Natalie Wood screamed for her life while hurling accusations at her A-list actor husband, one of the last people to see the ‘West Side Story’ star alive has claimed.
The fresh account of one of Hollywood’s most shocking and scandalous deaths – along with one from a dying 80-year-old woman – was given to author Marti Rulli, who relayed them to RadarOnline.com.
Wood and Wagner were a nearly unparalleled Hollywood power couple when the ‘Splendor in the Grass’ actress shockingly drowned to death on Thanksgiving weekend 1981.
Now, the stunning confessions from two new witnesses have painted Wood’s ‘Hart to Hart’ TV star husband Robert Wagner as her alleged killer, after the case was reopened.
Rulli told Radar she believes the new accounts could warrant a fresh grand jury investigation of Wood’s death in the dark waters near their yacht Splendour off California’s Catalina Island at about 11 p.m. on Nov. 28, 1981.
She described one of the witnesses as a California man who was just 17 at the time of Wood’s drowning death, which, after 43 years, remains mired in mystery.
The man, Rulli said, had been a worker on a fishing boat moored near the yacht where the West Side Story was last seen, owned by her husband, Wagner.
Contacting Rulli last year, he recalled hearing Wood’s screams – as well as an argument.
‘It still bothers him and he wanted to tell me what he knew,’ Rulli told radar of the then-young witness.
‘He heard an argument, and he told me he heard Natalie’s screams that made him feel uncomfortable. But he didn’t report it to police because he thought it was an open-and-shut drowning case.’
