The context: In 1981, actor Natalie Wooden was discovered lifeless within the water whereas on a yacht journey along with her husband Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken, who she was working with on the film Brainstorm. The captain of the boat, Dennis Davern, was additionally on board. The lads allegedly observed her lacking within the late hours of November 28 and started looking for her. Her physique was present in a close-by cove the subsequent morning.
Natalie’s dying was initially dominated an unintentional drowning, but it surely was later reclassified as “suspicious” and her dying certificates was amended to state the trigger was “drowning and different undetermined components,” accounting for the unresolved questions surrounding the incident — together with how she ended up within the water, and the way she acquired sure bruises on her physique.
Dennis Davern mentioned he had witnessed an explosive argument between Robert Wagner and Natalie earlier than her disappearance, which Robert later confirmed in his memoir Items of My Coronary heart. In 2018, police named Robert as a “particular person of curiosity.”
Christopher Walken has largely stored silent about Natalie’s dying, though he did inform Playboy in 1997 that “she was alone,” when it occurred, speculating that she had been “half asleep” and slipped and hit her head whereas attempting to maneuver a dinghy that was bouncing in opposition to the facet of the boat.
