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Some of wrestling's biggest names have darker stories outside the ring. Join us as we count down the most shocking crimes committed by WWE wrestlers and personalities throughout the promotion's history! Our countdown includes Stone Cold Steve Austin, Tammy Lynn Sytch, Jimmy Snuka, Vince McMahon, Chris Benoit, and more! Which entry shocked you the most? Let us know in the comments below!
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00:00Ormond Beach police are investigating the former wrestler's role in a fatal crash.
00:04Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're examining the most shocking crimes committed by WWE wrestlers,
00:11managers, on-screen figures, and other employees affiliated with the wrestling promotion throughout its history.
00:17Apparently at least one suspicious text message sent to friends prompted wrestling officials to send police to his house.
00:25Duke Drossi. Brought into the company in 1994 with an infamous Garbage Man gimmick,
00:31Drossi departed two years later, only returning briefly for 2001's WrestleMania 17 for the Gimmick Battle Royale.
00:38Tony, this is gonna be-
00:40Duke, this is gonna be a-
00:40Tony!
00:42Oh, I'm sorry.
00:43Forget Tony.
00:44Are you putting me on?
00:46Yet he continued wrestling, even appearing in MLW in 2023.
00:50In 2013, while working as a special needs educator, Drossi was sentenced to three years in jail for attempting to
00:57sell controlled substances.
00:59Police say he illegally sold pain pills to a police informant.
01:03Michael David Drossi is actually a retired WWF wrestler.
01:08However, in 2025, it got much worse for him.
01:11The cryptocurrency website Coinbase allegedly denied Drossi's transaction,
01:15and told the police he was attempting to purchase abusive media online.
01:19On top of losing his job as a DUI coordinator, Drossi has been charged, and the case, at the time
01:25of writing, is ongoing.
01:26In this business, you can either make money or make friends.
01:29Well, apparently I made a lot of friends, because I didn't make no money.
01:33Stone Cold Steve Austin.
01:34If a Mount Rushmore of WWE wrestlers existed, Austin would be an obvious contender.
01:40Nicknamed the Texas Rattlesnake, he was seemingly more venomous in his personal life than he was inside the ring.
01:45In 2002, as Austin's WWE full-time career was ending dramatically, his wife and fellow wrestler, Debra Marshall, called the
01:53authorities due to him attacking her.
01:55You know, because the last time when the police were called, when he was arrested, that was the third time.
02:01And I'm not a really big woman, and it's just, you know, it was just time.
02:04I had read up on it, and it was getting a little bit out of hand.
02:08Austin later pleaded no contest to the charges, earning him a year of probation.
02:12The couple was officially divorced in 2003.
02:15I'm trying to get you.
02:15The damn chair comb has messed up my arm.
02:17I don't need you pulling on the damn thing.
02:19I know.
02:19It's killing me.
02:20Be careful.
02:20Well, be careful.
02:21Well, don't.
02:22My damn arm hurts.
02:23I'm not prepared.
02:23I'm WWF champion.
02:24Well, I know.
02:25Shut up.
02:26Marshall would later claim that Austin had attacked her multiple times, and that WWE knew about the abuse, but didn't
02:32act.
02:33Instead, she alleged that they preferred to keep their top earner around.
02:36Marshall also claimed Austin had been using steroids.
02:39You know what goes on here.
02:40I was married to Stone Cold Steve Austin, and the thing about Steve, he didn't have to take that test.
02:45If Steve didn't want to take the steroid test, he wouldn't.
02:48Billy Jack Haynes.
02:50A graduate of the iconic Heart Dungeon, Haynes was a regular feature on WWE programming from 1986, especially with the
02:57feud with Hercules.
02:58Yet two years later, while in the middle of a storyline, he was released, later stemming from substance issues.
03:05In 2024, after a two-hour standoff with the police, Haynes was arrested for allegedly murdering his wife, Jeanette Becraft.
03:12It's confirmed today that the suspect is a former professional wrestler.
03:15Right.
03:16He used to wrestle back in the 1980s when the WWE was the WWF, but now he's suspected of shooting
03:23and killing his wife.
03:24However, in 2025, the former wrestler was deemed unfit to stand trial.
03:29Instead, he was sent to a hospital to receive treatment until the time when he can face the charges in
03:34court.
03:34William Billy Jack Haynes has been deemed unfit to proceed.
03:38Judge Angela Lucero handing down that ruling yesterday.
03:41Now, Haynes will undergo further evaluation and treatment at Oregon State Hospital.
03:45Despite that, Becraft's estate, including her daughter Kimberly, issued a $750,000 lawsuit against Haynes for elder abuse, claiming he
03:54controlled Becraft and introduced her to illegal substances.
03:57I have my attorney out there.
03:59I'm glad that he's here today.
04:01It's a second-degree murder.
04:05And it's just way overcharged.
04:08That didn't happen.
04:09Buck Zumhoff.
04:11Interesting fact, Triple H's first WWE match was against Zumhoff.
04:15Trained by Vern Gagne, the Minnesota native was best known for carrying a boombox to the ring and jobbing in
04:21the WWE.
04:22Attempt for the...
04:22Oh, wow!
04:24I thought he was going to snap and marry him and he took Zumhoff's face first down.
04:27This could be all lateral press, leg hook, and it's over.
04:30I think he knocked the ball!
04:31Yet while he was appearing at wrestling events, Zumhoff had multiple run-ins with the law, including a 1986 sentence
04:37for assault and a 1999 conviction for a domestic attack.
04:41However, it got far darker in 2013 when he was arrested for assaulting his daughter for over 10 years.
04:47In 2014, Zumhoff was convicted on the charges.
04:50This is his daughter.
04:51This is his daughter.
04:52Right.
04:53And I said, well, if that's what really happened, you know, you've got to get away from him, dear.
04:59However, he then tried to run from the court, resulting in an easy capture and another charge added to his
05:04long list.
05:05Shortly after, the disgraced ex-wrestler was sentenced to 25 years in jail.
05:09It's good to be back to sea neck.
05:12You know, we didn't, we haven't gotten together for over a year because of the wrestling and all the ups
05:18and downs that come because of wrestling.
05:20Hard Body Harrison.
05:21A graduate of the WCW power plant, Harrison Norris Jr., better known as Hard Body Harrison, debuted for the wrestling
05:28promotion in 1995.
05:30Over the years, he made sporadic appearances for the company.
05:33That leg sweep puts you in the quickness from Glacier here.
05:35Well, quickness combined with balance, that's why Glacier can move so quick.
05:40He's always in balance.
05:42Cover shame, one, two, three.
05:45Glacier, one.
05:46When WCW was purchased by WWE in 2001, Harrison wasn't given a contract by the new owners, and he faded
05:53into wrestling obscurity, at least for a few years.
05:56In 2004, he was arrested for false imprisonment.
05:59Reportedly, Harrison would bail women out of jail and force them to work illicit jobs to pay him back.
06:04I remember Mike Rotom was like, this fight's a lot better than our match is going to be.
06:08We should just watch the fight.
06:09So he was kind of a little bit of a hothead, shall we say.
06:15In 2005, further investigations found that Harrison had imprisoned eight women at his properties.
06:21While representing himself as a lawyer, Harrison was convicted of the crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2008.
06:28But he would lure women in with the promise of helping them financially, he would help them find housing, and
06:35then he would trap them in one of the two homes that he owned in Cartersville.
06:40D.T. Porter
06:46Briefly using the name of D.T. Porter and WWE's former development brand FCW in 2011, only taking part in
06:53two tag team matches,
06:54Brian McGee was best known for wrestling on the indies under the name of the future Donovan Ruddock.
06:59In 2013, he was still in contact with his former girlfriend, Bianca McGahe, despite breaking up a year prior.
07:05However, while she spoke on the phone to his wife, McGee fatally attacked McGahe.
07:10Then he uploaded a photo of an injured limb, either his or McGahe's, on Facebook.
07:15As we broke first on ABC Action News this morning, deputies say he stabbed his girlfriend to death in the
07:20parking lot of a Tampa apartment complex.
07:22After a high-speed pursuit with the cops, McGee crashed his car and was arrested.
07:27In 2016, after agreeing to a plea deal, the disgraced former wrestler was sentenced to life in jail.
07:32The former pro wrestler actually got in his car and ran away from that murder scene, crashed it in Pasco
07:38County.
07:39Tonight, we know he's been booked into the Pasco County Jail just behind us.
07:43Tammy Lynn Sitch
07:44Best known for her work as Sunny in WWE during the 90s, Sitch was one of the most popular managers
07:49and women in wrestling at one point.
07:51However, with Sitch's issues with substances, her career fell from grace.
07:55While she recovered enough to be inducted into WWE's Hall of Fame in 2011, Sitch's issues returned,
08:01resulting in several criminal charges over the years.
08:04Let's hope I don't cry now.
08:06Let's hope I wait about, you know, five minutes down the road and then I'll start the tears.
08:10But, you know, life has been a roller coaster for me.
08:13I think most of you know that.
08:15It's the easiest way to explain my life.
08:17However, it got even worse in 2022.
08:20While driving intoxicated in Florida, the former star crashed into the back of Julian LaFrancis Lasseter's car,
08:26which collided with another vehicle.
08:28Sadly, Lasseter lost his life.
08:30Tammy Sitch was sentenced following a crash last year that killed a 75-year-old man from Daytona Beach.
08:37At the time of the crash, police said her blood alcohol content was three and a half times the legal
08:42limit.
08:43After being charged with manslaughter and other counts, Sitch pleaded no contest to the charges in 2023,
08:48earning her a sentence of 17 and a half years.
08:51At the end, the judge decided that the best thing for Sitch and the community around her was to sentence
08:57her to nearly two decades worth of prison time.
09:02Jimmy Snuka and the death of Nancy Argentino.
09:04Nearly everywhere he wrestled, Snuka was a champion.
09:07However, Superfly never lifted a title in WWE.
09:10And if his alleged crime in 1983 was true, there's a good reason he wasn't celebrated.
09:16She got the call she had been waiting for for more than three decades.
09:21The district attorney from Pennsylvania told her that Jimmy Superfly Snuka would be charged with her sister's murder.
09:28That year, the authorities arrived at a Pennsylvania motel to find a badly injured Nancy Argentino, who was dating the
09:35wrestler.
09:35Sadly, she didn't survive.
09:37She comes to my bed and I hear her say, is she gonna be alright?
09:43And then I hear her say, dead? Dead?
09:47Despite the investigation finding signs of an attack and Argentino having called the cops months before about another assault from
09:53Snuka,
09:53no criminal charges came.
09:55Instead, Argentino's parents won a $500,000 lawsuit against Snuka in 1985.
10:01In 2015, the case was reopened and Snuka was charged with murder.
10:05However, it was dismissed in 2017, after he was deemed unfit to stand trial, before passing away shortly after.
10:12The case went cold after WWE executive Vince McMahon got involved back in the early 80s.
10:19Tonight, that organization expressed its, quote, continued sympathy to the Argentino family for their loss.
10:26Vince McMahon.
10:27Do you have a reason why these people would be dying under the age of 45?
10:31Why don't you ask yourself that question? I mean, why, why, why, are you indicating that's my responsibility? These people
10:37are dead because...
10:38Credited for turning the WWE into a global powerhouse and playing a villainous character on screen,
10:43the allegations against McMahon destroyed that legacy.
10:46In 2022, the WWE board found he'd used company money to pay off several allegations of misconduct.
10:52This resulted in his retirement and his return months later.
10:56In 2024, McMahon resigned when Janelle Grant went public with her lawsuit.
11:00The scandal couldn't come at a worse time as the WWE signed a massive $5 billion deal with Netflix.
11:07So much is on the line, everyone at the WWE has reportedly been told to not say a word.
11:14A former WWE employee, she alleged that McMahon and John Laurinaitis assaulted her.
11:19Grant also claimed she was used as a bargaining chip to get Brock Lesnar to sign a contract.
11:23Another public victim was Rita Chatterton, a former WWE referee who accused McMahon of assault in 1986.
11:30She later filed a lawsuit against him, which was settled in 2023.
11:35He knew I didn't have a job. I had left Frito-Lay because of him.
11:39He knew that I had a daughter and that he could either make me or break me. The choice was
11:44mine.
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12:17Chris Benoit.
12:19With his hard-hitting style, Benoit morphed into one of the best to get into a WWE ring.
12:31However, in 2007, when he no-showed multiple events, including a pay-per-view,
12:36the authorities arrived at his Georgia home to find Benoit, his wife Nancy, and their son Daniel had passed away.
12:43Instead of WWE Raw, the company created a tribute show to the Canadian wrestler.
12:47The authorities are undergoing an investigation.
12:53We here in the WWE can only offer our condolences to the extended family of Chris Benoit.
13:00Not long after, the truth emerged that Benoit had taken Nancy and Daniel's lives before doing the same to himself.
13:06WWE moved quickly to distance itself from Benoit, essentially scrubbing his history with the brand.
13:11WWE presented a special tribute show, recognizing the career of Chris Benoit.
13:17However, now some 26 hours later, the facts of this horrific tragedy are now apparent.
13:24There have been multiple theories on why Benoit did this terrible deed,
13:28including steroid use and signs of CTE from multiple brain injuries.
13:32The generation of his brain changed who he was and what he was capable of.
13:36If you get hit in the head thousands of times, your brain essentially can start to rot.
13:41What other WWE personalities who committed shocking crimes did we miss?
13:45Let us know below.
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