Brainstorm: An Investigation of the Mysterious Death of Film Star Natalie Wood

Summary

The crime

The motives

The cover-up

The 1981 drowning death of award-winning actress Natalie Wood off the coast of Catalina Island, California, has become one of Hollywood’s most controversial unsolved mysteries. After an in-depth five-year investigation, Sam Perroni has completed the most far-reaching and superbly executed examination of the case to date.

In his pursuit of the truth, the author exposes the cover-up orchestrated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and powerful Hollywood insiders in 1981 as well as the façade surrounding the agency’s “reopening” of the case in 2011. Perroni uncovers persuasive evidence—corroborated by key witnesses—of marital discord, suspicious jealousy, and even darker motives that provide an answer to the ultimate question: Was Natalie Wood’s death an accident … or murder?