Entries from June 2007 ↓

I really thnk that if you listened to the show last night, you would have heard that Chavo, Malenko, and Hunter were kind of talking around something. It was the way they were talking that made me get on the internet and start browsing the web. When I found out he no showed a house show and called in about his family spitting up blood, and there was no mention of him taking them to a hospital I began to get even more curious, and called my cousin to say something crazy is up here, and I was right. I think WWE had information before 6pm eastern time when they began taping that show and that is why they did not do a tribute whow with wrestling in it. Owen and Eddie died on the way to the ring and on the day of an event respectively and the show went on. The wrestlers were overcome with shock and disbelief and they had to do their best to honor a 3 hour time slot for the network. Other than Dean Malenko and Chavo the people who spoke about Chris were all about WWE and McMahon upper echelon.

Tragic. Here is a link to an AP video about this: http://video.ap.org/v/Legacy.aspx?g=a86cb676-93bf-4006-8764-bc5664729420&f=MEBAN&fg=copy

Yes i would have too agree that murder/suicide isn't the first thing that comes to mind when remembering chris. I would hope that if someone broke into my home to kill me or my family, some text messages, which could have been sent by anyone, wouldn't make police think well automatically murder/suicide. Anyway why would he stick around to watch it? It looks like he would have taken it at the same time and left proof like a handwritten letter, NOT JUST A TEXT PEEPS, ANYONE CAN DO THAT AND CLAIM TO BE HIM. Plus Eddie and him were pretty good friends and his death was an accidential overdose. Things like the mob,drug cartel, and organized crime really exist!!!!!! I never knew either man personally but thats the feeling i get from all this, that they got mixed-up in something bigger than the both of them.

A number of news sources have the story now that the sheriff has all but confirmed that Chris Benoit killed his wife and child sometime during the weekend, and then killed himself on Monday. WWE itself also claims to have evidence that they have been asked to keep silent about, for now. While awaiting the crime lab results, the sheriff did say that the details as they come out will be "a little bizarre."

Knowing absolutely nothing about Benoit's personal and family life, it is easy to throw out guesses about what could have happened. Did Nancy want to divorce him and take away his son? I am honestly hoping that it's more like "Something happened that caused Nancy to try to kill herself and their son, Chris was home trying to save them, and when he could not do so, he also committed suicide." But nobody is reporting a triple suicide, they're all very plainly saying that the evidence is for murder. And they've already said that there's no shotgun or stabbing wounds, which rules out the sort of crime of passion argument where someone's waving a gun and the next thing you know people are dead. If reports are true that Benoit had told people his wife and child were "throwing up blood", then that certainly lends credit to the belief that they were poisoned. (It sounds very twisted to say, but I suppose it is possible that he poisoned them, and then missed his flight while waiting for them to die. Yikes.)

I think I'm going to stop guessing and see what the news reports have to say. Oh, one last thing. My local news sucks. While running the story this morning they said, "Despite the murder, WWE ran a three hour tribute to Benoit last night." Ummm…morons…yesterday nobody knew the details, they just knew that their coworker was dead. You can't exactly fault them for that. Idiots.

WAT THE …. WHO EVER DID THAT IS A HATER HE SHOULD GO TO HELL THATS WAT I THINK. HE'S A LITTLE SON OF A BI…???????????

he did it himself because he went in the limo all slow and most of the time he goes in fast he opened the door sat in after about 5 seconds it blew up i think he killed him self or he got out of the limo and then set it on fire

The report I read stated Chris killed his wife and son over the weekend and himself on Monday. Unlike Scott Peterson or OJ Simpson and most recent Cutts who tried to hide there crimes and continue their lives, Chris' regret, remorse, guilt and grief over what he had done caused him to take his own life. This alone tells us that this act was not premeditated and was most likely spur of the moment in anger. How does someone kill their child? This situation again is different from the calculated killing to extinguish an unwanted pregnant wife. Often, a grief stricken remorseful parent who has killed their spouse in sudden rage, believes it is better for the child to die than live without their deceased parent or have to live with the stigma of a killer father. Particularly a father who is a celebrity. Of course this belief is crazy to a thinking person. However, a person who has just killed his wife in a rage is not thinking properly.

There are also instances when a parent kills a child in order to get back at or punish their spouse. They use the child as the last tool to control. To me this is just psychotic behavior from a insane psychopath. Since we do not have enough information to judge, or maybe we should not judge at all, we should just pray for those left behind who mourn their family members and friends. And we should pray from Chris. An astute student of the Bible knows that the word kill in "Thou shall not kill", was transliterated from a hebrew/aramaic word meaning to 'murder, or lay in wait' and also knows that in Deuteronomy we learn that those who kill must stand before the Lord and those they have killed to explain their actions. Neither you nor I will be there, so perhaps we should leave the judgment up to the Lord. As only he knows what is in the heart of a man.

WWE.com is reporting that the Benoit family's death was the result of a double murder-suicide after all. No more details on how the details of the story tie together, or really which are accurate and which are not. There was a story of Nancy and Daniel throwing up blood and Chris staying home to take care of them. How does that fit in? What caused it? If the report is true, then that means that somebody did the murdering and then committed suicide. But who? Nancy? Chris? As I mentioned in another post, I can't conceive of either of them deliberately murdering their child.

Well put… Very unexpected and Very tragic…

ABC News has the most information so far about what we know. Benoit had cancelled his pay per view appearance, but ABC news reports that he had "missed several appointments over the weekend" making me question how long he had been missing. I was under the impression that he was the one who had cancelled (as opposed to someone doing it for him), and that it had happened at the last minute on Sunday. I am wondering now if it could have been days ago. (One report says that it was the WWE who alerted authorities to do a "welfare check" after they could not contact Benoit. So now it's beginning to sound like he did not show up for the PPV, and when they could not find him it was the WWE that had no choice but to change the event, and report the circumstances as "family emergency".)

Second and more importantly, the sheriff reports "no evidence of stabbing or gunshot wounds" which almost surely rules out the murder/suicide theory, since if there were some crime of passion at the cause of this, then some violent and obvious means of death would have been apparent. They are now looking at poisoning, strangulation and other causes. I suppose that poisoning could still be an option (carbon monoxide?) if they'd actually been involved in some sort of mutual thing…but remember, their son is dead, too. I can't conceive of parents working together to kill their child as well as themselves. So was the whole thing a tragic accident? I'll keep updating as I find out more news.

Update: Sources now report that Benoit was the one to call and say that he would be taking a later flight to the pay per view, that he had to stay home to take care of his wife and son who were throwing up blood. I have no idea if this is a confirmed report or not, or if it implies that he too was sick with whatever happened to them, or what. But it's looking more and more like some horrific tragedy and not any sort of murder/suicide situation.