- Wagner, now 87, was named as a person of interest by Los Angeles sheriffs
- They reopened the investigation into Natalie Wood's 1981 death six years ago
- Now, they tell CBS's 48 hours that they want to speak to Wagner about it
- Wood drowned in the ocean near her yacht after boating with Wagner
- The pair were with his friend, Christopher Walken, and they were at Catalina
- The men have always insisted that Wood's death was a tragic accident
- They say she took off in the dinghy after arguing with her husband and vanished
- An autopsy report however suggests that she had suffered injuries to the head
- Police say they are unable to prove if she died by accident or if she was killed
By Jennifer Smith For Dailymail.com
Published: 13:59 GMT, 1 February 2018 | Updated: 13:59 GMT, 1 February 2018
Robert Wagner has been named as a person of interest in the death of his late wife Natalie Wood, 36 years after she died.
The revelation was made by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Lieutenant John Corina in a new CBS documentary about the star's death and the mystery which has surrounded it.
'As we've investigated the case over the last six years, I think he's more of a person of interest now.
'I mean, we know now that he was the last person to be with Natalie before she disappeared,' he told CBS's 48 Hours.
Wagner, who is now 87 and married to actress Jill St. John, did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com's questions on Thursday morning.
Robert Wagner has been named as a person of interest in the death of his late wife Natalie Wood who drowned mysteriously in 1981. They are pictured together in 1972, the year they married
Police in Los Angeles say they want to speak to Wagner, who is now 87, about Wood's death. The actor is pictured in April 2017
Wood drowned while boating with Wagner and his friend Christopher Walken off the island of Catalina in Southern California in 1981.
They said that she was afraid of the water and had taken off in a dinghy.
An autopsy however suggested that she had been the victim of an assault and had abrasions on her forehead.
Police have never ruled her death a murder, but they reopened the case six years ago.
Now, they say they believe Wagner knows more than he has let on and that they want to speak to him.
Wood drowned near her yacht, the Splendour, off the coast of Catalina in southern California in November 1981. Her husband said they had argued and that she took off in the rubber dinghy and somehow must have fallen into the water
The couple had their own children but Wagner also looked after Wood's daughters from a previous marriage after her death. They are seen in 1972
'I haven't seen him tell the details that match all the other witnesses in this case.
'I think he's constantly changed his story a little bit. And his version of events just don't add up,' Corina said.
Wagner spoke out in 2016, 35 years after Wood's death, to insist it was a tragic accident which 'shattered' him.
He had previously claimed in a 2009 memoir that he argued with both Wood and Walken on the night in question and that Wood vanished afterwards, taking the dinghy from her family's yacht to get herself to shore.
After her death, he raised her two daughters as if they were his own.
He and Wood had been married for nine years before she died. It was the third marriage for each of them.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Lieutenant John Corina says he believes Wagner has never told the full story of his wife's death
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