WWE Superstar and Family Found Dead

I heard about it this evening. I didn't realize he lived in Fayetteville. I have many family members that live there.

 

Extraordinarily sad. His wife used to live in my town.

 

Sad, sad story.
Now being investigated as a possible murder suicide.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=3315501&page=1

 

Before I was saved (2001) I was a HUGE wrestling fan and I loved Chris Benoit. I was absolutely stunned this morning when my husband told me about this. I know this will be very hard on his other children and his wrestling family. So very sad....

 

Never would have guessed you once liked the WWE

After hearing about this, I was saddened at first...but then became angry that Benoit would do such a selfish thing as kill his own son and wife. For as tough as he tried to act in the ring, the man is a coward in life, and will most likely pay a terrible price for it in death.

My only hope is the fact that with all of the matches he had with Eddie Guerero (who was a Christian), and all the time they spent together practicing, something got through to him at some point in his life.

 

It is not right to call Mr Benoit a coward in death. It has not been proven yet that he killed his wife, child and himself.

The sheriff said that was a possibility, but he also said it could be a triple homicide.

Don't pass judgment until judgment is due.

 

You're right...it hasn't been cofirmed yet. I should have stated that when it is confirmed, as that will most likely be the finding (the wife and son were killed over the weekend...Benoit dies Monday)

 

It was reported today he did kill them. He strangled his wife after binding her hands and feet...suffocated his 7 year old son, and then a day later, hung himself from one of his exercise machines and cable. I find it odd that he also placed a Bible next to their bodies. He is a coward for murdering his family. If he wanted to end his own life, that's one thing, but to murder your wife and son is a hideous, cowardly act.

 

I wonder how WWE is going to handle the situation. They did a 3 hour tribute to a murderer.

 

Reading the details of this just breaks my heart. My view of Chris Benoit has certainly changed!!!

 

I am still not convinced that it was murder/suicide. Chris' driver spoke as if the couple was the happiest people he knew.'

Chris' neighbor did not think Chris would do such.

It is strange that he would kill his wife one day, his son another day, and himself another day.

I still think foul play is involved.

 

It is even more strange to think that an outside person would kill the woman one day, the boy another day, and the man another day.

 

Not necessarily. If they were locked up in different rooms it could be possible.

If someone wanted it to look like murder/suicide, it could be possible.

 

He was supposed to wrestle at Satureday's "Vengeance"...but called the WWE to tell them he had a "family emergency". Based on some text messages he sent after that to the WWE, and the day after, the WWE became concerned, and called the sherriff's to have them check on Benoit. That's when they found the bodies. There is no way this was an outside job.

 

I thought the sheriff said Chris had been called home for an emergency. It is possible someone else could have made his wife place that call, or possibly made the call themselves.

She managed wrestlers, so she could have let someone in unsuspecting while he was away.

Another thing, why text messages? Why not straight phone calls?