On the 30th anniversary of Nancy's death, Muchnick has … Homicide charges against Snuka in the 1983 death of his girlfriend Nancy Argentino, 23, … He communicated to her that Snuka was now a free man.Shortly after Snuka’s arrest in 2015, judge Banach had issued a gag order (to not talk about the case in public) to all the attorneys involved and to Snuka’s and Argentino’s families.Cornette continued, “Even in Snuka’s book, he wrote that Vince [McMahon] came to represent him at the meeting, which everyone agrees on, but Vince was carrying a briefcase! This was a week after District Attorney Jim Martin announced he was re-opening the case.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 would ask Chief Deputy District Attorney Charles Gallagher and Detective Gerry Procanyn “if there’s anything to be gained by opening a grand jury investigation.” Detective Procanyn was a former Whitehall detective who was in the motel when Argentino was rushed to the hospital in 1983.During one of the hearings, prosecutors noted Snuka did not begin complaining of head trauma until after he learned he was under investigation.Snuka’s defense attorney Robert Kirwin, who had motioned for the case to be closed once it had been determined in June 2016 that Snuka was mentally unfit to assist his defense said, “It was time for there to be closure. And his story never wavered. Nancy Argentino was just 23 when she was beaten to death in A Pennsylvania motel. Procanyn’s notes on an interview with two officers from the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office in New York (Sergeant Peter Bronstad & Deputy Alex Romanenko) about what happened after the scene in January includes this:“Vince McMahon tried to talk her out of making the complaint against Snuka.” Just four months later in May of 1983, Nancy was rushed to a hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania where she later died as the result of head trauma.Over the course of the next thirty years, rumors and speculation ran rampant about what may have happened. 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.
PHOTO GALLERY: The strange story of Jimmy 'Superfly' Snuka and Nancy Argentino. If he does, he’s responsible.”Senior Deputy District Attorney Craig Sheetz pointed to medical records that show Snuka had an appointment with a concussion specialist on January 29, 2014. If I was guilty of anything, it was cheating on my wife, and that was it… Nancy was a good girl. All the pieces were there. The 1983 death of Nancy Argentino has become one the most infamous chapters in pro wrestling history. At the time Ms. Argentino was the girlfriend of the future WWF Hall… I’ll say that much.
We are hopeful that justice will prevail.”According to the experts, there is no proof that people who suffer from CTE are also legally incompetent.Charges were not immediately pressed at the time against Jimmy Snuka though the case was left officially open.Deputy Lehigh County coroner Wayne Snyder later said, “Upon viewing the body and speaking to the pathologist, I immediately suspected foul play and so notified the district attorney.”The WWE issued a statement after Snuka’s book was published and the story about McMahon showing up with a briefcase to solve the Snuka situation when it happened in 1983,She said, “Justice suffers after 30 years because everything decays.”“I remember Vince McMahon being what Vince McMahon has always been — very effusive. Right from the get-go, the one constant with him was he kept saying, ‘I want the truth. Episode 083 - The Death of Nancy Argentino 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.
In a televised speech, he said that his behavior had been “indefensible” but denied it was alcohol-fueled.The original investigation went cold on June 1, 1983, after prosecutors met with Jimmy Snuka and World Wrestling Federation’s Vince McMahon in the district attorney’s office law library. But it’s a touchy subject. I never wanted to harm her. Does [Snuka] understand what’s going on? I think she died of a fracture to her skull.
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