wagner s stories and accounts have differed over the years and what is interesting, mark, they come out, lapd and say he is not a suspect. they haven t even started their investigation or they haven t determined it is a homicide. how could they say that? will, they are not saying that because they don t really want him to lawyer up or prepare any more than he has for the last 30 years. so, you know, what is the need. certainly the media doesn t need to know what they are doing in their investigation. what is really interesting, judge, about this case is all these people that are so outraged, all the multiple layers of people that have something to add to this from the captain to being a captain of a boat and robert wagner says you are not going to search for her or turn on the light. okay then i m not going to search for her to all these people that are so outraged 30 years later, what have they been doing for are 30 years? judge jeanine: mark, you re right. here is the problem. it
michael says what this guy is giving us to cut him loose like this? i don t think we really have the right to know. i believe that the first charge would have kept him in jail and ultimately probably got him deported or put in prison. i believe the victim probably declined to cooperate with the prosecution which opened up the opportunity for them to have their informant released to continue the work that they had. now, judge, i want everybody to know that in narcotics cases there is only two it ways you get big cases. undercover or informants. informants are part of the problem but they are scum bags and if you don t use scumbags you are not going to make your case and in a lot of other areas the same is probably true. this probably has been played out in every major city in the country. judge jeanine: no question. when i was d.a. i had confidential informants but there is a balancing test where you weigh is man capable of extreme violence and taking guns and then just saying we
juice pacific waters. wagner says at some point that night he and watkin get into a big fight. later he goes to the stateroom to check on natalie and discovers she is missing along with the dinghy that was attached to the boat. wagner notifies authorities and a search is launched. shortly before dawn, wood s bruised body is found floating in a shallow lagoon off catalina island. the cause of death, accidental drowning. the case is closed but for 30 years questions have remained. now, the los angeles sheriff s department is reopening the investigation. partly because the captain on the boat that night says he believes robert wagner had something to do with natalie woods death. doug bombard found natalie s body in the waters off catalina island. he joins us now on the phone. doug, good evening. hello, judge, this is doug.
i m harris faulkner. now, back to the judge. judge jeanine: what was accused rapist going out on the streets? arrested on a charge of forcible rape, flagged as an illegal immigrant. yet for some unknown unfathomable reason the rape charge is dismissed, the deportation process stopped. so santana a free man, free to commit murder. a reporter with the dallas morning news and michael wylde immigration attorney as well as mark fuhrman joins us. all right, you are reporter you were the first one pretty much to report the case. tell us about this. it was actually a colleague of mine first reported it. we wrote two paragraphs at the beginning. there is a lot of murders in dallas. sounded like two men got into an argument and it escalated and one shot the other. the dead man s name was jesse
parliamentary elections set for nine days from now. i m harris faulkner. now, back to the judge. judge jeanine: what was accused rapist going out on the streets? arrested on a charge of forcible rape, flagged as an illegal immigrant. yet for some unknown unfathomable reason the rape charge is dismissed, the deportation process stopped. so santana a free man, free to commit murder. a reporter with the dallas morning news and michael wylde immigration attorney as well as mark fuhrman joins us. all right, you are reporter you were the first one pretty much to report the case. tell us about this. it was actually a colleague of mine first reported it. we wrote two paragraphs at the beginning. there is a lot of murders in dallas. sounded like two men got into an argument and it escalated and one shot the other. the dead man s name was jesse