Coroner Bungled Natalie Autopsy!

Chilling cover-up let Robert Wagner CHEAT JUSTICE

NATALIE Wood’s autopsy was deliberately bungled by a starstruck coroner — allowing her hot-tempered TV hunk hubby, Robert Wagner, to get away with murder, outraged sources charge!

Experts claim former L.A. County Coroner Thomas Noguchi’s ruling in the West Side Story beauty’s 1981 death in the waters off California’s Catalina Island was BOGUS — and part of his publicity campaign to promote an upcoming book.

He determined Natalie died from an “accident” when she disappeared from her yacht, Splendour, after a fierce brawl with jealous Wagner, who waited four hours to call authorities. But the cause of death was changed to “undetermined” in 2011 after a new post-mortem showed mysterious bruises — unmentioned in Noguchi’s examination records — on Natalie’s corpse.

“Noguchi — as much as Robert Wagner — is one of the biggest culprits in Natalie’s death,” charges Marti Rulli, who co-wrote Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour, the book that forced homicide detectives to reopen the 35-year-old case.