Bombshell new evidence could finally solve the mystery surrounding NATALIE WOOD’s death!
In a never-reported incidentbefore her 1981 drowning, the beautiful actress was observed fighting with her husband Robert Wagner.
In an exclusive National ENQUIRER interview, Lt. John Corina of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s homicide division, which is investigating the case, said details of the altercation come from new witnesses.
“There were people who were moored or docked by their boat and heard and saw what was going on and it was really helpful,” Lt. Corina said, adding the incident between the couple “wasn’t good – it seemed tense.”
Natalie died Nov. 29, 1981, while she and Wagner were entertaining Christopher Walken aboard their 60-foot yacht Splendouroff California’s Catalina Island.
While Wagner has admitted arguing with Walken the night of the tragedy, he claims Natalie left them and went to the yacht’s master cabin. Her body was later found in the water.Investigators reopened the case in 2011, and in July 2012 – after re-examining Natalie’s autopsy report – changed Natalie’s cause of death from “accidental drowning” to “drowning and other undetermined factors.”
Lt. Corina told The ENQUIRER that Wagner – who turns 85 in February –has dodged investigators’ questions for nearly three years. “I don’t know why he doesn’t want to talk to us,” he said. “Obviously he probably feels like we’re looking at him as a suspect so he probably says, ‘Why should I talk to you?’”
“We were trying to go through (his lawyer) at first and it didn’t work so we went to talk to him personally and, of course, (his lawyer) went through the roof.” In 2013, Wagner’s attorney Blair Berk insisted her client “has fully cooperated over the last 30 years in the investigation.” It’s possible Wagner could be forced to answer questions before a grand jury “but we’re not at that point yet,” said Lt. Corina.
The police official’s explosive comments come in the wake of recent new developments in the case that have been exclusively reported by The ENQUIRER.In our Aug. 18 issue, we revealed that Splendour’s captain, Dennis Davern, passed a lie detector test given to him by authorities in Oct. 2011 in which he implicated Wagner in Natalie’s death.
Afterward, Marti Rulli, an expert on the case and author of “Goodbye Natalie Goodbye Spelndour,” concluded: “I think he (Wagner) is a liar.”Capt. Davern claims foul play was involved in 43-year-old Natalie’s death and has directly implicated Wagner, saying the actor fought with his wife before her death and also delayed the search for her body.
Lt. Corina told The ENQUIRER that Walken, who is not a suspect in the case, talked with detectives in 2013. Without providing details of that interview, The police official said: “That was more cooperation than we got from Robert Wagner.”
Lt. Corina is encouraging anyone with additional new information to call the homicide unit at 323-890-5500.
