Nancy Argentino was just 23 when she was beaten to death in A Pennsylvania motel. Investigating the mysterious story of Jimmy Snuka, whose girlfriend Nancy Argentino died in their motel room in 1983, and revealing her family's 30-year struggle for justice. One event was a 2012 poker game in New York in which Snuka won $100,000 for charity, Scheetz said. All I remember is he had a briefcase with him. Jimmy Snuka had publicly admitted to drinking heavily, smoking tobacco, marijuana, and drug use such as cocaine and even anabolic steroids throughout his life according to his book.30 years later, the case was still unsolved but an opportunity for the case to be re-opened presented itself. Dementia is defined legally as being unable to understand what’s going on. Wrestlelamia 340,167 views. He argued Snuka’s head trauma had progressed to the point where he couldn’t understand what was happening in a courtroom and commented that his private doctors had seen memory impairment in him as early as 2010 and that Snuka might develop CTE in the future. Mihalakis would later say, “Just because she was beaten doesn’t mean she was beaten to death.”The variety of stories as to what he did with Nancy Argentino or how she got injured could fill this whole page. Part inspired by that series, Craig looks at the mysterious death of Nancy Argentino in 1983. I’ll say that much. He did not express his apologies or sympathies.”In 1983, Nancy Argentino’s family hired Richard Cushing, a New York attorney who had spent most of his career defending criminals, to take a second look. This was to prove that he was lucid.The coconut was supposed to be shaved thin on one end, to crack like an egg, the psychologist explained, but Piper hit Snuka with the wrong end.Also, to reinforce the aforementioned, Dr. Manish Fozdar, a Raleigh, North Carolina expert in Neuropsychiatry and forensic psychiatry said, “There are no cause-effect relationships as Snuka’s defense attorney argued.”“If that was ‘The Superfly Splash,’ it was the geriatric version,” Kirwan said.Chattman said that while the criminal charges left a “blemish” on Snuka’s legacy, he does not think they should define it.“I don’t think it’s Chris Benoit. Her boyfriend, professional wrestler Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka was the only person of interest. There are multiple reasons why no one was able to change that, and why the criminal justice system never convicted anyone for her death. It was a very worrisome case. There is much that is not publicly known about this case. Bronstad doesn’t remember hearing about McMahon’s involvement himself. Something went on and something got covered up. What the f***?”Following the county’s investigative grand jury findings, the WWE issued this statement, “WWE expresses its continued sympathy to the Argentino family for their loss. )| Ep. I did not have a clear-cut case. He believed that there was enough there to take it to a grand jury as a murder case, but William Platt was not convinced.After the one hour meeting in the district attorney’s law library, there are no records of Jimmy Snuka ever being questioned by police again. Obviously, there was enough there to arouse my suspicion but not enough to take it to trial.”Other than Snuka’s constantly shifting story of what happened, the autopsy report revealed to the public and even his 2012 autobiography helped put pressure on authorities to delve into the case once more.Dattilio testified Snuka was unable to recall many of the injuries that led to his head trauma but did recount the incident mentioned above which left him dizzy and disoriented.Nancy Argentino was just 23 when she died in 1983, after being rushed to a hospital from the motel room of Jimmy Snuka in Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania with a serious head injury.