Mysterious Celebrity Deaths by Deborah McFarlin

        
      Natalie Woods’ biggest fears came to be how she would die a questionable death; November 29, 1981, when she was found in the Pacific Ocean. She was wearing a long nightgown, socks and a Down jacket one mile away from their yacht, off Catalina Island. The cold case was reopened on June 15, 2012, to determine the cause of death from an incomplete investigation of Natalie Woods’s death and suggested, there was a cover up. I feel that she was murdered on the yacht, in her cabin, and her body was thrown overboard; then as an afterthought the dingy was released into the waters, to make it appear that, she fell out of the dingy and drown to her death. The theory that she jumped to her death is not a believable one, based on the fact that” her greatest fear was of dark seawaters” (Duke and Watkins).

                                            

     Natalie Woods’ biggest fears came to be how she would die, a questionable death; November 29, 1981, when she was found in the Pacific Ocean. She was wearing a long nightgown, socks and a Down jacket one mile away from their yacht, off Catalina Island. The cold case was reopened on June 15, 2012, to determine the cause of death from an incomplete investigation of Natalie Woods’s death and suggested, there was a cover up. I feel that she was murdered on the yacht, in her cabin, and her body was thrown overboard; then as an afterthought the dingy was released into the waters, to make it appear that, she fell out of the dingy and drown to her death. The theory that she jumped to her death is not a believable one, based on the fact that” her greatest fear was of dark seawaters” (Duke and Watkins).

Natalie Wood was a beautiful actress with the most captivating eyes and just was a natural born actress, one might considered that she already had a career before she started school. At the age of four, she acted in a film” Happy Land”. At age 8 she acted in “Miracle on 34^th Street”, one of the most successful films of her life and stayed very busy acting in 19 films by the age 17.Natalie achieved her education with a teacher hired to teach her on the set. (www.thefamouspeople .com)

One of those films’,” The Green Promise” in 1949 left her terrified of water. She talked about the “Mean director who threw me into the ocean”,” was terrified, was petrified”, in a 1979 interview with Shirley Eder.

Her sister speaks about Natalie’s fear being from a Mother who warned her about going into “dark waters” that it would be her death. A fortuneteller told her mother that her second child would die in dark waters, before Natalie was born (Finstad).

Natalie had a fear of the dark waters (Wood). Which was hard to believe that she and her husband had a yacht, the Splendour that they went on frequent trips to the Catalina Islands. According to Lana Wood, her sister was too terrified of water to try to leave Robert on the yacht in a dinghy and then fall out of the dinghy into the Pacific and drowned.” Makes No Sense”! “She didn’t go into her own swimming pool” (1).

Robert Wagner is bisexual (Dakota), and Natalie walked in on her husband and Christoper Walkens having sex and an augment and fight followed, between Natalie and Robert Wagner. Natalie and Robert was first married in 1957 and divorced in 1962 when she walked in on Robert having sex with another man (Finstad, Zennie, and McCormack).

Robin Butillo, a Pennsylvania-based interior designer, told The Enquirer that:

Walken admitted to her roommate, a close friend of Walken, that he and Wagner had been found having sex on the yacht Splendour, hours before Wood went overboard (Robin Butillo, a Pennsylvania-based interior designer, told The Enquirer that Walken admitted to her roommate, a close friend of Walken, that he and Wagner had been found having sex on the yacht Splendour, hours before Wood went overboard. (Radar Staff) 

The Captain of the boat, Dennis Davern, reported that there was a big argument between Natalie and Robert and a lot of noise “Things being thrown and the couple was fighting in their cabin.” After the fight Mrs. Wood disappeared. Then Dennis wanted to look for her in the waters, since they could not find her on board. Mr. Wagner discouraged him not to look and poured Dennis a drink, according to Dennis Davern. “Wagner was with her right up until she went overboard” (Davern).

There were boats that were around the area that reported that they had heard a women calling for help around 11:45 pm,” Help me, somebody help me”(Love,Klunder) By daylight they found Natalie’s body in the water; one mile away from the Splendour ,in her nightgown ,socks and a down jacket (Nickens).

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