10 Mysterious Celebrity Deaths That Shocked The World

5. Natalie Wood

One of Hollywood€™s most successful and popular young stars of the 1960s, it€™s no exaggeration to state that Natalie Wood was the Julia Roberts, the Goldie Hawn, of her generation. Not only that, she was incredibly talented and focused, receiving three Oscar nominations before the age of twenty-five. She€™d taken a break for much of the 1970s to begin raising a family, but was making a comeback: at the time of her death, she had been in the process of filming a movie. Wood€™s body was found at 8am on 29th November 1981, having drowned while on a boating party with her husband, actor Robert Wagner and their friend Christopher Walken. She was found a mile from their yacht, Splendour, with a dinghy nearby, and had significant amounts of alcohol in her system, together with a motion sickness pill and a painkiller that were known to exacerbate the effects of alcoholic intoxication. It was revealed that she had Wagner had had a late night argument, and and it was theorised that she had gone off in the dinghy while drunk, and hit her head while attempting to reboard the small boat later on. Her death was ruled to be caused by drowning and hypothermia. However, thirty years later, the boat€™s captain Dennis Draven would allege that he had lied to police during the initial investigation, and that Wagner and Woods had had a fight, not just an argument. He alleged that Wagner had been responsible for her death: it was recalled that Wood€™s body had been bruised on the arms, not just on the head, and the case was reopened. Nine months of investigations revealed insufficient evidence to determine whether Draven€™s allegations were true€ but sufficient doubt that the original ruling was amended to €˜death by drowning and other undetermined factors€™. No one can explain to anyone€™s satisfaction how it was that Wood came to be in the water. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWIqMcFTtNI Robert Wagner, now eighty-five, maintains his innocence in the matter of the strange death of his wife, who he refers to as the love of his life.