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Sirona
06-26-2007, 12:35 PM
According to FOX news his wife had filed for divorce in 2003 saying their three-year union was irrevocably broken and alleging "cruel treatment." But she later dropped the complaint, as well as a request for a restraining order in which she charged that Benoit had threatened her and had broken furniture in their home.

http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/6960688?MSNHPHCP&GT1=10136

ChgoSteve
06-26-2007, 01:45 PM
looks like he was taking roids. I was sure he was. Even though he was not as big as some of the other monsters in wrestling. It is hard to look like that at 40 years old. Especially when your body that muscular, has that little fat but your face is bloated. That is usually a sure sign someone is juicing. Still a sad story. I was a fan of Chris.

RIP Benoit family.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/more/06/25/wrestler.dead.ap/index.html?cnn=yes

Sirona
06-26-2007, 04:27 PM
Ya, I read they found steroids, etc in his house:

"Lots of prescription medications were found from doctors, with what we believe to be legal prescriptions," Pope said.

He confirmed that anabolic steroids were among the medications found.
http://www.wyff4.com/entertainment/13568264/detail.html?treets=gs&tml=gs_natlbreak&ts=T&tmi=gs_natlbreak_1_11530306262007

What a mess...

Lysondra
06-26-2007, 04:40 PM
Now the real question for me is... why did he sit around a house with his dead family for two days before killing himself?

madmaxine
06-26-2007, 04:48 PM
looks like he was taking roids. I was sure he was. Even though he was not as big as some of the other monsters in wrestling. It is hard to look like that at 40 years old. Especially when your body that muscular, has that little fat but your face is bloated. That is usually a sure sign someone is juicing. Still a sad story. I was a fan of Chris.

RIP Benoit family.




It's a shame too because I do know of bodybuilders in middle age who do it all natural and look great, maybe not Pro Wrestling great, but impressive. There is no need to abuse steriods....

StrawberrySwitchblade
06-26-2007, 04:50 PM
Contemplation, mixed with self loathing, shame, amazement, depression. One could only guess.

Lysondra
06-26-2007, 04:59 PM
http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/benoitpressrelease

Not roids.

madmaxine
06-26-2007, 05:08 PM
Not roids.


*Cough* Plausible Deniablity *Cough*

What do you think the World Wrestling Entertainment would say about this incident? Many of their wrestlers are on juice....Are they going to take a hit because one of them flipped out and killed his family, possibly because of roid rage?

Think about it.

Lysondra
06-26-2007, 05:09 PM
But he didn't flip out. He meticulously and slowly killed his family and did one perhaps up to a day before the other. That's not flipping out or condusive to steroids.

Madcap
06-26-2007, 06:21 PM
Now the real question for me is... why did he sit around a house with his dead family for two days before killing himself?

Way i read it he was there at least a day. Wife died friday night, kid died saturday morning, and he hung humself saturday night... at least that's what they said in the news conference i watched.

I'm sure a lot more will come out.

Sirona
06-26-2007, 06:32 PM
Now the real question for me is... why did he sit around a house with his dead family for two days before killing himself?

What Madcap said...

He killed his wife Saturday, his kid Sunday and himself Monday.

As for what someone said about it not being steroid related... The WWE made that statement and it didn't come from anyone in the medical field so take it with a grain of salt.

It was reported that multiple prescribed meds were found along with anabolic steroids were found in his house.

Not a real big leap ya know?

Sounds like he just went plain ole crazy if you ask me.

Lysondra
06-26-2007, 06:46 PM
That's still a long ass time to be spending killing people. TOo meticulous. AGH! I hate this. :( He was the nicest guy you could meet.

Sirona
06-27-2007, 03:47 AM
So was my mom. She was a catholic school teacher EVERYBODY thought was great... of course she was a raving lunatic (violent/mentally ill).

You'd be surprised how different people can be at home, so to speak.

kittenkat
06-27-2007, 04:06 AM
This reminds me a bit of my friend's dad.

I spent almost every weekend sleeping over at my friend's house as a kid, and the dad was one of the coolest and sweetest dads. Their family was truly-on the surface- a perfect family.

Well, the dad hit 50, went into a depression, openly finds himself an 18 year old mistress, but his mistress dumps him so he tries to kill his wife at home (just knocked her out cold but he thought she was dead) and then thinking he successfully killed his wife, and kills himself. His reason for trying to kill his wife? He didn't wanna die alone.

My friend, with her father now dead and mom in a coma (she recovered in less than a week) has to go home and sort through his things. Her sweet old dad had a box of secrets in his safety box in his office- a box full of letters that indicate that he had cheated on his wife repeatedly with minors (16, 17 year old girls) throughout their marriage (some were girls that my friend went to high school with), had sexual relations with his adopted niece, had engaged in sex tourism, possibly with very young minors in foreign countries, and paid for over a dozen abortion of various young girls that he had flings with.

Needless to say, my friend went into a severe depression after this whole unfolding of events. Nobody had a clue until he started flaunting his affair right before he died.

So you never know- this was a man that I thought I knew and I thought was one of the most decent people on the planet. Some people have very convincing "fronts" that may be genuine, but they have a dark, dark side.

abusers can be some of the nicest, sweetest, charming men on the planet on the surface.

Siber
06-27-2007, 04:52 AM
One thing I found particularly disturbing was that, according to a report on ESPN.com, the son had needle trackmarks on his arm and it appeared that someone had been injecting the boy with either steroids or HGH. If that's true, I just hope to hell it was for legal, medical reasons. Roiding yourself is one thing, roiding up a seven year old is criminal.

Siber

Siber
06-27-2007, 04:53 AM
Here's the story.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=2917133

Siber

Djoser
06-27-2007, 06:06 AM
You'd be surprised how different people can be at home, so to speak.

Right, everybody thought OJ was the nicest, coolest guy around, and he fucking cut his ex-wife's head off.

If there was a history of him threatening his wife and breaking furniture, we are not talking about a nice guy, here--no matter what kind of front he put on for his fans, when he went out to a club, or when he went to the convenience store. We are talking about a seriously messed-up individual who killed his wife and 7 year old son. That's fucking sick. I have no sympathy for him.

Vyanka
06-27-2007, 07:08 AM
So was my mom. She was a catholic school teacher EVERYBODY thought was great... of course she was a raving lunatic (violent/mentally ill).

You'd be surprised how different people can be at home, so to speak.

I agree. What you see out the home, isn't that person as whole.

This story was truely disturbing. I've got chills reading some of this stuff.

What a piece of shit. I hope he rots in hell.

DJ Machismo
06-27-2007, 10:52 AM
What I found odd was, I watched the RAW tribute to Benoit last night, after hearing the final verdict on what happened as told by the investigators.

The RAW tribute was put out before they knew exactly what happened. Everyone was talking about how he was such a stellar guy and a great guy.

Was really odd hearing that when I knew it was a double murder suicide.

madmaxine
06-27-2007, 11:42 AM
This reminds me a bit of my friend's dad.

I spent almost every weekend sleeping over at my friend's house as a kid, and the dad was one of the coolest and sweetest dads. Their family was truly-on the surface- a perfect family.

Well, the dad hit 50, went into a depression, openly finds himself an 18 year old mistress, but his mistress dumps him so he tries to kill his wife at home (just knocked her out cold but he thought she was dead) and then thinking he successfully killed his wife, and kills himself. His reason for trying to kill his wife? He didn't wanna die alone.

My friend, with her father now dead and mom in a coma (she recovered in less than a week) has to go home and sort through his things. Her sweet old dad had a box of secrets in his safety box in his office- a box full of letters that indicate that he had cheated on his wife repeatedly with minors (16, 17 year old girls) throughout their marriage (some were girls that my friend went to high school with), had sexual relations with his adopted niece, had engaged in sex tourism, possibly with very young minors in foreign countries, and paid for over a dozen abortion of various young girls that he had flings with.

Needless to say, my friend went into a severe depression after this whole unfolding of events. Nobody had a clue until he started flaunting his affair right before he died.

So you never know- this was a man that I thought I knew and I thought was one of the most decent people on the planet. Some people have very convincing "fronts" that may be genuine, but they have a dark, dark side.

abusers can be some of the nicest, sweetest, charming men on the planet on the surface.

My mom's first husband was a lot like this. He even drove one of his wives to commit suicide in an unconventional, desperate method that I won't post here but surprised even me....(We found her death certificate when I was looking for my documents to register at college.)

Yeah, you know those books & movies about incredibly evil people? Not all fiction.

Blade
06-27-2007, 12:22 PM
One thing I found particularly disturbing was that, according to a report on ESPN.com, the son had needle trackmarks on his arm and it appeared that someone had been injecting the boy with either steroids or HGH. If that's true, I just hope to hell it was for legal, medical reasons. Roiding yourself is one thing, roiding up a seven year old is criminal.

SiberFrom what the news out here has reported his son suffered from dwarfism

Taco Goblin
06-27-2007, 12:35 PM
Oh man this is all really shocking and such a shame.. I'm an ECW mark from years ago.. (not this faux-ECW incarnation nowadays) .. and I still remember the match when he broke Sabu's neck.

Bad enough when a guy goes out like that, but taking his family with him?? (assuming that's the case).. yikes..

No more rabid wolverine..

xdamage
06-27-2007, 12:52 PM
I don't know. I guess once someone reaches the point where they kill a family member, then even more heinous, your own child, it's all downhill from there as to behaving rationally. I can only guess that a part of him realized that his choices came down to facing the future (i.e., end of his career, jail, or death penalty), or suicide. Maybe he spent the time afterwards struggling with which way to go. Who knows.

Melvis
06-27-2007, 01:14 PM
Son had Fragile X Syndrome
http://www.huliq.com/25692/chris-benoits-son-had-fragile-x-syndrome-says-report

Interesting read...

But damn, how the hell would HGH fix that, let alone on a freakin' 7-year-old?!

Hrmm... -_-

Sirona
06-27-2007, 02:11 PM
HGH/Steroids wouldn't help the above mentioned disorder or dwarfism; no clue what the guy was thinking.

Apparently not too much.

StrawberrySwitchblade
06-27-2007, 08:22 PM
The boy was very small for his age. Fragile X sometimes has something to do with it. On top of that, FXS can be accompanied by a form of autism. HUGE strain on parents. They might have hoped that HGH would take care of his physical height, so he would have one less thing to be picked on for.

I believe steroids had something to do with it, but I do not see it as 'roid rage. Steroids can bring on a myriad of side effects, from depression, or almost schizophrenic behavior. Stress may has exacerbated it, and he popped his cork.

Djoser
06-28-2007, 04:09 AM
I believe steroids had something to do with it, but I do not see it as 'roid rage...

Yeah, I'd be inclined to agree. If 'roid rage commonly included murdering your own 7 year old son, on top of having killed your wife, I think it would be viewed as a much more serious problem than it already is.


At least the guy had one small superiority to OJ--he had enough of a sense of guilt or conscience (I presume) to off himself as well, rather than trying to continue banging vapid bimbos and jetsetting around acting like nothing happened, as OJ has done.

Sirona
06-28-2007, 01:53 PM
Ok weirdest of weird...

Apparently someone made an entry in Wikipedia about Nancy Benoit's death 14 hours before her body was found.... click for article (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19468182/?GT1=10056) The posting was made by someone using an IP address registered in Stamford, Conn., where World Wrestling Entertainment is based.

WTF?

Lysondra
06-28-2007, 03:58 PM
Huh? I was following the story on Wikipedia.. the story of his wife's death was not mentioned until way after Benoits himself was.

StrawberrySwitchblade
06-28-2007, 04:30 PM
...o Rly?

leilanicandy
06-28-2007, 04:41 PM
Well I think that he could have seek help for his stress! No but he kill his own flesh and blood. They was talking about this on the howard stern show. The woman was the one who carry the fragile X to her son. It can only be carry by an x chromosome. I dont know if anyone ever delt with a woman who has this diease. I have to say from experience these women get nuttier and nuttier as they get older! The woman I know is a complete nut case. It is so sad!

I dont see why all these men are killing there family. What is up with this!

StrawberrySwitchblade
06-28-2007, 04:51 PM
Well I think that he could have seek help for his stress!

He was in an industry that stresses no complaints. You deal with pain on a daily basis. You had to be a man. He might have taken it so far as to just deal with it. A lot of guys do. A lot of women do. Some of these people do go on to murder, but we just don't hear about it.

xdamage
06-28-2007, 06:30 PM
This is not meant as an "excuse" for what he did, but I have worked with developmentally disabled children and adults, as well as come to know their parents, and from a strictly compassionate point of view, parents go through a lot. It's hard to relate to the thought that your kids will never be okay, never do the things normal kids do, and you may end needing to care for someone who remains childlike, immature, and needy for the rest of your life. OTOH there are a lot of resources to help in the U.S.A., but even so I can vaguely imagine how stressful that must be. Again, that was not meant to excuse what happened, just stepping into someone else's shoes for a moment.

Ziva
06-28-2007, 08:20 PM
I'm not surprised about this story. I've met alot of wwf guys over the years & most of them did not strike me as being good eggs at all. Lots of meth users from what I could tell. In my book wwf ='s lowlife with one exception out of the ones I have met anyway. The one exception was Hulk Hogan.

StrawberrySwitchblade
06-28-2007, 09:44 PM
I'm not surprised about this story. I've met alot of wwf guys over the years & most of them did not strike me as being good eggs at all. Lots of meth users from what I could tell. In my book wwf ='s lowlife with one exception out of the ones I have met anyway. The one exception was Hulk Hogan.

Eh, I dunno. Met the Hardy boys once. It was all I could do to keep from throwing them both down and having my way with them. Though I can't say I'd show the same restraint the second time around. :D

Most of them are not bad people, but many of them suffer from injuries that will follow them for all of their lives. If I were in constant pain, I'd be a bitch too.

hyzenthflay
06-28-2007, 10:18 PM
Eh, I dunno. Met the Hardy boys once. It was all I could do to keep from throwing them both down and having my way with them. Though I can't say I'd show the same restraint the second time around. :D

Most of them are not bad people, but many of them suffer from injuries that will follow them for all of their lives. If I were in constant pain, I'd be a bitch too.





The Hardy Boys are great guys! We're from damn near the same county in NC. They and about 15 others frequent the restaurant I worked at. Most of the 15 others scare the bejeesus out of me.

PaigeDWinter
06-28-2007, 10:27 PM
WHen I was involved with small fed wrasslin, I met a few guys from WCW and WWE, and for the most part they were groovy people, and total health nuts. I know that you wont get a TON of guys like that, but still... Shit like what went down with Benoit is really shocking.

Ziva
06-29-2007, 04:21 PM
I've been thinking about why he did it and came up with an idea. Maybe his wife busted him for shooting their boy up with hgh or something similar and because he was on roids and whatever other drugs or meds he flipped and killed her to keep her quiet. Maybe their boy saw or knew about it and so he killed the boy and then later himself.

Or maybe I just watch too much Law and Order?

#8_Fan
07-01-2007, 05:49 PM
Chris Benoit is the lowest of the low. He was a monster who killed his wife and son. My prayers are with the families. God Bless Nancy aka Woman and Daniel.

Sirona
07-02-2007, 03:54 PM
Anyone catch the latest on this?

From TMZ.com

Scott Ballard, District Attorney of Fayette County, Ga., just released this statement:

"There are additional reports that contradict the earlier information that suggested that Daniel Benoit may have suffered from Dwarf Syndrome or Fragile X Syndrome. Daniel's family denies that he suffered from either condition. As a result of the family's concerns, the Fayette County Sheriff's investigators and the District Attorney's Office have inquired into this matter. A source having access to certain of Daniel's medical reports reviewed those reports, and they do not mention any pre-existing mental or physical impairment. Reports from Daniel's educators likewise contradict the claims that Daniel was physically undersized. The educators report that Daniel graduated kindergarten and was prepared to enter the first grade on par with the other students."

*

From The Smoking Gun:

JULY 2--Wrestler Chris Benoit was identified by Drug Enforcement Administration agents as an "excessive purchaser of injectable steroids" who, over the past year, was prescribed a 10-month supply of anabolic steroids every three to four weeks by a Georgia doctor who was indicted today on federal charges.

Ziva
07-02-2007, 04:21 PM
^ omg, and to think some people though he didn't do roids at all!