WWE Confirms That Benoit Killed His Wife and Son
Posted in Entertainment at 1:16 am by Joe June 26th, 2007
The following information comes from WWE.com and furthers the knowledge that this whole situation with Chris Benoit is a huge tragedy both for the family and for the world of professional wrestling.
Source: WWE.com
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.
June 29th, 2007 at 12:12 am
I think you people don’t know what happened. There are different stories you fucking people need to get it right. I think Chris did’nt kill his wife and son. He was so big on family and everything. He was always loving on his family. You fucking people need to find the truth instead of just going by what you saw. It pisses me of you are putting Chris’s family and friends through hell by believing he killed his family.
Someone else could have made those text messages and made it saound like Chris. So before you fucking assholes go back on air or anything you need to get the storie right and go over the crime secne better.
If you don’t like what I said get the fuck over it.