Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner’s first marriage — a fairy tale Hollywood union that enthralled America — allegedly ended after she caught him in the arms of another man! This earthshaking revelation is just one of the many blockbusters to come from the third chapter of the hit new podcast Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood. The 12-part audio documentary charts Wood’s meteoric rise from child star to red carpet royalty — and exposes chilling new evidence suggesting she was murdered! The series is the culmination of years of investigative reporting. Its first three chapters are now available for download on iTunes. “She walked in, holding her hand, having some kind of cloth,” Natalie’s sister, Lana Wood, recalled in a world exclusive interview with the Fatal Voyage investigative team, led by the podcast’s host, Dylan Howard. “I don’t know if it was a napkin from a restaurant or what it was, bleeding and absolutely hysterically crying. A mess! A complete mess that I had not seen.” “I had never seen her that bad. I was asked to leave the room and that something bad happened and that Natalie was leaving R.J.” Lana, who was a child at the time, continued: “It wasn’t until later, because I didn’t put all the clues and the hysterics together.” “It was actually extremely upsetting to me as a kid to see someone who I thought was, you know, close to not being real.” “She was so close to being perfect with everything and to see her that distraught and to see things like that was very difficult for me. So I just kind of … when they said go to your room, I went and tuned it out completely.” “But it wasn’t until later that she said she caught him with someone. And that someone was another man!” Wood herself described the trauma of her discovery in a never-before-seen memoir, a copy of which was exclusively obtained by Fatal Voyage. “My marriage collapsed that weekend,” the Tinseltown legend wrote. “It’s too painful for me to recall in print the incidents that led to the final breakup.” “It was more than the final straw. It was reality crushing the fragile web of romantic fantasies with sledgehammer force.” Wood’s discovery came in June of 1961 — but as the world well knows, Wood and Wagner remarried a little more than 11 years later in July 1972. Nine years after that, the couple, along with Wood’s Brainstorm costar Christopher Walken, were aboard their yacht, Splendour, off California’s Catalina Island on November 28, 1981. Some time that night, or in the wee hours that followed, she mysteriously vanished from the boat. Her body, clad in a nightgown, red jacket and socks, was found hours later, floating face-down about a mile away. Over the years, Wagner has refused to cooperate with cops — even after the case was reopened 2011. In February, cops officially named Wagner a “person of interest” in the case, noting he was the last person seen with Wood while she was alive. “Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death Of Natalie Wood” is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, and wherever podcasts are available! Click here to learn more about the series.<doc-sep>Earlier this year, Robert Wagner was officially named a person of interest in the mysterious death of his late wife, actress Natalie Wood. Natalie's sister, Lana Wood, joined Megyn Kelly TODAY to discuss the new podcast about her sister's death, "Fatal Voyage," which is growing in popularity. When asked if she thinks Wagner murdered her sister, Lana Wood said "Yes."<doc-sep>Natalie Wood's sister Lana Wood wants to know the truth about Natalie's death -- and believes Robert Wagner knows it The Rebel Without a Cause icon, who would’ve turned 80 last week, tragically drowned on Nov. 21, 1981 off the coast of Catalina Island at 43-years-old. The actress was with her husband Wagner on their yacht the Splendour with Christopher Walken and the ship’s captain Dennis Davern. Wagner has repeatedly maintained he doesn’t know what happened to Natalie and thinks she fell off the boat while trying to board a dinghy. Get push notifications with news, features and more. 37 years later, Lana wants Wagner to “tell the truth for once and for all” as she shares her own theory of what led to her death on the new podcast Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood. “I believe that there was a horrible fight onboard the Splendour,” Lana explained to host Dylan Howard on the first episode. “I think the evidence is also not just what Dennis Davern, the captain, has said, but the broken wine bottle and the threat that was first denied by Robert Wagner and then later in another book that he wrote he admitted to it. I think that things got out of hand. I know Natalie can verbally push, and Natalie was a very by-the-rules person. She did not put up with a great deal that she felt was harmful to her.” Grab Cut Insert Cut 1075814 26986#MPTV Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner aboard the Splendour in 1978 | Credit: Jason Hailey/MPTV “I think it escalated to a point where she was either struck or pushed. I don’t believe that it was planned. I don’t believe in any of those bizarre stories, but I do know she would not have ended up somewhere where she would completely never, ever go in a million years or certainly not go out not dressed. There’s just too much that doesn’t add up to who Natalie is,” Lana added. Wagner and Natlie first married in 1957 and divorced in 1962 before reconciling and remarrying 1972. They were together until her death in 1981 and welcomed a daughter, Courtney Wagner, in 1974. Natalie also had an older daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner from her marriage to British producer Richard Gregson from 1969 to 1971. RELATED VIDEO: Robert Wagner Considered a ‘Person of Interest’ in Wife Natalie Wood’s Mysterious Death Lana, who is also an actress and starred as a Bond girl in 1971’s Diamond Are Forever, said her sister’s marriage to Wagner was falling apart by the time they boarded the boat. “Too many things,” Lana said of the reasons their marriage was almost over. “The continual fights, the sudden push that she wanted towards her career, her feeling that the kids were old enough and had been given enough of a basis where she could go off to work. There’s jealousy involved. It’s particularly difficult for a man who has a wife who’s doing better.” Natalie Wood Natalie Wood | Credit: Silver Screen Collection/Getty Earlier this year, Wagner was named a person of interest in the case after it was reopened in 2011. “As we’ve investigated the case over the last six years, I think he’s more of a person of interest now,” Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Lieutenant John Corina said in an interview with CBS’ 48 Hours. “I mean, we now know that he was the last person to be with Natalie before she disappeared.” Wagner has refused to speak with investigators since they began to look into the circumstances surrounding Wood’s death again. “I haven’t seen him tell the details that match all the other witnesses in this case,” Corina said of Wagner. “I think he’s constantly changed his story a little bit. And his version of events just don’t add up.” Wood And Wagner Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood | Credit: Silver Screen Collection/Getty In Wagner’s 2008 memoir, Pieces of My Heart, he wrote that after a night of drinking, he got into an argument with Walken over Wood’s career. At one point, the now 87-year-old actor wrote, “I picked up a wine bottle, slammed it on the table and broke it into pieces.”<doc-sep>
For over 30 years, Natalie Wood’s death has been a Hollywood mystery. At the time in 1981, it was ruled an accident, but the case was reopened in 2011, and just this year it was reclassified as a “suspicious death.” Robert Wagner, Wood’s former husband, also was recently deemed a “person of interest” by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s officials; he’s denied any involvement in her death. A new podcast titled Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood seeks to explain the murky circumstances behind her untimely passing. Her sister, Lana Wood, is a guest on the series and on Wednesday spoke to Megyn Kelly on Today. When asked if she thought Robert Wagner murdered her sister, she did not hesitate to reply “Yes.” Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood, photographed in London in 1976, five years before her death. (Photo: Getty Images) Wood said that Natalie and Robert got into a heated argument that night. She explained what she thinks went down afterward, as witnessed by the boat’s skipper, Dennis Davern. “Dennis … left, went outside, turned up the music because they were being so loud,” said Wood, “and started walking toward the back of the boat. … [Wagner] was standing there and Dennis said, ‘Where’s Natalie?’ and he said, ‘She’s gone.’” The Splendour, the yacht where Natalie Wood was last seen alive before drowning. (Photo: Getty Images). Lana Wood is still holding out for an honest explanation from Wagner. She told Kelly about confronting him in Palm Springs, Calif., last year. “I saw him sitting in the bar … and I had a waitress bring him a note saying, ‘RJ, it’s Lana, and I really need to talk to you,’” she said. “It took him about 45 minutes, but finally he came out.” She recalled saying to him, “I’ve known you all my life — why won’t you talk to [the police]?” Wagner’s response puzzled Wood; he replied, “No, I’ve known you all your life.” Wood asks only one thing of Wagner, who hasn’t spoken to police about her sister’s death since the case was reopened. “I want him to tell the truth,” she said. “I want him to be a man and to own what has happened and to be strong enough to do that — to tell the truth.” Read more from Yahoo Entertainment: