A true wrestling legend is in some pretty hot water after a fuming post on Facebook…
Marty Jannetty, half of the WWF (and later WWE) tag team The Rockers along with partner Shawn Michaels, took to his FB on Wednesday apparently to end a relationship with an ex-girlfriend. Instead he began a new relationship with law enforcement after saying a bit too much.
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He wrote in a now-deleted post:
“I never told no one this, even my brother Geno.. cause Geno would’ve killed him, and I didn’t want my brother gone, hell he’d only recently come home from Viet Nam. I was 13, working at Victory Lanes bowling alley buying weed from a f**ker that worked there.. and he put his hands on me.. He dragged me around to the back of the building..You already know what he was gonna try to do..”
In case it wasn’t clear, Jannetty did later confirm what he’s implying is an attempted sexual assault. He continued:
“That was the very first time I made a man disappear.. they never found him.. they shoulda looked in the Chattahoochie River..”
Whoa.
The rest of the post focuses on a woman named Winnie, who is pictured with him in the photo, as he tells her:
“I promised myself way back then, nobody would ever hurt me again.. that includes you..”
But obviously it isn’t the breakup stuff that has authorities concerned; it’s how he very strongly implied he killed someone behind a Columbus bowling alley and dumped his body in the river.
Columbus Police Captain Joyce Dent-Fitzpatrick confirmed to People her department is now investigating based on the post. She says:
“We were very shocked at the post and we are taking it very seriously and we are looking into it. We jumped right on it when we got it. It is a serious allegation. It is a serious post.”
Jannetty is 60 years old now, placing the incident he described around 47 years ago, in 1973. But there is no statute of limitations on murder.
Captain Dent-Fitzpatrick spoke about how the investigation is starting:
“Right now we are looking at it as a missing persons case. We are trying to reach out to people who may have been here during that timeframe or know something about someone missing during that timeframe to give us some insight.”
We guess they start with people who were working at that bowling alley in 1973? It’s a pretty strong starting point.
Obviously these cold cases are not easy to solve, even if the people involved get angry and let things slip on social media.
“It is going to be very daunting. We just need some time and a lot of people are helping.”
So what does Marty have to say about the controversy??
In an interview on the Boston Wrestling MWF YouTube channel, the former WWE Intercontinental and Tag Team Champion defended himself by saying:
“I almost got raped. If I couldn’t have handled myself, that dude would’ve raped me.”
We understood, but what about where you seemed to say you killed a guy?? He clarified:
“I didn’t say I killed him. I said he disappeared.”
Honestly, we don’t think this is helping Jannetty’s case. And the details he gave next definitely don’t. Further painting a picture, he recalled about the guy he was buying weed off of:
“What I didn’t know was he lured in little kids.”
Jannetty said the man was “big” and dragged him from his car, then tried to pull down his pants.
“I probably don’t need to say this, but there was a brick laying there. What I said in my Facebook post, I’m not gonna lie about nothing… What do you do when you’re 13?”
Wow. It really feels like he wants to confess completely — and he very nearly did!
“I can’t say he deserved to be killed — I didn’t say I killed him. I can’t say he deserved to die, but he deserved to get his ass beat. And when I was beating him in the head with a brick, I was only trying to beat his ass. I wasn’t trying to kill him.”
We are speechless here! He continued:
“Can you imagine dragging a guy — he’s just tried to f**k you in the ass — can you imagine dragging him to the river and throwing him in? And then finding out on the news the dude’s missing? You know the dude. And you know more than that. That f**king affected me bad, bro.”
We mean… he’s basically recounting the entire story here! This is way more incriminating than the FB post!
Will Marty talk himself into prison? What do YOU think will come of this??
See the entire interview (below):