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After taking another look at the 1981 drowning of actress Natalie Wood, sheriff's detectives see no reason to alter the original finding: accidental death."Nothing has been discovered to suggest changing that at this time,” chief of detectives William McSweeney tells Richard Winton of the L.A. Times. The sheriff's department announced in November it was reopening the Natalie Wood file after new insinuations of foul play made by the captain of the boat on which Wood and husband Robert Wagner were hosting actor Christopher Walken.
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No new conclusion in Natalie Wood death
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