Any Body Hear about Chris Benoit

[bubba428]

I just seen on the WWE site that he smothered his 7 year-old son and strangled his wife. Then hung himself a few hours later. For a little while the WWE had a tribute to him on but when they found out the details they removed all tribute material and reported strictly facts. Its a shame. He must have been on something. Heres a link to an article I saw on.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1563400/20070626/index.jhtml

I just can't even believe how brutally he murdered his whole family.

[Untamed]

Read the article on CNN.com.

I swear, if a**holes want to die, don't kill the wife and kid. Just close the garage, turn on the car, and go to sleep. Leave everyone else alone.

[misterjuice]

there must've been something that triggered it. not saying what he did was right, cuz it's not. perhaps he found out she was cheating on him, or she wanted a divorce and he just snapped. Either way, it's tragic and unnecessary.

[Knipps]

there must've been something that triggered it. not saying what he did was right, cuz it's not. perhaps he found out she was cheating on him, or she wanted a divorce and he just snapped. Either way, it's tragic and unnecessary.

she's filed for divorce in the past claiming mistreatment or something similar

[bubba428]

They were already divorced, she claimed abuse. I had seen in one article that there was a lot of prescription medicine and anabolic steroids in the house. he must have been mixing meds and juice

[BonzoHansen]

'Roid rage?

[ShitOnWheels]

They were already divorced, she claimed abuse. I had seen in one article that there was a lot of prescription medicine and anabolic steroids in the house. he must have been mixing meds and juice

She had filed for divorce, but removed it later. They were still married.

Heard about it watching Raw, cause James watches it. They were doing a tribute show until word got out it was a double homicide suicide. Innocent til proven guilty basically, which is fine. If they didn't do it, and later found out it was triple homicide or tragic accident WWE would be under fire.

And I agree with Boon, something musted have triggered it. Not saying it excuses what he did, but I can't imagine there being no reason whatsoever expects roids, though he has tested negative for them as of April. :shrug:

[its Jeanne-Marie]

'Roid rage?

that's what i heard

[WildBillyT]

'Roid rage?

Chances are, no.

Her hands and feet were bound which suggest premeditation. Roid Rage usually comes and goes in short bursts. She probably would be beaten up a lot more if it was Roid Rage.

I actually met Benoit in Baltimore. A buddy of mine and I walked into the ESPN Zone to grab a bite to eat and while we were waiting for a table he walked in. Big guy, probably a 54-56" chest, and not as short as the TV would have you believe. We walked over and said hello and that we were familar with his work. He shook our hands and said thanks, but it was obvious that he wanted to keep a low profile. He went in and had lunch with a kid in a hat, so I figure it was Make-A-Wish or something.

[12secondv6]

What a dick!

[BonzoHansen]

Well, he can rot in hell, killing a child.

[bubba428]

I have a 7 year-old brother and I can't even start to understand how he could even contemplate that. He lost any respect anybody had for him right there.

[WayFast84]

I heard about this, there are three or four different storys going on..

Honestly he looked crazy to me even before this..

[shane27]

'Roid rage?yeah i think that was part of it becasue they found some sort of steroid pills in his house

[Knipps]

yeah i think that was part of it becasue they found some sort of steroid pills in his house

Rx 'roids. not like ridiculous horse ones

[foff667]

Yeah, I wasn't even a big fan of his wrestling so that tribute sucked balls...i watched about 10 seconds of it and changed the channel...then I found out he killed them both, ugh. **** like that makes me sick. Amazing how young many of these wrestlers die.

[ShitOnWheels]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070627/ap_on_re_us/wrestler_dead


Wrestler and wife argued over child care

By GREG BLUESTEIN, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 30 minutes ago

ATLANTA - In the days before pro wrestler Chris Benoit killed his wife and child and hanged himself, the couple argued over whether he should stay home more to take care of their mentally retarded 7-year-old son, an attorney for the wrestling league said Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT



"I think it's fair to say that the subject of caring for that child was part of what made their relationship complicated and difficult, and it's something they were both constantly struggling with," said Jerry McDevitt, an attorney for World Wrestling Entertainment. "We do know it was a source of stress and consternation."

McDevitt said the wrestling organization learned from the couple's friends and relatives that the Benoits were struggling with where to send the boy to school since he had recently finished kindergarten.

He also said Benoit's wife didn't want him to quit wrestling, but she "wanted him to be at home more to care for the kid. She'd say she can't take care of him by herself when he was on the road."

The child suffered from a rare medical condition called Fragile X Syndrome, an inherited form of mental retardation often accompanied by autism, McDevitt said.

Over the past weekend, authorities said, Benoit strangled his wife, suffocated his son and placed a Bible next to their bodies before hanging himself with a weight-machine cable in the couple's suburban home. No motive was offered for the killings, which were discovered Monday.

Anabolic steroids were found in Benoit's home, leading officials to wonder whether the drugs played a role in the slayings. Some experts believe steroids cause paranoia, depression and violent outbursts known as "roid rage."

The WWE, based in Stamford, Conn., issued a news release Tuesday saying steroids "were not and could not be related to the cause of death" and that the findings indicate "deliberation, not rage." It also added that Benoit tested negative April 10, the last time he was tested for drugs.

Also Wednesday, Benoit's personal physician said the wrestler did not give any indication he was troubled when he met with the doctor hours before the start of the weekend.

Benoit had been under the care of Dr. Phil Astin, a longtime friend, for treatment of low testosterone levels. Astin said the condition likely originated from previous steroid use.

Astin prescribed testosterone for Benoit in the past but would not say what, if any, medications he prescribed the day of their meeting.

"He was in my office on Friday to stop by just to see my staff," Astin said. "He certainly didn't show any signs of any distress or rage or anything."

"I'm still very surprised and shocked, especially with his child Daniel involved," Astin said. "He worshipped his child."

District Attorney Scott Ballard said the autopsy indicated that there were no bruise marks on the child's neck, so authorities are now assuming he could have been killed using a choke hold. "It's a process of elimination," he said.

The Benoits' argument over their son was not the only friction in their marriage. Nancy Benoit had filed for a divorce in 2003, saying the couple's three-year marriage was irrevocably broken and alleging "cruel treatment." She later dropped the complaint.

Meanwhile, authorities in Georgia were investigating a link between Benoit and a Florida business that may have supplied him with steroids.

Prosecutors in upstate New York who have been investigating the company's drug sales said Benoit received deliveries from Signature Pharmacy and MedXLife.com, which sold steroids, human growth hormone and testosterone on the Internet.

Six people, including two of the pharmacy's owners, have pleaded guilty in the investigation, and 20 more have been arrested, including doctors and pharmacists.

"That's something that sounds like we ought to be investigating," Ballard told the AP on Wednesday.

A lawyer for MedXLife co-owner Dr. Gary Brandwein scoffed at allegations that his client's company sold steroids to Benoit.

"I've only read that in the paper. I have no direct information about that whatsoever," Terence Kindlon said Wednesday, adding that prosecutors in Albany County, N.Y., were trying to "distract everyone's attention from the fact that their case is disintegrating."

Brandwein, a 44-year-old osteopath from Boca Raton, Fla., has pleaded not guilty to six counts in New York state court related to the criminal sale of a controlled substance. He was accused of signing and sending prescriptions without ever seeing patients.

Telephone messages left for attorneys for Brian Schafler and Greg Trotta — two other co-owners of MedXLife — were not immediately returned Wednesday. The two men have pleaded guilty to felony third-degree diversion of prescription medications and prescriptions, admitting they helped get drugs in 2006 for customers in upstate New York who had no medical need for them.

McDevitt said the drugs found in Benoit's house were legitimately prescribed. "There's no question, none of these drugs are out there, none of these drugs came from Internet pharmacies," he said.

In addition to causing paranoia and explosive outbursts, steroids can also contribute to deep depression, according to experts.

"Just as you have the extreme high of when you're on steroids, you can get the opposite," said Dr. Todd Schlifstein, a clinical assistant professor at the New York University School of Medicine. "You can have a dramatic difference in mood swings. You can feel there's no hope, there's no future."

[unstable bob gable]

I read in one of the NY rags today that he was injecting his son w/ human growth hormone [HGH] because he felt it would help the child's small size.
I'm bent about this whole situation. I'm not as big of a wrestling fan as I used to be, but I still follow it enough to know what is going on. And this is a super bad tragedy.:cry:

[ShitOnWheels]

More weirdness.... http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/28/wrestler.ap/index.html

[quote]
Wikipedia notes death of Benoit's wife before body found
POSTED: 7:48 p.m. EDT, June 28, 2007

ATLANTA (AP) -- Investigators are looking into who altered pro wrestler Chris Benoit's Wikipedia entry to mention his wife's death hours before authorities discovered the bodies of the couple and their 7-year-old son.

Benoit's Wikipedia entry was altered early Monday to say that the wrestler had missed a match two days earlier because of his wife's death.

A Wikipedia official, Cary Bass, said Thursday that the entry was made by someone using an Internet protocol address registered in Stamford, Connecticut, where World Wrestling Entertainment is based.

An IP address, a unique series of numbers carried by every machine connected to the Internet, does not necessarily have to be broadcast from where it is registered. The bodies were found in Benoit's home in suburban Atlanta, and it's not known where the posting was sent from, Bass said.

Benoit strangled his wife and son during the weekend, placing Bibles next to their bodies, before hanging himself on the cable of a weight-machine in his home, authorities said. No motive was offered for the killings, which were discovered Monday.
Officials raid office of Benoit's doctor

Also Thursday, federal drug agents said they had raided the west Georgia office of a doctor who prescribed testosterone to Benoit.

The raid at Dr. Phil Astin's office in Carrollton began Wednesday night and concluded early Thursday, said agent Chuvalo Truesdell, a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration. No arrests were made.

Hours before the raid, Astin told The Associated Press he had treated Benoit for low testosterone levels, which he said likely originated from previous steroid use.

Among other things, investigators were looking for Benoit's medical records to see whether he had been prescribed steroids and, if so, whether that prescription was appropriate, according to a law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity because records in the case remain sealed.

Astin prescribed testosterone for Benoit, a longtime friend, in the past but would not say what, if any, medications he prescribed when Benoit visited his office Friday.

State medical records show that Astin's privileges were suspended for three months in 2001 at a Georgia hospital for "reasons related to competence or character."

Astin did not return calls to his cell phone from the AP on Thursday.

Anabolic steroids were found in Benoit's home, leading officials to wonder whether the drugs played a role in the killings. Some experts believe steroids cause paranoia, depression and violent outbursts known as "roid rage."

Fayette County District Attorney Scott Ballard said in a statement Thursday that he could not immediately comment on the raid.

Benoit's page on Wikipedia, a reference site that allows users to add and edit information, was updated at 12:01 a.m. Monday, about 14 hours before authorities say the bodies were found. The reason he missed a match Saturday night was "stemming from the death of his wife Nancy," it said.

Reporters informed the Fayette County district attorney's office of the posting Thursday, and the agency forwarded the information to sheriff's investigators, who are looking into it, a legal assistant said in an e-mail to the AP.

WWE attorney Jerry McDevitt said that to his knowledge, no one at the WWE knew Nancy Benoit was dead before her body was found Monday afternoon. Text messages released by officials show that messages from Chris Benoit's cell phone were being sent to co-workers a few hours after the Wikipedia posting.

WWE employees are given WWE e-mail addresses, McDevitt said, though he did not know whether Chris Benoit had one.

"I have no idea who posted this," McDevitt said. "It's at least possible Chris may have sent some other text message to someone that we're unaware of. We don't know if he did. The phone is in the possession of authorities."

On Thursday afternoon, the Wikipedia page about Benoit carried a note stating that editing by unregistered or newly registered users was disabled until July 8 because of vandalism.

In other developments Thursday, Ballard told the AP that 10 empty beer cans were found in a trash can in the Benoit home. An empty wine bottle was found a few feet from where Benoit hanged himself, Ballard said.

It could take several weeks for toxicology tests to be completed on Benoit to see what substances, if any, were in his system.

Benoit took four months off from work in 2006 for undisclosed personal reasons, McDevitt said.

"He was feeling depressed, that kind of thing," McDevitt said.

In the days before the killings, Benoit and his wife argued over whether he should stay home more to take care of their mentally retarded 7-year-old son, according to an attorney for the WWE wrestling league.

The child had a rare medical condition called Fragile X Syndrome, an inherited form of mental retardation often accompanied by autism.

Chris Benoit's father, Michael Benoit, declined to comment on the slayings when reached Thursday by telephone in Alberta, Canada. Funeral arrangements were incomplete.

[Ian]

the plot thickens...

[bubba428]

damn...this is nuts. maybe his wife an kid were murdered and he lost his mind an killed himself....

[2001orangess]

I really don't follow wrestling but in any case this is a tragedy.

Im no detective, but i wonder if he was taking abything else beside those anabolic steriods. anyway i think that the anabolic steriod is main culprit.

Anabolic steriods can lead to anger irratibilty, hostility, anxiety, and depression. every individual reacts differently to the drug. some individuals may become very violent (roid rage) or some indivivduals can exhibit other symptoms. Studies have shown the as much as 15% of individuals who take these steroids exhibit hypomania. hypomania is a mild degree of mania and it leads to faulty judgement. this abnormaility is not as great as mania, so therefore they may appear normal to individuals who don;t have daily contact with the person.


so in all honestly, i think that he killed his wife and child during the hypomania episode. his judgement was altered, but not alot because he was able to put bibles next to his wife and kid, the deaths weren't violent in nature so i assume roid rage isn;t the answer.

also i feel that he was the one who editted the wikipedia. just because he has impaired judgement doesn;t necessarily mean that he can't formulate a sentence.

but anyway this is all speculation

[WayFast84]

i dont think he lives in CT though..

[2001orangess]

i dont think he lives in CT though..

An IP address, a unique series of numbers carried by every machine connected to the Internet, does not necessarily have to be broadcast from where it is registered..


it was on ****onwheels post :)

[WayFast84]

Honestly Why would he alter His own wiki? He didnt leave a note, yet he figures hell do that to his wiki....

[2001orangess]

Honestly Why would he alter His own wiki? He didnt leave a note, yet he figures hell do that to his wiki....

http://www.cbs46.com/news/13594206/detail.html

about leaving a note......like i said before he could have been suffering from hypomania, thus his judgement was impaired..therefore you can never tell what the individual can do. maybe the wiki could have been his note (which was proven false), but you never know what an individal is thinking :-P

anyway, this story adds a new twist to the whole thing because someone knew about the deaths, i highly doubt it was coincidence

[bubba428]

well i was wrong about the wiki thing, someone confessed to it

http://www.cbs46.com/news/13594206/detail.html

about leaving a note......like i said before he could have been suffering from hypomania, thus his judgement was impaired..therefore you can never tell what the individual can do. maybe the wiki could have been his note (which was proven false), but you never know what an individal is thinking :-P

anyway, this story adds a new twist to the whole thing because someone knew about the deaths

WOW if that don't sound like an information cover up I don't know what does....

[2001orangess]

WOW if that don't sound like an information cover up I don't know what does....

sorry bubba, i reread the article and i messed up the 1st time, the person who wrote it said it was a "coincedense"

[WayFast84]

I dont know of someone just making that up.. I bet the person who admitted to it, didnt even do it...

[2001orangess]

I dont know of someone just making that up.. I bet the person who admitted to it, didnt even do it...

i highly doubt that the ip address was given to the public. and in the artilce it said that the ip matched. so i may be naive but i think the person who admitted it was the person who wrote it....

but its too much of a coincdence that he editted the page and a couple of hours later, benoits wife was dead... so i would have to assume that the person knew about it....

but i don;t want to make anymore assumptions cause i'll end up looking like an ass :-P

[bubba428]

I was referring to the article. There is no way is was any kind of "coincidence" could have happened. Unless this "Mystery User" is some sort of psychic or super hero (sarcasm) the only way for that thought to even CROSS a normal humans mind was to be told.

[Brando56894]

I was completely shocked when I heard about this. I was over my godparents house for their daughters birthday and my godfather had it on (the tribute) and I was like "WTF??? How did he die?" and he said they think someone murdered them. Yesterday on my way to work I heard on the radio that he killed them and then killed himself, that shocked me even more. Last night on CNN (or one of those news channels) they had an ongoing story about this, they even interviews brett hart who was one of chris' close friends.


'Roid rage?

thats what the cops think it was (or so i heard)

damn...this is nuts. maybe his wife an kid were murdered and he lost his mind an killed himself....

thats what I was thinking initially, but if you came home and found out that your wife and son were dead, the first thing on your mind after you got over the initial shock would most likely be revenge, not killing yourself. I can see how this could of all stemmed out of a drug induced rage or irrational behavior, he kills them and then sobers up and thinks "WTF did I just do???" and the only way he can get out of it is by killing himself.

[bubba428]

I was thinking he probably was mixing drugs and was messed up and was trippin an roid rage at the same time...realized what he did when he came down and killed himself