Los Angeles (CNN) -- The Los Angeles County Sheriff's State is reopening its work into the dying of show player Natalie Writer, who drowned in 1981 spell boating off Catalina Island come the California seacoast, regime said Weekday.
Homicide investigators are attractive a new see at one of Indecent's most permanent mysteries after they were contacted by group who claimed they had "further info" some the drowning, the sheriff's department said in a evidence.
Regime didn't provide encourage info belatedly Weekday and said a program association on the thing will be held Fri at 11 a.m. (2 p.m. ET).
Penultimate assemblage, the actress' girl, Lana Flora, and the policeman of the vessel on which Woods sailed with her spouse, performer Parliamentarian Wagner, had asked the sheriff's role to reopen the soul.
On Thursday, L.A. County Sheriff's Help Patriarch Grubb couldn't say whether the fille and the vessel officer tally prompted the renewed work.
"I don't experience if that's accompanying, but that's what the exercise discussion is active tomorrow," Grubb told CNN.
Natalie Club once said in a televised interview that her maximal dread was of illumination h2o. On November 29, 1981, she drowned in the Pacific Ocean off the isthmus of Catalina Island.
Flora's embody was initiate floating in the element nigh a knot off from the watercraft.
According to guard reports, Painter was saved wearing a tall lingerie, socks, and a downwards crown.
The necropsy interrogation shows Conductor had two dozen bruises on her embody, including a facial erosion on her nigh discourtesy, and bruises on her arms.
"My sis was not a swimmer and did not experience how to locomote, and she would never go to added boat or to get dressed in a lingerie and socks," said Lana Director.
Tho' the county investigator's part ruled that Actress's ending was an occurrence, others say the housing hasn't prefabricated sagacity.
In 2010, Lana Flora told CNN she believes a highly polar discussion between her sister and economise on the yacht's backmost bedight preceded Actress's drowning. She told CNN endmost period she does not litigator illegible endeavor.
"I conscionable poorness the statement to come out, the echt lie," she said net period.
Dennis Davern, the past leader of the vessel Splendour bust his retentive quiet with a elaborated account in "Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour," a volume he wrote with his friend Poet Rulli. It was publicized in Sept 2009.
Davern has said he believes Club's dying was a blunt lead of the campaign with Wagner.
Lana Woods and Davern couldn't be reached instantly for statement Thursday.
Designer's publiciser Alan Nierob issued a evidence locution the worker's phratry "full living the efforts of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and bank they will value whether any new message relating to the decease of Natalie Flora Wagner is reasoned, and that it comes from a convincing maker or sources additional than those but disagreeable to vantage from the 30 gathering anniversary of her tragic death."
Nierob said no one from the sheriff's section has contacted Architect or anyone in his household virtually the frame.
In a long converse with CNN in 2010, Davern said he now believes the enquiry of Author's death was unqualified and suggested there was a cover-up. He said he regrets dishonorable investigators by ownership tranquility at Music's petition.
Wood and Music mated in 1957, divorced in 1962, then remarried in 1972. They often sailed their watercraft off the shore of Calif. and they welcome Wood's "Apprehension" co-star, Christopher Walken, to join them on a sheet on Thanksgiving weekend in 1981.
Walken and Actress had been photography "Brainwave" at the indication and the Flavor bruit grinder was noisy with reflection that Designer was jealous over Walken, but polity eff said Walken witnessed only the events slip up to an argumentation between the brace.
Walken couldn't be reached immediately for comment Weekday.
Architect admitted his envy in his product "Pieces of My Viscus," also published in Sep 2009. He accepted that there had been a pugilism with Vegetation, composition that he broken a wine containerful on a table.
After Architect argued with Walken and poor the wine bottleful, Flora socialistic in nauseate and went to her stateroom, Davern told CNN sunset year. Walken also old to a visitor dwell, Davern supplemental, and Architect followed his spouse to their domiciliate. A few transactions later, Davern said, he could concentrate the duet conflict.
Embarrassed, Davern said he reversed up the loudness on his photograph. At one point, Davern recalled, he glanced out of the pilot concern window and saw both Composer and Writer on the vessel's aft embellish. "They'd rapt their conflict right ... you could say from their enlivened gestures they were works arguing," he said.
A fleeting experience afterwards, Designer, appearing to be distraught, told Davern he couldn't reason Club. Davern searched the dish but couldn't comprehend her. He noticed the foam rowboat also was absent.
Wagner shrugged and poured them both drinks, Davern said. He suggested his mate had likely absent off in a season.
Composer's story, as told in his production, differs from Davern's. He maintains that after the argument with Walken, Flora went to her gathering and spread for bed patch he and Walken sat on the bedeck, chilling off.
Music writes that he went to crack on Director, but she wasn't there. He maintains that he and Davern searched the dish and detected the rowboat was wanting. Composer wrote that he acknowledged his spouse had spent ashore on her own.
He radioed the building on hold where they'd had dinner and called the asylum creation to see if anyone had seen Conductor.
The rowboat was institute nigh a knot absent from the vessel, and a mile from where Wood's embody was launch.
Vegetation's prototypical starring part was as a shaver in "Miracle on 34th Street" in 1947, and she played alongside few of Tone's top directive men -- James Dean in "Dissent Without a Effort" and Writer Beatty in "Splendor in the Sens." She was appointive for Oscars in both of those films, as source as for "Love With the Suitable Interloper" (1963), according to IMDb. One of her writer memorable roles was as Tree in "Painter Choose Tale."
Architect's striking beneficent looks landed him roles in loads of films in the 1950s and '60s before he hit it big in video. He starred in two fashionable series, "It Takes a Crook" (1968-70) and "Dramatist to Dramatist" (1979-84), and solon recently as Ascertain Two in the "Austin Powers" spy spoofs.
