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| Natalie Wood |
In an interview with NBC television, when asked directly about whether Wagner was "responsible" for the death of Wood, who drowned in the waters of the Pacific when he was 43 years, Captain Dennis Davern said, "Yes, I I would say yes. "
"It was a fight between Natalie Wood and her husband, Robert Wagner, which ultimately led to her death?" Davern also asked, to which he replied: "Yes."
He was in November 1981 the captain of the yacht called "The Splendour", in which Wood was sailing near Catalina Island (California) with Wagner and actor Christopher Walken also, with whom she had just been filming "Brainstorm ".
The official police theory is that the actress, star of legendary titles such as "West Side Story" and "Splendor in the Grass" was awakened in the middle of the night, after drinking heavily, he slipped and fell into the water .
Davern is now recognized that today lied and then admitted: "I made mistakes by not telling the truth in the police report."
Without going into more detail, arguing that everything is now in the hands of researchers, Davern also suggested that Wagner did nothing to seek Wood when he discovered that the actress was on the yacht.
The captain had already broken his silence on the case in the book "Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour" which he wrote with his friend Marti Rulli and was published in 2009.
In that book Davern also contends that Wood's death was a direct result of a quarrel with Wagner, whom she first married in 1957 and divorced in 1962, but in 1972 resumed their relationship and their common daughter, Courtney, was born two years later.
However, now that the LAPD has announced plans to reopen the case after receiving new information.
The county sheriff's spokesman in Los Angeles, Steve Whitmore said Thursday that they have received new information from the case, without providing further details, and today there will be a press conference about it.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for Wagner, Alan Nierob on Friday issued a statement: "Though no one in the Wagner family has been informed by the sheriff's office in Los Angeles County on this matter, they fully support the efforts" to clarify the death of Wood.
In addition, the Wagner family "trusts" to assess whether the new information related to the death of the actress "is valid" and if it comes from a "credible source" or "other than just trying to take advantage of the 30 anniversary of his tragic death. "
In an autobiography published in 2008, Wagner admits he was jealous of the friendship between his wife and Walken, and also discussed with her on the yacht.
