who is an actual witness, at least an ear witness, to natalie s last moments. but the striking thing about marilyn s story is that the police never interviewed her. on your right, suzanne finstad who wrote the definitive biography of natalie wood called in natasha, the natalie wood biography. welcome ladies. marilyn, first if you would, tell us the story of what you heard that fateful night exactly. what did you hear? where were you, and then describe it. i was on the yacht next to the wagners. we were moored in the isthmus off cattily in a island. it was thanksgiving evening and i had gone to bed, about 11:00, and at about 5 after 11 i heard someone yelling, calling for help. help me, somebody, please help
committed suicide, or whether homicide was committed is really part of the police investigation, you know. whawhat was she doing? there s a lot of information that she had been drinking. she did have a high alcohol level at the autopsy. no other drugs, really. there s no way this congress and bull story cock and bull story that she went to get the dingy. natalie wood was so frightened of the water, she would never go in her night clothes to untie the dinghy. it s a cock and bull story. the dinghy wasn t used. the oars weren t used. do you find that celebrity defendants can bull their way in a police interview and say i m not talking, they lawyer up and make a full stop, this was an accident and they have a free disposition to cut them slack. the police got a lot of information when they interview a suspect who has information. if the lawyer as all lawyers tell us don t talk to the police, they make the police
the water from what we could tell. it was coming from the water. we had packed everything up because we were going back to new port beach the next day, so we didn t even have a dingy. owners, she would be alive today. we could have thrown the dingy in the water and rode around and have found her. marilyn, i want to be clear. before we go any further, you heard screams from a person that was already in the water. we assumed they were already in the water, but we couldn t see. it was too dark. now, suzanne, it appears from the reports we are hearing now that the main thinking is that natalie wood was unconscious by the time she went in the water. what do you know about that? well, the supplemental report that was recently released to the public that was prepared by the current medical examiner in los angeles has cast natalie s
this new report of the medical examiner which points to the multiplicity of bruises all over natalie s body, many bruises that were recently infleced upon her in the opinion of the medical examiner before she entered the water. he actually states in the report they are inconsistent with drowning. so when you have these new findings that she had bruises everywhere, inconsistent with drowning, in his opinion inflicted upon her before she entered the water, you have her entering the water unconscious, you know, this all points to natalie having been pushed in the water, and when you have the subsequent statements of the captain of the boat or the skipper of the boat who has said consistently in the years since his initial statement that there was a horrific fight between robert wagner and natalie wood on the deck of the boat before
this new report of the medical examiner which points to the multiplicity of bruises all over natalie s body, many bruises that were recently infleced upon her in the opinion of the medical examiner before she entered the water. he actually states in the report they are inconsistent with drowning. so when you have these new findings that she had bruises everywhere, inconsistent with drowning, in his opinion inflicted upon her before she entered the water, you have her entering the water unconscious, you know, this all points to natalie having been pushed in the water, and when you have the subsequent statements of the captain of the boat or the skipper of the boat who has said consistently in the years since his initial statement that there was a horrific fight between robert wagner and natalie wood on the deck of the boat before