Lana Wood Confronts Robert Wagner About Sister Natalie Wood's Death In Explosive Final Chapter Of Hit Podcast "Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death Of Natalie Wood"

NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- IN THE final chapter of the critically acclaimed podcast series "Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death Of Natalie Wood," the Hollywood star's former husband Robert Wagner is finally asked questions about what really happened on board their boat, The Splendour, that led to her demise.

Lana Wood's line of questioning is one of two explosive confrontations caught on tape and broadcast in the podcast's series finale, as Wagner continually refuses to cooperate with homicide cops from the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department who reopened the 1981 death case and earlier this year, named him a "person of interest."

Wood's still-anguished-and-grieving sister Lana has a showdown during which she pleads with her former brother-in-law to talk to investigators probing the mysterious death of her Oscar-winning sister. 

Read the full exchange between Lana and Wagner below:

LW: RJ, I just wanted to ask. I know the pain that you're going through, and that I'm going through. You know I know this hasn't been any easier for you. I know that. But everybody is going to drive me absolutely insane, until everybody knows. Why won't you speak to the detectives? They are super guys… clear yourself if you can.
RW: Why would you even bring up anything like that? You know what you've done? I have talked to everybody.
LW: Kevin and Ralph (from the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department).
RW: You've accused me of…
LW: I don't accuse you of anything.
RW: You've accused me of murdering her, of taking all these positions, it's incredible. I can't that you'd do something like that. I just can't believe it.
LW: But RJ you've changed your story.
RW: I haven't changed anything.
LW: You never for one minute stopped and said, 'This is what happened.' I know it's going to hurt.
RW: Of course I have stopped and said what happened.
LW: No RJ, you really didn't.

The second shocking confrontation featured in the final chapter is with an investigative journalist from the production team, Andy Tillet.

Read the full exchange between Tillet and Wagner below:

AT: Robert—
RW: Good looking shirt. Good looking shirt.
AT: Robert, why do you refuse to answer the sheriff's department's questions about the night Natalie Wood died?
RW: I can't hear you.
AT: Why do you refuse to answer the sheriff's department's questions about the night Natalie Wood died?
RW: I beg your pardon.
AT: Why do you refuse to answer the sheriff's department's questions about the night Natalie Wood died?
RW: I'm not going to get into that here.
AT: Well, Lana Wood claims you murdered her sister. Did you murder her?
RW: Well, what does that have to do with this? That's the same story that's been out and out for years and years.
AT: Well, I'm asking you a question. Now the police department say that before Natalie went over the …
RW: Are you with the press? Are you with the press?
AT: I am with the press. Yes.
RW: What press are you with?
AT: I work for—
Female Voice: Sir, we are not going to get into that here.
RW: I'm not going to get into that here. No.
AT: You know, I'm just trying to find some answers to the questions that have lasted a very long time.
AT: But the police have determined that Natalie had been beaten and was unconscious by the time she got in the water.

The final chapter of the podcast series which, over its 12 week course has covered new ground in the investigation of Wood's unsolved death, also reveals never before heard statements from the Los Angeles Sherriff's Department, and a revised testimony from Dennis Davern, the boat skipper who was on board The Splendour the night Wood went missing.

L.A. Sheriff's Detective Ralph Hernandez homicide investigator, who is part of the team probing Wood's death, told producers:"The fact is that we have a lot of information as to the events of what occurred that evening. We have a lot of evidence that tends to point to a very suspicious death and would certainly indicate the possibility of foul play. The problem is, while we can prove the events that led up to the argument at the back of the boat, ultimately, we can't prove how she ended up in the water. Without (Wagner's) interview, without his cooperation, we may never get to that truth."

He added, "We would love to have an interview with Robert Wagner, and for him to tell us the truth in that interview. That's all we want in any of this, and in any case that we work."

Dennis Davern, who at the time of Natalie Wood's disappearance remained tight lipped, has since changed his story of what happened that fateful night and now claims "I really do think RJ killed Natalie. In the beginning I wanted to believe in Robert Wagner so badly, but as time went on, I mean, to me it's obvious."

All episodes of Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death Of Natalie Wood are available to download and listen for free on iTunes.

ABOUT FATAL VOYAGE: THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF NATALIE WOOD

Created by Executive Producer Dylan Howard, "Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death Of Natalie Wood" is a 12-part audio documentary produced by Treefort.Media for American Media, Inc. with Kelly Garner and Carolina Saavedra as Executive Producers. For American Media Inc., Tom Freestone, Sam Ada, David Coussins, Patricia Gonzalez, James Robertson, and Matthew Semble serve as producers. Doug Montero, Michael Glynn, and Andy Tillett contributed to reporting. 

SOURCE American Media, Inc.