Former WWE Star Jimmy ‘Superfly Snuka’ Charged with Murder
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Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Former professional wrestler Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka was charged with murder on Tuesday in the 1983 death of his girlfriend.
According to charging documents from a court in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Snuka faces with third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter charges. He was arrested in New Jersey on Tuesday and posted bail later that day.
Snuka, who had been at a World Wrestling Federation taping at the Allentown Fairgrounds at the time of his girlfriend Nancy Argentino’s death, told police shortly afterwards 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.
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