I don't remember much about her death, just the announcement that it had happened.
When Natalie's mother was preggers, or when Natalie was a bitty girl, some fortune teller said that Natalie would die in the water. She was absolutely petrified of water all of her life and couldn't swim.
Wagner and Natalie and Waulken were out in that boat together and things were not going all that well. The day she died, all of them had been in a restaurant, drinking, and there was a loud row.
Natalie and Waulkin were making a movie together, RJ thought that there had been hanky panky going on and was NOT happy with Waulkin being included on this wee trip.
Lots of theories, but nobody has EVER said how she came to die.