Legendary pro-wrestling villain Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka was busted in Pennsylvania on Tuesday for the 32-year-old murder of his Brooklyn girlfriend in a motel near Allentown, authorities said.
Jimmy Snuka had been videotaping a World Wrestling Federation event in Allentown on May 10, 1983, before returning to his motel in Whitehall Township, where he found Nancy Argentino, then 23, struggling to breath and with mucus flowing from her mouth and nose.
The wrestler — known for his high-flying kicks in the ring — first told a cop and four others at the scene that he had shoved Argentino to the ground earlier in the day and that she had hit her head, according to police interviews obtained by The (Allentown) Morning Call.
But he quickly changed his story, insisting that all five had misunderstood him and that the victim had slipped and hit her head after they stopped by the roadside to urinate.
Snuka, 72, was busted Tuesday morning at his home in Waterford Township, New Jersey, and charged with third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, according to Lehigh County DA Jim Martin.
He was ordered held on $100,000 bail and sent to the county jail. He later posted bail.
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