I didn't think it was anatomically possible.
>>>Carol Wayne. She drowned at about age 40.
>>>I didn’t think it was anatomically possible.
Some think it was no accident. Her acting career was stalled and she had turned to prostitution. How she drowned in the shallow bay (4 feet deep) considering she was supposedly afraid of water remains curious.
In 1984, Carol Wayne (the Matinee girl from the Johnny Carson show) declared bankruptcy, appeared nude in the February issue of Playboy (and was seen nude in her final film, Heartbreakers, co-starring Peter Coyote. Good friend, the late Richard Pryor tried to come to her rescue by offering her a part in his upcoming film and he also agreed to pay for her (cocaine) rehabilitation.
Instead of taking Pryor up on his offer, on January 1985, Carol and her mysterious and shady companion Edward Durston traveled to Mexico and stayed at the “Las Hadas Resort,” where Carol drowned in the shallow bay waters of Manzanillo, Mexico.
After her absence due to drowning, Durston didn’t even bother to look for her. When she hadn’t returned to the hotel room the following morning, Durston didn’t even file a missing person’s report with the police. Instead, he checked them both out of the hotel and he took Carol’s luggage to the airport telling employees she would pick it up the next day. When Carol’s body was finally discovered in the presence of Durston, he still didn’t alert authorities, a stranger did.
Carol was pronounced dead at age 42 on Jan. 13, 1985 and Durston hightailed it out of Mexico. During the initial investigation, witnesses say the couple were arguing before her death.
Ironically, Edward Durston was also with Diane Linkletter (daughter of Art Linkletter) when she committed suicide in 1969.
Edward Durston was never charged with murder in either death.