Natalie Wood |
Investigation has been reopened after 30 years,homicide investigation have reopened the case of Natalie Wood the star who died in 1981 in a drowning accident near Catalina Island in California this is because there is new information about her death.
She was in a yacht with her husband, There has been different stories and speculations about her death ... some suggesting foul play, but non of the information has been confirmed
Also on the yacht -- dubbed "Splendour" -- was the boat's skipper ... a man named Dennis Davern who had worked for the Wagner family for years ... but his connection to the story is tenuous.
The official theory ... Wood -- who was starring in a movie with Walken at the time -- was trying to secure a dinghy from banging against the hull when she slipped and fell overboard. She was wearing a jacket over a nightgown when her body was discovered.
It should be noted -- Wood famously had a paralyzing fear of water.
Here's where it all gets fishy ... a woman on a nearby yacht claimed she heard a woman cry for help around midnight -- and, rumor has it, Wagner and Walken were in a drunken fight aboard the boat at the time.
Wagner later claimed the fight was over Wood -- Walken wanted Wood to focus on her acting career over her family ... Wagner got upset.
Officials ruled her death an accident -- claiming Wood was drunk on "seven or eight" glasses of wine -- but now, we're told new information has surfaced and the investigation has been re-opened.
Wood's sister Lana had previously made attempts to have the L.A. County Sheriff's Department re-open the case of her death ... to no avail.
Wood was 43 when she died, and is currently buried at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. Wood's funeral was star-studded ... with attendees like Frank Sinatra, Liz Taylor, Fred Astaire, Gregory Peck, and Sir Laurence Olivier.