "unsavory background" would keep her from ever getting custody. He had discovered that Bakley was a convicted felon and had a long history of scamming men by sending them letters and nude photos of herself and offering sex for money.

Still another witness reported that Blake wanted Bakley out of his life. Luis Mendoza testified Friday that he had unsuccessfully tried to get Bakley arrested on Blake's behalf by getting the FBI to arrest her for violating her probation in Arkansas and being in Los Angeles.

"He was upset that I hadn't been able to do what he wanted," Mendoza testified Friday. "He said his grandfather told him if you delegate things to people and they don't do them, you might as well do it yourself."

Though prosecutors say the Mendoza testimony confirms the actor's desire to dispose of his wife, defense attorneys did get Mendoza to admit that he was never asked to physically harm Bakley.

Yet another witness, Daryl Bailey, Bakley's probation officer, testified he was called by Blake in October 2000 and told that Bakley was violating her probation in Arkansas by staying in Los Angeles near Blake's home.

Bailey said he then asked Bakley to return to Arkansas to clear up the matter.

"[Blake] said he would retain custody of the baby in Los Angeles and she would return to complete her electronic-monitoring probation," Bailey told the court.

Eventually Bailey issued a document allowing Bakley to return to Los Angeles to "get married, visit baby daughter."

But, upon her return, she all but gave up rights to the child. According to Blake's former lawyer Cary Goldstein, who took the stand Tuesday afternoon, Bakley signed a prenup that denied her any access to Blake's money and limiting her contact with their daughter, Rosie. "I'd never seen an agreement so devoid of compensation to one of the parties," Goldstein said.

Blake, 71, has pleaded innocent to charges of murder, solicitation of murder and one special circumstance of lying in wait. He faces life in prison if convicted.