I heard a quick blurb on the radio this afternoon. From Benoit's Wiki page...

On June 25, 2007, Benoit and his family were found dead in their home in Atlanta. It was first reported to fans of the WWE via WWE Mobile. There are no exact details are known about this death at this time. [1] Through their website, World Wrestling Entertainment also released the following statement[82]:

"World Wrestling Entertainment is deeply saddened to report that today Chris Benoit and his family were found dead in their home. There are no further details at this time, other than the Benoit family residence is currently being investigated by local authorities.
Tonight's Raw on USA Network will serve as a tribute to Chris Benoit and his family. WWE extends its sincerest thoughts and prayers to the Benoit family's relatives and loved ones in this time of tragedy."

WWE cancelled the scheduled live Raw show scheduled for June 25, and was replaced by a pre-recorded tribute to Benoit in its place.[6]

Fayette County, Georgia police are investigating Benoit's house following the discovery of the bodies, and no details have been released other than to announce that Benoit was not shot to death.[83]

I found lots of them doing a Google News search. Here's one.

This is what happened. Unfortunately, it appears this was a double murder and then suicide by Chris Benoit. What a horrific situation!

This whole story is disgusting.You have to be very twisted to kill anyone ESPECIALLY your 7 year old son.
It really makes you not want to watch the news or read the newspapers.

Eddie, he may have gone through a complete mental breakdown. These are circumstances that we have no idea about. But you are correct that he would have to be most disturbed to carry out such a horrific crime.

As I understand the storyline that Benoit was to have portrayed over the weekend, he was set to be crowned as the ECW world champion, rebounding what was a stagnant career for some time. However, that slot went to another wrestler, after Benoit's non-appearance at the WWE pay per view.

Edited to add: Perhaps this story will shed some light on this horrific situation.

What an ass****. Kill yourself. Why take your wife and kid? He's head to hell in a jet plane with gasoline underwear.

They're looking into whether a Roid Rage may have contributed to this....One has to wonder, since it seems like so many of these wrestlers have taken their own lives or died tragically young....

I'm going to speculate that he killed his wife accidentally in some sort of rage and then sat around all day Sunday trying to figure out what to do.

It also renews my suspicions about the effects of some steroids.

I'm no wrestling fan but this story is just shocking to me. I immedietely suspected steroid induced rages as a possible cause of these murders and suicide. Too bad that this happened. I feel so bad for the child and wife. Just tragic in the extreme.

The police are speculating that he killed his wife on Friday, killed his son on Saturday and didn't kill himself until late Sunday or early Monday. The freak stayed in the house with two dead bodies for two days.

Sometimes people do things for very strange and complicated reasons. Sometimes they themselves are not even able to understand or comprehend what they are doing until it is too late. Particularly if steroids or other drugs are involved.

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist..."

I think we will hear of allegations of violence, steroid abuse, drugs, domestic abuse, and who knows what else. But in the end they will just be allegations. I am not sure that in a case like this anyone can ever tell you what really happened - and certainly not why.

It is a senseless, un-fathomable waste; Everyone involved has my sympathy and prayers.


Rob

I had a chance to meet and interview Chris Benoit a few years ago. He was a class act and very well spoken. There was no ego with him and he was genuinely passionate about the sport and his family. Two of my friends are wrestlers in the WWE and were somewhat close with him. Even they had no idea that he was capable of such actions.

To say I'm shocked would be an understatement. I had looked up to him, and even attended the same high school he did. He was an inspiration... if a kid from Archbishop O'leary high school in Edmonton could go on to achieve his dream of becoming a pro wrestler, why couldn't I do the same? And I did... I'm living my dream job. So when I think of the horrible way that he killed his family... it makes me sick to my stomach.

Whether it was drugs or mental illness, the bottom line is that he killed both his wife and son before committing suicide. It's difficult to understand and wrap my mind around it...

My heart and thoughts and prayers go out to those affected by this terrible tragedy.

RIP Nancy and Daniel Benoit.

unfathomable tragedy.

Just one in a long list of tragedies.

That is horrendous! I wouldn't doubt that the main idiot Vince McMahon uses steroids as well.
The Von Erich family story is just about the worst.

This will hopefully end in some great changes for professional wrestling as a whole.

You guys haven't been looking at the injury and mortality statistics among Pro and Semi Pro athletes very closely have you?

Look, no one is more anti drug and anti-steroids, or has more reason to be, than I am.

Trying to get that slight edge on your opponent is as ancient as the Greeks oiling their bodies before entering the ring.

The pull of performance enhancers to let you acquire a little bit MORE, more speed, more endurance, more stamina, more muscle, more... is VERY seductive.

If you went up to the average athlete and told them that just by taking a drug and with a little bit of extra work they could be catapulted to the top of their chosen sport - even if you told them it would shorten their lives by a decade or two - I know of a large minority, if not a majority, who would ask you: "Where do I sign up?"

Doubt me? Look at the weight loss industry. Billions spent every year by people trying to find an easy magic bullet rather than do the hard work. Hell, people are having their bodies surgically altered for weight loss, or just for cosmetic reasons to look younger.

Is it any surprise that athletes get on a roller coaster they can't get off of? And then what happens even if they do realize how bad the drugs are?

Believe me, when you are at the top of your game it is very hard to just walk away from it.

The medical community are no saints in this regard either. In the last 30 years "Do no harm" has been turned on it's ear. Most of the new procedures and drugs out there are designed to treat "life conditions". Weigh to much? Take a pill. Depressed because your partner left you? Take a pill. Shy around people? Take a pill. 60 and can't get it up like a 20 yo anymore? Take a pill. Children not behaving well because you don't have time to spend with them and teach them how to behave? Give THEM a pill, and take two for anxiety while you are at it.

You are never going to get rid of the pursuit of performance enhancers; and you will never make them unattractive until there is a fundamental paradigm shift in the way our society views health, physical fitness, and body image.

Rob

It's all very Faustian and it's not just in wrestling either. The NFL and the NFLPA are dealing with the exact same issue. It's very difficult for some young men, especially those who come from meager means, to turn down the chance to be gods for 10-15 years even with most knowing they are trading in 20-30 years of their life for the opportunity.

When you are 20 years old, 15 years is an eternity. Who wants to live to be 60 anyway?

In a wise move, even the WWE Chairman, Vince McMahon, is beginning to distance his company from the actions of Chris Benoit, as evidenced in this video.

I loved that people are making steroids the boogie man when the dude was basically f**ked in the head.

Yeah after the three hour love fest tribute they gave him Monday night before knowing any actual facts about what happened.

Steroids can make you very aggressive, paranoid, and mess your head up a lot.

I don't think its a stretch.

Nobody is saying that is an excuse for what happened, simply that the use of steroids might have been a major contributing factor to this tragedy.

ALSO - LIKE I SAID ABOVE - It's all speculation, I doubt anyone will ever really know what really went on.

R

Weird stuff in this scripted "sport"...



...and...



I'm shocked to learn that they have "reality" in the WWE.

We may now know why Benoit killed his family.

Oh yeah...I forgot...steroids are actually ok...

My ex died from the affects of steroids. I know first hand what it did to his personality, and to his health. Roids can affect a person's brain, and make him more f@@@@d in the head....

According to a news report I saw last night, Benoit's youngest child the one he murdered was a dwarf and suffered from broken x syndrome. This is a chromosomal abnormality that causes autism and severe retardation. I don't think steroids can be blamed for Benoit's violence. I think he was a truly twisted bastard who finally totally snapped. May he burn in the worst hell realm.

Now you can see Vince McMahon's reaction to this awful tragedy perpetrated by Chris Benoit.

Ok...how weird is this? I mean this is really creepy.

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ATLANTA (June 28) - Investigators are looking into who altered pro wrestler Chris Benoit's Wikipedia entry to mention his wife's death hours before authorities discovered the bodies of the couple and their 7-year-old son.

Benoit's Wikipedia entry was altered early Monday to say that the wrestler had missed a match two days earlier because of his wife's death.

A Wikipedia official, Cary Bass, said Thursday that the entry was made by someone using an Internet protocol address registered in Stamford, Conn., where World Wrestling Entertainment is based.

An IP address, a unique series of numbers carried by every machine connected to the Internet, does not necessarily have to be broadcast from where it is registered. The bodies were found in Benoit's home in suburban Atlanta, and it's not known where the posting was sent from, Bass said.

Benoit's page on Wikipedia, a reference site that allows users to add and edit information, was updated at 12:01 a.m. Monday, about 14 hours before authorities say the bodies were found. The reason he missed a match Saturday night was "stemming from the death of his wife Nancy," it said.

Reporters informed the Fayette County district attorney's office of the posting Thursday, and the agency forwarded the information to sheriff's investigators, who are looking into it, a legal assistant said in an e-mail to the AP.

WWE attorney Jerry McDevitt said that to his knowledge, no one at the WWE knew Nancy Benoit was dead before her body was found Monday afternoon. Text messages released by officials show that messages from Chris Benoit's cell phone were being sent to co-workers a few hours after the Wikipedia posting.

WWE employees are given WWE e-mail addresses, McDevitt said, though he did not know whether Chris Benoit had one.

"I have no idea who posted this," McDevitt said. "It's at least possible Chris may have sent some other text message to someone that we're unaware of. We don't know if he did. The phone is in the possession of authorities."

On Thursday afternoon, the Wikipedia page about Benoit carried a note stating that editing by unregistered or newly registered users was disabled until July 8 because of vandalism.
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You're right. That is very creepy!

Now that I've seen this, it explains a lot. The altered Wikipedia entry on Benoit was a hoax! Sadly, however, that doesn't diminish what Benoit did to his wife and son. Nothing will.

Domestic violence is sadly very common in domestic wrestling. An exwife of Stone Cold Steve Austin was on telly last night discussing how she had been beaten by the wrestler. Anabolic steroids can certainly cause biochemical changes in the brain that can lead to violent moodswings. And coupled with an already disturbed psyche then anything can happen. I mourn for the late child who was killed in a 'choke' hold by his own 'dad' Chris Benoit. The press has mentioned the child's physical disabilities. He was differently able and could suffer like any other human being. I guess to Chris Benoit the life of an innocent child was worth nothing. He would often pose with the son and pretend to be a loving dad. Children are gifts from G-d not objects to be discarded at will.

Another day, another dead wrestler.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/more...r.ap/index.html

I just saw Brian "Crush" Adams on GSN on a "Family Feud" rerun yesterday. Several of the wrestlers featured on that show have died since that time, including the host Ray Combs. It was quite interesting, as well as depressing.

I just don't know what to say.

Judge rules Hustler can publish nude pic's of Chris Benoit's murdered wife

Sounds like something Hustler would do. But why? I can't see how this would increase sales.