S3 Ep74: Starstruck

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History, True Crime

4.9 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

When Detroit native Robert Wagner moved out to California as a child, he had dreams of making it big. But his obsession with a Hollywood starlet turned those dreams into a nightmare. Named an official person of interest in his wife's tragic death decades after she drowned in the Pacific Ocean, will the 91-year-old face charges (or be exonerated) before time runs out? Or will the ghost of Natalie Wood haunt him to the grave?

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0:00.0	This is the Scream Queen production.
0:07.6	Ah, ah, ah, ah.
0:13.9	I never will forget the tragic ending met the day your last sunset
0:26.6	so dead so dead So dead.
0:40.3	Welcome to another episode of So dead. I'm your host, Jen Carpenter. Happy True Crime Tuesday.
0:51.7	One thing that I have discovered that I love doing through this podcast is I love
0:58.0	picking apart the good reputations of actual monsters like Charles Lindbergh, for example,
1:06.5	we did that earlier this season, or that friggin' nut John Harvey Kellogg.
1:12.5	He's not all fruit loops and corn pops, people.
1:16.2	He just isn't.
1:17.5	So today, we're going to do it again.
1:20.4	In this episode, we're going after local legend Robert Wagner,
1:27.0	aka number two in the Austin Powers movies.
1:32.2	Now, so Robert Wagner is just one of those guys.
1:35.5	Like he has been in everything.
1:37.4	You know his name.
1:38.6	You know his face.
1:40.6	But for me, legit, the only thing I remember actually ever seeing him in is Austin Powers.
1:49.9	So I've had this story on my list for a while, but it was a post that I saw recently in a local history group on Facebook that bumped this story to the top of my list because it got
2:03.4	on my nerves so bad.
2:06.4	So I'm going to start by reading this post to you verbatim.
2:10.7	It's from the group Michigan History, I believe, on Facebook.
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