Grappler Chris Benoit Checks Out
June 25th, 2007 at 11:06 pm by Preston Taylor HolmesI don’t know why he thought he had to take the family with him.
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.”
Was it steroids? Was he just insane? I remember watching him back in the mid-90s when the WCW/WWF feud was halfway decent. He sucked on the mic, but worked his ass off in the ring. Oh well, if it turns out he was a double-murderer, it was nice of him to spare us the court costs and media circus of a trial and send himself to hell so the state doesn’t have to. Too bad.
UPDATE: Strangled and smothered the family, then hung himself, according to authorities.
Police are calling the case a double homicide-suicide and are investigating whether steroids may have been a factor in the deaths.
Authorities said they found steroids in the home among other legal prescriptions. Steroid abuse has been linked to depression, paranoia, and aggressive behavior or angry outbursts known as “roid rage.”
Nancy Benoit filed for a divorce in May 2003, saying their three-year union was irrevocably broken and alleging “cruel treatment.” But she later dropped the complaint, as well as a request for a restraining order in which she charged that Benoit had threatened her and had broken furniture in their home.
June 25th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
It’s always a couple of things: money, women, or loss/perceived threat of loss. By killing every body, the only way the truth will come out now is if the wife told her family or girlfriends what was going on.
June 26th, 2007 at 12:38 am
My comment was going to be completely tasteless…but then I remembered this is 6MB and I must adhere to your usual excellent standards of taste and decorum.
Having said that, I hope Tookie and Saddam are awaiting this guy with a gallon of Vaseline…
Wait. On 2nd thought, I hope they skip the Vaseline…
June 26th, 2007 at 2:36 am
The current story is his wife killed their son, and when she called him and told him to rush home, he flipped out and killed his wife, then himself. Which, yeah… if my wife killed my son, that’s one dead bitch.
June 26th, 2007 at 7:05 am
That’s what would have happened if I’d been Andrea Yates’ husband, Ron. She’d have gone in the tub next, much to the dismay of Katie Couric and Oprah Winfrey.
If your angle is correct, that changes the whole story. I guess we’ll have to stay tuned.
June 26th, 2007 at 7:36 am
There are so many conflicting stories out there at the moment, I don’t know what to believe. I know I like that idea better than the one that has him killing his own son, but that doesn’t make it so.
June 26th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Preston,
If the story changes, will you be a responsible blogger and post a correction?
You know, like we always do…
June 26th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Wrestler Benoit found dead with family
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Pro wrestler Chris Benoit canceled a pay-per-view appearance at the “Vengeance” event in Houston bec…
June 26th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
What’s with all this wrestler stuff,, can’t we focus on what’s really important?— Where the hell is Paris Hilton????!!!!
No, seriously, I wish the surviving family my sincere condolences.
June 26th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
[...] Preston Taylor Holmes doesn’t feel the same, he immediately thinks steroids and then says: Oh well, if it turns out he was a double-murderer, it was nice of him to spare us the court costs and media circus of a trial and send himself to hell so the state doesn’t have to. Too bad. [...]
June 26th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
“roid rage”
There’s always an excuse.
June 26th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
I wouldn’t rock back on the roid rage defense just yet. Yea, he had steroids in the house and yea, hanging yourself in your weightroom is about as gay as sexually asphyxiating yourself in the closet with a bag over your head.
But doing that to his son, the cynic in me thinks that wasn’t the steroids but the old “I can’t live without you and I won’t let you live without me”.
What’s sad? That if we did what the commies did that we’d have to set-up a defense fund for Benoit to clear his good name like they did for Andrea Yates or Mary Winkler.
Woman kill – good. Man kill – bad.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:32 am
It really is horrible for a thing like this to happen. I know it’s not right to speak ill of the dead but hris was not the man I thought he was and everything I have with his name on it I will burn. I mean when a man gets to thinking he is worth the life of aomeone else he has gone way over the line. His own baby and his wife?? I think wrestling as a sport has gone to the dogs. I mean poor old Vince blown up like he was. What was the thinking behind this? I will be praying for Chris” wife and baby. Pray for Chris? It’s going to take a while. I just hope to the Lord he was a saved human being for if he wasn’t I would hate to be in his shoes come judgement time.
June 27th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
I think wrestling as a sport has gone to the dogs.
Uh…Wrasslin’ is a sport? Oh wait…I need to remember the boys here are from Tennessee…