“Nancy called me at 2 in the morning saying, ‘I have to get out of here,’” her sister recalled. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. Reporters from The Morning Call revealed the unreported autopsy findings and put heat under the case again in 2013 to ring in the 30th anniversary of the unsolved mystery. I want to make clear that I only pushed her away to keep her from hitting me. It was 1983 and only days after Nancy Argentino was found barely breathing, oozing yellow fluid from her mouth and nose while laying almost lifeless, while holed up in Room 427 at the George Washington Motor Lodge in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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Procacyn represented Snuka to me as likable, credible, consistent. Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you. “Finally, I just kept looking at her and trying to talk to her and she didn’t even respond like when I left. Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. The trouble is the brawler allegedly inflicted multiple beatdowns on his wife. No matter what grounds the Whitehall police claim in sealing their embarrassing work of a mere 30 years ago under the rubric of an “open” investigation, the autopsy and police report had emerged as exhibits in the Argentinos’ 1985 federal civil lawsuit against Snuka. After being informed of her ex-husband’s murder charges, she told The Daily Beast, “I have nothing further to offer.”. You have to think about this and get out of this relationship.’, “But it was too late.
Even if I didn’t already know that the last two, especially, were a load, I soon had independent information contradicting other parts of what Procacyn said. He tells between three-and-a-half and five versions of Nancy’s “very serious concussion.” In one, he slapped her face by the roadside to bring her back to consciousness. On January 28th, 2014: Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin announces that the Nancy Argentino case will go to a grand jury. “In the end, I paid a fine and the charges were dropped.”, It was after that “party” that Argentino’s family tried to convince her to kick Snuka to the curb. If a new volunteer signs up in your requested photo location, they may see your existing request and take the photo.
As I said, the Call did a very good job overall, but their story is flawed by self-censorship — Clark-Amerman, or more likely their editors, did pull some other punches. You need a Find a Grave account to add things to this site. Are you sure that you want to remove this flower? In another version Snuka said he called authorities straightaway. There is a problem with your email/password. “They beat me with their batons… I never laid my hands on anyone, and I didn’t 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 Nancy—she was fine.” All was swept under the wrestling mat in fact.
But not because of anything Snuka did, mind you.
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The writer was onto the flimsy slip-and-fall storylines Snuka had peddled to police and prosecutors. Add to your scrapbook. For Edits select Suggest Edits on the memorial page. Oops, something didn't work. “Procanyn didn’t say to me, ‘We didn’t have enough evidence to indict’—which at least would have been plausible. Are you sure that you want to report this flower to administrators as offensive or abusive? Track back 30 years to the documented interview with Detective Gerald Procanyn of the Whitehall Police Department at the hotel.
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. “She was going to come home for that weekend,” Salome said. Snuka recalled the coke-induced bender at the hotel where he and his “boys” would party and crash.
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That was a blatant lie,” said Muchnick. 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 Argentino’s case for the Whitehall PD, Gerald Procanyn (who became a DA’s investigator), as purposely bungling the case. “Superfly” Jimmy Snuka always claimed his innocence in the death of Nancy Argentino.
“There is no question in my mind that the missing narrative piece coming out of the indictment is the role that officers of the court in Pennsylvania themselves played,” Muchnick told The Daily Beast. The question raised and unanswered by Snuka’s tantalizing quote is something entirely different: whether WWF, in protecting one of its most popular stars from a homicide indictment, handed out strategic cash to anyone else.