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WWE Wrestler Chris Benoit found Dead; with wife and 7 year old son
Topic Started: Jun 25 2007, 11:02 PM (1,103 Views)
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http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=3315501&page=1

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Wrestling star Chris Benoit, his wife, Nancy, and their 7-year-old son Daniel were found dead in their suburban Atlanta home Monday. The deaths are being investigated as a possible suicide and double homicide, authorities told ABC News.

Lt. Tommy Pope of the Fayette County Sheriff's Department told ABC News that Benoit had missed several appointments over the weekend, leading concerned parties to ask police to do a "welfare check." When sheriffs arrived at the Benoits' home, they found the wrestler, his wife, and their son dead.

There were no signs of gunshot wounds or stabbing, according to Pope. Authorities are not ruling out other causes, such as poisoning, suffocation, or strangulation. Pope told ABC News that his department is looking at this situation as a "possible double murder, suicide."

Pope said "the instruments of death were located on scene," but would not specify what those instruments are or where in the house the bodies were found. Pope added the department is "not actively searching for any suspects outside of the house."

An autopsy has been scheduled for Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. However, it could be weeks before there is a result.
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Looks like he could have possibly killed his wife and kid then himself, or even the possibility the wife did.

He missed the PPV on Sunday because he had to return home for a family emergency according to wrestling newsboards. So who knows what happened. Will find out soon.
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Reports are now saying he strangled his wife and smothered his son over the weekend and then he hung himself on Monday.

His son was found in his room, his wife in their office and he hung himself in the weight room.
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Drafting Marbury + Foyle = Championship. \o/
Don't you just love what steroids can do to you mind?
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Jun. 26 2007 02:07 PM
Don't you just love what steroids can do to you mind?

Yea....they are looking at it as "roid rage". Supposedly back in 2003, his wife filed for divorce because he felt she and her child were in danger. Its sad.
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Press Conference Notes:

- CONFIRMED Benoit strangled Nancy sometime Friday and Daniel sometime Saturday and sometime Saturday Night or Sunday Evening hanged himself.

- According to doctors, Benoit killed himself several hours after he killed Nancy and Daniel. No more than 24 hours.

- There was a Bible placed at the side of each body.

- Nancy was bound by her feet and hands

- Benoit hanged himself with the cords from the weight machine.

- No suicide notes of any kind

- Alot of prescription medication found in his house. But all LEGAL.

- Also Steroids found in the house.

- When asked about the motive, they said they were not gonna go into it at this time.

- Would not go into the context of the text messages he sent to a "fellow wrestler"
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Sheesh. Crazy story. That poor family. This sounds like Capote's "In Cold Blood"
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Jun. 26 2007 03:34 PM
Sheesh. Crazy story. That poor family. This sounds like Capote's "In Cold Blood"

That was my first thought as well...

But, in this situation, the killer was a member of the family. What a shame.
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Did you guys hear about that Wikipedia thing with Benoit? Someone anonymously posted something about his wife's death before she was killed. They traced the anonymous poster to Connecticut, which ironically enough is where the WWE headquarters is. Crazy stuff.
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Jun. 30 2007 07:52 PM
Did you guys hear about that Wikipedia thing with Benoit? Someone anonymously posted something about his wife's death before she was killed. They traced the anonymous poster to Connecticut, which ironically enough is where the WWE headquarters is. Crazy stuff.

Supposedly they found the guy and he said it was just a terrible coincidence. The police confiscated his computer however.
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Really weird, I've been following this story pretty closely since I'm a big wrestling fan and have been watching Benoit for a long time. Honestly the media and everyone else wants it to be "roid rage" as the reason he did this, but I don't think it was. Steroids aren't going to do that to you, they'll make you violent and angry, and you'll want to destroy things but you're not going to do what Chris Benoit did.

Just a terrible tragedy.
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Julian Bailes of the Sports Legacy Institute showed an image from a healthy brain versus Chris Benoit's brain, which showed brown spots indicating signs of cell death, similar to what an Alzheimer patient's brain might look like.
The family of Chris Benoit has been searching for answers since late June, when the professional wrestler killed his wife, 7-year-old son and then himself.


http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3560015&page=1


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At the crime scene, police found anabolic steroids prompting many to suspect that "roid rage" had accounted for Benoit's behavior, which his family found out of character for the 40-year-old.

The tests, conducted by Julian Bailes of the Sports Legacy Institute, show that Benoit's brain was so severely damaged it resembled the brain of an 85-year-old Alzheimer's patient.

Bailes and his research team say that this damage was the result of a lifetime of chronic concussions and head trauma suffered while Benoit was in the wrestling ring.

Benoit's father, Michael Benoit, is speaking out in order to warn other athletes, both professional and student.

Dementia Caused by Multiple Concussions, Doctor Says
After hearing the news that his son had murdered his 7-year-old son, Daniel, and wife Nancy and then killed himself, Michael Benoit struggled to understand how it could have happened.

Michael says Benoit was a "kind and gentle" man who volunteered with the Make-A-Wish Foundation and visited U.S. troops overseas in Iraq.

"First we needed an understanding. The person that did this is not the man we know and love," Michael said today on "Good Morning America."

After the suicide and murders, Michael was contacted by a former wrestler, who suggested he investigate whether years of trauma to Benoit's brain could have contributed to his actions.

"I was grasping for anything," Michael told ABC News' Bob Woodruff. "The world was very black. I mean, we didn't even know how to deal with this."

So Michael turned over part of his son's brain to Bailes, the head of neurosurgery at West Virginia University and former Pittsburgh Steelers team physician.

Bailes and his research team had also analyzed the brains of former NFL players such as Andre Waters and Terry Long, who both committed suicide. Bailes and his colleagues theorize that repeated concussions can lead to dementia, which can contribute to severe behavioral problems.

"There is a constant theme in the failure of their personal lives, their business lives, depression and then ultimately suicide," Bailes said.
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