Tag: murder-suicide

Wrestling legend says Benoit had trouble with reality:

While most wrestlers and ex-wrestlers are saying how surprised they were at Chris Benoit’s actions, Bruce Hart, brother to Bret “The Hitman” Hart and son to the late Stu Hart, is saying that Benoit was crazier than a shithouse rat.

Chris Benoit was a “delusional juice freak” who chased the dark side and had trouble distinguishing between his fictional character and reality, says the man who started him out in professional wrestling.

“The last time I saw him he was in pretty rough shape mentally,” said Bruce Hart, son of the legendary Stu Hart. “I didn’t know all the details but I knew it wasn’t good. I was not at all shocked (by what happened).

Hart will not simplify the shocking murder of Benoit’s wife and 7-year-old son or the eventual suicide of the wrestler by attributing it only to steroid usage. But he truly believes that steroid abuse, in combination with delusional behaviour, painkillers and failing health — “almost all the people we started out with (who did steroids) began breaking down around 40,” Hart said — is a deadly cocktail that needs to be further examined.

“I’ve known too many wrestlers who couldn’t separate the character they play on television from their real life,” said Hart, who has wrestled professionally, promoted wrestling and trained wrestlers all his life.

“Wrestlers start believing their press clippings and what is said on television. It’s like an actor leaving the set but still playing the part. There’s a delusional element to this. I’ve seen it over and over again. Some people can’t separate the character from real life, and Chris was one of those people.

“From my experience, that has been quite prevalent with wrestlers and that becomes exacerbated by steroids, drugs, painkillers and failing health.”

Hart did wonder if Benoit had been given an unfavourable medical report, which may been another factor in his violent behaviour. “A lot of the steroid users start getting liver and kidney problems around the age of 40,” Hart said. “There are a lot of wrestlers out there who are dead that you never heard about whose bodies broke down. I’ve known others who had looming health issues and went a little crazy. Maybe this caused him to go off.”

Which leads me, even more, to believe that this wasn’t the case of “roid rage” that everyone has been wailing about. And that’s why I haven’t been posting about the steroid-related parts to this story. To me, it’s a non-issue. Steroids may have contributed to what happened but they weren’t the be all and end all to motive. If that was the case then wrestlers would be killing people every other week.

Chris Benoit mystery editor confesses: claims “terrible coincidence”:

Luckily it was just a coincidence according to the anonymous poster…

Hey everyone. I am here to talk about the wikipedia comment that was left by myself. I just want to say that it was an incredible coincidence. Last weekend, I had heard about Chris Benoit no showing Vengeance because of a family emergency, and I had heard rumors about why that was. I was reading rumors and speculation about this matter online, and one of them included that his wife may have passed away, and I did the wrong thing by posting it on wikipedia to spite there being no evidence. I posted my speculation on the situation at the time and I am deeply sorry about this, and I was just as shocked as everyone when I heard that this actually would happen in real life. It is one of those things that just turned into a huge coincidence. That night I found out that what I posted, ended up actually happening, a 1 in 10,000 chance of happening, or so I thought. I was beyond wrong for posting wrongful information, and I am sorry to everyone for this. I just want everyone to know it was stupid of me, and I will never do anything like this again. I just posted something that was at that time a piece of wrong unsourced information that is typical on wikipedia, as it is done all the time.

Those are “winning the lottery” type odds.

Anyway, the poster also admits to being from Stamford, CT but wishes to remain anonymous.

Web Time Stamps Indicate Nancy Benoit’s Death Reported on Web at Least 13 Hours Before Police Found Bodies in Her Home:

Again I say even the writer monkeys at WWE couldn’t write a script this outlandish.

An anonymous user operating a computer traced to Stamford, Conn. ” home to World Wrestling Entertainment ” posted an entry to pro wrestler Chris Benoit’s biography on Wikipedia.org announcing the death of his wife Nancy at least 13 hours before police in suburban Atlanta said they found her body along with her husband’s and that of their 7-year-old son, FOXNews.com has learned.

Employees at Wikipedia.org said the posting went live on their site on Monday at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Police, however, said they found the bodies Monday at 2:30 p.m. EDT.

The posting reads: “Chris Benoit was replaced by [[Johnny Nitro]] for the ECW Championship match at Vengeance, as Benoit was not there due to personal issues, stemming from the death of his wife Nancy.” According to a Wikipedia.org report published after FOXNews.com made inquiries, the edit was reversed just under one hour later with the comment:

“Need a reliable source. Saying that his wife died is a pretty big statement, you need to back it up with something.”

If that post was made anywhere besides Stamford I would have said that it was just another Wikipedia vandal who happened to get it right by accident.

And let’s further fuel some conspiracy theories while we’re at it.

In related news, FOXNews.com also has learned, through widely posted Web reports, that former pro wrestler Sherri Martel, who was found dead on June 15, was linked to former wrestler Kevin Sullivan ” ex-husband of Nancy Benoit.

Martel, who had a reputation as one of the top managers in pro wrestling, was found dead at her mother”s home in near Birmingham, Ala., on June 15. She was 49.

Investigators, who have not yet determined Martel’s cause of death, say foul play is not suspected but that Martel did not die of natural causes.

I don’t know what to make of the Wikipedia entry but Sherri Martel’s death is just plain coincidence.

Benoits argued over care of son, WWE attorney says

According to the Associated Press, a WWE attorney is saying that Daniel Benoit’s medical condition was a great cause of stress for his mother and father, Nancy and Chris Benoit. Daniel Benoit was diagnosed with Fragile X Syndrome, a form of mental retardation that is sometimes accompanied with autism. The WWE attorney also said that Nancy Benoit wanted Chris Benoit to be at home more to help take care of Daniel. It’s alleged that Nancy said she could not take care of Daniel by herself.

First off, I thought investigators told the WWE not to release any more details. Why is the WWE airing the Benoit’s dirty laundry all of a sudden? They wouldn’t be trying to deflect some kind of responsibility, would they? Not that I think the WWE is responsible for their deaths but they sure are acting suspiciously.

Secondly is a $500K a year salary not enough money to be able to take care of a child with Fragile X Syndrome? Could they not have afforded someone to come in and help Nancy while Chris was on the road?

However, this new revelation if true makes me think of another possible motive for why the Canadian Coward killed his family. The article states that in the past Nancy had not asked Chris to quit wrestling. Maybe she did recently. Chris Benoit’s love of professional wrestling is legendary among hardcore fans. Maybe Nancy gave Chris an ultimatum. Either leave wrestling or I’ll leave. Not that that’s an excuse for killing your family.

WWE Releases Benoit Text Messages:

The content of Chris Benoit’s text messages have been made public. Two were sent from his cell phone and three were sent from Nancy’s. 4 of the messages just kept saying his street address and the fifth told the recipient where his attack dogs could be found. They were all sent between 3:53 AM and 3:58 AM on June 24th.

Thanks again to Mena for the link.

Steroids discovered in probe of slayings, suicide:

I think if the story of the deaths of the Benoits were handed to the WWE writer monkeys I think even they would think that it was too unrealistic.

District Attorney Scott Ballard told ESPN that 7-year-old Daniel Benoit had needle marks in his arms and may have been given growth hormones for a while because the family thought he was too small.

That was only one of the strange facts that Ballard revealed. He said that two text messages of note caused authorities to investigate the house. In one, Benoit told somebody he knew that his wife and son were sick.

“Of course, they were dead,” Ballard told ESPN.com.

In a second message to a neighbor, Benoit said that the door of the house was open and the pets were outside.

“And our assumption is that that was an effort to try and get somebody to come find the bodies after the suicide,” Ballard said. “That is our assumption.”

That first text message is believed to have been sent to Chavo Guerrero, WWE wrestler, and nephew of the late Eddie Guerrero.

Cops Give Gruesome Details of Benoit Killing Spree:

From TMZ.com again…

In a statement by a member of the Fayetteville Sheriff’s Department, “Mr, Benoit had sometime, possibly Friday, murdered his wife by asphyxiation. Sometime shortly after that, the same for his son Daniel and sometime later … committed suicide by hanging himself in the basement area.”

According to officials, Nancy was bound at the wrists and feet, with a towel wrapped around her body, and blood was found underneath her head. A Bible was also reportedly found near each one of the bodies.

Police have also confirmed that prescription drugs and steroids were found in the house.

Benoit was found hanging in a weight room in his house. Cops say that he used a cord from one of his workout machines as a makeshift noose.

After watching Eddie Guerrero die you’d think that Benoit would have learned something.

Thanks again to Mena.

Wrestler, family dead:

The causes of death in the Benoit family murder-suicide have been made public.

Pro wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife and smothered his son before hanging himself in his weight room, a law enforcement official close to the investigation told The Associated Press Tuesday.

We have a saying here when murder-suicides like this happen especially when there are children involved. We say “Be a man, and go alone”.

I guess I can unveil Chris Benoit’s new nickname in death. The Canadian Coward Chris Benoit.

Thanks to Mena for the tip.