Robert Wagner Now A 'Person of Interest' In Wife Natalie Wood's Death After New Witnesses Come Forward

Mackenzie Wright - February 3, 2018
Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood were one of the most beautiful couples to ever come out of Hollywood. In 1981, tragedy struck when Wood's body was discovered floating in the water after a night out on a yacht.For more than 35 years, authorities have been trying to solve the mystery of her death, and now they think her husband might know more than he's let on.

Wagner and Wood were out on the boat that fateful night with friend, actor Christopher Walken, and Captain Dennis Davern. Wood went missing that night, and the next morning her body was found floating in the water near a dinghy.

At the time, the incident was ruled an accident. Wood was believed to have gotten into the dinghy to head for shore, but was thought to have slipped and fell into the water. The cause of death was ruled as hypothermia.

Police reopened the investigation into Wood's death in 2011 because the pieces never seemed to fit in place. The couple had been arguing viciously for a couple of days before her disappearance.

Wood was openly flirting with Walken and hostile toward her husband. Wagner was angry and jealous. There had been a lot of drinking going on.

Wagner was the last person to see Wood alive. Davern remembers the two fighting on the deck of the small boat until what he estimates were her last moments.

Now, two more witnesses have come forward and police have found the testimony credible. The witnesses said they never came forward before because the death had been ruled an accident.

They both heard the couple fighting on the boat the night before, and one saw the couple. Wood was being more aggressive and in coming at her husband at one point, she slipped and fell on her knee.

The autopsy report shows Wood did have a bruise on her knee. It also shows a number of other injuries, including a head injury that has yet to be explained.-
She looked like the victim of assault,- notes Ralph Hernandez, a detective with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.


Lieutenant John Corina says in a new documentary slated to air on CBS on Saturday night that Wagner's story doesn't add up. -I haven't seen him tell the details that match all the other witnesses in this case.

I think he's constantly changed his story a little bit. And his version of events just don't add up,- he explains. -I think he does [know more] because he's the last one to see her,


Wood began acting at the age of four. Her role in 'Miracle on 34th Street', when she was just seven years old, launched her into stardom. She went on to star in such films as 'Rebel Without a Cause' and 'West Side Story'.

Before she was 25 years old she had already earned three Academy Award nominations.

Wagner is best known for his role as Johnathan Hart in the television show 'Hart to Hart', which aired from 1979 to 1984. Most recently, he had a recurring role on 'Two and a Half Men'.

He and Wood were married from 1957 to 1962; they divorced, but then got married to each other again in 1972, and remained married until Wood's death. He’s always denied being involved in his wife’s death.