Actor Robert Wagner has been named a “person of interest” in the suspicious drowning of his then-wife, Natalie Woods, that occurred nearly four decades ago. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s told 48 Hours that investigators would like to talk to Wagner about Wood’s mysterious death on Nov. 29, 1981.
“As we’ve investigated the case over the last six years, I think he’s (Wagner) more of a person of interest now,” John Corina, of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, told 48 Hours, according to Fox News. “I mean, we know now that he was the last person to be with Natalie before she disappeared.”
BREAKING: Investigator tells #48hours Robert Wagner is now a “person of interest” in Natalie Wood drowning death https://t.co/NOTYPk7ua9 pic.twitter.com/D5KVQCNV5q
— 48 Hours (@48hours) February 1, 2018
Wood was famous for her roles in West Side Story, Miracle on 34th Street, and Rebel Without a Cause. She was found dead in the water at 1981 at age 43. The award-winning actress was on her family’s yacht, Splendour, with Wagner at the time. The couple was accompanied by the ship’s captain Dennis Davern and her friend, actor Christopher Walken, and were off the coast of Catalina Island at the time of her death. Two weeks after she died, investigators close the case, ruling it an accident. But the sheriff’s office re-opened the case back in 2011 and changed Wood’s cause of death on her certificate from “accidental drowning” to “drowning and other undetermined factors,” according to Fox News. When she first drowned, Wagner, Walken and Davern told investigators that the actress “took off in a dinghy and went ashore.” But Wood had previously said she was afraid of the water. Since their original statements, Wagner and Davern have changed the chain of events that occurred that night. There are many rumors and conspiracy theories related to her death.
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