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Nothing, and I mean nothing is bad enough with someones life that they have to kill their entire family.
Nah, it depends on how it's done. Passion killings/heat of the moment can also include stabbing, strangulation, and hits to the head with a heavy object or a push down some stairs (the last two are generally more accidental). Gunshots happen more easily if guns are present, which might not have been the case in this household. Can you tell I watch too much CourtTV/Dateline/48 Hours Mystery?
As for the WWE pulling his stuff, a rumor (and I stress RUMOR) that I heard today from an officemate is that someone with the WWE received a suicide note/message from Benoit and they are aware of all the details and have been asked not to release anything.
Additionally, while they may mourn their friend/colleague, they don't want to be accused of disrespect or trying to profit from a tragedy. And not wanting to be associated with a murder/suicide is hardly criminal.
Nothing, and I mean nothing is bad enough with someones life that they have to kill their entire family.
Unless your brain isn't working correctly.
Don't get me wrong - I don't excuse or condone taking anyone's life (except for self-defense) for any reason.
But I do know firsthand that people with brain chemistry issues don't think logically or rationally. They aren't seeing clearly or behaving in a normal way. There is almost an internal logic that makes an eerie sort of sense. You can almost follow along to how they reached the conclusion that killing their beloved wife/child makes sense. You have to take a big leap of an assumption before it makes sense (which is usually the gap between sanity and lack of), but there is often a path that seems like the only thing to do.
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ATLANTA -- 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 on Tuesday.
Authorities also said they are investigating whether steroids may have been a factor in the deaths of Benoit, his wife and their 7-year-old son. Steroid abuse has been linked to depression, paranoia, and aggressive behavior or angry outbursts known as "roid rage."
"We don't know yet. That's one of the things we'll be looking at," Fayette County District Attorney Scott Ballard said, adding test results may not be back for weeks.
Autopsies were scheduled Tuesday by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Authorities were investigating the deaths at a secluded Fayette County home as a murder-suicide and were not seeking any suspects. The official who described the manner of death spoke on the condition of anonymity because the information was to be released at a news conference later Tuesday.
Benoit canceled a pay-per-view appearance at the "Vengeance" event in Houston because of "personal reasons" a day before the three were found dead.
World Wrestling Entertainment said on its Web site that it asked authorities to check on Benoit and his family after being alerted by friends who received "several curious text messages sent by Benoit early Sunday morning." The WWE canceled its live "Monday Night RAW" card in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Investigators believe Benoit (pronounced ben-WAH) killed his wife, 43-year-old Nancy, and son Daniel during the weekend and then himself Monday. The bodies were found Monday afternoon in three separate rooms of the house, off a gravel road about two miles from the Whitewater Country Club.
Fayette County Coroner C.J. Mowell did not return calls seeking comment. The answering service for his funeral home said he was out of town.
Asked about the condition of the interior of the house, sheriff's Sgt. Keith Whiteside said investigators found "nothing really out of the ordinary." He said Benoit was found in the home's weight room, his wife in an office and the son in an upstairs bedroom.
Yep..........that dumb ass SNAPPED!!!!
anyone going to the Smackdown/ECW tapings tonight, and how will you react to any clips/tributes to Benoit?
The sad thing is that WWE will remember him for a few seconds and then they'll move on as they try to distance themseleves from the situation...
I had tickets.....but had to unload them at the last minute because of a schedule conflict.....Im kinda glad Im not going now.
yesterday when the news broke I felt like going to pay my respects, but now I don't think I can. The WWE is really putting their fans in an awkward position tonight.I had tickets.....but had to unload them at the last minute because of a schedule conflict.....Im kinda glad Im not going now.
Remember when Owen Hart died?? that was pretty in sad, too. Of course that was an accident, but the fact that you were'nt sure who it was in the Blue Blazer costume that fell from the ceiling... pretty scary.
I fell out of the WWF stage before benoit really made it to the wwf and I didnt watch much wcw. But i am pretty familiar with him as a wrastler and a stand-up guy who was well-respected among his colleagues and a hard worker. What a shame.
I also didnt know that eddie gurrero jr died. what happened to him? sounds familiar but i forget
Heart failure. The same ailment that kills so many of them while they're still young.
That's right. It's all coming back to me now
i'm going to the ECW/Smackdown! tapings tonight. my mom scored some extra tickets from the Dr. she works for.
should be interesting.
there will be no storylines tonight, just wrestling matches.
You're an idiot.
That was truly sad when Owen Hart died. I pretty much stopped watching wrestling altogether after he died.
It was pretty sad when Eddie Guerrero died....
Just wondering...how do they know that Chris killed them both. As previously stated, what if the mother had something to do with it?
Usually forensics would clear that up, I think, provide time of death estimates and an outline of events.
i remember, my friends and I didnt have a cable box back then so the only way to watch payperview wrestling matches was to buy the live events and watch them over my 56k modem. It was really choppy and didnt look good at all but you could keep up with the action fairly well.That was truly sad when Owen Hart died. I pretty much stopped watching wrestling altogether after he died.
Well we were watching the event when Owen died and it was very confusing, we especially thought it was a hoax when they finished the final two matches like almost nothing had happened.
It always seems like the best of them ("professional wrestlers") are the ones to go before their time.
Time of death can be pretty accurately estimated in most environments, and presumably TOD indicates the wife was killed several hours in advance of her son. Unless Benoit did something incredibly CSI and lowered or raised the temperature radically for the duration (which would have affected the rate of decay of the body and/or the temperature of the body), then they've got a pretty good idea of what happened and when.
Every actual report coming out at this time (and will probably be confirmed by the official press release later today) says that the mother died first, on Saturday, eliminating the possibility of suffocating her son on Sunday. Unless they find something very startling in the autopsies, like some slow-acting poison in his system, all indications are that Benoit killed his wife and then his son and then himself.
Well I know the time of death stuff. Didn't know it was out yet.
Sorry, yeah. It should be officially out later today. But all the reputable sources have it listed in that order (Wife/Saturday, child/Sunday) from a 'source' inside the DA's office or the coroner's office. I expect the official report will simply back that up.
Just heard on ticket760 that police found STEROIDS in Benoits house.....so much for his ass being clean.
If you've got Sirius and listened to Bubba's show today (on now), there was some wierd/sad/eerie info that was coming out of the Atlanta area. Apparently, there were Bibles found by both the mom's and the kid's bodies.
Also, while Eddie Guerrero indeed died of heart failure, that was compounded by years of steroid and drug use. Eddie is buried about 2 miles from my house in Scottsdale.
Sad. It's also interesting how Congress is all over MLB for basically one person (Bonds) using steroids, but most if not all of the people in WWE are juiced. I know Vince invented the whole sports entertainment moniker to avoid any government scruitiny, but I wonder if this will get the attention of anyone in Washington?
I never heard anything about this. So he does have it in his past, which means it sure could have been steroids.
So he was nice to everyone else while he was smacking his wife around...then he kills her...but the worst thing is killing his own 9 year old child.
What kind of man kills his own innocent child because of marital problems?
By strangulation no less...
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