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"The sister of Natalie Wood has claimed that the late actress&amp;#039;s husband Robert Wagner stalled attempts to rescue her from drowning.  The body of the Rebel Without a Cause star was found in the sea near Catalina Island in California on November 29, 1981. She had gone missing from a yacht where she was dining with Wagner and Christopher Walken the night before.  Speaking after the Los Angeles County Sheriff&amp;#039;s Department announced that an investigation into Wood&amp;#039;s death would be reopened, her sister Lana claimed that the ship&amp;#039;s captain Dennis Davern had been told by Wagner to leave her in the water.  &amp;quot;[Davern] said that everyone was quite drunk and that a fight broke out and that Natalie was in the water and he and RJ did nothing to pull her out,&amp;quot; she told TMZ. &amp;quot;He said, and this is a direct quote from what Dennis told me, &amp;#039;Leave her there, teach her a lesson&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Davern, meanwhile, has admitted to NBC that he made &amp;quot;some terrible decisions and mistakes&amp;quot; on the night of the West Side Story star&amp;#039;s death.  &amp;quot;I made some terrible decisions and mistakes,&amp;quot; he told the Today show. &amp;quot;I did lie on a report several years ago. I made mistakes by not telling the honest truth in a police report. &amp;quot;We didn&amp;#039;t take any steps to see if we could locate her. I think it was a matter of, &amp;#039;We&amp;#039;re not going to look too hard, we&amp;#039;re not going to turn on the searchlight, we&amp;#039;re not going to notify anybody right now&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; It was confirmed at a press conference held by the LA Sheriff&amp;#039;s Department yesterday morning (November 18) that Wagner is not a suspect.  Lieutenant John Corina added that Natalie&amp;#039;s death is still being treated as an &amp;quot;accidental drowning&amp;quot;, though Davern, Wagner and Walken are all due to be interviewed again.  A representative subsequently released a statement on behalf of Wagner and Natasha Gregson Wagner, daughter of the late actress.  It read: &amp;quot;Although no one in the Wagner family has heard from the LA County Sheriff&amp;#039;s department about this matter, they fully support the efforts of the LA County Sheriff&amp;#039;s Department, and trust they will evaluate whether any new information relating to the death of Natalie Wood Wagner is valid and that it comes from a credible source or sources other than those simply trying to profit from the 30-year anniversary of her tragic death.&amp;quot; Watch Dennis Davern talk about Natalie Wood&amp;#039;s death on Today below:  Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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