The mystery surrounding the drowning death of actress Natalie Wood forty-three years ago has been blasted wide open by shocking new evidence that directly blames her hot-tempered husband, Robert Wagner.
According to two fresh witnesses’ shocking confessions, Wood was physically assaulted by the suave Hartstar and screamed for her life before going missing from the yacht Splendour off California’s Catalina Island at approximately 11 p.m. on November 28, 1981, according to information obtained by Knewz.com.
Author Marti Rulli stated in an exclusive interview that she thinks the new smoking gun testimony will lead to a grand jury probe that would ultimately result in Wagner’s 94-year-old indictment.
Rulli, who intends to describe the new witness testimony in her next book, Natalie Wood and the Devil She Knew, stated, “The case will remain open as long as Robert Wagner is alive because he is the suspect.” “I still hold hope theLos AngelesDA will see fit to let the strong previous evidence, and the new evidence I have gathered, bring justice for Natalie’s murder.”
Following the case’s reopening in 2011, the Los Angeles County coroner revised the cause of death from “accidental drowning” to “drowning and other undetermined factors” the following year, which prompted the new witnesses to come forward.
Rulli, who previously coauthored the book Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour with the yacht’s skipper, Dennis Davern, added, “The reason the witnesses didn’t speak out earlier is because, at the time, the case was declared an accident so fast they just ignored what they saw or heard.”
Still troubled by Natalie’s cries, one of them, a 17-year-old Californian who worked on a fishing boat anchored next to the Splendour, reached out to Rulli last year.
Rulli disclosed, “It still bothers him and he wanted to tell me what he knew,” and requested that the witness’ identity be kept confidential. “He informed me that he felt uneasy after hearing Natalie scream during an altercation. However, he believed it to be a clear-cut drowning case, therefore he chose not to report it to the authorities.
The man’s claim backs up Davern’s evidence to police, who said that when Wagner accused Wood, 43, of having an affair with her Brainstorm co-star Christopher Walken, who was also aboard the ship, the Thanksgiving weekend trip descended into violence.
According to Davern, a furious Just before she disappeared, Wagner started fighting with Wood and shattered a bottle of wine on a table.
Davern heard Wagner yell, “Get off my f—— boat!” at one point.
Four hours after Wood’s disappearance, Davern claimed Wagner prevented him from radioing for assistance or turning on the searchlights! The following morning, her bruised and battered body was discovered onshore next to an inflatable dinghy.
A dying 80-year-old lady also contacted Rulli, claiming that she was working with Wood in the 1960s when the West Side Story darling was beaten by an enraged Wagner. “She said she saw Wagner come into their dressing room additional evidence of abuse!”
It has come to light that another witness called the police and stated that he lived next door to the famous couple in the 1950s, despite Wagner’s attorneys’ emphatic denials that he was involved in Natalie’s death.
“He remembers Natalie banging on the door in the middle of the night” , stated Rulli. “She was asking for a place to stay for the night because [Wagner] was going tokill her!”
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