There is nothing like a thirty-five-year-old murder mystery coming back to life … as it were.
Case in point: the untimely, and unsolved, death of actress Natalie Wood.
In November 1981, Natalie Wood’s body was found floating in the water after she had gone missing from a yacht off the coast of Catalina Island. The story that was told is that she was drunk and fell into the water while trying to secure a dinghy that was knocking against the side of the yacht.
Wood’s death was originally ruled an accident, but in 2012 her cause of death was changed to “drowning and other undetermined factors,” and now Wood’s husband at the time Robert Wagner has been named a person of interest.
LA County Sheriff’s Department Lieutenant John Corina says Robert Wagner’s story changed several times and he believes Wagner is keeping something from the police:
“As we’ve investigated the case over the last six years, I think he’s more of a person of interest now. I mean, we know now that he was the last person to be with Natalie before she disappeared. I haven’t seen him tell the details that match all the other witnesses in this case. I think he’s constantly changed his story a little bit. And his version of events just don’t add up.”
Christopher Walken, who was on the boat that night, and rumored to have been having an affair with Wood, along with the yacht’s captain, Dennis Davern, have also changed their stories. They first said that they assumed Natalie took off in the dinghy in the middle of the night to go to shore, but Natalie’s sister Lana says Wood was afraid of drowning and would never have gotten into a small boat by herself at night.
Then, in a 2009 book co-written by Davern, he claimed to have heard Robert and Natalie fighting loudly in their cabin, and believes it turned violent since they were ALLEGEDLY drunk and high. Wagner, who thought Wood was cheating on him, was yelling at Natalie for talking too closely to Christopher Walken. Davern wrote that he heard Robert scream, “Get off my fucking boat.”
Fifteen minutes later, Wagner told Davern that Woods was missing. Davern wanted to call the coast guard, but Wagner ALLEGEDLY told him not to. Marilyn Wayne, who was on a nearby boat, has always maintained that she heard a woman screaming about drowning for 15 minutes straight, and she says she heard a man telling the women they were getting help. Davern has admitted to lying to the police that night, and said he now thinks Wagner had something to do with Natalie’s death.
Robert Wagner, for his part, wrote in his 2008 memoirs that he doesn’t exactly know what happened to Natalie. He said that he and Walken were fighting about her career, and he ended up smashing a bottle onto a table. Wagner believes Natalie either fell into the water while running away from the argument, or fell into the water while trying to secure the dinghy to the hull because it kept knocking against the boat.
Coroner officials added the change to Natalie’s death certificate in 2012 after looking at her autopsy report and added an addendum that the bruises on her body may have occurred before she went into the water.
Walken, now 74, says he was asleep when Natalie went missing, but has talked to investigators, while Wagner, 87, has stayed silent ever since the case was reopened.
This is one of those cases that pops up every few years with ALLEFEDLY new evidence, but nothing ever happens.
Still, it is a mystery.
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Baio: "My reputation is being damaged." ha. It's cute he thinks he has one.
ReplyDeleteSo much muck to rake this week!
ReplyDeleteAlways that that Wagner's tale was iffy over Natalie's death
ReplyDeleteThe more Melania is still in the White House, I am enjoying her more mere for being visibly defiant. But before long, she be thrown to the Bitch Hounds of Dc..Kellyanne and Sarah for a meal, or escorted out like Omarosa.
ReplyDeleteI too hear the Frag Savage story, Who knows, but he would have been very young then.
Hell, I thought Wendy Williams used to be a man?
And the Wood case needs to stay dead. Hell half the people are, and the other not far off.
divas & hos & sexist pigs...and a possible murderer. what a sleazy buncha garbage!
ReplyDeleteMeghan is thoroughly juvenile. She doesn't have athought in her head, let alone an original one and is constantly displaying her lack of knowledge, understanding, compassion and tact. Not a good fit for NBC. She needs to go.
ReplyDeleteWow, particularly snarky today! :-)
ReplyDeleteMegyn needs to go back to Republican TV, she just isn't made for the truth. As for Wendy, I don't like her much. I thought she was a transvestite at first because she just has no ass and she doesn't move like a black woman. I know, I know, it's sexist and racist by saying that but hey, I ain't the only one for sayin that., Plenty of my black girlfriends said it too. But I do love it when she throws shade at all the right people.
ReplyDelete@Mistress Maddie: The Bitch Hounds of D.C., ha! A new punk band (is punk still a thing?).
ReplyDelete@anne marie: Oh, my! They're off to see the wizard.
Now, according to Leeanna, I'm a transvestite instead of the black woman I was born as! How I've kept that from my husband for forty-three years, I'll never know! He has an ass (a very cute little bubble butt) and is definitely male! I'm a pancake back there, and I walk like Robert Mitchum. Exception to the rule? I think not! Heh.
Holy Crap! you dredged up a lot of bottom dwellers this week, didn't you?
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