Thanksgiving Murder Mystery: Natalie Woods was murdered, says Natalie’s Bond Girl sister Lana Woods

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.9 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Natalie Wood's death 36 years ago has been one of Hollywood’s biggest mysteries, but the Los Angeles Sheriff's department has restarted its investigation as new evidence came to light in recent years. It was ruled an accidental drowning soon after the actress’s body was found floating along a Catalina Island beach on November 29, 1981, but the death certificate was recently changed to “undetermined” base on the revelations in Marti Rulli’s book, Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour. Rulli, Natalie's sister Lana Wood and Cold Case Research Institute director Sheryl McCollum join Nancy Grace for an in depth look at the case in this Crime Stories episode.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Climbs stories with Nancy Grace on Sirius XM Triumph channel 132.
0:11.2	Natalie Wood was one of the most popular sought after actresses in Hollywood.
0:15.6	This is America's sweetheart.
0:17.2	It was Thanksgiving weekend in 1981 when Wood and her actor husband Robert Wagner went
0:22.5	sailing on their yacht, the splendor.
0:24.6	They were joined by actor and friend Christopher Walken.
0:27.7	Wagner notified Captain Dennis Dabbert that Wood was not on board.
0:31.8	Then I said to Robert Wagner, let's turn on the search light to see if we can see her.
0:36.0	And he said, no, we don't want to do that right now.
0:37.9	Do you believe that maybe Robert Wagner has been hiding the real truth of what happened
0:42.7	that night all these years?
0:43.8	I only believe that.
0:45.4	We ever see information which we felt was substantial enough to make us take another
0:49.0	look at this case.
0:49.9	It's old information that was never looked at, that should have been looked at.
0:55.2	She died a watery death, Hollywood royalty.
1:00.1	Yet her death has never fully been investigated.
1:04.7	Still more questions than answers.
1:07.9	And today, 36 years since the death of the beautiful Natalie Wood.
1:15.2	I, Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories.
1:17.2	Thank you for being with us.
1:19.0	It was Thanksgiving 36 years ago that the beautiful star.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.