Marty Jannetty, one half of the well-known “Rockers” tag-team with WWE legend Shawn Michaels, is reported to be underneath investigation after a weird social media publish by which he seems to confess murdering a person a number of years in the past.
Police have launched an investigation into Jannetty, 60, after the previous skilled wrestler detailed the incident in a Fb publish, saying that he “disappeared” a person when he was 13 years outdated after he implied that the person tried to molest him when he tried to purchase marijuana at a bowling alley at which he labored.
“I used to be 13, working at Victory Lanes bowling alley shopping for weed from a f** that labored there.. and he put his palms on me.. he dragged me across the again of the constructing.. you already know what he was gonna attempt to do.
“That was the very first time I made a person disappear.. They by no means discovered him.. They shoulda appeared within the Chattahoochie River.”
@WONF4W @PWTorch #prowrestling did Marty Jannetty simply discuss killing somebody, on FB? Is that this a "identified story" in wrestling? #prowrestling #wwe pic.twitter.com/lVS57idhYS
— Sgt. Schultz the Ewok (@ewok_schultz) August 5, 2020
The previous WWE tag-team and intercontinental champion’s obvious Fb confession has dumbfounded wrestling followers on-line, and apparently sparked an investigation into the alleged incident by the Columbus, Georgia Police Division.
“We’re going to look into this,” a spokesperson for the CPD murder and chilly case division said.
“Step one will probably be seeing if we now have any lacking individuals or unidentified stays instances that match the restricted data within the publish.”
Provided that Jannetty’s account of the incident means it might have occurred round 47 years in the past might means that any investigation could be met with a brick wall or two, until the wrestler is eager to disclose precisely what he’s alleging occurred.
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Jannetty initially joined the WWE (then WWF) in 1988 and shortly grew to become concerned with one of many firm’s most profitable tag-teams, The Rockers. Nevertheless, Jannetty’s solo character by no means fairly took off in the identical method that his associate Shawn Michaels’ did and his profession as a performer slowly petered out over the subsequent 10 years.
In 2016, Jannetty was named as a part of an unsuccessful class-action lawsuit towards the WWE which alleged that the corporate hid the dangers of mind accidents to its performers.