Detective Procanyn at the time told Muchnick when quizzed about Snukas shaky defense that the evidence was inconclusive. Twenty-three year old Nancy Argentino had left her life in Brooklyn behind to hit the road with her new boyfriend, wrestler Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka. Photo credits to The Morning Call. Oh my, she looks terrible, Jimmy Superfly Snuka was heard crowing as he wept and strung his hand through Nancy Argentinos dark and dead locks. I didnt see it happen, but I remember she told me she was jumping over a little stream that was there and she slipped.. I met him, and he was the kindest man possible. I woke her up, but she could hardly breathe.. Dementia is defined legally as being unable to understand whats going on. Also, to reinforce the aforementioned, Dr. Manish Fozdar, a Raleigh, North Carolina expert in Neuropsychiatry and forensic psychiatry, said, "There are no cause-effect relationships as Snukas defense attorney argued. For over two decades investigative reporter and author Irvin Muchnick has been namechecking the former Leheigh County District Attorney William Platt (now a state judge) and the lead detective on Argentinos case for the Whitehall PD, Gerald Procanyn (who became a DAs investigator), as purposely bungling the case. All royalties from Irvin Muchnicks 1992 book JUSTICE DENIED: The Untold Story of Nancy Argentinos Death in Jimmy Superfly Snukas Motel Room are donated to organizations fighting domestic violence. So why did they buy his constantly evolving story? All the pieces were there. All in all, there were at least a few entities that failed Nancy Argentino in 1983: The motel clerk who let things escalate in January by not calling the police earlier; the majority of the media coverage of her initial beating at Snukas hands, which minimized her suffering to present a somehow breezier narrative of a wrestler fighting off police dogs; and the district attorneys office who, in spite of having multiple strong witnesses confirming the abuse even after Argentino recanted, basically waved Snukas actions aside to avoid risk to his green card. He can be contacted by e-mail at jojst1@gmail.com. However, I was orally advised that Dr. Mihalikis concluded that death was consistent with a single fall whereby the victim struck her head on a hard substance, such as pavement. The episode shineda renewed light about the mysterious death. According to the contemporaneous newspaper reports, Snuka who gave an exclusive, ramblingly vague account of what happened to the Toronto Star (The hotel manager just got a little excited. Finally, Dr. Mihalikis did not find any unusual amounts of dirt, gravel or other substances on Ms. Argentinos clothing. (Use code PWS for a nice surprise). At the funeral, I told her mother and father how sorry I was about her death. Specifically, those other incidents of domestic abuse were that of Snuka hospitalizing his then-wife Sharon in September 1983 (no charges filed, but testified to by both Sharon and then-neighbor Debbie Rogers); and Snukas January 18, 1983 arrest for beating Argentino. He has also been published on Slam Wrestling and in G-FAN Magazine. January 3rd, 2017: Judge Banach dismisses homicide charges against Jimmy Snuka. On top of that, according to her sisters, Nancy also had her own specific value to McMahon: With Snuka being illiterate and without a drivers license, McMahon needed a driver to get him to and from shows, but with his increasingly problematic drug use and erratic behavior, other wrestlers now refused to chauffeur him around, Speculation has long swirled around McMahons involvement in the murder investigation, specifically his presence during Snukas last police interview, the contents of which unlike every other interview summary in the Whitehall file are notoriously not described in the report at all (a fact that then-Chief Frederic Conjour wrote off as nothing in the, documentary). If this is correct on their part, I do not know. Kyle Dunning. Snuka definitely says he saw Argentino hit the ground. Investigating the mysterious story of Jimmy Snuka, whose girlfriend Nancy Argentino died in . Perhaps in an effort to rewrite history, Snuka attempts to once again clear his name in his book about how the fatal bump on the head happened. During one of the hearings, prosecutors noted Snuka did not begin complaining of head trauma until after he learned he was under investigation. Movies. The donation, though, was often conflated with the sentence as if they were related, and none of the articles contained actual details of what happened in the courtroom beyond the disposition. In fact, Snuka made appearances (though he barely spoke to anybody) at the Thanksgiving dinner hosted at Nancys mothers house in Brooklyn. 0. Her family claimed that WWE offered them $25K following her death. June 21st, 2016: Prosecutors ask Judge Banach to force Snuka to undergo mental health treatment. As those in the center of the true crime/wrestling fan Venn diagram will likely be aware, VICE TV's pro wrestling documentary series, Dark Side of the Ring, recently explored the May 11, 1983, death of Nancy Argentino, the then-girlfriend of then-top WWF (now WWE) star "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka. Three weeks after The Morning Call published the story recalling the death of Nancy Argentino and revealing an autopsy report and police interviews never seen by the public, Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin asked Chief Deputy District Attorney Charles Gallagher and Detective Gerry Procanyn "if theres anything to be gained by opening a grand jury investigation." In. Yeah, there was some excitement. Yeah, there was some excitement. It was none other than the then-WWE chairman and essentially the Wizard of wrestlings OzVince McMahon Jr. He was there and he knew everything about it, Snuka told a radio show host. Surrounded by family and his lawyer, former professional wrestler Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, right, arrives at Lehigh County Courthouse in Allentown, Pa. on Friday, May, 13, 2016. They beat me with their batons I never laid my hands on anyone, and I didnt see any naked women, aside from the one in my room., Snuka copped a guilty plea just to get it over with and adds, I did not assault Nancyshe was fine. All was swept under the wrestling mat in fact. Authorities even tossed the WWE Hall of Famers tell-all autobiography as the cherry on top of the mountain of facts. Per Donovans statement in the Onondaga County file, the guests in the adjacent room called the front desk because their neighbors were raising hell and a male was beating up a female in there., He called the room to no answer, walked over and heard the man inside say, Im sorry I hit you. Being a 61-year-old man in 1983, he then left and thought the problem was over. But after he heard some yelling, he looked outside to see Argentino wrapped in a bed sheet, saw her return to the room, heard more screaming and then looked outside his office again. Can we still appreciate the mans huge contributions to wrestling, knowing that it is possible that he had a hand in Nancy Argentinos death? However, as of this publication, you can find images and videos of him restored on wwe.com. The Lehigh County district attorney's office has refused to allow the coroner to release her autopsy report over the past three. He filed for bankruptcy, and the family never got any restitution. I never wanted to harm her. As those in the center of the true crime/wrestling fan Venn diagram will likely be aware, VICE TVs pro wrestling documentary series, Dark Side of the Ring, recently explored the May 11, 1983, death of Nancy Argentino, the then-girlfriend of then-top WWF (now WWE) star Superfly Jimmy Snuka. He was the mouthpiece, trying to direct the conversation.. The trouble is the brawler allegedly inflicted multiple beatdowns on his wife. However, by the next day, he apparently changed his story and claimed that. At that point, he opened the door further and walked towards the rear of the room, and the female got up wrapped in a bed sheet. Homicide charges against Snuka in the 1983 death of his girlfriend Nancy Argentino, 23, in a Whitehall Township motel, have been dismissed after Snuka was ruled incompetent to stand trial. He adds, "Sometimes being trapped with my thoughts can be more painful than any injury Ive suffered in the ring. October 29, 2020. After he comforted Argentino by bringing some chow and later setting wet towel compresses on her head, her status turned critical. If you missed it, the immediate things you need to know are that Argentino died of complications from a skull fracture; that Snuka initially told a variety of stories that involved pushing her, only to change his tune claiming she slipped and fell at the side of the road after she died; that the coroner ruled it a homicide in a report that wasnt made public; and that the case mysteriously stalled out after just three weeks. The latter made national headlines not so much because a married celebrity had been arrested for beating his girlfriend in a. , motel room, but rather because Snuka fought off a cadre of deputies and police dogs from the Onondaga County Sheriffs Office in the process. Instead he said Snuka told one story and it was perfectly consistent every time. All of these defenses were given in Snukas autobiography, various interviews, and other sources such as what Snuka supposedly told the nurses in the ER and what they reportedly overheard him say. I enjoy them. Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka enters Lehigh County Court following his attorney Robert Kirwan, II, right, to argue he has the right to have a preliminary hearing in the 1983 murder of his girlfriend in a Whitehall Township motel. Check out his weekly wrestling history podcast, Between The Sheets, on all major podcast platforms, and subscribe to his Substack at BabyfacevHeel.com. It also chillingly recontextualizes something that, , McMahon told the Argentino familys initial attorney, Richard Cushing, in 1983. The writer was onto the flimsy slip-and-fall storylines Snuka had peddled to police and prosecutors. By using this site, you agree to the legal terms set out in ourDisclaimer, Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Disclosure. Snuka also didnt help matters, with. He communicated to her that Snuka was now a free man. All day Snuka claims that he returned to the hotel between TV shoots to check on Argentino. His assaultive acts and his failure to act to obtain medical attention resulted in her death, the grand jury wrote in a presentment on July 17, 2015, recommending he be charged with homicide. With regards to the actual events witnessed and lived by deputies at the Howard Johnson Motor Lodge, although the newspaper articles accurately describe the melee between Snuka and the Sheriffs Department, the deputies had much more to say than the papers reported. His wife maintains that her husbanddid not kill Argentino. The case went cold for 30 years. Accident is accident brudda., To the responding police officer, according to the complaint, Snuka said they were fooling around outside [sic] room door when he pushed her and she fell striking her head. That same night Snuka told a paramedic that the couple got carried away in horseplay. (According to a letter in the Onondaga County file, he left the sentence up to Justice Herman Harding.). It is a deterioration of brain tissue and function and was discovered in 2004 at the Allegheny County medical examiners office after performing an autopsy on former Pittsburgh Steelers player, Iron Mike Webster. During the hearings to determine whether Jimmy Snuka was mentally competent to stand trial, his defense attorney Robert Kirwin said that Snuka suffered from brain trauma so severe that he had developed CTE and, subsequently, dementia. Jimmy Snuka and the Death of Nancy Argentino. Eyes blood shot. Investigating the mysterious story of Jimmy Snuka, whose girlfriend Nancy Argentino died in their motel room in 1983, and revealing her family's 30-year struggle for justice. Kennedy only got a two-month suspended sentence for leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury, but caused irreperable damage to any presidential ambitions that he may have had. I was devastated., Snuka continues, "That night ruined my life. It also chillingly recontextualizes something that, according to Muchnicks reporting, McMahon told the Argentino familys initial attorney, Richard Cushing, in 1983. [Photo Courtesy of The Daily Beast] Nancy Argentino was just 23 when she died in 1983 after being rushed to a hospital with a serious head injury. The charges were dismissed in 2017 as Snuka . Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! In his autobiography, Superfly The Jimmy Snuka Story, written by Jon Chattman, he says that after coming back from the TV tapings, he was surprised to find her still sleeping, and thats when he called for help. The District Attorneys office is arguably a different story. An illustration of text ellipses. He drove his Oldsmobile Delmont 88 off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, which is near Marthas Vineyard. All Ill say is I think his legacy is intact. The investigators had help. Talk moves to Nancy Argentino the person, with Lorraine talking about despite living in a big city that she led a sheltered life and was a very hard worker. That said, the law librarian at the Fifth Judicial District told me that a Certificate of Conviction would be the document to trust over newspaper reports. According to The Morning Call based out of Allentown, Pennsylvania, "She was rushed out of Snukas George Washington Motor Lodge motel room now the site of Home Depot along MacArthur Road and Route 22 on May 10, 1983. Other sources have been linked where applicable. The male was forcing the female back towards room #1 while the female was yelling for help., After seeing this, Donovan finally called the Sheriffs Department. I want to make clear that I only pushed her away to keep her from hitting me. Dr. Mihalikis did not find any evidence of recent sexual contact. He doesnt remember if money was given to the family of Nancy Argentino, but he knows for sure that he did not hurt her. Author Irvin Muchnick's 1992 article about the incident (later collected in his 2007 book WRESTLING BABYLON) is the most authoritative account of what happened. And Tarzan likely never took steroids, boozed or binged on cocaine like The Superfly admitted he had. The Salina City Court and several others in the surrounding area have been merged into a single district court location for the, pandemic, making it impossible to check the original court records, if they still exist. Adding to the controversy was that . Get all your true crime news from Oxygen. Only after Nancy was killed did we learn that he was married and it was a total shock that he was living this double life, Argentinos sister Lorraine Salome added. On that night Snuka claims he was just drinking a lot of booze. He later noted he had been smoking some pot too. Some additional context is needed here to truly understand where both Snuka and McMahon stood at the time. she died; that the coroner ruled it a homicide in a report that wasnt made public; and that the case mysteriously stalled out after just three weeks. (In his notes from a phone interview conducted with Bronstad and Deputy Alex Romanenko four days after Argentino was killed, Detective Gerald Procanyn describes the initial call from the motel in Salina as an attempted rape, but based on Bronstads interview with me, that appears to reflect the managers mistaken assumpion more than anything else.). They made it to the motel and after Argentino requested to lie down, Snuka left to go to the Allentown Fairgrounds to perform. Charges were not immediately pressed at the time against Jimmy Snuka though the case was left officially open. Bronstad does remember, though, that someone claiming to be Snukas manager showed up to post bail, going on and on about how he needed to be able to wrestle the next night. Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka wrestles in a match on September 4, 1995 in New Hampshire. It was a very worrisome case. I love the smell of the ladies. Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka leaves Lehigh County Court through the back garage after a hearing relating to the 1983 murder of his girlfriend in a Whitehall Township motel. I was devastated, he wrote. And yet the pro wrestler was never charged. PHOTO GALLERY: The strange story of Jimmy 'Superfly' Snuka and Nancy Argentino. Snuka does not understand whats going on in court and does not even remember his attorneys name. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by mild or repeated head trauma, but the exact amount needed for the condition to occur is yet unknown. I didnt know him as a person, but hes a professional cohort. The paramedic wrote that Snuka said they may have wrestled too much last night and as a result Argentino hit her head on the concrete last night., That lovers quarrel line was repeated to an ER doctor who learned that Snuka and Argentino were fooling around and then he pushed her, she fell striking the back of head she lost consciousness and he picked her up by the upper arms and she came to.. On May 10, Concussion Inc. published JUSTICE DENIED: The Untold Story of Nancy Argentino's Death in Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka's Motel Room.This short ebook sells for $2.99, with 100 percent of the royalties being donated by the Argentino family, in Nancy's memory, to the White Plains, New York-based My Sister's Place women's shelter and resource center. Snukas wife, Carole Snuka, told the producers of Dark Side of the Ring that her husband told her that McMahon came into town with his briefcase and told him it was done.. My client would have liked to clear his name, and there was never a doubt in my mind that a jury would have acquitted him if hed been well enough to stand trial., The judge dismissed the charges by saying that she was satisfied that Jimmy Snuka would not regain competency, and "it would be unjust to resume the prosecution.". Look, Im in the garbage business, McMahon purportedly said. Speculation has long swirled around McMahons involvement in the murder investigation, specifically his presence during Snukas last police interview, the contents of which unlike every other interview summary in the Whitehall file are notoriously not described in the report at all (a fact that then-Chief Frederic Conjour wrote off as nothing in the VICE documentary). Instead, Snuka just stared ahead. Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka visits "The Opie & Anthony Show" at SiriusXM studios on January 9, 2013 in New York City. They definitely do not want any tickets reserved for them for the April 7th wrestling match and would not attend. It is believed that Snuka delaying 12-24 hours in calling for medical help contributed greatly to the emergency staffers inability to resuscitate her. Indeed, the champion grappler gained infamy by soaring like human ammo. When we got to the hotel right away I had to call because she wasnt feeling good, he said. Nancy Argentino died soon after that and despite evidence of a struggle, no one was ever charged. Jimmy 'Superfly' Snuka wrestles on September 4, 1995 in New Hampshire. Images. ), A year after Argentino was killed, with her family having retained lawyers from Schonwald, Schaffzin & Mullman, one of the lawyers on the case travelled to Allentown, Pennsylvania, to meet with Lehigh County District Attorney William Platt. I dont know what happened. However, their dream relationship quickly turned to horror. In another version Snuka said he called authorities straightaway. Right from the get-go, the one constant with him was he kept saying, I want the truth. Alistair McGeorge. I just look at the whole thing as a shame because theres a loss of human life there.. It was a. From excessive horseplay amongst them to a lovers quarrel where accidents happen, to her simply slipping and falling. In 2017, Jon Chattman, author of Superfly: The Jimmy Snuka Story, was interviewed by Pro Wrestling Illustrated Senior Writer Al Castle for the PWI Podcast. "We never saw a dime, but money was . It is considered one of the most authoritative accounts of what happened to Nancy Argentino. In a single sentence summary from the same phone interview between Bronstad and Romanenko referenced above, Procanyn wrote, , Vince McMahon tried to talk her out of making the complaint against Snuka. It adds, Given the uncertainty of the situation, the Company also identified headcount reductions and made the decision to furlough a portion of its workforce effective immediately.. The docuseries recounted one incident in January 1983 in which Snuka allegedly assaulted Argentino in a hotel. The latter made national headlines not so much because a married celebrity had been arrested for beating his girlfriend in a Salina, New York, motel room, but rather because Snuka fought off a cadre of deputies and police dogs from the Onondaga County Sheriffs Office in the process. Procanyn, meanwhile, was no longer available at a phone number that he had been giving out last year; neither the Lehigh Valley DAs office (where he worked more recently) nor the reporter who covered his retirement had updated contacts. According to the Sheriffs Department file for the case, which I obtained via the Argentino familys wrongful death lawsuit against Snuka, at least two officers on the scene witnessed Snuka resuming his attack on Argentino that same night. I respect them. Snuka, having lost his physical green card in 2007, began the process to get a new one, which included a new criminal background check. In 1985, Nancy Argentino's family won a $500,000 judgment against the Superfly in a federal wrongful-death civil lawsuit; but after filing for bankruptcy the retired wrestler reportedly. The memo was first published in Justice Denied, an ebook that Argentinos sisters collaborated on with Irvin Muchnick, who had been doing the seminal reporting on the case since 1992, as a benefit for a battered womens shelter. It wasn't long before she caught the eyes of the wrestlers. 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President Donald Trump appointed him to an advisory group dedicated to reopening the country during the coronavirus pandemic, allwhile WWE has continued running its weekly live wrestling Florida has deemed WWE an essential business without a live audience. Snuka, having lost his physical green card in 2007, began the process to get a new one, which included a new criminal background check. The WWE has also furloughed manyworkers amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. On that date, Nancy Argentino, girlfriend of Jimmy Snuka, was declared dead in a Lehigh Valley Hospital. Assistant District Attorney Richard Plochocki, citing Argentinos affidavit with regards to the assault on her person, and the potential negative effects on Snukas green card as a first-time offender, recommended a plea on a single charge of harassment. My mom told her, Listen, Nancy, youre too pretty and too smart to put up with this. As the docuseries points out, there was another passenger in the car with them who doesnt recall any fall. , an ebook that Argentinos sisters collaborated on with, , who had been doing the seminal reporting on the case. At first, it seemed as though Argentino was willing to pursue charges against Snuka. My mother thought she was on the way.. WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon speaks at a news conference announcing the WWE Network on January 8, 2014. 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She would sadly die at the young age of 23 in a Pennsylvania motel room. David Bixenspan is a freelance reporter who lives in Brooklyn. The autopsy report told cops to consider Nancy Argentinos death a homicide. Nancy was Italian, 5 feet 7 inches tall, 115 pounds with dark, curly hair and brown eyes. It was six men in blue with police dogs and everything, he writes, while he was dressed only in his skivvies. big money for everything he had planned. Vice's "Dark Side of the Ring" took on the death of Nancy Argentino in a new episode, which aired April 12. This speculation, though, is now overshadowed by evidence that McMahon may have helped facilitate the cycle of abuse that kept Nancy Argentino in Jimmy Snukas company, and potentially gave Superfly the opportunity to kill her. Her defiled face was on display in an open casket during a wake at a funeral parlor in her hometown of Flatbush, Brooklyn. In a single sentence summary from the same phone interview between Bronstad and Romanenko referenced above, Procanyn wrote, Vince McMahon tried to talk her out of making the complaint against Snuka (emphasis mine). In 1969, Senator Ted Kennedy left a party near midnight with Kopechne. I dont think its Chris Benoit. The senator waited 10 hours until he reported the incident and claimed that his behavior had been "indefensible." Today, I bring you the 9th edition of a series looking at the TV show Dark Side of the Ring. ", Dr. Paul Hoyer, a forensic pathologist for the Montgomery County coroners office, added, "Dementia can be a muddy diagnosis, as there is no clear-cut test to determine whether a person suffers from it." He abandoned the 28-year-old woman who had crash trauma and drowned. without a live audience. 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