Natalie Wood was an American actress who lived from 1938 to 1981. She started out as a child actress in the late 1940s, which saw her playing roles in a number of well-known movies such as Miracle on 34th Street and Rebel Without a Cause. As a result, Wood managed to receive a number of Oscar nominations even before she had managed to turn 25, which was a remarkable accomplishment to say the least. However, that was not the full extent of her career, seeing as how she went on to play roles in a number of well-known movies as well as other projects as an adult. Unfortunately, a lot of people in the present tend to remember Wood because of her death at the age of 43, which is being investigated at the moment.
What Happened to Natalie Wood?
What happened was that Wood and her husband Robert Wagner were on a boat called Splendour along with the captain Dennis Davern as well as one of Wood’s co-stars Christopher Walken. It is unclear how it happened, but Wood ended up in the water where she drowned. The authorities were able to recover Wood’s body, which was situated close to an inflatable dinghy that had been beached. There was an abrasion on one of her cheeks as well as bruises on her arms and the rest of her body. Furthermore, she had a blood alcohol level of 0.14 percent, which was in addition to traces of both a painkiller and a motion sickness pill in her bloodstream. At the time, the coroner ruled that Wood had died from drowning as well as hypothermia, speculating that she might have had an accident when getting into the dinghy because of the alcohol, which would have had an intensified effect because of both the painkiller and the motion sickness pill.
Why Has the Case Been Reopened?
The case was reopened in 2011 because the captain Dennis Davern stated in public that he had lied in the initial investigations. He stated that Wood and Wagner had a fight on the evening that she went into the water, which led to a series of events that resulted in Wood’s cause of death being changed from drowning to “drowning and other undetermined factors” in 2012. This is an acknowledgement of the fact that how Wood ended up in the water is now considered to be unclear.
Besides this, the police hasn’t turned up enough evidence to bring charges against Wagner, but considering that they have called him a person of interest in the case, it seems that they have their eyes on him. So far, they have turned up new witnesses, who have provided them with new information. For example, one witness has said that they heard people yelling as well as the sounds of crashing objects coming from Wood and Wagner’s room on the night that she went into the water. Furthermore, another witness heard an argument between a man and a woman on the same night, which they believed to have been Wood and Wagner. As a result, it seems clear that the police is putting serious effort into the investigation, though it remains to be seen what will come of it in the end.
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