Captain on Natalie Wood yacht says Robert Wagner held him 'prisoner' - 247 news
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The boat captain who alleges Robert Wagner killed Natalie Wood after fighting on board a yacht in the 1980s has claimed Wagner held him captive under the watch of bodyguards for a year after the actress's mysterious death. In the latest installment of the podcast Fatal Voyage: The Mysterious Death Of Natalie Wood?, boat captain Dennis Davern makes his most recent accusation against Wagner, now 88, who he says took him into a room the minute he got to his home.'The morning I got to Robert Wagner's house from being picked up at the Long Beach Harbor there were a lot of people at the house and I was taken right up to Robert Wagner's bedroom where his lawyer Paul Ziffren was. 'They told me directly face to face, this is going to be our story, this is what we're going to say'The story was that when Natalie went missing that she must have gone outside her state room because the dinghy was banging against the hull of the boat and she couldn't sleep so she tried to retie the dinghy, and she must have slipped and fell in the water,' Davern said. Ziffren died in 1991. Share this article Share He said was forced to stay in Wagner's home in a locked bedroom. He did not specify how long he was kept in the room but he that it came to a stop with Wagner presenting him a check for $6,000 to 'buy an apartment'. 'I believe I only got out of that house a few times. I mean I was starting to really feel claustrophobic. 'At night time, when I would go to my room, if I felt like I wanted to go downstairs or maybe just move around, I really couldn't because the first time I put my hand on the doorknob of the bedroom that I was in, it was like a magnetic, like a magnetic lock. 'It wouldn't allow me to open the door,' he said. Wood, who hated water and could not swim, drowned mysteriously on November 28, 1981, after arguing with Wagner on board. They had been boating near the island of Catalina with Christopher Walken, Wood's co-star who was one of Wagner's friends.Her family have long suspected that Wagner hit her and either pushed her into the water in a rage or caused her death in another way. The 88-year-old has always maintained that she went off in a dinghy on her own accord and never returned. He has not responded to DailyMail.com's repeated requests for responses to the allegations made by Davern and Wood's sister over the last several months. Lana Wood, Natalie's sister, has claimed in the past that he does not want to be interviewed because he says he cannot rely on his memory. He also did not respond when he was named a person of interest by the LAPD last year. In addition to the new remarks, Davern previously told how Wagner 'stopped' him from going looking for Wood when she vanished from the boat. 'I saw the dinghy was missing and fired up the engines to start searching,' he told the podcast.'But RJ [Wagner] said "no, no, let's not do that. Let's just stay, let's have another bottle of wine,"' he said. When Wood was pulled from the
