The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is reopening its case into the 1981 death of actress Natalie Wood.
Officials then ruled her drowning death while boating off Santa Catalina Island was an accident. But there has been much speculation about what happened in the boat.
— Richard Winton
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On Dec. 2, 1981, The Times reported that an LAPD homicide detective was disputing the coroner’s account that Robert Wagner and Christoper Walken had argued heatedly shortly before Natalie Wood’s death.
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On Dec. 4, 1981, The Times reported that a woman on a nearby boat told authorities she heard cries for help on the evening Natalie Wood died.
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On Dec. 4, 1981, The Times reported that Natalie Wood had two common medications and caffeine in her system at the time of her death, in addition to a blood alcohol level of .14.
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On Nov. 29, 1981, The Times reported that the body of Natalie Wood, 43, had been found floating in the ocean off Catalina Island, where she had gone for a holiday weekend with her husband, Robert Wagner.
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