WWE Reports That Chris Benoit Has Been Found Dead

[cjkool69]

Re: WWE Reports That Chris Benoit Has Been Found Dead

This may be new twist on the whole story:

Posted June 26, 2007 07:51 AM Hide Post
Someone on TMZ.com posted this - obviously its not confirmed so take it for what its worth:


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464. My second cousin is an officer with GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigations) and what he's heard in his circle is that Chirs Benoit's wife killed their son Daniel, called Chris and told him to rush home because of an emergency which is why he missed last Sunday's Vengeance PPV. Upon arriving home Benoit killed his wife in a rage for the death of his son and then killed himself Monday morning. His wife's body was found in the master bedroom, strangled with the cord from an alarm clock. The son's body was found in his room appearantly suffocated with a garbage bag. Chris then wrote a suicide note explaining what had happened, apologized to his family, his other children (from a seperate relationship), and his fans. He the fasioned a slip-knot noose from from rope taken from the garage and hung himself from the ballaster in the foyer of his suburban Atlanta home.

Posted at 12:15AM on Jun 26th 2007 by Joe

http://www.tmz.com/2007/06/25/wrestling-superstar-found-dead

This sounds alot different from the media reports saying that the wife was found in the living room and Chris was found in the weight room.

[TJdaSportsGuy]

Re: WWE Reports That Chris Benoit Has Been Found Dead

This may be new twist on the whole story:

Posted June 26, 2007 07:51 AM Hide Post
Someone on TMZ.com posted this - obviously its not confirmed so take it for what its worth:


quote:
464. My second cousin is an officer with GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigations) and what he's heard in his circle is that Chirs Benoit's wife killed their son Daniel, called Chris and told him to rush home because of an emergency which is why he missed last Sunday's Vengeance PPV. Upon arriving home Benoit killed his wife in a rage for the death of his son and then killed himself Monday morning. His wife's body was found in the master bedroom, strangled with the cord from an alarm clock. The son's body was found in his room appearantly suffocated with a garbage bag. Chris then wrote a suicide note explaining what had happened, apologized to his family, his other children (from a seperate relationship), and his fans. He the fasioned a slip-knot noose from from rope taken from the garage and hung himself from the ballaster in the foyer of his suburban Atlanta home.

Posted at 12:15AM on Jun 26th 2007 by Joe

http://www.tmz.com/2007/06/25/wrestl...tar-found-dead

Sorry. I call a big fat load of BS on this. TMZ comment board? Come on. Let's rely on a source that's a TAD bit more reputable.

[MagicBucsWsoxFan]

Re: WWE Reports That Chris Benoit Has Been Found Dead

This may be new twist on the whole story:

Posted June 26, 2007 07:51 AM Hide Post
Someone on TMZ.com posted this - obviously its not confirmed so take it for what its worth:


quote:
464. My second cousin is an officer with GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigations) and what he's heard in his circle is that Chirs Benoit's wife killed their son Daniel, called Chris and told him to rush home because of an emergency which is why he missed last Sunday's Vengeance PPV. Upon arriving home Benoit killed his wife in a rage for the death of his son and then killed himself Monday morning. His wife's body was found in the master bedroom, strangled with the cord from an alarm clock. The son's body was found in his room appearantly suffocated with a garbage bag. Chris then wrote a suicide note explaining what had happened, apologized to his family, his other children (from a seperate relationship), and his fans. He the fasioned a slip-knot noose from from rope taken from the garage and hung himself from the ballaster in the foyer of his suburban Atlanta home.

Posted at 12:15AM on Jun 26th 2007 by Joe

http://www.tmz.com/2007/06/25/wrestl...tar-found-dead

I dont really believe that. Especially if its being reported that the wife was killed saturday and the son sunday...but who knows at this point. Everyone is trying to justify Benoit didnt do it.

[Dipstick]

Re: WWE Reports That Chris Benoit Has Been Found Dead

This may be new twist on the whole story:

Posted June 26, 2007 07:51 AM Hide Post
Someone on TMZ.com posted this - obviously its not confirmed so take it for what its worth:


quote:
464. My second cousin is an officer with GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigations) and what he's heard in his circle is that Chirs Benoit's wife killed their son Daniel, called Chris and told him to rush home because of an emergency which is why he missed last Sunday's Vengeance PPV. Upon arriving home Benoit killed his wife in a rage for the death of his son and then killed himself Monday morning. His wife's body was found in the master bedroom, strangled with the cord from an alarm clock. The son's body was found in his room appearantly suffocated with a garbage bag. Chris then wrote a suicide note explaining what had happened, apologized to his family, his other children (from a seperate relationship), and his fans. He the fasioned a slip-knot noose from from rope taken from the garage and hung himself from the ballaster in the foyer of his suburban Atlanta home.

Posted at 12:15AM on Jun 26th 2007 by Joe

http://www.tmz.com/2007/06/25/wrestl...tar-found-dead

Here is the problem with this. His wife was found in an office,and it's already been determined that she was the first to die.

[Dipstick]

Re: WWE Reports That Chris Benoit Has Been Found Dead

I dont really believe that. Especially if its being reported that the wife was killed saturday and the son sunday...but who knows at this point. Everyone is trying to justify Benoit didnt do it.

Hell I wanted to justify that he didn't do it. But the more you look it,there is only one way this thing can come out and that with Benoit commiting the crime.

[jmood88]

Re: WWE Reports That Chris Benoit Has Been Found Dead

This may be new twist on the whole story:

Posted June 26, 2007 07:51 AM Hide Post
Someone on TMZ.com posted this - obviously its not confirmed so take it for what its worth:


quote:
464. My second cousin is an officer with GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigations) and what he's heard in his circle is that Chirs Benoit's wife killed their son Daniel, called Chris and told him to rush home because of an emergency which is why he missed last Sunday's Vengeance PPV. Upon arriving home Benoit killed his wife in a rage for the death of his son and then killed himself Monday morning. His wife's body was found in the master bedroom, strangled with the cord from an alarm clock. The son's body was found in his room appearantly suffocated with a garbage bag. Chris then wrote a suicide note explaining what had happened, apologized to his family, his other children (from a seperate relationship), and his fans. He the fasioned a slip-knot noose from from rope taken from the garage and hung himself from the ballaster in the foyer of his suburban Atlanta home.

Posted at 12:15AM on Jun 26th 2007 by Joe

http://www.tmz.com/2007/06/25/wrestl...tar-found-dead

Didn't the police say that his wife was killed first?

[funky_chicken]

Re: WWE Reports That Chris Benoit Has Been Found Dead

This may be new twist on the whole story:

Posted June 26, 2007 07:51 AM Hide Post
Someone on TMZ.com posted this - obviously its not confirmed so take it for what its worth:


quote:
464. My second cousin is an officer with GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigations) and what he's heard in his circle is that Chirs Benoit's wife killed their son Daniel, called Chris and told him to rush home because of an emergency which is why he missed last Sunday's Vengeance PPV. Upon arriving home Benoit killed his wife in a rage for the death of his son and then killed himself Monday morning. His wife's body was found in the master bedroom, strangled with the cord from an alarm clock. The son's body was found in his room appearantly suffocated with a garbage bag. Chris then wrote a suicide note explaining what had happened, apologized to his family, his other children (from a seperate relationship), and his fans. He the fasioned a slip-knot noose from from rope taken from the garage and hung himself from the ballaster in the foyer of his suburban Atlanta home.

Posted at 12:15AM on Jun 26th 2007 by Joe

http://www.tmz.com/2007/06/25/wrestl...tar-found-dead

I think this is BS because all the news I have read said Benoit's body was found in the weight room in the home.

[JiggidyJames]

Re: WWE Reports That Chris Benoit Has Been Found Dead

Sensationalistic bull****. Come on, let's cut crap like this out. I thought this thread was supposed to be free of wacky speculation?

EDIT: Maybe a new thread "Benoit Speculation Thread"?

[cjkool69]

Re: WWE Reports That Chris Benoit Has Been Found Dead

I think this is BS because all the news I have read said Benoit's body was found in the weight room in the home.

Correct. All the reports have said the same thing

[MagicBucsWsoxFan]

Re: WWE Reports That Chris Benoit Has Been Found Dead

What gives me the creeps is, could you imagine living a house for a couple days with your dead wife and kid laying there, by your own hand? My god

[cjkool69]

Re: WWE Reports That Chris Benoit Has Been Found Dead

The Atlanta-Journal Constitution
Published on: 06/25/07
A text message was sent at 4:30 a.m. Saturday from the cellphone of superstar wrestler Chris Benoit, who, along with his wife and son, were found dead Monday in their Fayette County home, police said.

In a murder-suicide that even the county's top law enforcement agent calls bizarre, 40-year-old Benoit, his wife, Nancy, 43, and 7-year-old son, Daniel, were found dead in their home on Green Meadow Lane just east of Peachtree City.

Investigators believe Benoit killed his wife and son over the weekend and then himself sometime Monday.

"I'm comfortable with our belief that this is a murder-suicide," Fayette County District Attorney Scott Ballard said Tuesday.

The bodies were found in three rooms. Autopsies were planned for Tuesday.

"The details, when they come out," said Ballard, "are going to prove a little bizarre."

Benoit's employer, World Wrestling Entertainment, said on its Website Tuesday that Benoit had sent "several curious text messages" to friends, but police on Tuesday said they had identified only one.

Fayette Sheriff's Lt. Tommy Pope on Tuesday confirmed a text message had been sent from Benoit's cellphone at 4:30 a.m. Saturday, but he declined to disclose the message's content or recipient.

Authorities initially had trouble getting to the home because of two large German shepherds on the property, the WWE said. Sheriff's deputies were standing guard at the home on Tuesday morning, keeping back the media and the curious.

Benoit was found in the home's weight room, his wife in an office and his son in an upstairs bedroom.

Benoit failed to appear at Saturday's live wrestling event in Beaumont, Texas., and at WWE's "Vengeance: Night of Champions" in Houston Sunday night. WWE said Benoit had a "family emergency."

As news of the death's spread, the wrestling blogosphere erupted in disbelief.

"Obviously, all sorts of speculation are running rampant but I have talked to so many people and nobody really knows," said Bryan Alvarez, who runs Figurefour Weekly, a wrestling newsletter and Web site, from Lynwood, Wash.

The WWE issued a statement Monday night:

"Chris was beloved among his fellow Superstars, and was a favorite among WWE fans for his unbelievable athleticism and wrestling ability. He always took great pride in his performance, and always showed respect for the business he loved, for his peers and towards his fans. This is a terrible tragedy and an unbearable loss. WWE extends its sincere condolences and prayers to the Benoit family and loved ones in this time of tragedy."

A native of Canada, Benoit maintained a residence in metro Atlanta from the time he wrestled for the now-defunct Ted Turner-owned World Championship Wrestling organization.

He began his career in Calgary more than 20 years ago and had wrestled in Japan before moving back to North America.

While working in Atlanta with WCW, he met his wife, Nancy, who managed several wrestlers and went by the stage name, "Woman."

At the time, her then-husband drew up a script that had the couple involved in a relationship as part of an ongoing storyline.

Soon after, the two became romantically involved in real life and married. Benoit has two other children from a prior relationship.

He joined WWE in 2000, and four years later, won its world heavyweight championship.

The family had moved into the Fayetteville neighborhood last summer, said neighbor Alaina Jones.

None of the neighbors recalled seeing police at the house before. Monday night, about half a dozen cars idled on the circular driveway. Deputies stood guard outside the wrought-iron gates of the residence. A car full of youngsters who stopped to gawk at the scene were pulled out by deputies, frisked and sent on their way.

The Monday night broadcast of WWE's "Raw" on the USA Network was supposed to have been a who-dunit into the "death" of Chairman Vince McMahon, whose limousine burst into a fiery explosion moments after he stepped into it after a bout in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., two weeks ago.

The organization scrapped the storyline following Benoit's death, and instead televised a three-hour retrospective on Benoit's career.

Staff writer Saeed Ahmed and the Associated Press contributed to this report

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/fayette/stories/2007/06/25/0625benoit.html

[Dipstick]

Re: WWE Reports That Chris Benoit Has Been Found Dead

It has to be true,because WWE is distancing themselves from all things Benoit in a hurry. All of his merchandise has been pulled from Shopzone.

[cjkool69]

Re: WWE Reports That Chris Benoit Has Been Found Dead

It has to be true,because WWE is distancing themselves from all things Benoit in a hurry. All of his merchandise has been pulled from Shopzone.

Yeah im having mixed feelings about jumping the gun and ordering Hard Knocks: The Chris Benoit Story, last night before RAW aired.

[CaptainZombie]

Re: WWE Reports That Chris Benoit Has Been Found Dead

Sorry. I call a big fat load of BS on this. TMZ comment board? Come on. Let's rely on a source that's a TAD bit more reputable.

I dont really believe that. Especially if its being reported that the wife was killed saturday and the son sunday...but who knows at this point. Everyone is trying to justify Benoit didnt do it.

I don't believe this either, but you know something, it makes me want to believe it so I don't think one of the greatest wrestlers ever went on a killing spree of his family.

[Jerbear]

Re: WWE Reports That Chris Benoit Has Been Found Dead

It has to be true,because WWE is distancing themselves from all things Benoit in a hurry. All of his merchandise has been pulled from Shopzone.

They probably don't want people buying it all and then re-selling it all.