More details are coming out about the death of wrestling superstar Chris Benoit who strangled his wife and suffocated his 7-year-old son over the weekend. Hours, or maybe a day later, Benoit hanged himself with the pulley of a weightlifting machine after placing a call to WWE officials to inform them that he would not be at Sunday’s Vengeance pay-per-view event in Houston as scheduled, due to “personal reasons.”
As “Monday Night Raw” began on USA Network, WWE owner Vince McMahon announced that the bodies of Benoit’s family had been found, and that they were canceling the live wrestling show scheduled for Monday. In the place of the 3-hour show, WWE aired a retrospective of Benoit's career.
Police released a statement that they had found prescription steroids in the house, and are investigating whether steroid-induced anger or paranoia may have contributed to the bizarre and tragic murder/suicide death of the popular Benoit.
In more details, Sheriff’s Lieutenant Tommy Pope said an autopsy revealed Benoit’s wife was killed Friday and the couple’s son likely died on Saturday. Investigators believe Benoit killed himself late Saturday or early Sunday.
District Attorney Scott Ballard characterized the case as bizarre. “It applies to details regarding the deaths, but generally speaking anytime there’s a murder-suicide it would be considered bizarre around here, particularly for a child. For a 7-year-old child to be killed is bizarre,” said Ballard.
The boy had old needle marks in his arms, Ballard said. He said he had been told the parents considered him undersized and had given him growth hormones. “The boy was very small, even dwarfed,” Ballard said.
The WWE is dismissing any suggestions of 'roid rage' as being the cause of the tragedy, since Benoit was deliberate with the murders and left Bibles at the feet of his wife and son after killing them. A rep for the WWE says: "The physical findings announced by authorities indicate deliberation, not rage. The wife's feet and hands were bound and she was asphyxiated, not beaten to death. By the account of the authorities, there were substantial periods of time between the death of the wife and the death of the son, again suggesting deliberate thought, not rage. The presence of a Bible by each is also not an act of rage."
Comments
I just think the the church should probly come out and say the just because you lay a bible down the the feet of your recently murdered by you son and wife does not give you a free pass into heavan. This sick son of a bitch is hopefully getting analy violated by thirty maybe forty demons right now, not to mention sitting in a lake of fire and being ripped to pieces over and over again. This is yet another reason why people should have to aquire a liscence before they can have kids. If this twisted bastard would have had a psych eval he probly would have been prohibited to have children. Steroids suck, Wrestling sucks, and Chris Benoi is the worlds biggest piece of shameful, evil, black hearted, and I am so glad the mother fucker is dead shit I have ever had the pain in my ear of hearing about. Damn thats a mouthful. Rusty rules, piece out yall.
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford | July 5, 2007 12:53 AM
I think that murder is murder and even if he thought that by some bizzare thought that what he was doing would be forgiven with a bible i do hope he is dwelling in hell.Children are a gift and should not have to endure all the sick behavior people impose on them.As a mother i love my kids with my all. I would die for them,wouldnt harm them.If you cant love them dont concieve them,leave them in heaven for a real parent lisa broussard
Posted by: lisa broussard | July 7, 2007 3:12 AM
The sickest part of the whole aftermath (aside from the death of the child) was that WWE Raw continued to make it look like "Oh, Benoit was a hero in wrestling, one of the strongest men-" blah, blah, blah. First of all, WWE wrestling is one of the gayest sports ever created, because 99.9% of all the participants are steroid-addicted, low-lifed, ignorant school dropouts who had no better future than to make millions off of staging fights and showing off their fake muscles. What made Benoit so special? He was just another one of them - no, I'm sorry, he was worse than all of them, a sick bastard for killing his family, then feeling ashamed for it and killing himself. I believe that people like that shouldn't even be acknowlaged. I'm going to forget him, may the devil torture his soul for eternity.
Posted by: Josh Dubya | August 25, 2007 12:49 AM
Chris Benoi did the most horrible and shamefull thing in the world. He definately would be in hell. He rules the hell and be in there forever. Because God do not forgive those who diminishes their own lives. Just pray for him as he was a human being like us and in what circumstances he perform such a horrible act we really dont know....
Posted by: Haseeb Khalid | October 15, 2007 8:06 AM
i think that is wore u got to kill your son and wife to i am like want is was he think so a 7 years old boy he did not get to leve the rest of his life that is bad i feel sorry for him he i not like other man i am like y u got to kill your child.and y u will put a bible by the feet that is very smart .
Posted by: malik | October 23, 2007 1:05 AM