Chris Benoit & family found dead (WWE Wrestler)

[Tom_Turner]

The news actually implied that steroids could be a part of this.

"The wife's feet and hands were bound and she was asphyxiated, not beaten to death...By the account of the authorities, there were substantial periods of time between the death of the wife and the death of the son, again suggesting deliberate thought, not rage."

Yeah, thats true. Putting the bible by the bodies as well... how bizarre he would do this.

[T-Bird76]

To make this story even more ****ed up, the son had Fragile X Syndrome, which causes retardation and autism and it has been confirmed he was being injected with growth hormone. Benoit couldn't stand that his son was so small for his age, and he decided to start giving him steroids...that was one of the reasons his wife and him were fighting....


wow.

It has not been confirmed whether or not the injection was prescribed or not. The media is assuming he was injecting him with growth hormones because he couldn't stand how small he was. Growth hormones can be a prescribed treatment for some psychical disabilities. The media in record time has done a wonderful job of making up what they want this story to be from roid rage to child abuse...

Even O'Riley last night really was stretching it by saying the wife should have got out and if she did she'd be alive. Common no one can make that assumption, why people stay in abusive relationships is anyone’s guess. How often do we hear about woman getting out only to be killed? The only thing we know is he killed his wife and son, that's it, this story is a disgrace and the media has sunk to a new low.

[Tom_Turner]

Good point regarding the child Tommy.

But now check this out..curiouser and courioser...

Someone made an entry on Wikipedia regarding Benoit's wifes death at 12:01 am Monday - 14 hours before authorities found the BODIES.... and the IP is from Stamford CT.

That implies WWE involvement, yet if they had suspected something like what really happened, then there is no tribute show

Some kind of hoax?

And Benoit's steroid prescribing doctor had his office raided the week before?

More to the whole story perhaps?


Benoit's Wikipedia Site Reported Wife's Death
Site Mysteriously Mentioned Death Before Cops Found Body
By HARRY R. WEBER,
AP Sports
Posted: 2007-06-28 18:53:38
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.


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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 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 Friday.

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 cell phone 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 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.

In other developments Thursday, Ballard told the AP that 10 empty beer cans were found in a trash can in the Benoit home. An empty wine bottle was found a few feet from where Benoit hanged himself, Ballard said.

It could take several weeks for toxicology tests to be completed on Benoit to see what substances, if any, were in his system.

Benoit took four months off from work in 2006 for undisclosed personal reasons, McDevitt said.


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In the days before the killings, Benoit and his wife argued over whether he should stay home more to take care of their mentally retarded 7-year-old son, according to an attorney for the WWE wrestling league.

The child had a rare medical condition called Fragile X Syndrome, an inherited form of mental retardation often accompanied by autism.

Chris Benoit's father, Michael Benoit, declined to comment on the slayings when reached Thursday by telephone in Alberta, Canada. Funeral arrangements were incomplete.

Associated Press writer Matt Apuzzo in Washington contributed to this story.

[Matt Molnar]

Because this story wasn't disturbing enough already...

Report: Benoit killed 7-year-old son using his signature "Crippler Crossface" hold.