[BlogEntry] WWE : Benoit Almost Certainly Murder/Suicide; Details "A Little Bizarre"

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.