The Last Deadly Crossing of Natalie Wood

On Nov. 29, 1981, Hollywood starlet Natalie Wood, set journey on an speed to Santa Catalina Island on house a Splendour. She was not alone. Joining her was father Robert Wagner, and “Brainstorm” co-star Christopher Walken. The third celebration was a Splendour’s captain, Dennis Davern. However, by 8:00 a.m. on Nov. 29, Wood’s routine physique was detected floating in a water. She was some-more than a mile divided from a boat. With her, was a tiny blowup dinghy, called a Valiant.

The autopsy news suggested that she had wounds all over her body. Her arms and legs were exceedingly bruised, and on her left impertinence was a nasty abrasion. For a subsequent 40 years, Wood’s drowning genocide would sojourn one of Hollywood’s biggest mysteries, given a Black Dahlia Case in 1945. Will new justification finally solve it as savage instead of an random death?

The Final Stand

In Feb 2018, after scarcely 4 decades of speculation, investigators from a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department are creation their final defence to solve a case. They were dynamic to ready a final pull for eyewitnesses to come forward. Their primary “person of interest”– Wood’s then-husband, actor Robert Wagner. “Mr. Wagner was a chairman of seductiveness since he is a final chairman with her before she went in a water,” Homicide Bureau Lt. John Corina told correspondents.

At a news conference, investigators concurred that time is not on their side. In fact, it is using out quickly. The time is ticking to solve a unexplained conditions around Wood’s demise. Numerous onlookers have upheld away, who were on boats tighten by in 1981. The initial investigator on a box is deceased. Still optimistic, private detectives are reaching out one some-more time to see if people will come brazen with evidence.

The Tainted Actress

Wood’s comfortless box is ironic. All her life, she was condemned by a fear of H2O after scarcely drowning on a film set as a child. In a discourse with TMZ, Wood’s sister Lana done a indicate to state that her genocide was prophesized by their mother. She told her that she would die in dim water. Those dim waters would one day be a Atlantic Ocean.

Wood, who was best famous for her tools in “Rebel Without a Cause,” “Miracle on 34th Street,” and “West Side Story,” would not live past a age of 43. The artist took her final journey in a family vessel off a shoreline of California’s Catalina Island with Wagner, now 87.

Wood’s sister never stopped blaming Wagner for that horrific night. She was not alone. In Nov 2011, Davern publicly came brazen and certified to military that he lied during a initial investigation. He confessed that Wood and Wagner argued a whole evening. Davern also claimed that Wood and Walken were flirting. He witnessed Wagner fly into a sceptical rage. Davern believes his remarkable ire cost Wood her life.

Walken lawyered adult and assisted with a investigation. He was never deliberate a consider by authorities. However, a same can't be pronounced about Wagner. He has refused carrying any partial in his wife’s death. In Feb 2018, he was named a chairman of seductiveness in a cold case.

‘Leave Her There; Teach Her a Lesson.’

According to a now 65-year-old sister of Wood, Wagner’s final difference to his mother were a lick of death. She believes that he left her to drown on a night of her comfortless passing. “Leave her there; learn her a lesson’ is what Davern claimed Wagner told him.

Davern, being a pivotal witness, mentioned a calamity did not finish there. Not usually did he explain that Wagner knew Wood was in a water, though he did zero when a fainted cries of a lady were listened in a night. Davern added:

Neither one of us took any stairs to see if we could locate her. we consider it was a matter of, ‘We’re not going to demeanour too hard, we’re not going to spin on a searchlight, we’re not going to forewarn anybody right now.’

Davern claims that a distressing Wagner attempted to cover his back. Could this box be a classical sceptical father that flies into a ire and kills his wife? Or was it an random death? According to criminologists, Rebecca and Russell Dobash during The University of Manchester, a Wagner, and Wood conditions would be deliberate distant too typical. With over dual dozen bruises on her body, it was transparent that there was some earthy abuse. Both criminologists detected that in many cases, group kill their partners since of passionate jealousy. Could this have been a cheating among Wood and Walken? Or was there some dark passionate tragedy that a universe will never know? There is no evidence.

The Dobash’s spent 10 years interviewing murderers portion life sentences in British prisons, that led to poignant studies of group who kill women. Either during a indicate where a lady articulates, “I’ve had adequate of we whacking on me, I’m out of here,”—since 65 percent of a group have beforehand abused their spouses—or after they had left.

Could Wood have been a longtime plant of domestic assault before her death? There is no evidence, and no eyewitnesses that have come brazen to determine abuse. The Dobash investigate unprotected several frightening governmental questions. Most prominently, they detected that countless women are killed by jealous, domineering, and determining men. Could Wagner fit this stereotype? The concepts of desert firm adult in masculinity are, in some circumstances, fatal.

Unhappy Wife, Unhappy Life

According to those who knew Wood, matrimony for a second time around was no angel tale. In fact, it was full of depression. She had tied a tangle to Wagner formerly on Dec. 28, 1957. In Jun of 1961, they were separated, and in Apr 1962, they filed for divorce. Nevertheless, they gave it a shot again on Jul 16, 1972.

She had terrible insomnia; fibbing watchful during night for hours. She spent many of it perplexing to figure out because she was so discontent. She would shortly spin to sleeping pills. Finally, Wagner suggested that she see a psychiatrist. According to witnesses, she spent 8 years during her lunch hours, day after day consulting with her psychoanalyst. She incited down many roles during this time. Her matrimony to Wagner was one of a excellent in Hollywood, though was it? With a box being reopened, a universe waits to finally learn a answer to a 40-year-old mystery.

By Jomo Merritt
Edited by Jeanette Smith

Sources

Daily Mail: She would never go nearby that dinghy’: Sister says Natalie Wood’s fear of H2O creates Wagner and crewmates’ story of how she drowned IMPOSSIBLE
VICE: Inside a Minds of Men Who Kill Women
ABC News: What to know about Natalie Wood’s still unsolved 1981 drowning death

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