Mystery on the Water: 35 Years Later, the Latest on the Investigation into Natalie Wood's Drowning Death

Mystery on the Water: 35 Years Later, the Latest on the Investigation into Natalie Wood's Drowning Death

The affairs that beleaguer the afterlife of Natalie Wood on November 29, 1981, while sailing off of Catalina Island, accept become the being of Hollywood fable and mystery.

At the time, her afterlife was classified as an adventitious drowning. Thirty-five years later, the case, which was reopened in 2011, is still authoritative headlines.

Mystery on the Water: 35 Years Later, the Latest on the Investigation into Natalie Wood's Drowning Death

"We abide to attending into it and we will abide to attending into it until we can appear to some conclusion," Los Angeles County Sheriff Lt. John Corina tells PEOPLE.

Wood, 43, drowned while sailing with her husband, Robert Wagner, on their yacht, Splendour. Christopher Walken, Wood's then-costar in the cine Brainstorm, and the boat's captain, Dennis Davern, were aswell on board.

Mystery on the Water: 35 Years Later, the Latest on the Investigation into Natalie Wood's Drowning Death

In Wagner's 2008 memoir, Pieces of My Heart, he wrote that afterwards a night of drinking, he got into an altercation with Walken over Wood's career.

At one point, Wagner wrote, "I best up a wine bottle, airtight it on the table and bankrupt it into pieces."

Mystery on the Water: 35 Years Later, the Latest on the Investigation into Natalie Wood's Drowning Death

As for what acquired her to abatement off the boat, Wagner wrote it was "all conjecture. Cipher knows. There are alone two possibilities: either she was aggravating to get abroad from the argument, or she was aggravating to tie the dinghy. But the basal band is that cipher knows absolutely what happened."

In his memoir, Wagner aswell wrote of his affliction and shock afterward her abortive death.

"Did I accusation myself?," he wrote. "If I had been there, I could accept done something. But I wasn't there. I didn't see her. The aperture was closed; I anticipation she was belowdecks. I didn't apprehend anything. But ultimately, a man is amenable for his admired one, and she was my admired one."

Mystery on the Water: 35 Years Later, the Latest on the Investigation into Natalie Wood's Drowning Death

Three years afterwards his account was released, the case took a aberrant about-face if the Los Angeles Sheriff's Administration reopened the case afterwards Davern came advanced claiming he aria to board about assertive data accompanying to Wood's death. At the time, a sheriff's agent fabricated bright that Wagner was not a suspect.

Wagner aswell appear a account through his agent cogent abutment for the sheriff's investigation, advertence his ancestors would "trust they will appraise whether any new advice apropos to the afterlife of Natalie Wood Wagner is valid, and that it comes from a aboveboard antecedent or sources added than those artlessly aggravating to accumulation from the 30-year ceremony of her adverse death."

Mystery on the Water: 35 Years Later, the Latest on the Investigation into Natalie Wood's Drowning Death

Corina, who beneath to altercate data of the investigation, says detectives did biking to Hawaii to audit the yacht. "I can't acquaint you what we did because it is still allotment of the investigation," he says.

Two months afterwards the case was reopened, a sheriff's administration official told the Los Angeles Times that detectives begin no new affirmation to altercation the official findings.

Mystery on the Water: 35 Years Later, the Latest on the Investigation into Natalie Wood's Drowning Death

"At this point, it is an adventitious death," said William McSweeney, arch of detectives for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. "Nothing has been apparent to advance alteration that at this time."

A year later, Wood's afterlife was reclassified from adventitious drowning to "drowning and added undetermined factors."

Today, a agent for the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's appointment tells PEOPLE the case will abide undetermined "unless added affirmation is brought forward," says Assistant Arch Coroner Ed Winter.

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