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Started by Gimme Back My Brainsaw

According to lead investigator Lt. Tommy Pope, of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department, in Fayetteville, Ga., the deaths of WWE Superstar Chris Benoit, wife Nancy and son Daniel were the result of a double murder-suicide, WWE.com has learned.

Benoit failed to appear both at Saturday’s live event in Beaumont, Tx., and WWE’s Vengeance: Night of Champions in Houston Sunday night, after informing WWE of a family emergency. Several curious text messages sent by Benoit early Sunday morning prompted concerned friends to alert Richard Hering, VP of Government Relations for WWE, Inc. Hering, in turn, spoke with Fayette County sheriffs Monday, and requested that they respond to the Benoit residence to check on him and his family.

Authorities representing the Sheriff’s Department initially had a difficult time entering Benoit’s new Fayetteville home Monday afternoon, which had been guarded by two large German Shepherds roaming freely around the property. Once authorities entered the residence, they quickly located the bodies of Benoit, Nancy and Daniel. WWE was notified of the discovery at approximately 4 p.m.

At 10 p.m. Monday night, Lt. Pope held a press conference in conjunction with Scott Ballard, the district attorney for Fayette County. The press conference officially ruled authorities’ findings as a double murder-suicide from within the home.

WAGA, a FOX-owned and operated television station in Atlanta, reported that investigators believe Benoit killed his wife and 7-year-old son over the weekend, then himself on Monday.

The three bodies have been received by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab, in Decatur, Ga., where autopsies will be performed Tuesday morning. Toxicology reports will not become available for at least two weeks.

WWE.com has further information relating to both the investigation and the cause of death, but the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department has requested that WWE.com not release any additional details at this time

He used to be one of my favorite wrestlers, and fuck the guy was talented. I at first was hoping his death was storyline like Vince Mcmahons, but as i read more and more stuff it dawned, I still dont believe it was double suicide, I think chris was a loving guy and wouldnt do that to his family, lets hope things get cleared up.

Posted on Tue, 26 June 2007 at 11:18

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#1

Dermot (The Derm) wrote:

Apparently it was a double murder rather than a double suicide

Posted on Tue, 26 June 2007 at 11:23

#2

The Auto Surgeon (Mark) wrote:

I must admit the last time I watched wrestling Ultimate Warrior had just saved Hulk Hogan from getting a kicking.

But I’d seen some bits about Benoit - and I have to agree with gimme. I just can’t see him taking the lifes of his wife & his kid, then putting himself “to the sword”. But we don’t know what was going on exactly at the time of the incident - just hope it get sorted out correctly & quickly for everyone’s sakes.

Posted on Tue, 26 June 2007 at 17:42

#3

Tubthumper (Scott) wrote:

Possibly suffering from some ‘Roid Rage?

Posted on Tue, 26 June 2007 at 19:01

#4

Lenny wrote:

Poor family. Sad way for things to go. It’s a strange world sometimes.

Posted on Tue, 26 June 2007 at 19:07

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Gimme Back My Brainsaw wrote:

On Saturday, June 23, Chris Benoit was slated to appear at a WWE live event in Beaumont, Texas. That afternoon, Benoit contacted WWE to inform them that his wife and child were ill, and that he would not be able to attend the show.

WWE executives rebooked Benoit’s flight for the following morning, allowing Benoit to miss the Beaumont event making alternate arrangements for him to attend the pay-per-view event in Houston on Sunday.

WWE employees attempted to confirm with Benoit his travel plans but were unable to contact him.

Early Sunday morning, between 3:51 and 3:58 a.m., Benoit sent five text messages to co-workers:

Text Message 1 to two co-workers (sent 6/24 at 3:53 a.m.) - Chris Benoit’s cell phone
“My physical address is 130 Green Meadow Lane, Fayetteville Georgia. 30215”

Text Message 2 to two co-workers (sent 6/24 at 3:53 a.m.) - Chris Benoit’s cell phone
“The dogs are in the enclosed pool area. Garage side door is open”

Text Message 3 to two co-workers (sent 6/24 at 3:54 a.m.) - Nancy Benoit’s cell phone
“My physical address is 130 Green Meadow Lane.
Fayetteville Georgia. 30215”

Text Message 4 to two co-workers (sent 6/24 at 3:55 a.m.) - Nancy Benoit’s cell phone
“My physical address is 130 Green Meadow Lane.
Fayetteville Georgia. 30215”

Text Message 5 to one co-worker (sent 6/24 at 3:58 a.m.) - Nancy Benoit’s cell phone
“My address is 130 Green Meadow Lane. Fayetteville Georgia. 30215”

Throughout the day on Sunday, WWE made numerous attempts to contact Benoit both at home and at local hospitals in the Atlanta area. As of 11 p.m., WWE officials were unable to establish contact with Chris Benoit.

At 12:30 p.m. on Monday, June 25, WWE officials were notified of the text messages sent to the co-workers the previous day. By 12:45 p.m., WWE had contacted Fayette County Sheriff’s office requesting they check on the Benoit family.

Fayette County Sheriff’s office made contact with WWE at approximately 4 p.m. advising that they had entered the house of Chris Benoit and found three deceased bodies – an adult male, adult female and a male child. WWE was told that Benoit’s home was now considered a major crime scene.

The decision to cancel the live event scheduled in Corpus Christi that night was made between 4 and 5 p.m. In keeping with company policy, and with limited knowledge regarding facts of the case, WWE choose to air a memorial dedicated to the career of Chris Benoit. As facts emerged surrounding the case, all tributes to Chris Benoit were removed both on-air and on WWE.com.

I think conclusions are being jumped to here, there is the possibility he went off the rails but I still think thats unlikely, i hope things get cleared up soon.

Posted on Wed, 27 June 2007 at 09:17

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fatboy wrote:

I wonder what drives people to do such things. Suicide, though complecated, is one thing, but to drag the family into it feels wrong.

Posted on Wed, 27 June 2007 at 10:23

#7

mrs h wrote:

lol - it bloody well should feel wrong, it’s called murder! …

Posted on Wed, 27 June 2007 at 10:40

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kossu (Petri Koskiniemi) wrote:

Who is going to the next one: Triple H, Kane, Batista…?
He should have saved the wife and the kid:(

Posted on Wed, 27 June 2007 at 17:07

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Tubthumper (Scott) wrote:

Seems like the wrestlers are dropping like flies at the moment.

Posted on Wed, 27 June 2007 at 17:21

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Taunty Dan wrote:

mrs h wrote:

lol - it bloody well should feel wrong, it’s called murder! …

:D

What worries me most is that judging by his over-elaborate reporting gimmie was actually at the scene!

“wrestler kills family, self” woulda done mate.

Posted on Wed, 27 June 2007 at 20:20

#11

Gimme Back My Brainsaw wrote:

lol I just copied and pasted from wwe.com

Posted on Thu, 28 June 2007 at 08:30

#12

Cuchulain wrote:

Looking at the facts so far , Benoit’s just a dirty cowardly windy bastard.

Posted on Thu, 28 June 2007 at 12:31

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Gimme Back My Brainsaw wrote:

theres a new development

WWE.com learned from an interview conducted Tuesday by Vancouver’s News1130 that Chris Benoit’s son Daniel possibly suffered from Fragile X Syndrome, a genetically passed-on condition that results in impairments ranging from physical and learning disabilities, to more severe cognitive or intellectual disabilities.

In the interview with News1130, Pam Winthrope, whose own 12-year-old son suffers from Fragile X Syndrome, recounted how she and her husband talked to Benoit about the condition five years ago.

“We talked to him because I was trying to set up a support group in B.C. and in Canada; we only have a couple of them,” she said. “My husband was struggling when we got diagnosed with our son, and Chris was struggling with his. They talked for a few minutes, and then he said he didn’t want to be a public face for Fragile X. He just wanted to keep it really, really quiet.”

A source close to Benoit recalls similar conversations with him, where he described his son’s condition as “a learning disability much like autism.” This source quotes Benoit as saying “Daniel wasn’t capable of interacting with other children and was afraid of other children. Daniel also had a hard time making eye contact with everyone, which was another symptom of his disability.” Benoit also claimed that his son was on medication for this condition.

Winthrope discussed the pressures facing parents of children diagnosed with Fragile X syndrome. During her interview with News1130, she stated that families can be torn apart by the disease because it’s very difficult to find help and support. Winthrope added, “You as a parent have to go out there and find what’s available and it’s not easy — they don’t tell you.”

A co-worker and long-time friend of the Benoits speculates that perhaps the pressures of home and Daniel’s illness had gotten to him, causing him to snap and take the lives of his wife and son before taking his own.

“Is it possible that after Chris killed Nancy (for whatever reason), he felt Daniel wouldn’t be able to get the care and attention he required as a special needs child (if that is indeed true) with no mother and a father either in jail or dead? Did he then decide that the only way he could protect and take care of his son was to take him to the next world and go with him? In his warped and twisted state, did he think this was the only way to shield his son from a difficult life of pain and hardship? It doesn’t condone or justify a damn thing, but it’s the best reason I can think of. I’m trying to put together some semblance of logic for his actions, but it’s an impossible task trying to explain this.”

Posted on Thu, 28 June 2007 at 12:34

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Graeme55? (Graeme Williams) wrote:

good riddance to him i say, the man killed his family then takes the cowards way out by snuffing himself, people shouldnt do tributes to him, hope he rots in hell.

Posted on Thu, 28 June 2007 at 12:48

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Gimme Back My Brainsaw wrote:

Right i still think Chris is a legend of wrestling, ok in the end he snapped it and lost it and did somethin unexcusable. but that doenst change the person he was before the last few years does it? he was a respectful nice guy who gavie his all to entertain his fans.

Posted on Thu, 28 June 2007 at 13:36

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not_that_kind_of_guy (a story on the radio) wrote:

gimme wrote:

he was a respectful nice guy who gavie his all to entertain his fans.

yeah. but so was gary glitter and he didn’t turn out to be the nicest of chaps either.

“i’m the leader of the pack i am…”

Posted on Thu, 28 June 2007 at 14:51

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mrs h wrote:

I read the other day that 60 wrestlers under the age of 45 have died of overdoses or other unnatural causes in the last 10 years! That’s 1 every 2 months!

Posted on Sat, 30 June 2007 at 19:32

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30 secs max wrote:

fatboy wrote:

I wonder what drives people to do such things. Suicide, though complecated, is one thing, but to drag the family into it feels wrong.

good point fatboy, this man must have been seriously bitter although steroids could have played some part in it.

Posted on Sat, 30 June 2007 at 20:41

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mrs h wrote:

I think murdering your 7 year old goes a bit beyond ‘bitter’ Mr Max! He’s obviously only topped himself because it’s better than death row - otherwise he would have done it straight away wouldn’t he? I don’t know much about this sort of thing, but if I’d killed 2 people in a 2 day long drug-fuelled psychosis I can’t imagine I would hang around for another day before topping myself.

So either he was suicidal, in which case why not just go for it at the time, or, more likely, he murdered them and then panicked about it later. Fucked up, yes. Bitter? I think not. He phoned a colleague the day after he’d killed his wife, the same day he killed his son and said he was stressed out because they both had food poisoning! :rolleyes:

Posted on Sun, 1 July 2007 at 17:18

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30 secs max wrote:

i was assuming this man had planned to commit suicide and decided to take his wife and kid with him. as you pointed out his suicide was probably an after thought. and yes, “fucked up” would have been been more suitable words than “bitter”. i stand corrected.

Posted on Sun, 1 July 2007 at 21:05

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mrs h wrote:

It gets worse - I just found out that he bound his wife’s hands and feet before he strangled her. I so so so hope that little boy didn’t know anything about any of it :(

Posted on Sun, 1 July 2007 at 21:39

#22

Cuchulain wrote:

mrs h wrote:

if I’d killed 2 people in a 2 day long drug-fuelled psychosis I can’t imagine I would HANG AROUND for another day before topping myself.

Pun intented ??

Posted on Mon, 2 July 2007 at 13:09

#23

Dennis wrote:

mrs h wrote:

I read the other day that 60 wrestlers under the age of 45 have died of overdoses or other unnatural causes in the last 10 years! That’s 1 every 2 months!

There must be something about seeing yourself on TV dressed in lycra, play-fighting with other grown adults who aren’t articulate enought to get a job in McDonalds that finally gets to these guys…?

Posted on Mon, 2 July 2007 at 13:39

#24

mrs h wrote:

Cuchulain wrote:

Pun intented ??

lol

No.

I mean yes, of course! Witty, wasn’t it? :D

Posted on Mon, 2 July 2007 at 14:31

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Gimme Back My Brainsaw wrote:

Did Kevin Sullivan Murder Chris Benoit and His Family?

By Johnny Angel

(Former Pro Wrestling Champion)

Now known as Rev. Johnny Lee Clary

World-Wide Evangelist

Kevin Sullivan

(Is he the real killer of Benoit and his family?)

The late Chris Benoit and his wife Nancy

The tragic deaths of Chris Benoit and his wife Nancy and son Daniel have shocked the wrestling world. The police are calling it a double-murder-suicide, but is it really? Let’s look at some facts. It has been 10 years exactly since Nancy divorced Kevin Sullivan to marry Chris Benoit. In the 1980’s Sullivan, along with his then-wife Nancy, were running a gimmick in wrestling of how they were Satanists, and Nancy was known as “The Fallen Angel.” She later became known as “Woman.” The trouble with the Satanists gimmick was it was for real, and was not a work, or fake. In the 1990’s Kevin Sullivan was the booker for WCW, and he scripted his wife Nancy into having an affair with Chris Benoit who was a member of the Four Horsemen. This made for a good angle, except, the acting became reality as Chris and Nancy actually fell in love and Nancy divorced Sullivan to marry Benoit.

Benoit left the WCW to go to work for the WWE which was then known as the WWF. It is a fact that Sullivan threatened Benoit and told him he would kill him. Yes, that was 10 years ago, but Kevin Sullivan is no dummy. He is known for being a calculating, cold-hearted individual. Today, according to a source close to me, Kevin Sullivan is a high ranking member of the Satanic Church. The police need to consider the possibility that Sullivan carried out these gruesome murders in order to have his revenge, which is what Satanists live for. He could have entered the home, with an accomplice or accomplices and held the Benoit’s at gunpoint, Sullivan could have then bound up Nancy, and made Benoit and his son watch as he strangled the life out of her. Then the next day after making Benoit and his son spend the day in agony, murdered Benoit’s little boy because of his hatred for the offspring of Benoit and Nancy. Then he could have made Benoit wait an entire day before killing him to by hanging him in the basement.

By doing this, not only would Kevin Sullivan have lived out his Satanic Church creed with his lust for revenge, but he would have destroyed Chris Benoit’s reputation which is what has happened now as the wrestling world is attacking the memory of Chris Benoit remembering him as an insane baby killer and wife killer instead of the great World Champion wrestler and friend that he was.

Satanists hate the Bible and the police have stated that a Bible was found next to the bodies of Benoit’s wife and son. This would serve as a bizarre calling card as if to either say “What good did your Bible do you?” or to throw off investigators to keep them from suspecting Sullivan and his Satanists would have been involved.

Another thing to note is the fact that Kevin Sullivan was also associated with Sherri Martel, who died just a few days before the bodies of Chris Benoit, and his family was found, and the full details of Martell’s death have not been made known as of the time of this writing.

I wonder why the police have not even considered investigating the possibility the Kevin Sullivan killed Benoit, Nancy, and their child. It is certainly a possibility worth looking in to.

Also, Benoit was going to be crowned ECW World Champion on Sunday night. Why would he murder his family and kill himself when he was going to be on top again and make lots more money?

Why would he tie his wife up before killing her? He would have no reason to, but Kevin Sullivan sure would!

Sure he had some problems with Nancy, but that was 4 years ago and what married couple doesn’t have problems? Remember also that they reconciled and as far as everyone knows there has been no other incidents reported.

One also needs to consider the fact that Benoit loved his kids and was so proud of his son that was killed. His kids wore suits and ties to his wrestling events and was proud of their dad. He was loved and respected by all those who knew him.

In my opinion, there is no way he would have murdered his family. This whole murder case has Satanists written all over it and Sullivan is a Satanist and has the motive to murder them.

I am encouraging anyone who reads this to send this to police authorities and circulate it on the internet, so these facts can be investigated, before the case is closed and Benoit is written off in history a murderer. If Sullivan is the real killer, justice should be served!

As a former Pro Wrestler myself, now a born again Christian and world wide evangelist, I am hoping and praying for justice no matter who is responsible.

Rev. Johnny Lee Clary

http://www.johnnyleeclary.com

Posted on Tue, 3 July 2007 at 13:44

#26

Dermot (The Derm) wrote:

Apparently he murdered his kid with a wrestling move:

“On Wednesday, June 27, County’s district attorney Scott Ballard explained that Benoit may have killed his son with a choke hold. He said the boy had internal injuries to the throat area, but showed no bruises, indicating he may have been locked in the crook of his father’s arm.”

sick

Posted on Tue, 3 July 2007 at 13:56

#27

Lenny wrote:

Did Kevin Sullivan Murder Chris Benoit and His Family?

I heard that he did Princess Diana as well…and Shergar…Lord Lucan…

Posted on Tue, 3 July 2007 at 22:35

#28

Taunty Dan wrote:

good god, i didn’t know anything about wrestling until i came on here!

Mind you to be honest the only thing i’ve really learned is that the ones that aren’t dead are probably thinking about it.

Posted on Wed, 4 July 2007 at 20:31

#29

mrs h wrote:

And that you should never, ever marry one.

Posted on Thu, 5 July 2007 at 14:55

#30

hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

Not even The Rock? :(

Posted on Thu, 5 July 2007 at 19:30

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