Posted on 09/02/2015 8:07:48 AM PDT by Boogieman
Former professional wrestling star Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka was charged Tuesday with third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in the death of his mistress more than three decades ago.
Prosecutors in Lehigh County announced the results of a grand jury investigation into the death of Nancy Argentino, 23, of New York.
Snuka, who had been at a World Wrestling Federation taping at the Allentown Fairgrounds, told police shortly after Argentino's death that he had returned to the couple's Whitehall Township hotel room to find her unresponsive in bed. She was pronounced dead at a hospital several hours later.
An autopsy determined she died of traumatic brain injuries and had more than three dozen cuts and bruises, and concluded her injuries were consistent with being hit with a stationary object. At the time, forensic pathologist Isidore Mihalakis wrote that the case should be investigated as a homicide until proven otherwise, according to a grand jury report released Tuesday. But the investigation went cold.
A June 2013 investigation by The Morning Call of Allentown raised questions about the case. Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin told the paper last year that Argentino's sisters approached him after the story ran, prompting him to give the case another look.
The grand jury's report said Snuka had provided more than a half-dozen shifting accounts of Argentino's injuries, at first telling paramedics he hit her during an argument outside their hotel room and that she struck her head on concrete, then claiming to police she slipped and fell during a bathroom break on their way to the hotel.
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Exhibit A
Not Guilty! by reason that no jury is going to convict someone of any crime 30 years after the fact!
Growing up in Vancouver, WA, we would watch Portland Wrestling (later changed to Big Time Wrestling) in the 60’s though the mid 80’s every Saturday night and some of the future big WWF and WWE stars seem to got their start there. We had Jimmy “Super Fly” Snuka, Jesse “the Body” Ventura, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and there were others but none that went on to the bright lights like these 3. Those guys were like gods to us and the occasional trip to the Portland Sports Arena (more like a dumpy warehouse) were better than Disneyland. All the really big matches were held on Tuesday (chair match, death cage match) but Saturdays were used to hook you in.
Trash is trash, trash will always remain trash....he is trash.
Judge Banach denied a prosecution motion to have Snuka committed to a mental facility for 60 days, choosing instead to postpone his trial and have Snuka return in December for re-evaluation. Snuka stands accused of repeatedly assaulting girlfriend Nancy Argentino in 1983 in a hotel room, causing injuries that led to her death the following day.
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