ok i'm not gonna do it but i'm gonna laugh if someone posts the pic on this page

6/26/2007 1:59:41 AM

ok... so... page 4 is here...

6/26/2007 2:00:06 AM

^^lol i would too

6/26/2007 2:02:28 AM

<3

6/26/2007 2:11:30 AM

i was wondering how this thread doubled in size so fast...

6/26/2007 2:13:23 AM

thank the garage for those

6/26/2007 2:17:24 AM

lol bbehe is calling for your head

better edit or a mod might suspend you

6/26/2007 2:24:05 AM

big surprise...thanks for the heads up...you may need to vouch for me

6/26/2007 3:08:56 AM

I don't think so, Tim

6/26/2007 3:19:03 AM

It is truly a sad day for TWW when even a wrestling show exhibits more class in the face of tragedy.

6/26/2007 6:08:28 AM

not too much more updated except they found Nancy dead in the living room, Daniel in his bedroom, and Chris in his weightroom. Speculation that he may have killed them on sunday and waited until Monday before killing himself.

I really don't want to find out that he did it. He always seemed like he had his head on his shoulders.

6/26/2007 7:32:14 AM

yeah this is very strange

something must have snapped

but killing your son? I just dont know

6/26/2007 7:47:05 AM

it's been pointed out a few times online, but Benoit and Nancy had had a volatile relationship for years... I honestly didn't know they were still together, because i'd read about them possibly divorcing years ago around the time i stopped watching...

6/26/2007 7:53:03 AM

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"something must have snapped"

Roid rage anyone?

Crazy story though

6/26/2007 8:03:06 AM

The reports that he killed his family on sunday and himself yesterday lead me to think that he probably did have a steriod driven snap in judgement or some other volatile change in his chemistry. And once he snapped out of it he realized what he had done and figured the easiest way was to off himself. Reading that "all instruments used were found on scene" the first thing that pops in my head is a jump rope strangulation.

6/26/2007 8:08:26 AM

He sent "curious text messages" to Chavo and others? What the hell does that mean?

6/26/2007 9:47:07 AM

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"i'm ded lol"

6/26/2007 9:50:45 AM

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"The following is from WWE.com: According to lead investigator Lt. Tommy Pope, of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department, in Fayetteville, Ga., the deaths of WWE Superstar Chris Benoit, wife Nancy and son Daniel were the result of a double murder-suicide, WWE.com has learned. Benoit failed to appear both at Saturday’s live event in Beaumont, Tx., and WWE’s Vengeance: Night of Champions in Houston Sunday night, after informing WWE of a family emergency. Several curious text messages sent by Benoit early Sunday morning prompted concerned friends to alert Richard Hering, VP of Government Relations for WWE, Inc. Hering, in turn, spoke with Fayette County sheriffs Monday, and requested that they respond to the Benoit residence to check on him and his family. Authorities representing the Sheriff’s Department initially had a difficult time entering Benoit’s new Fayetteville home Monday afternoon, which had been guarded by two large German Shepherds roaming freely around the property. Once authorities entered the residence, they quickly located the bodies of Benoit, Nancy and Daniel. WWE was notified of the discovery at approximately 4 p.m. At 10 p.m. Monday night, Lt. Pope held a press conference in conjunction with Scott Ballard, the district attorney for Fayette County. The press conference officially ruled authorities’ findings as a double murder-suicide from within the home. WAGA, a FOX-owned and operated television station in Atlanta, reported that investigators believe Benoit killed his wife and 7-year-old son over the weekend, then himself on Monday. The three bodies have been received by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab, in Decatur, Ga., where autopsies will be performed Tuesday morning. Toxicology reports will not become available for at least two weeks. WWE.com has further information relating to both the investigation and the cause of death, but the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department has requested that WWE.com not release any additional details at this time."

6/26/2007 9:59:42 AM

All of this has been so surreal. All of these details coming out, and it's just really hard to fathom. My condolences go out to the Benoit family. R.I.P. Chris Benoit, Nancy Benoit (a.k.a. Woman), and their son Daniel.

6/26/2007 10:05:27 AM

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"R.I.P. Chris Benoit"

No, B.I.H. Chris Benoit.

6/26/2007 10:09:10 AM

my condolences go to his wife and kid but not him

[Edited on June 26, 2007 at 10:09 AM. Reason : ^pretty much]

6/26/2007 10:09:18 AM

^ yeah

WTF hadta be going on in his life to drive him to that? man, that's terrible

6/26/2007 10:18:24 AM

probably cocaine and steroids, like all the other wrestlers

you know they just recruit half of these guys by going to (male) strip clubs in atlanta and finding the roidinest ones

6/26/2007 10:20:08 AM

make this an indictment of Benoit, sure

but please don't make this an indictment of the wrestling industry as a whole

it has no less problems than any other business as far as substance abuse goes.

6/26/2007 10:32:39 AM

My only problem with it is - If there was a rumor floating around (and I mean, ANY remote chance it was true) of a murder/suicide before they aired a memorial last night and they still ran 3 hours of footage of him and people talking about how great of a person he was... WWE deserves to be blasted by the media/public for a long time.

6/26/2007 10:44:18 AM

His two kids from a previous marriage are glad Mommy left now.

6/26/2007 10:49:24 AM

i dont watch too much csi or anything but toxicology reports are standard with autopsies, but the fact they throw that in the article makes it seem like chemicals/poison played a roll.

[Edited on June 26, 2007 at 10:57 AM. Reason : is the WWE site down for anyone else too?]

6/26/2007 10:57:12 AM

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"it has no less problems than any other business as far as substance abuse goes."

I'm not here trying to bash wrestling on the whole...but have you seen how many wrestlers in their 30s and 40s have died in the last 10-20 years of some type of drug related cause of death? Wrestling has more problems than most other businesses as far as substance abuse

6/26/2007 11:06:48 AM

the police report about the murder wasn't available until 10:00

6/26/2007 11:15:07 AM

^^ i doubt they have a greater number of people with "substance abuse problems" than people in other professions...

but those with problems, when coupled with the day-in-day-out strain that their bodies are under, plus the emotional stress of being on the road 250+ days of the year a substance abuse problem can probably become substantially worse for a pro wrestler than they would for others...

if it's a roid rage situation though, i wonder how long before the WWE's being investigated for steroid troubles again... HHH might have to go into hiding...

6/26/2007 11:48:35 AM

^yeah ok i hear ya

6/26/2007 11:49:19 AM

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"Several Atlanta-based law enforcement sources have told TMZ Benoit may have strangled his wife on Saturday, then smothered his son in his bed a day later. Investigators refuse to officially comment, pending final confirmation by the coroner on the cause and time of the deaths. One source told TMZ that Benoit was texting friends during Sunday's WWE "Vengeance" Pay-Per-View program -- possibly watching the show with his son, who may have been alive at the time. According to sources, Benoit then hanged himself Monday in a weight room inside the family home."

6/26/2007 12:12:34 PM

that doesn't sound like roid rage anymore... that sounds more like premeditation... at least as far as the kid is concerned...

ugh

6/26/2007 12:30:38 PM

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"My only problem with it is - If there was a rumor floating around (and I mean, ANY remote chance it was true) of a murder/suicide before they aired a memorial last night and they still ran 3 hours of footage of him and people talking about how great of a person he was... WWE deserves to be blasted by the media/public for a long time."

WWE did not know he'd done anything at the time. They only found out he was dead a few hours before the show.

6/26/2007 12:42:58 PM

so does anyone else think the wwe did everything they could to not let the suicide leak out so they could make the 3 hour show

i mean if everyone woulda known that it was a double murder suicide i cant see them making a 3 hour show like that

i know i wouldnt

6/26/2007 12:50:57 PM

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"WWE did not know he'd done anything at the time. They only found out he was dead a few hours before the show."

They had to have known the circumstances in which Benoit and his family were found though. Seems pretty obvious there was some foul play involved, especially coupled with the absence of Benoit at the PPV because of "personal reasons."

6/26/2007 1:03:10 PM

McMahon's an absolute sleaze, but I think he was operating in good faith.

6/26/2007 1:05:07 PM

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"Speaking via Sky Sports News here in the UK, a FOX News reporter confirmed that police chiefs had told him that a press conference revealing more details on the deaths of Chris Benoit, wife Nancy and son Daniel will be made public later today. The update came as WWE began to remove the majority of Chris Benoit related content from their website this afternoon, with the article regarding Benoit’s death (which at time of writing is still on the front page of WWE.com) being the only visible content relating to the former World Heavyweight Champion. As noted earlier today, WWE.com removed Chris Benoit items from their ShopZone website. A Benoit related item that had recently been added to WWE’s auction website has also been removed "

6/26/2007 1:14:22 PM

wtf are those pics from above?

6/26/2007 1:23:09 PM

wife prolly cheated

6/26/2007 1:30:03 PM

^^ dont have a heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack

6/26/2007 1:41:35 PM

he strangled his wife, smothered son, and hung himself according to cnn.com

6/26/2007 1:41:50 PM

its all over the radio

6/26/2007 1:48:41 PM

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"The lack of an understandable explanation to the circumstances of the death of Chris, Nancy and Daniel Benoit has left virtually the entire wrestling community reeling. Within WWE, the obvious questions and lack of answers are no different from fans and most of his long-time friends. Vince McMahon was the inspiring general both to the wrestlers as well as the office staff all day yesterday. He held it together and was a rock of strength for much of the talent, which because of their admiration and in many cases love for Benoit, were saddened, perplexed and having an incredibly difficult time dealing with it. Vince made the decision to run Smackdown and ECW tapings tonight without any angles or backstage storylines. The show will consist of straight wrestling matches and like last night, the original shows were scrapped. The attempt to put together a show was difficult because the crew and creative staff were said to be both emotionally and physically wrecked after yesterday. The belief is they will brief viewers on what happened early in the show, and then product two low key shows of nothing but matches."

This whole thing just really sucks. He seemed quiet and low-key and led what looked to the outsider like a good life. The whole wrestling aspect is irrelevant. I'm not the biggest wrestling fan, I fade in, I fade out, never bought a PPV. I just happened to be faded in at this point. If I found out on The Wolf Web that Philip Rivers murdered his wife, son, and then committed suicide I'd feel the same way. I neither knew Benoit (or Rivers in my analogy), but I spent time watching them if that's worth anything. We would all be shocked and say we couldn't believe he'd do such a thing, but then we would later realize "we all thought he was a great guy, but how many of us really know him?" I guess what I am saying is a lot of us expect the people that are assholes in public life to commit heinous crimes, not the guy we think is nice.

The thing that gets me is his son. Roid rage or not, he was 7 years old, he was an innocent creature. Stuff like murdering children, baby pedophiles, college students that go on mass-murder sprees, and other gross perversions or acts...just really tends to kill my belief in the goodness of humanity.

6/26/2007 2:07:16 PM

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"Vince McMahon was the inspiring general both to the wrestlers as well as the office staff all day yesterday. "

so are they scrapping that stupid Vince is dead storyline?

6/26/2007 2:09:29 PM

i think mcmahon knew what was up and didnt want it leaked to the press until they could get the tribute show out of the way

[Edited on June 26, 2007 at 2:11 PM. Reason : ^yep]

6/26/2007 2:11:35 PM

no he didn't you fucking tard. no one's that stupid. they just rushed it out, which in hindsight was a bad idea

6/26/2007 2:13:47 PM

fox is about to do a report on it and jane skinner could get it

6/26/2007 2:15:59 PM

haha he had an aim name

bill apter said he was im'ing him a few months ago

6/26/2007 2:22:04 PM

what was said in the press conference?

6/26/2007 3:21:57 PM