Real Cold Case: Natalie Wood Case Reopened By LA Detectives after 30 years

I remember this case from I was a kid. Wood died under very flimsy circumstances and the suspicion fell on her then husband, Robert Wagner. He later took up with Jill St. John.

The Huffington Post

Homicide detectives have re-opened their investigation of Natalie Wood's death nearly 30 years after the actress drowned in the waters off Southern California in one of Hollywood's most enduring mysteries.

The renewed look at Wood's Nov. 29, 1981, death was prompted by new information detectives received about the case, Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Thursday.

No additional details were provided, but a detective planned to hold a news conference Friday, and anyone with information about the case was being asked to contact sheriff's officials.

A spokesman for Wood's husband at the time of her death, Robert Wagner, said the family trusts the sheriff's department will take appropriate action but has not been contacted about the case being re-opened.

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There’s no statute of limitations on murder. So, Wagner and St. John may have to worry.

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