THE G-MAN INTERVIEWS: KEVIN AMERMAN
Journalist Who Discovered Crucial Evidence in 'Superfly' Snuka Case Shares Details, Explains How the WWE Chairman Could Be Impacted If Forced to Testify
Journalist Who Discovered Crucial Evidence in 'Superfly' Snuka Case Shares Details, Explains How the WWE Chairman Could Be Impacted If Forced to Testify
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The following is an excerpt from a 2013 news story published in the Pennsylvania-based newspaper The Morning Call.
Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka had just walked into his Whitehall hotel room, where a beautiful young woman lay in his bed.
It
wasn't unusual for Snuka, a married man, to spend the night with his
girlfriend, Nancy Argentino. But on this night, after the budding
wrestling superstar had returned from a series of World Wrestling
Federation TV tapings at the Allentown Fairgrounds, something was amiss.
Argentino was gasping for air. Yellow fluid oozed from her mouth and nose.
Snuka
grabbed the room phone and frantically dialed the front desk.
Paramedics rushed her to Lehigh Valley Hospital, where Snuka later stood
helplessly and watched doctors try to save his girlfriend's life. About
3 a.m., Snuka dialed a number in Brooklyn, where Louise Argentino-Upham
was startled awake by her mother sitting on the bed, phone pressed to
her ear.
"Dead?" Caroline Argentino, Nancy's mother, cried out. "Dead?" The date was May 11, 1983.
Thirty
years later, Nancy Argentino's death remains unsolved. The Lehigh
County district attorney's office has refused to allow the coroner to
release her autopsy report over the past three decades. The document,
included in a 1985 civil lawsuit, was obtained by The Morning Call from a
federal archives warehouse in Philadelphia.
Argentino,
23, died of traumatic brain injuries consistent with a moving head
striking a stationary object, according to the autopsy. Her injuries
weren't reflective of a singular head injury, wrote Dr. Isidore
Mihalakis, the nationally recognized forensic pathologist who examined
the body.
Argentino
suffered more than two dozen cuts and contusions — a possible sign of
"mate abuse" — on her head, ear, chin, arms, hands, back, buttocks, legs
and feet, Mihalakis wrote in his autopsy report.
"In
view of the autopsy findings and the discrepancies in the clinical
history, I believe that the case should be investigated as a homicide
until proven otherwise," Mihalakis wrote.
Snuka
and Argentino were the only two in the hotel room that night, records
say. Snuka was later named a "person of interest" by the Whitehall
Township Police Department, but no criminal charges were filed. In 1985,
the Argentino family won a $500,000 wrongful death lawsuit against
Snuka. Claiming he was broke and couldn't afford a legal defense, Snuka
never paid.
The
local police investigation effectively went cold on June 1, 1983 after a
follow-up interview with Snuka that was ordered by Lehigh Valley
authorities and attended by WWF mogul Vince McMahon. It is still open to
this day.
The
special report was written by former Morning Call reporters Adam Clark
and Kevin Amerman. Mr. Amerman joins me to discuss this case in greater
detail, the recent murder charge filed against the pro-wrestling icon
and how the bombshell development could impact WWE chairman Vince
McMahon and his company going forward.
The interview was conducted on September 17, 2015.
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The “Superfly” Jimmy Snuka (top rope) and Snuka/Argentino photo are courtesy of “The Morning Call”.
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