RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: NATALIE WOOD: Paging Dr. Thomas Noguchi. The murder case of "the 80's" is "BACK." Anyone wanna head over to the Marlin Club

Thursday, November 17, 2011

NATALIE WOOD: Paging Dr. Thomas Noguchi. The murder case of "the 80's" is "BACK." Anyone wanna head over to the Marlin Club

By Randy Economy
Reporter
Los Cerritos Newspaper Group

I love going to Avalon.

Santa Catalina for all you folks outside of Southern California is our version of "backyard paradise."

I spent a tremendous amount of time 26 miles across the sea from Long Beach in the early and mid 1980's when I worked as the Public Information Officer for the City of Norwalk.

I got to be the very best of friends with then Avalon City Councilman and Mayor Gilbert Saldana and members of his family during the time when actress Natalie Wood died "mysteriously" after a night of partying aboard the board called "The Splendour." Gilbert was the known as "America's Boy Mayor" since he was only 18 years old when he first got elected. (More about Gilbert below....)
Natalie Wood was married to actor Robert Wagner. She and Wagner and actor Christopher Walken went to Catalina and Avalon for the Thanksgiving Weekend and on Saturday night, November 28, Wood ended up in the water and drown.
It was a real like mystery that consumed the island for days, and weeks, and into the next year. Skipper Dennis Davern worked for the couple for many years and was with the group for that weekend. Is Dennis still around these days? Is he the one who came forward with the "new revelation?"

When her body was found, she was wearing a down jacket, nightgown, and socks. A woman on a nearby yacht said she heard calls for help at around midnight. The cries lasted for about 15 minutes and were answered by someone else who said, "Take it easy. We'll be over to get you."
At the time Los Angeles Coroner, Dr. Thomas Nuguchi, stated, "Natalie Wood died from "axidentol dwowding" also known as "accidental drowning." the "Guch" always had a way for words back then, and well, he literally got ran out of town after this case was "officially closed." Noguchi was the "Coroner to The Stars." He oversaw the Robert F. Kennedy death case, the Marilyn Monroe death, and one of the most famous Hollywood murder cases that took the life of actress Sharon Tate and several others by the now infamous "Charles Manson Family."
Today LA County Sheriff’s Homicide Investigators were contacted by persons who stated they had additional information about the Wood drowning, and voila, her murder mystery case is "officially reopened."
Catalina is a postage sized speck in a very large pond. I remember spending days and nights talking about "the murder" of Natalie Wood. Yep. I said "murder" not "death." You see, in Avalon, everyone knows everyone else's secrets.
This will be a total "trip" back in time. I wonder what the locales at The Marlin Club are thinking tonight. Break out the old "t-shirts" and "Natalie Wood" joke books. The media circus is heading BACK to "the island." Noguchi is still alive. He is now 84 years old and works as the President of the World Association for Medical Law. I am going to call him on Friday after I drop my pal Gilbert a note tonight. Gilbert is on another island these days called Maui. Yep. Nothing has changed in Catalina in decades.
What is that number for "Catalina Express...."

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You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”