Natalie Wood Autopsy Mystery As Alleged Evidence Goes Missing
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Natalie Wood took the mysteries of her final night to her grave — with the help of a possible cover-up after the Hollywood legend ended up on the mortician's slab!
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Insiders revealed to The National ENQUIRER that new questions had emerged about Natalie's death in the early hours of Nov. 29, 1981. Her body had been found floating a mile from the yacht where she and husband Robert Wagner were entertaining Christopher Walken. When conducting the autopsy, a medical examiner had brought out a rape kit for the autopsy of the 43-year-old actress, which was reportedly used — but never analyzed!
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Natalie's sister, Lana Wood, later backed up The ENQUIRER's sources, saying: "I was told that there was a rape kit, and there were fingernail clippings, and somehow they're not accessible — and nobody knows anything about it!" And in a troubling twist, an Asst. District Attorney confirmed that the rape case wouldn't have been produced without a troubling find!
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"If there is a reason for the Medical Examiner's Office to believe that the person may have been the victim of a sexual assault," said former homicide bureau ADA Javier Solano, "they do the rape analysis — and will probably take a real in-depth look, because the person isn't alive anymore." But more questions remain unanswered with pages missing from Natalie's autopsy report!
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British criminologist Fenton Bresler discovered the first mention of the test while studying Natalie's autopsy report in 1986. He noted that evidence was taken from Natalie's corpse within two hours of her body being found, to have proven "whether or not a sexual assault had taken place shortly before death." The page that would have the results was missing from the final report.
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Dr. Thomas Noguchi was the medical examiner in charge, but was demoted shortly after Natalie's death amid allegations of mismanagement. Dr. Joseph Choi performed the autopsy. He later tracked the missing sex test kit to a refrigerated storeroom in the Los Angeles coroner's laboratory. An official entry said: "No request was made [to finish the test] because there was no criminal activity involved."
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The LAPD reopened the investigation into Natalie's death in 2011. The refrigerated rape test results, however, would have been useless after 1991. The official verdict remained accidental death by drowning — but over the decades, even more mysteries have arisen about the doomed screen legend's final hours.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Natalie Wood took the mysteries of her final night to her grave — with the help of a possible cover-up after the Hollywood legend ended up on the mortician's slab!
Photo credit: Getty Images
Insiders revealed to The National ENQUIRER that new questions had emerged about Natalie's death in the early hours of Nov. 29, 1981. Her body had been found floating a mile from the yacht where she and husband Robert Wagner were entertaining Christopher Walken. When conducting the autopsy, a medical examiner had brought out a rape kit for the autopsy of the 43-year-old actress, which was reportedly used — but never analyzed!
Photo credit: Getty Images
Natalie's sister, Lana Wood, later backed up The ENQUIRER's sources, saying: "I was told that there was a rape kit, and there were fingernail clippings, and somehow they're not accessible — and nobody knows anything about it!" And in a troubling twist, an Asst. District Attorney confirmed that the rape case wouldn't have been produced without a troubling find!
Photo credit: Getty Images
"If there is a reason for the Medical Examiner's Office to believe that the person may have been the victim of a sexual assault," said former homicide bureau ADA Javier Solano, "they do the rape analysis — and will probably take a real in-depth look, because the person isn't alive anymore." But more questions remain unanswered with pages missing from Natalie's autopsy report!
Photo credit: Getty Images
British criminologist Fenton Bresler discovered the first mention of the test while studying Natalie's autopsy report in 1986. He noted that evidence was taken from Natalie's corpse within two hours of her body being found, to have proven "whether or not a sexual assault had taken place shortly before death." The page that would have the results was missing from the final report.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Dr. Thomas Noguchi was the medical examiner in charge, but was demoted shortly after Natalie's death amid allegations of mismanagement. Dr. Joseph Choi performed the autopsy. He later tracked the missing sex test kit to a refrigerated storeroom in the Los Angeles coroner's laboratory. An official entry said: "No request was made [to finish the test] because there was no criminal activity involved."
Photo credit: Getty Images
The LAPD reopened the investigation into Natalie's death in 2011. The refrigerated rape test results, however, would have been useless after 1991. The official verdict remained accidental death by drowning — but over the decades, even more mysteries have arisen about the doomed screen legend's final hours.
Photo credit: Getty Images
