Wrestling Deviants Jailed for Shocking Abuse

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One of the worst aspects of these shocking crimes was that many people in the wrestling community were aware of it and did nothing for over a decade. 1. Buck Zumhofe Heather Zumhofe didn’t meet her father until she was 14 years old. He was a professional wrestler — Buck “Rock & Roll” Zumhofe — and children all over the midwest enjoyed his antics as he strutted to the ring with a boom box over one shoulder. He was never a star, working underneath for Verne Gagne and occasionally rising to the mid-card when called upon. Buck was a good enough hand that Gagne put the AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship on him and featured him in feuds with people like Bobby ‘the Brain’ Heenan and ‘Mr. Electricity’ Steve Regal.* But when the show was over, Buck Zumhofe was something else entirely: a sexual deviant who preyed on young girls. And Heather was easy pickings — she was right there, living with him. The assaults started soon after she moved in and continued for years. In March of 2013, Heather filed a criminal complaint against her father for the abuse she suffered as a teenager.