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May 6, 2020 · Wood died on 29 November 1981 after disappearing from a yacht she was on with her husband, Robert Wagner, and friend Christopher Walken. In the documentary, titled Natalie Wood: What Remains,...
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- Jacob Stolworthy
Nov 18, 2021 · Lana Wood told Insider that Christopher Walken, who was yachting with Natalie Wood when she drowned, has spoken to detectives working her reopened case.
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- Henry Blodget
Nov 30, 2021 · Forty years ago, actress Natalie Wood drowned off the coast of Catalina Island. Authorities classified her death as an accident, concluding the 43-year-old star of “West Side Story,” who...
- What Did The Official Investigation State at The time?
- What Was Robert Wagner’s account?
- What Was Captain Dennis Davern’s account?
- What Has Christopher Walken Said About The Case?
- What Is Happening with The Case Now?
On November 30th, Thomas Noguchi of the L.A. County Coroner’s office concluded that the death was a result of accidental drowning. He did note that superficial bruising was present on Wood’s body and there were claw marks on the yacht’s dinghy, but the bruising was attributed to the fall into the water and the scratch marks were her attempts to cli...
In Robert Wagner’s original police report, he is known to have told the officers that he had been arguing with Wood about her extended periods of time spent away from the family, but at no point did this get physical. His understanding of the accident was that at one point in the night his wife must have been unable to sleep owing to the dinghy kno...
Over the years, Dennis Davern, who considered himself a family friend owing to many boat trips spent with them, has been very vocal about his suspicions on the matter. Davern stated that Wood had become infatuated with Walken while filming Brainstorm and that they had been flirting for the duration of the trip. On the night of the accident, this ap...
Aside from offering up his condolences and his emotional response to the incident, he has offered up very few details. As it has widely been noted by both Wagner and Davern that he was asleep at the time that it appears Wood went overboard, there is very little case to answer on his part other than corroborating the events that led up to the tragic...
Following the immediate closing of the investigation, the case lay dormant for years. However, with a continual surfacing of suspicious reports from Davern and even the original coroner stating his original verdict came with various unanswered question marks, the case was reopened in 2011. In February 2018 the L.A. sheriff’s department formally rec...
Feb 2, 2018 · Investigators reviewing the 1981 death at sea of actress Natalie Wood say the account of a boat captain who says he saw Wood’s husband, Robert Wagner, explode in a jealous rage over her...
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- Jeff Truesdell
Nov 29, 2018 · Today is the anniversary of one of Hollywood’s most enduring mysteries -- 37 years ago, actress Natalie Wood drowned off Catalina Island, located off the coast of Los Angeles.
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May 5, 2020 · The world was shocked to learn about the death of Natalie Wood in 1981. Wood, her husband Robert Wagner and co-star Christopher Walken had gone on a boating trip to Catalina Island. However, the next day, Wood was found dead near a dinghy quite a distance away from their boat, Splendour.
