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Robert Wagner a ‘person of interest’ in Natalie Wood’s death

Robert Wagner has been named as a “person of interest” in an investigation into Natalie Wood’s mysterious death.
The revelation was made by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Lieutenant John Corina in a new CBS documentary about the star’s premature death.
Natalie drowned while on a weekend boat trip to Santa Catalina Island in 1981 at the age of 43. The West Side Story actress was travelling with her husband Wagner, whom she had married for the second time in 1972, the boat’s captain, Dennis Davern, and her Brainstorm co-star Christopher Walken – with investigators initially ruling her death to be an accident.
However, the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office amended the death certificate in 2011, changing the manner of death to “drowning and other undetermined factors”, and now Corina has revealed that Wagner is under renewed scrutiny.
“As we’ve investigated the case over the last six years, I think he’s (Wagner) more of a person of interest now,” Corina said in an interview with CBS news programme 48 Hours. “I mean, we know now that he was the last person to be with Natalie before she disappeared.”
In his 2009 memoir, Pieces of My Heart, Wagner wrote that on the fateful outing, he argued with both Wood and Walken. He claimed that after their falling out, he went looking for his wife but could not find her and noticed the dinghy was missing.
According to investigators, Wagner has denied any involvement and refused to talk to them since the reopening of the case.
Yet, Corina alleges there are holes in the Hart to Hart star’s account of events.
“I haven’t seen him tell the details that match all the other witnesses in this case,” he said. “I think he’s constantly changed his story a little bit. And his version of events just don’t add up (sic).”
In 2011, Davern said he had lied to police officers during the initial investigation and that Wood and Wagner had argued the evening before her death, alleging the Austin Powers star was responsible for her demise.
Pages have since been added to Wood’s autopsy report stating that bruises found on her body may have occurred before she entered the water.

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