Grand jury to probe 31-year-old death of Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka's girlfriend

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Jan 28, 2014
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This year the WWE will celebrate its 30th WrestleMania event and the likes of Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior are being brought back in cameo appearances. One superstar who was a headliner at the original WrestleMania event named Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka was an extremely popular star that was on the cusp of the national expansion break out of the WWE.

Some believe he actually rivaled Hulk Hogan in popularity, but an incident involving his then girlfriend causes Vince Mcmahon to depush him in fear of bad publicity in the build up to the historic first event. Now 31 years later the New York Daily News is reporting that Jimmy Snuka may not be able to leap out of courts or charges this time. Here is an excerpt from New York Daily News:

Did “Superfly” do it? A Pennsylvania grand jury will reopen and investigate the 31-year-old death of Nancy Argentino, who was then the girlfriend of WWE Hall of Famer Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka.

The Lehigh County jury will look into what happened May 10, 1983, when the 23-year-old brunette beauty, a Brooklyn native, ended up dead.

"I think it's important to have a grand jury take a look at it and we'll see what they think," District Attorney Jim Martin told the Allentown Morning Call on Tuesday.

The announcement comes seven months after the newspaper revealed an autopsy report and interviews never seen by the public that revealed Argentino died of “traumatic brain injuries consistent with a moving head striking a stationary object.”

There were also signs of domestic violence on the woman’s body, the autopsy report showed, including more than two dozen cuts and bruises from her head to her feet.

The autopsy report determined the death was a homicide, but no one was ever arrested. Snuka was at one point a “person of interest” in the case but never charged, the Morning Call reported. In 1985, the woman’s family won a $500,000 wrongful death case against Snuka, but he claimed he had no money and never paid a cent.