Natalie Wood’s childhood pal has broken decades of silence to accuse Robert Wagner of having a hand in her death, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.
Ed Canevari — who grew up with Natalie in Santa Rosa, Calif. — is demanding investigators ramp up their case against her husband after Wagner was named a “person of interest.”
“They should have done it 37 years ago!” the 80-year-old former deli owner exclusively told Radar.
“I just believe that Robert Wagner did it. I think it was covered up.”
an “accident,” as originally ruled.
He even recalls at the time telling Natalie’s mother, Maria Gurdin: “I don’t believe it.”
Brunette beauty Natalie vanished off her 60-foot yacht, the “Splendour,” after a vicious fight with her hubby, who thought she was having an affair with “Brainstorm” co-star Christopher Walken.
The former “Hart to Hart” star has insisted the 43-year-old actress accidentally fell into the Pacific Ocean, but Ed questioned that alibi.
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For years, Ed joined a young Natalie and her family for summer vacations at a river in Sonoma County.
Everyone cooled down by the water — except the beloved star, he said.
“She wouldn’t go to the river’s edge,” Ed recalled.
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