Thirty Years and Counting

This is Dennis Davern. He was the captain of Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood's yacht Splendour the night in 1981 when she went missing and was later found drowned.

Despite the fact that Captain Davern has obviously not attended to his personal hygiene in the last thirty years, the LA County Sheriff's Department has found his tale of the events of that night so compelling they have reopened the case.

Captain Davern is blaming Robert Wagner for Natalie's death saying he heard them arguing. Wood's death was declared an accidental drowning since she had been drinking and couldn't swim. He claims that Wagner wouldn't permit him to search the water for his wife using a searchlight. The other passenger on the vessel, Christopher Walken, was Wood's co-star and Davern claims to have heard Wagner accusing him of wanting to sleep with his wife.

Investigations not withstanding, Natalie Wood will still be dead. Without question more copies of the book Davern co-wrote with Marti Rulli will be sold.