Robert Wagner Re-Emerges As Suspect In Natalie Wood Death
Los Angeles County Sheriff's office reps told CBS that Wagner was once again a person of interest in Wood's 1981 death.
It’s been a mystery that has intrigued Hollywood for nearly four decades, but the investigation into the death at sea of film star Natalie Wood may have taken a new twist as police have named her husband, Robert Wagner, as “more a person of interest”.
Wood, a former Oscar nominee and the star of West Side Story and Rebel Without A Cause, was found dead when her body was washed up on the coast of California in November 1981. It happened during a yacht trip near Catalina Island that she took with her husband and actor Christopher Walken.
Her death was ruled at the time to have been an accidental drowning, but questions surrounding what happened have lingered ever since, with conflicting versions of events recorded by witnesses. Wood’s family have regularly lobbied authorities to re-visit the original investigation’s findings and, in 2011, police re-opened the case.
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