Yesterday Peter Cohan posted about a sad story coming out of Georgia dealing with the deaths of World Wrestling Entertainment (NYSE: WWE) star wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife, and seven-year-old son. At the time of his story, it was still just being speculated as a murder / suicide but now, unfortunately those rumors have been confirmed.
The details regarding this double murder suicide are definitely on the bizarre side. There are still not motives being discussed as far as I have been able to find, but the time line is definitely a bit creepy. According to authorities, Chris's wife was found with her hands and feet bound in an upstairs bedroom with blood under her head. They are estimating that the time of her death was on Friday. His son was found suffocated in his room, but not until at least the following day, and maybe even not until Sunday. Then they estimate that a couple hours later Benoit took his own life by hanging himself with the pulley of a piece of exercise equipment.
Wow! That is some sad, and creepy stuff there. Lots of questions still remain to be answered, and some that may never be answered. What exactly did Benoit do for the two days he stayed in the house following the murder of his wife? Was his son aware that his mother lay dead in an upstairs bedroom? What led to the murders? Steroids? Love affair? With time, some answers may come to light, but there will forever be a cloud of mystery surrounding the final chapter of this ex World Championship Wrestler.
In its official statement, the World Wrestling Entertainment said that steroids were in no way responsible for this tragic event. That may prove to be true, it may never be verified one way or the other, but what is fact is that the wrestler was on steroids, about that there is no question. So for that, I ask WWE to please start to try to figure out a way to get your steroid problem under control. It is a problem that effects your entire organization, not just the wrestlers and families it ruins.
- Eddie Guerrero, one of Benoit's best friends, died in 2005 from heart failure linked to long-term steroid use
- Curt "Mr. Perfect" Hennig suffered a drug overdose death in 2003 which his father later blamed on steroids and painkillers
- Davey Boy Smith, the "British Bulldog," suffered fatal heart failure in 2002 that a coroner said was probably caused by steroids
How many more deaths must there be before someone realizes that there is a problem here. Once again... I am not saying steroids were the root cause behind this tragedy, only that it would be crazy to think they didn't play some sort of role in the events leading up to this past weekend.
So while it seems like we have some answers to what exactly happened this past weekend in Benoit's Georgia family home, it is also clear that we have a lot more to learn, and some things that we will probably never completely understand.
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6-27-2007 @ 7:24PM
Jane Johnson said...
INVSBLANGL9, MY LIFE WAS DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY SUICIDE & LOST OF AN INNOCENT CHILD! I DO NOT JUDGE, I MAKE SURE I HAVE THE FACTS AND THEN I COMMENT. I EVEN ASK TO THOSE WHO ARE SAYING "NO WAY HE DIDN'T KILL HIS FAMILY. WHAT DO THEY KNOW THAT I DO NOT? CHRIS IS A MURDERER & VERY SELFISH TO HAVE COMMITED SUICIDE AND NOT FACE THE CONSEQUENCES OF IS ACTIONS. HIS FAMILY WILL KNOW LIVE WITH "COULD I HAVE DONE SOMETHING TO STOP THIS? THIS IS A MAN THAT HAS CAUSED OTHERS A GREAT DEAL OF PAIN AND YES I DO KNOW!