If the authorities don't know how to handle a new interview in the Natalie Wood case, they could start by asking these questions:
1) Why didn't you allow your boat skipper to turn on the searchlight?
2) Why did you demand that your boat skipper not be open and thorough with authorities?
3) Why did you say the dinghy was tied port?
4) Why did you lie about who was in the room when you smashed the wine bottle, when you finally did admit it over 20 years later?
5) Why didn't you tell us about the bottle smashing when we interviewed you the first time? You said you had no idea what happened. You don't think the bottle smashing would've angered your wife?
6) Why didn't you call for help for your wife immediately?
7) Why the 2 1/2 hour wait to call the local people? Why 2 more hours to concede to Coast Guard being called?
8) Why did you lie about why your wife spent the night on the island Friday night?
9) Why was your stateroom in shambles (there ARE pictures of it)?
10) You really think your wife received over two dozen bruises from one fall?
11) If you didn't think about the banging dinghy "theory" before learning that your wife was found in her nightgown, why did you tell the harbormaster she was wearing her nightgown when she went missing?
12) Why didn't you ever want to learn anything from Marilyn Wayne who probably heard your wife's cries for help?
13) Why did you take your "boat caretaker" under your wing for so long after your wife's death? You hired him an attorney, you paid for his therapy, you got him an acting job, you gave him money....why?
14) Why didn't you ever inform us that the dinghy is tied with two lines and that no one needs to go onto the swimstep to adjust those lines because they can actually be adjusted from the deck?
15) Why didn't you ever ask the detectives or coroner ANY questions, not even one?
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
The Following Four Videos
The four videos posted below speak volumes, too. Who was his first love? How afraid of water was Natalie? Who is "the drunk?" and How uncomfortable can someone lying become? Also, how many people were on board that night? Was it REALLY just Natalie, Walken and Wagner? Suddenly, Dennis is invisible? Diane Sawyer didn't have the guts to mention him either, or maybe she was warned not to? I do credit Ms. Sawyer on trying to bring out SOME truth, although she didn't succeed or pursue the openings.
Standing Behind Our Book
I accuse the authorities in the Natalie Wood case of performing a horrid job in getting to the truth about the circumstances surrounding this unimaginable death.
Goodbye Natalie Goodbye Splendour is an accurate, polygraphed account of the true details surrounding Natalie's death and the book speaks for itself. Whatever it insinuates is DERIVED from FACTS.
Dennis Davern and I invite any polygraphist, any authority, any media to challenge our FACTUAL BOOK. We will cooperate with any questioning, and requests.
Goodbye Natalie Goodbye Splendour is an accurate, polygraphed account of the true details surrounding Natalie's death and the book speaks for itself. Whatever it insinuates is DERIVED from FACTS.
Dennis Davern and I invite any polygraphist, any authority, any media to challenge our FACTUAL BOOK. We will cooperate with any questioning, and requests.
THREE LIARS, TWO REMAINING.
Three men were left standing the night Natalie Wood went missing from her yacht, Splendour. Two celebrities, Natalie's co-star and boat guest, Christopher Walken, and her husband, TV actor, Robert Wagner. And there was Dennis Davern the "hired captain" -- the "boat caretaker" as Wagner later called him. When asked by authorities what transpired over the weekend, all three men said, "It was a pleasant weekend and we don't know what might've happened." ALL THREE MEN LIED THE MORNING NATALIE'S BODY WAS FOUND, and a NEGLIGENT detective believed them.
Robert Wagner had asked Dennis Davern throughout the night to lie. He told him to say NOTHING to authorities about what the weekend had really been like. He asked Dennis to only speak through an attorney he would hire for him. Dennis didn't like it, but he obeyed. Christopher Walken lied because he wanted to protect his celebrity, too. The two celebrities were not and are not "gentlemen" -- they are liars, just like Dennis Davern WAS a liar. All three men had been drinking heavily, and ALL THREE MEN LIED to protect themselves from hard questions AND SUSPICION. But one knew immediately that he would not lie forever. Dennis Davern. The two celebrities determined to always keep the deep dark secret that it had been a very unpleasant weekend, and that Wagner had accused Walken of wanting to have sex with Natalie when he smashed a wine bottle before having a terrible marital argument with her in their stateroom. The argument carried over to the back deck and stayed there until Natalie went missing. Davern witnessed it.
Dennis Davern, because he had been threatened and warned and followed started to tell only parts of his story, to "test the repercussions" (he DID fear for his own life, just as Marilyn Wayne who was a witness to cries for help feared for her life after receiving threats). Dennis eventually told his entire truth and I wrote his account for Goodbye Natalie Goodbye Splendour. I stayed true to his words and Dennis had his account polygraphed and he passed the tests administered by a top polygraphist who worked in criminal law for over 25 years.
Dennis Davern's account of what transpired the night Natalie Wood died is the truth about the circumstances surrounding Natalie Wood's death. There are no lies told in his detailed account. The two celebrities who shared the weekend with Natalie--her co-star and her husband-- have been proven to be liars by Dennis's polygraphed account along with supporting evidence of his account. Neither of them will voluntarily agree to a polygraph because they would not/could not pass it, UNLESS they told the SAME story Dennis Davern has told.
There are two remaining liars left standing. They say nothing because they cannot refute Dennis's story.
Dennis has owned up to his mistakes and has told the complete truth and the complete truth is being accepted.
Robert Wagner had asked Dennis Davern throughout the night to lie. He told him to say NOTHING to authorities about what the weekend had really been like. He asked Dennis to only speak through an attorney he would hire for him. Dennis didn't like it, but he obeyed. Christopher Walken lied because he wanted to protect his celebrity, too. The two celebrities were not and are not "gentlemen" -- they are liars, just like Dennis Davern WAS a liar. All three men had been drinking heavily, and ALL THREE MEN LIED to protect themselves from hard questions AND SUSPICION. But one knew immediately that he would not lie forever. Dennis Davern. The two celebrities determined to always keep the deep dark secret that it had been a very unpleasant weekend, and that Wagner had accused Walken of wanting to have sex with Natalie when he smashed a wine bottle before having a terrible marital argument with her in their stateroom. The argument carried over to the back deck and stayed there until Natalie went missing. Davern witnessed it.
Dennis Davern, because he had been threatened and warned and followed started to tell only parts of his story, to "test the repercussions" (he DID fear for his own life, just as Marilyn Wayne who was a witness to cries for help feared for her life after receiving threats). Dennis eventually told his entire truth and I wrote his account for Goodbye Natalie Goodbye Splendour. I stayed true to his words and Dennis had his account polygraphed and he passed the tests administered by a top polygraphist who worked in criminal law for over 25 years.
Dennis Davern's account of what transpired the night Natalie Wood died is the truth about the circumstances surrounding Natalie Wood's death. There are no lies told in his detailed account. The two celebrities who shared the weekend with Natalie--her co-star and her husband-- have been proven to be liars by Dennis's polygraphed account along with supporting evidence of his account. Neither of them will voluntarily agree to a polygraph because they would not/could not pass it, UNLESS they told the SAME story Dennis Davern has told.
There are two remaining liars left standing. They say nothing because they cannot refute Dennis's story.
Dennis has owned up to his mistakes and has told the complete truth and the complete truth is being accepted.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
The danger was intensified by alcohol...
Yes, Natalie Wood's alcohol level on the night she lost her life was .14, a level considered legally drunk. Wouldn't that have been ALL the MORE reason to not allow her to be alone out in the dinghy if her husband really believed that's where she was? Wouldn't that be ALL the MORE reason to turn on the searchlight and call for help immediately?
Her plight was doubly dangerous because the group had been drinking for hours. Her husband had smashed a wine bottle in anger, and that indicated she not only was missing "under the influence" but also missing "under disturbance." Natalie was inebriated and disturbed at her husband's actions. Those two factors demanded attention when she was "missing." Dennis Davern knew they should do something immediately. Her husband demanded NOTHING be done. His concerned act didn't start until an island worker showed up at the yacht over two hours later.
"Find her," he then started demanding.
Her plight was doubly dangerous because the group had been drinking for hours. Her husband had smashed a wine bottle in anger, and that indicated she not only was missing "under the influence" but also missing "under disturbance." Natalie was inebriated and disturbed at her husband's actions. Those two factors demanded attention when she was "missing." Dennis Davern knew they should do something immediately. Her husband demanded NOTHING be done. His concerned act didn't start until an island worker showed up at the yacht over two hours later.
"Find her," he then started demanding.
A few hypothetical questions with real answers...
TV Characters:
Q: Would TV Character Jonathan Hart have waited over 2 hours to begin a search or call for help for his missing lovely wife Jennifer? And then another 2 hours to notify the professional Coast Guard?
A: Not even a daring script writer would've taken the character of Jonathan Hart in such a frightening, negligent direction.
Real Husbands:
Q: Would a LOVING husband hesitate to be concerned about his wife who is deathly afraid of water being missing from a boat late at night on a miserable rainy night after he already saw her dressed in her nightgown and knows she isn't familiar with how to operate the dinghy, one that had a broken headlight, on an island where there was no place to go?
A: There isn't a person existing who isn't a liar if they answer yes to this question.
Q: Would a CARING husband identify his own wife.
A: In most cases.
Q: Would a CURIOUS husband demand of the authorities answers to what could have happened to his wife? Was there a squall that capsized the dinghy? Could an intruder have been in the area? Were there any other strange happenings that same night? Does ANYONE have ANY clue why his wife was found drowned?
A: You'd think any man who knew nothing about how his wife ended up floating in the ocean would have QUESTIONS. Natalie Wood's husband had NONE. Stands to reason one only has questions when he doesn't already know the answers.
Real Fathers:
Q: How long might a father have waited had he noticed a daughter missing from a yacht near midnight on an island with no place to go?
A: A father would've been screaming for help and demanding every drop of help from his on board skipper.
Real People:
Q: Would REAL people have ever stalled a search for a missing woman who is afraid of water?
A: No. The REAL skipper who knew something was wrong was told to not do anything by the only person who knew Natalie was in grave danger. The REAL skipper still wanted to do something, but the husband of the missing wife convinced him she would be back.
Q: Would REAL people want to help if they'd been notified someone was missing?
A: Yes, REAL people would've turned on lights and made calls but they weren't notified of a missing person the night Natalie went missing. The REAL couple who heard cries for help called for help immediately but none arrived as the harbormaster was home in bed assuming there were no people in his harbor who would allow a woman to die.
Q: Would TV Character Jonathan Hart have waited over 2 hours to begin a search or call for help for his missing lovely wife Jennifer? And then another 2 hours to notify the professional Coast Guard?
A: Not even a daring script writer would've taken the character of Jonathan Hart in such a frightening, negligent direction.
Real Husbands:
Q: Would a LOVING husband hesitate to be concerned about his wife who is deathly afraid of water being missing from a boat late at night on a miserable rainy night after he already saw her dressed in her nightgown and knows she isn't familiar with how to operate the dinghy, one that had a broken headlight, on an island where there was no place to go?
A: There isn't a person existing who isn't a liar if they answer yes to this question.
Q: Would a CARING husband identify his own wife.
A: In most cases.
Q: Would a CURIOUS husband demand of the authorities answers to what could have happened to his wife? Was there a squall that capsized the dinghy? Could an intruder have been in the area? Were there any other strange happenings that same night? Does ANYONE have ANY clue why his wife was found drowned?
A: You'd think any man who knew nothing about how his wife ended up floating in the ocean would have QUESTIONS. Natalie Wood's husband had NONE. Stands to reason one only has questions when he doesn't already know the answers.
Real Fathers:
Q: How long might a father have waited had he noticed a daughter missing from a yacht near midnight on an island with no place to go?
A: A father would've been screaming for help and demanding every drop of help from his on board skipper.
Real People:
Q: Would REAL people have ever stalled a search for a missing woman who is afraid of water?
A: No. The REAL skipper who knew something was wrong was told to not do anything by the only person who knew Natalie was in grave danger. The REAL skipper still wanted to do something, but the husband of the missing wife convinced him she would be back.
Q: Would REAL people want to help if they'd been notified someone was missing?
A: Yes, REAL people would've turned on lights and made calls but they weren't notified of a missing person the night Natalie went missing. The REAL couple who heard cries for help called for help immediately but none arrived as the harbormaster was home in bed assuming there were no people in his harbor who would allow a woman to die.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Bodies never lie
It's true: bodies never lie—the truth was right there in Natalie’s bruises and in her attire. Natalie’s body spoke volumes. No one listened, but Natalie’s lifetime mantra will always remain her cry from the grave: “I’m deathly afraid of water that is dark.”
A LIST OF THE EVIDENCE MISSED IN NATALIE WOOD DROWNING CASE:
For those who claim there is not enough evidence to re-open the Wood case, here's a list of 28 reasons why this case should be reviewed again. This is a list of all the things completely missed within the initial investgation that lasted only days.
In Goodbye Natalie Goodbye Splendour I present a polygraphed account of the only witness who saw and heard the circumstances leading to Natalie no longer being on the yacht. If it insinuates foul-play than that's what it does, but I am NOT accusing anyone of anything other than the fact that the authorities did not handle this case with any exterior thinking, any real look at evidence (which there is PLENTY of) or with the possibility -- just the POSSIBILITY -- that something was very wrong with this particular death scene.
I do not believe that authorities had looked for every possible explanation to support “accident” or otherwise. I believe they wrapped this up as fast as they could so they wouldn't have to answer to the media. Everyone immediately accepted Natalie’s death as accidental because it was incomprehensible to believe otherwise. Natalie and R.J. were considered the perfect Hollywood couple. They were gentle. They were happy. No inconsistency in that everlasting love of R.J.’s and Natalie’s had ever been publicly proclaimed after their second marriage. No one knew or even suspected trouble in their paradise, save a few of Natalie’s closest confidants. Therefore, how could Natalie Wood’s untimely death have been anything but accidental? Even detectives can make mistakes.
But this was the mistake in thinking that everyone made. Natalie’s death scene was far more indicative of foul play than of accident, but the mainstream media that had always offered us the wisdom and endurance of R.J.’s and Natalie’s love could only remain impartial.
The investigation into Natalie Wood’s death was botched in part because we had all been previously impressed with something far too good to be so suddenly false. There was utter disorder in the attempt to reach a logical explanation in the days following Natalie’s death. No one seemed driven to get to the bottom of this incomprehensible death. It was easier to let Natalie “rest in peace.” In the long run, this strategy backfired. Everyone was to blame.
My involvement with Dennis Davern and my acquired knowledge leads me to believe that Natalie Wood’s death was completely preventable and is the result of an argument that led to her ending up in the ocean: how she got into the water is what officials should pursue.
HERE IS A LIST OF THE EVIDENCE THE OFFCIALS MISSED OR MISCONSTRUED:
1. A Friday night argument that separated a husband and a wife. The wife slept with her boat captain in a motel because of a fight, not because of rough seas. She called friends and relatives Saturday morning and mentioned the trouble. Not one of those call recipiants reported Natalie's troubles.
2. A “banging dinghy theory” propagated by the surviving husband is questionable in view of the fact the dinghy had been tied with two lines at the stern.
3. Wagner has lied, claiming the dinghy was tied port.
4. The dinghy lines are adjustable from Splendour’s deck.
5. The bottle smashing occurred within fifteen minutes after the Wagner party returned from a dinner. There was tension over dinner. Wagner has admitted smashing the wine bottle in an angry rage. He and Davern allowed the detectives to believe rough seas broke the bottle.
6. Wagner joined Natalie in their stateroom within minutes after his bottle smashing and was with her until she left the yacht.
7. Natalie had not taken her sleeping pill, thus had probably not retired to bed yet, thus a banging dinghy was not disturbing her sleep.
8. A terribly loud and revengeful fight took place in the master stateroom. Davern heard things being tossed around and hitting the walls. The fight carried out to the back deck. Dennis saw and heard Wagner and Wood on the deck, arguing.
9. Davern turned on music to muffle the fight. At this point, Marilyn Wayne and John Payne heard a woman’s cries for help from drowning.
10. Marilyn Wayne called for help. The Harbor Patrol did not answer. This is supported by the fact that Doug Bombard had to drive to the harbormaster’s house to inform him of trouble later that night. The cries started at approximately five minutes after eleven. Marilyn Wayne heard the cries for approximately twenty minutes. This is the exact time span that Davern was playing music.
11. Marilyn Wayne heard a man's voice respond to the cries for help. This indicates that someone knew the woman crying for help was in danger. Marilyn Wayne was completely ignored by detectives. She was immediately labeled as a woman who "wanted her name in the papers" and the detective interviewed waitresses but not the woman who most likely heard Natalie's last calls for help.
12. It stands to reason that the cries for help came from Natalie Wood. It stands to reason that the man’s voice answering her could have been Wagner’s voice. He had been on the deck with her when she went missing.
13. Natalie’s socks could not have remained on her feet had she clung to a dinghy and tried to mount it. It is unlikely Natalie was with the dinghy for long if at all. Drift tests and other circumstantial evidence support this.
14. Dr. Lyndon Taylor’s drift tests prove that Natalie and the dinghy, as free-floating objects, would end up exactly where each was found the morning of November 29, 1981.
15. Natalie was found in nightgown and coat. This apparel combination is too unconventional to suggest she was attempting to leave the yacht with nowhere on the island to go.
16. At what point in a full-blown argument would Natalie likely have donned her jacket? Would she put on a jacket and not shoes or underwear to leave a yacht? She would not have needed her coat for any of the theories thus far presented. The dinghy’s headlight was out. She would have needed someone to hold a flashlight to serve as a headlight if she were going to take the dinghy out. The broken headlight was never investigated.
17. Down coats float. Down coats do not weigh a person down in water. Down jackets weigh less than half the weight out of water as reported by the medical examiner’s office.
18. Wagner told harbormaster Doug Oudin in the middle of the night that Natalie was wearing her nightgown when she went missing. Weeks later, Wagner said he did not think about the banging dinghy possibility until he learned, after Natalie’s body was found, that Natalie was in her nightgown. But Wagner knew Natalie was wearing only her nightgown on deck. This makes the coat factor all the more suspicious. Wagner later claims in his autobiography that he had seen his wife in her nightgown while she brushed her hair. Which is it?
19. Wagner wanted off the island fast. He immediately secured attorneys. He gave Rasure a hard time for scheduling a second interview. He lied in both interviews. There was not one mention of smashing a wine bottle in anger during his two interviews with Rasure. But he had no qualms telling Lambert that he, indeed, had smashed the bottle, and he changed the details of the bottle-smashing for his own autobiography. Walken, Davern, and Wood witnessed the bottle-smashing.
20. A trashed stateroom, with Natalie’s jewelry found on the floor are supporting evidence of the stateroom fight Davern overheard.
21. Wagner admits to author Gavin Lambert that he was upset and jealous during the cruise of November 1981. In his own book, he calls Walken a "gentleman" -- which is it?
22. Wagner told Dennis he did not want to search for his wife because he needed to protect his reputation. He deliberately stalled a search. He refused to allow Davern to search for Natalie.
23. After Natalie went missing, Wagner drank alcohol with Davern. Wagner admits this over 20 years later.
24. Wagner refused to identify his wife’s body. This eliminated the opportunity for any person present to be able to witness Wagner’s reaction to Natalie’s bruises.
25. Natalie’s body was filled with bruises that could not have been caused by one quick fall from a boat or by mounting a dinghy. The small circular bruises at her ankles definitely show a pattern.
26. The four-hour delay in calling for professional help is a gigantic RED FLAG. It was reported in Finstad’s biography that Wagner sent a waitress into the ladies’ room at Doug’s Harbor Reef to check on Natalie when she was gone for over ten minutes. Natalie is missing from a boat, and he waits two hours to call for low key help? Then Wagner waited an additional two hours before allowing the Coast Guard to be called? This delay to call for help is inexcusable. It is unacceptable in boating law.
27. A timeline that fits every part of the only witness's account: Davern’s.
28. The Coast Guard Lieutenant, Roger Smith, who recovered Natalie's body tried to be vocal about his theory of Natalie's lifespan in water, but instead of being interviewed when he offered his professional opinion, he was demoted with a pay-cut and transferred off the island. The people closest to the actual timeline of when Natalie was in the water (Wayne, Payne and Roger Smith) were completely ignored by Detective Rasure.
Dennis Davern has said Natalie’s body looked as if it had been removed from a boxing ring rather than from an ocean. The least logical explanation offered for her bruises had been produced—no more than a theory—one not remotely resembling the truest details the immediate scene of this dead, famous woman offered.
In Goodbye Natalie Goodbye Splendour I present a polygraphed account of the only witness who saw and heard the circumstances leading to Natalie no longer being on the yacht. If it insinuates foul-play than that's what it does, but I am NOT accusing anyone of anything other than the fact that the authorities did not handle this case with any exterior thinking, any real look at evidence (which there is PLENTY of) or with the possibility -- just the POSSIBILITY -- that something was very wrong with this particular death scene.
I do not believe that authorities had looked for every possible explanation to support “accident” or otherwise. I believe they wrapped this up as fast as they could so they wouldn't have to answer to the media. Everyone immediately accepted Natalie’s death as accidental because it was incomprehensible to believe otherwise. Natalie and R.J. were considered the perfect Hollywood couple. They were gentle. They were happy. No inconsistency in that everlasting love of R.J.’s and Natalie’s had ever been publicly proclaimed after their second marriage. No one knew or even suspected trouble in their paradise, save a few of Natalie’s closest confidants. Therefore, how could Natalie Wood’s untimely death have been anything but accidental? Even detectives can make mistakes.
But this was the mistake in thinking that everyone made. Natalie’s death scene was far more indicative of foul play than of accident, but the mainstream media that had always offered us the wisdom and endurance of R.J.’s and Natalie’s love could only remain impartial.
The investigation into Natalie Wood’s death was botched in part because we had all been previously impressed with something far too good to be so suddenly false. There was utter disorder in the attempt to reach a logical explanation in the days following Natalie’s death. No one seemed driven to get to the bottom of this incomprehensible death. It was easier to let Natalie “rest in peace.” In the long run, this strategy backfired. Everyone was to blame.
My involvement with Dennis Davern and my acquired knowledge leads me to believe that Natalie Wood’s death was completely preventable and is the result of an argument that led to her ending up in the ocean: how she got into the water is what officials should pursue.
HERE IS A LIST OF THE EVIDENCE THE OFFCIALS MISSED OR MISCONSTRUED:
1. A Friday night argument that separated a husband and a wife. The wife slept with her boat captain in a motel because of a fight, not because of rough seas. She called friends and relatives Saturday morning and mentioned the trouble. Not one of those call recipiants reported Natalie's troubles.
2. A “banging dinghy theory” propagated by the surviving husband is questionable in view of the fact the dinghy had been tied with two lines at the stern.
3. Wagner has lied, claiming the dinghy was tied port.
4. The dinghy lines are adjustable from Splendour’s deck.
5. The bottle smashing occurred within fifteen minutes after the Wagner party returned from a dinner. There was tension over dinner. Wagner has admitted smashing the wine bottle in an angry rage. He and Davern allowed the detectives to believe rough seas broke the bottle.
6. Wagner joined Natalie in their stateroom within minutes after his bottle smashing and was with her until she left the yacht.
7. Natalie had not taken her sleeping pill, thus had probably not retired to bed yet, thus a banging dinghy was not disturbing her sleep.
8. A terribly loud and revengeful fight took place in the master stateroom. Davern heard things being tossed around and hitting the walls. The fight carried out to the back deck. Dennis saw and heard Wagner and Wood on the deck, arguing.
9. Davern turned on music to muffle the fight. At this point, Marilyn Wayne and John Payne heard a woman’s cries for help from drowning.
10. Marilyn Wayne called for help. The Harbor Patrol did not answer. This is supported by the fact that Doug Bombard had to drive to the harbormaster’s house to inform him of trouble later that night. The cries started at approximately five minutes after eleven. Marilyn Wayne heard the cries for approximately twenty minutes. This is the exact time span that Davern was playing music.
11. Marilyn Wayne heard a man's voice respond to the cries for help. This indicates that someone knew the woman crying for help was in danger. Marilyn Wayne was completely ignored by detectives. She was immediately labeled as a woman who "wanted her name in the papers" and the detective interviewed waitresses but not the woman who most likely heard Natalie's last calls for help.
12. It stands to reason that the cries for help came from Natalie Wood. It stands to reason that the man’s voice answering her could have been Wagner’s voice. He had been on the deck with her when she went missing.
13. Natalie’s socks could not have remained on her feet had she clung to a dinghy and tried to mount it. It is unlikely Natalie was with the dinghy for long if at all. Drift tests and other circumstantial evidence support this.
14. Dr. Lyndon Taylor’s drift tests prove that Natalie and the dinghy, as free-floating objects, would end up exactly where each was found the morning of November 29, 1981.
15. Natalie was found in nightgown and coat. This apparel combination is too unconventional to suggest she was attempting to leave the yacht with nowhere on the island to go.
16. At what point in a full-blown argument would Natalie likely have donned her jacket? Would she put on a jacket and not shoes or underwear to leave a yacht? She would not have needed her coat for any of the theories thus far presented. The dinghy’s headlight was out. She would have needed someone to hold a flashlight to serve as a headlight if she were going to take the dinghy out. The broken headlight was never investigated.
17. Down coats float. Down coats do not weigh a person down in water. Down jackets weigh less than half the weight out of water as reported by the medical examiner’s office.
18. Wagner told harbormaster Doug Oudin in the middle of the night that Natalie was wearing her nightgown when she went missing. Weeks later, Wagner said he did not think about the banging dinghy possibility until he learned, after Natalie’s body was found, that Natalie was in her nightgown. But Wagner knew Natalie was wearing only her nightgown on deck. This makes the coat factor all the more suspicious. Wagner later claims in his autobiography that he had seen his wife in her nightgown while she brushed her hair. Which is it?
19. Wagner wanted off the island fast. He immediately secured attorneys. He gave Rasure a hard time for scheduling a second interview. He lied in both interviews. There was not one mention of smashing a wine bottle in anger during his two interviews with Rasure. But he had no qualms telling Lambert that he, indeed, had smashed the bottle, and he changed the details of the bottle-smashing for his own autobiography. Walken, Davern, and Wood witnessed the bottle-smashing.
20. A trashed stateroom, with Natalie’s jewelry found on the floor are supporting evidence of the stateroom fight Davern overheard.
21. Wagner admits to author Gavin Lambert that he was upset and jealous during the cruise of November 1981. In his own book, he calls Walken a "gentleman" -- which is it?
22. Wagner told Dennis he did not want to search for his wife because he needed to protect his reputation. He deliberately stalled a search. He refused to allow Davern to search for Natalie.
23. After Natalie went missing, Wagner drank alcohol with Davern. Wagner admits this over 20 years later.
24. Wagner refused to identify his wife’s body. This eliminated the opportunity for any person present to be able to witness Wagner’s reaction to Natalie’s bruises.
25. Natalie’s body was filled with bruises that could not have been caused by one quick fall from a boat or by mounting a dinghy. The small circular bruises at her ankles definitely show a pattern.
26. The four-hour delay in calling for professional help is a gigantic RED FLAG. It was reported in Finstad’s biography that Wagner sent a waitress into the ladies’ room at Doug’s Harbor Reef to check on Natalie when she was gone for over ten minutes. Natalie is missing from a boat, and he waits two hours to call for low key help? Then Wagner waited an additional two hours before allowing the Coast Guard to be called? This delay to call for help is inexcusable. It is unacceptable in boating law.
27. A timeline that fits every part of the only witness's account: Davern’s.
28. The Coast Guard Lieutenant, Roger Smith, who recovered Natalie's body tried to be vocal about his theory of Natalie's lifespan in water, but instead of being interviewed when he offered his professional opinion, he was demoted with a pay-cut and transferred off the island. The people closest to the actual timeline of when Natalie was in the water (Wayne, Payne and Roger Smith) were completely ignored by Detective Rasure.
Dennis Davern has said Natalie’s body looked as if it had been removed from a boxing ring rather than from an ocean. The least logical explanation offered for her bruises had been produced—no more than a theory—one not remotely resembling the truest details the immediate scene of this dead, famous woman offered.
Timeline NEVER established by authorities in Natalie Wood case
It took a nurses's association to finally develop the proper timeline corresponding with the important events for establishing what may have happened to Natalie. At the “Advance for Nurses” Web site http://nursing.advanceweb.com/Article/Historic-Trauma-Cases-Natalie-Wood.aspx you can view this timeline where Natalie's case is considered a trauma case because of the condition of her body (bruises). Noguchi was under severe pressure to wrap up the Wood case. He did not allow the time needed to accurately investigate Natalie's bruises, dress, time of death, etc.We were left with more questions and no answers from the medical examiner's office.
Noguchi claimed Natalie’s jacket had dragged her down. He is WRONG. This kind of information that down jackets weigh you down in water should be told only by people who have TESTED IT. I hear in articles, in reviews, in comments, and even on the autopsy report that the jacket weighed her down, from people who HAVE NOT TESTED IT. It's a simple test anyone can do, and you will astounded at the results. DOWN KEEPS YOU AFLOAT IN WATER!
Here is the nurse's timeline the officials on the Wood case had never put together. The dinner hour may be slightly off, but the remaining hours are accurate. This timeline is established from official records.
Timeline of Natalie Wood’s Disappearance (All Times PST)
Sat., Nov. 28, 1981
4 p.m. Wagner, Wood, Walken and Davern drink at the bar in Doug’s Harbor Reef restaurant in Two Harbors on Catalina Island
5 p.m. Quartet moved to the dining room for dinner
10 p.m. Party returns to Wagner and Wood’s yacht, the Splendor
10:45 p.m.–12 a.m. Time during which Wood is believed to have gone missing
11:05 p.m. Time woman on yacht 80 yards away from the Splendor tells police she heard a woman screaming
11:25 p.m. Time woman on nearby yacht says the woman’s screams stopped.
Sun., Nov. 29, 1981
1:30 a.m. Wagner calls the restaurant and asks the manager if Wood is there
2:30 a.m. Restaurant manager alerts harbormaster that Wood is missing
2:45 a.m. Harbormaster meets with Wagner on the Splendor
3:25 a.m. Wagner concedes the Coast Guard should be called in
5:30 a.m. Splendour’s dingy found about one mile from the yacht with oars inside and scratch marks on one side
7:45 a.m. Wood’s body found about 100 yards from dinghy
8:00 a.m. City of Los Angeles coroner is called
Noguchi claimed Natalie’s jacket had dragged her down. He is WRONG. This kind of information that down jackets weigh you down in water should be told only by people who have TESTED IT. I hear in articles, in reviews, in comments, and even on the autopsy report that the jacket weighed her down, from people who HAVE NOT TESTED IT. It's a simple test anyone can do, and you will astounded at the results. DOWN KEEPS YOU AFLOAT IN WATER!
Here is the nurse's timeline the officials on the Wood case had never put together. The dinner hour may be slightly off, but the remaining hours are accurate. This timeline is established from official records.
Timeline of Natalie Wood’s Disappearance (All Times PST)
Sat., Nov. 28, 1981
4 p.m. Wagner, Wood, Walken and Davern drink at the bar in Doug’s Harbor Reef restaurant in Two Harbors on Catalina Island
5 p.m. Quartet moved to the dining room for dinner
10 p.m. Party returns to Wagner and Wood’s yacht, the Splendor
10:45 p.m.–12 a.m. Time during which Wood is believed to have gone missing
11:05 p.m. Time woman on yacht 80 yards away from the Splendor tells police she heard a woman screaming
11:25 p.m. Time woman on nearby yacht says the woman’s screams stopped.
Sun., Nov. 29, 1981
1:30 a.m. Wagner calls the restaurant and asks the manager if Wood is there
2:30 a.m. Restaurant manager alerts harbormaster that Wood is missing
2:45 a.m. Harbormaster meets with Wagner on the Splendor
3:25 a.m. Wagner concedes the Coast Guard should be called in
5:30 a.m. Splendour’s dingy found about one mile from the yacht with oars inside and scratch marks on one side
7:45 a.m. Wood’s body found about 100 yards from dinghy
8:00 a.m. City of Los Angeles coroner is called
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Thank you to Diane's Book Club
Thank you all for reading Goodbye Natalie for your May discussion meeting. It was such a pleasure to talk with all of you tonight. I'm sorry we had to discuss the book by phone conference and that I couldn't be there in person, but you all made me feel like I was right there with you. I appreciate every single question posed. Your thoughts and opinions and questions were all perceptive and pertinent and I thank everyone for allowing me the time to explain. Thank you for some food for thought on a few things I must be sure to elaborate on. I've got to tell you, you sure picked up on so many important points, and I listened intently. Again, thank you all so much. Sincerely, Marti
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
My Publisher for Hardback of Goodbye Natalie Goodbye Splendour
Phoenix Books & Audio - Main page
If you try to find GNGS through Medallion label as stamped on the book, you will be led to the wrong company. Medallion was a tradename used for GNGS by Phoenix Books and Audio, which is my publisher. (as listed at Barnes and Noble)
Phoenix was once known as the leader of audio books (which GNGS is available in that format, too) and one of the leading independant publishers. Phoenix has published many famous authors (including DICK VAN PATTEN, LARRY KING, BILL MAHER, GENE SIMMONS, JAMES BROWN, AND CARL REINER) and bestselling books, too, amongst some of their special titles:
Tell Me a Silly Story, by Carl Reiner
Mr. New Orleans: The Life of a Big Easy Underworld Legend by Frenchy Brouillette & Matthew Randazzo
Dirty Laundry: Real Life. Real Stories. Real Funny, by Maggie Rowe, Andersen Gabrych, and others
My fight for Faith and Freedom, by Sabatina James
The Behavior Savior, by Dina Zaphiris
Loving Mailer, by Carol Mallory
The Last Day of My Life by Jim Moret
The Gin Closet by Leslie Jamison
We Rise: Speeches by Inspirational Black Women
Here is a LINK to to a list of Phoenix's wonderful, amazing authors, of which I'm proud to be included in:
Phoenix Books & Audio - Browse titles
I always said it would take a brave publishing house to put GNGS on the market. Phoenix was it.
If you try to find GNGS through Medallion label as stamped on the book, you will be led to the wrong company. Medallion was a tradename used for GNGS by Phoenix Books and Audio, which is my publisher. (as listed at Barnes and Noble)
Phoenix was once known as the leader of audio books (which GNGS is available in that format, too) and one of the leading independant publishers. Phoenix has published many famous authors (including DICK VAN PATTEN, LARRY KING, BILL MAHER, GENE SIMMONS, JAMES BROWN, AND CARL REINER) and bestselling books, too, amongst some of their special titles:
Tell Me a Silly Story, by Carl Reiner
Mr. New Orleans: The Life of a Big Easy Underworld Legend by Frenchy Brouillette & Matthew Randazzo
Dirty Laundry: Real Life. Real Stories. Real Funny, by Maggie Rowe, Andersen Gabrych, and others
My fight for Faith and Freedom, by Sabatina James
The Behavior Savior, by Dina Zaphiris
Loving Mailer, by Carol Mallory
The Last Day of My Life by Jim Moret
The Gin Closet by Leslie Jamison
We Rise: Speeches by Inspirational Black Women
Here is a LINK to to a list of Phoenix's wonderful, amazing authors, of which I'm proud to be included in:
Phoenix Books & Audio - Browse titles
I always said it would take a brave publishing house to put GNGS on the market. Phoenix was it.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Why rehash the tragic death of Natalie Wood?
It doesn't please me to delve into the details of Natalie's last night, but because her death warrants the professional investigation it deserves, I continue to ask for support in encouraging the authorities to reopen the case. There are too many unanswered questions. There is a witness willing to give a detailed account and to explain why he held back in 1981. Christopher Walken and Robert Wagner have had their careers. It's time to get the three men left standing on that fateful cruise to come forward. Please sign the petition to have this case reopened and answered professionally.
1985 Star Magazine Article
This is the cover and start page of the July 23, 1985 edition of the Star magazine, the first time the bottle smashing was ever reported publicly. In an article weeks later, Wagner did not deny Dennis's account about the bottle smashing. About 20 years later he admitted the bottle smashing in Lambert's Natalie Wood biography and then again in his book Pieces of My Heart (where he changed the details around about the episode). Dennis Davern passed on a polygraph test that the bottle smashing occured and also about what was said when the bottle was being smashed against the table in the main salon where Christopher Walken, Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, and Dennis were located after having returned from the restaurant after dinner.
Detective Rasure assumed the "rough seas" *(the seas were not rough) had broken the bottle. He has been indifferent since later learning the truth about how and why the bottle was smashed.
If you can read it in this posted article, Goodbye Natalie Goodbye Splendour was mentioned in the first lead-in paragraph. At this time, Dennis still lived in California. We were astounded, but not surprised, to see that the authorities were unwilling to believe "nobody Davern" over "somebody Wagner." That's a terrible mistake even our law can make. How many cases go in favor of a hefty bank account over a truthteller? It's the nature of our society.
Dennis and I worked with Star reporter Brian Haugh and Star senior editor George Carpozi for this long ago article. George Carpozi later went on to publish a bestselling book titled "Poisen Pen" a journal of his study on the controversial author Kitty Kelley. George had suggested to me to always back up content with facts and proof.
Some reviewers have asked, "Where's the proof?" in regards to the claims in GNGS.
The "proof" is Dennis Davern.
But they don't like that answer so they insult Dennis and say untrue things about him, totally ignoring the fact that for over 6 years, Dennis was the ONLY captain or boat "caretaker" they employed. The Wagner family trusted Dennis, they brought him into their hearts and home. Dennis didn't turn into an unfit captain or a horrible person just because he made the mistake of listening to his boss, his FRIEND, Robert Wagner.
Yes, Dennis should have spilled out EVERYTHING for the detectives, but instead he listened to RJ and gave his statement through an attorney Wagner hired for him. Because he DIDN'T see exactly how Natalie got into the water, he thought it best to just follow instructions and not to cause more trouble. Dennis once said that he really believed the detectives would figure everything out anyway, and no one was more astounded than Dennis when that didn't happen. By that time he was holed up in a Wagner house bedroom and scared to death to make a move without checking with RJ first.
Dennis's family and friends and his then fiance wanted him OUT of that house. We all saw the transformation in Dennis as it occured. Dennis stayed loyal to RJ until he realized that what haunted him was also killing him. Although he didn't see how Natalie got into the water, he did see and hear enough to know WHY she ended up in the water. There was NO banging dinghy. Dennis was a witness and his account passed on a polygraph test. If that isn't an honest attempt to prove who's telling truth and who's telling lies, I don't know what is. Notwithstanding, his account is the only sensible explanation ever offered. His account meshes with every documented fact and known detail of that tragic night. It's rather compelling when you think about it. Good detectives usually know that when everything finally meshes, and FITS, therein lies the answer to any mystery.
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