Investigators reveal new evidence that makes Robert Wagner their 'person of interest' in Natalie Wood's death

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 6 February 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Los Angeles sheriff's investigators go on record with suspicions about how Natalie Wood died in 1981, naming the actress's husband Robert Wagner a "person of interest." Nancy Grace digs into the latest revelations with lawyer & psychologist Dr. Brian Russell, death scene investigator Joseph Scott Morgan, and reporter John Lemley. Grace and guests also look at the case against a California woman who admitted to intentionally driving into incoming traffic on a busy freeway in a failed suicide attempt, causing a fatal crash that killed a young father.

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0:00.0	The bombshell news last week that a person of interest has been named in the death of Hollywood
0:19.3	icon Natalie Wood, that POI person of interest none other than TV star, her husband Robert
0:27.4	Wagner, we're going straight to a police presser that has just gone down. I'm Nancy Grace.
0:34.2	This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us. Alan, take me to the presser.
0:38.5	Good morning. My name is Christopher Berger and I'm the captain for the Los Angeles County
0:42.3	Sheriff's Department's homicide bureau. Thank you all for coming out this morning. In
0:47.0	2011, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reopened the investigation of Natalie, Wagner,
0:53.6	Wood and her drowning death. As a result of these efforts, witnesses were identified in 2011 and
1:01.0	2012 that weren't previously known. This case remains a suspicious circumstances death and the
1:12.6	information that came forward in 2011 and 2012 has helped present a more articulate timeline
1:19.4	in this case. I'd like to thank the witnesses that came forward at that time for providing
1:25.1	information and reach out to the general public for those that have firsthand knowledge of the
1:31.2	circumstances that had occurred that night with Miss Wood and turned over to Lieutenant
1:37.9	John Karina for additional information regarding this case. First of all, I have to apologize.
1:45.6	Last week, I got that flu that's going around as you can tell. I got that deep, gravely
1:50.9	voice. I got to take a break here and take a drink of water. Bear with me. As Captain
1:58.1	Berger was saying, we were all we're all we're all taking a look at this case back in 2011.
2:02.8	And that's what really the only press conference we did on this case was back then. We held
2:09.1	one press conference and from that press conference, we ended up with like well over 100 people
2:14.8	came forward with information about this case. People were very want to get really want to get
2:22.4	involved and they want to kind of tell us what they knew. And it was extremely helpful because we
2:27.2	ended up identifying witnesses or people who had information about the case. So I'd never come
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