Vanished in the Night
After Davern heard Wagner and Wood stop fighting, he went outside to check on them—except Wood wasn't there. Wagner stood alone on the deck. "Natalie is missing, he said.
Wagner told Davern to go look for his wife. "The dinghy is missing, too," he added. That's when Davern began to grow suspicious.
Mysterious Circumstances
It was no secret to anyone that Wood was "deathly afraid of water." Davern knew the last thing she would have done was take the dinghy out on her own.
Wagner told Davern not to call for help and to keep the boat's floodlights off. He was worried that they might draw attention to Wood's disappearance. Meanwhile, key witness Marilyn Wayne was only eighty feet away from the yacht. She heard a woman screaming around 11 in the evening.