Not that I get into Hollywood stuff very much, but actress Natalie Wood’s “accidental death” in 1981 has always grated on my former-investigator-reporter’s nerves.
The case gives me that “jangle” that something just isn’t right.
May God bless Natalie Wood who has surely never rested in peace.
Lana Wood, Natalie’s sister, and the captain of the yacht “Splendour,” (near which Wood reportedly took a tumble and drowned) are now coming forward with new “questions” and “facts” that should have been properly asked and examined years ago. Lana Wood says she doesn’t suspect “foul play.” Why not?
There should be a grand jury opened on this now. The yacht captain and actor Christopher Walken should be interrogated and so should Wood’s husband, Robert Wagner, who has played the publicly tearful, grieving widower role a little too stridently over the years, IMO. Walken, who was co-starring with Wood in a movie at the time, was on the boat that night and never has spoken publicly about what he knows or heard. Jealousy about Walken’s relationship with Natalie was supposedly why Wagner was arguing with his wife.
According to what the yacht captain is saying NOW, Natalie Wood and her husband Robert Wagner were reportedly arguing loudly on the boat deck. Somehow later, according to Wagner’s book, this lovely, petite woman who couldn’t swim would inexplicably fall into the water in her robe and slippers while trying to moor a tiny dinghy boat back to the yacht in the pitch dark hours of the early morning, after this argument occurred. Wagner failed to mention the argument in his book. Please.
The failure to investigate this death properly years ago is just another example of how “the system” can be skewed by money and the good old boys.**
Shame, shame on the yacht captain, Dennis Davern who says he didn’t say much in 1981 at “Wagner’s request”, and has now written a book with these new facts. So it took 25 years for Davern to blow through Wagner’s bribe money and now he’s back for another taste?
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, District Attorney: Will SOMEBODY please advocate for the victim even if her own husband, friends and next of kin did not do so years ago and only half-heartedly do so now?
**(ex: another woman who is not resting peacefully in her watery grave is Mary Jo Kopechne, last seen alive driving home with Sen. Ted Kennedy)
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Agrippa Hull commented on your link:
“Nancy should continue on with her quest to find child killers. We don’t need more ‘celebrity’ exposures. We need to hunt REAL preditors (including Roman Polanski!), and make them all the more PUBLIC! Tell Nancy to be Vigilint! Not dig up OLD celebrity ‘non-news’.
May God continue his blessings on Natalie – but she’s not coming back.”
Edward Sierra commented on your wall post:
“DITTO”
Michael Kepler commented on your link:
“This story has also bugged me. I had spent a couple weeks in Catalina Island just prior to that happening. So I remember it well.”
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