Natalie's death has always been a burning issue with me, Wagner is lucky that forensic sciences of today did not apply in the investigation of her death.
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I take it that you've never seen the autopsy report. I have - and believe me, there's nothing in it to suggest foul play.
A thorough investigation was done at the time (and we're not talking 1880s here, we're talking 1980s - not exactly primitive in terms of forensics! They may not have had the technology then that we have now, but they were decently equipped) which concluded that Natalie's death was an accident. There has been no evidence uncovered since to indicate otherwise.
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No, I have not seen the autopsy report, but it is documented that the wagners were on a weekend drinking binge, they were argueing shortly before she came up missing, a detectives report showed that the condition of some of the rooms on the splendour showed signs of struggle ie furniture overturned, things knoked off of shelves ect., and the mere fact it took so long for wagner to call the harbor patrol without any effort on his part to look for his wife other than searching the boat? something is not right.
Would you care to share that autopsy report?
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i have a video of the splendour that showed pictures that were taken that night...it looked like they were partying...there was a lot of exaggeration here...also, olga has said that rj went out in the ski-doo and looked for her all night...i do not know , though , what time he left to look for her. i have a copy of the report which indicates that over two hours passed from the time he noticed she was gone to the time he radioed for help. the thing is the last thing one thinks of in a situation like this is "what if she is dead"....he was probably confused in his own intoxication and many things probably went through his mind but the death of his wife and mother of his kids was probably the last thing that he let himself think was possible....i really don't think he let himself think that she was gone until the very end...we can "if" this to death but i am quite certain that rj will blame himself until his dying day...not because he brought harm to her but that he couldn't save her....
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Agreed, but cosidering the timeline, the drunkeness and arguements, the fact that it did take over an hour to contact the authorities in my opion foul play cannot be totally ruled out, although it was it still has to be a consideration. When you take into account that there are 3 colaberating stories wagner, walken, and the captian of course nothing came of it, but that fact of over an hour to report Natalie missing sorry something is not right. I could see if they went looking for her or pulled up the anchor on trolled or even went ashore looking but they did nothing, the splendour had an alternate craft on it a speed boat why not lower it and look, there other nearby mouring boats did they try to contact them, no. Sorry it all does not add up, it sounds like they they needed that hour plus to cover up or get their crap together.
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i just don't believe that he killed her and covered it up all these years. 24 years have passed and someone would have leaked something. someone would have made a deal with the police. and speaking of which there have been many interviews of the police involved in this investigation and there was no evidence of foul play...i don't think these three men who were all drunk were able to get there acts together and keep this to themselves all these years...are you a Natalie of are you just interested in how she died...i don't mean that sarcastically...
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I think there are two things to bare in mind here before condemning Robert Wagner:-
1 Is it so odd that they didn't call for help straight away? According to the version of events that was uncovered by the investigation, after the agrument between RJ and Natalie, Natalie went off in the direction of her bedroom. The assumption of the men would therefore have been that she was going to bed. They could have carried on drinking and talking for well over an hour, having no idea that Natalie was missing. Finally, RJ goes down the the bedroom and finds Natalie missing. He does a search of the yacht and finds no trace of her (taking up maybe 5 or 10 minutes, possibly more). He then assumes (perfectly reasonably) that Natalie has boarded the dinghy and gone ashore - or simply gone for a ride to 'clear her head'. It's only after more time has elapsed that he begins to worry, and calls for help.
2 All three men on the yacht were very drunk. Are we expected to believe that in their intoxicated state they could have concocted a story that would have stood up to police questioning? Sorry, but that seems highly unlikely. To concoct a decent cover story, you need a clear head, which is something that none of the men had!
Incidentally, if your theory of the three men 'concocting' a story is correct, then it failed miserably, because Dennis Davern has told many different versions of events over the years and could certainly not be said to have stuck to one 'concocted' story!
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