WWE "Chris Benoit" Found Dead

girth said:
Not really. There's a BIG difference between "normal" people like you and me and these "professional" wrestlers. The fact is they are so jacked up on drugs of all kinds that they cannot be considered normal in the least. The list of wrestlers that have died before the age of 50 is HUGE, yet nobody seems to care and all the fans keep supporting it. I mean look at McMahon himself - he was found with a ton of roids, enough to feed an army basically, and rather than be honest and say he was distributing them to his wrestlers he claimed they were all his. Come on now.

You gotta be kidding me if you think that. "Normal" people can lose it just as quick as "Professional" wrestlers can reguardless if there taking steroids or not. There profession ain't got shyt to do with it. This guy was pretty disturbed and had some serious mental problems that needed to be address but sadly it was to late and 3 lives were lost. Its unfortunate but situations like this isn't unheard of. Some person with mental problems ends up losing it and take innocent lives.
 
there are rumors that the wife killed the son and when chris got there and found out he killed her and then himself...but it sounds like bs to me...
 
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theEZV said:
come on now, i really doubt they knew all the details when they decided to piece that together

and man, this situation is horrible and sad. RIP to the wife and the kid.

the WWE were the ones who requested the police go to the house after he missed a show and people claimed they received disturbing text messages from Benoit. what reports are true who knows but it's not like vince hasn't been in this situation before. next time he'll think twice before paying homage to a wwe "hero" and wait for things like toxicology results and police investigations.
 
i really think that any 'defense' of this guy or statements like, 'he was otherwise a good person' are pathetic. just IMO
 
More info from the AJC. I guess their son had Fragile X syndrome - a form of retardation accompanied by autism. :(

ATLANTA In the days before pro wrestler Chris Benoit killed his wife and child and hanged himself, the couple argued over whether he should stay home more to take care of their mentally retarded 7-year-old son, an attorney for the wrestling league said Wednesday.

"I think it's fair to say that the subject of caring for that child was part of what made their relationship complicated and difficult, and it's something they were both constantly struggling with," said Jerry McDevitt, an attorney for World Wrestling Entertainment. "We do know it was a source of stress and consternation."
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McDevitt said the wrestling organization learned from the couple's friends and relatives that the Benoits were struggling with where to send the boy to school since he had recently finished kindergarten.
He also said Benoit's wife didn't want him to quit wrestling, but she "wanted him to be at home more to care for the kid. She'd say she can't take care of him by herself when he was on the road."

The child suffered from a rare medical condition called Fragile X Syndrome, an inherited form of mental retardation often accompanied by autism, McDevitt said.
 
Witchdoktor said:
the WWE were the ones who requested the police go to the house after he missed a show and people claimed they received disturbing text messages from Benoit. what reports are true who knows but it's not like vince hasn't been in this situation before. next time he'll think twice before paying homage to a wwe "hero" and wait for things like toxicology results and police investigations.

all the txt messages said were along the lines of "my address is blah blah blah, the dogs have been fed." and they hadnt had the police go there until monday, the day the bodies were found. the police left out the fact that he was hanging from the ceiling when they found him.

WWE had no idea of what had happened. im not a wrestling fan, but i did check out ECW on tuesday nite just to see what they would say. vince macmahon made a statement before the show that they had made the tribute the tribute the night before, but since the information that had surfaced in the 26 hours between RAW and ECW, they pretty much retract their tribute.
 
Akaveli said:
You gotta be kidding me if you think that. "Normal" people can lose it just as quick as "Professional" wrestlers can reguardless if there taking steroids or not. There profession ain't got shyt to do with it. This guy was pretty disturbed and had some serious mental problems that needed to be address but sadly it was to late and 3 lives were lost. Its unfortunate but situations like this isn't unheard of. Some person with mental problems ends up losing it and take innocent lives.
I'm not saying it doesn't happen ever, I'm saying it's much more likely to happen if the person is doing drugs, like so many of the wrestlers do. The combination of roids, pain killers, and God knows what else the majority of these guys take certainly qualifies them as abnormal and therefore should not be compared to your average Joes on the street.
 
Yea that was wierd, Wiki fixed it but I was able to dicover more of the "vandalism" apparently someone posted on wiki that his wife was dead 14 before they found the body. Read below

http://www.miamiherald.com/416/story/155258.html
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ATLANTA --
(AP) -- Investigators had not yet discovered the bodies of pro wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife and their 7-year-old son when someone altered Benoit's Wikipedia entry to mention his wife's death, authorities said.

Authorities said Thursday they are trying to determine who altered the entry on the collaborative reference site 14 hours before authorities discovered the bodies of the couple and their son.
Benoit's Wikipedia entry was altered early Monday to say the wrestler had missed a match two days earlier because of his wife's death.
A Wikipedia official, Cary Bass, said 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 strangled his wife and son during the weekend, placing Bibles next to their bodies, before hanging himself on the cable of a weight-machine in his home, authorities said. No motive was offered for the killings, which were discovered Monday.
Also Thursday, federal drug agents said they had raided the west Georgia office of a doctor who prescribed testosterone to Benoit.
The raid at Dr. Phil Astin's office in Carrollton began Wednesday night and concluded early Thursday, said agent Chuvalo Truesdell, a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration. No arrests were made.
Hours before the raid, Astin told The Associated Press he had treated Benoit for low testosterone levels, which he said likely originated from previous steroid use.
Among other things, investigators were looking for Benoit's medical records to see whether he had been prescribed steroids and, if so, whether that prescription was appropriate, according to a law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity because records in the case remain sealed.
Astin prescribed testosterone for Benoit, a longtime friend, in the past but would not say what, if any, medications he prescribed when Benoit visited his office on June 22.
State medical records show that Astin's privileges were suspended for three months in 2001 at a Georgia hospital for ``reasons related to competence or character.''
Astin did not return calls to his cellphone from the AP on Thursday.
Anabolic steroids were found in Benoit's home, leading officials to wonder whether the drugs played a role in the killings. Some experts believe steroids cause paranoia, depression and violent outbursts known as ``roid rage.''
Fayette County District Attorney Scott Ballard said in a statement Thursday that he could not immediately comment on the raid.
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 cellphone 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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