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Post by $heriff Tom on Jun 25, 2007 22:36:16 GMT -5
James, read the story. Instruments of death were found in the house. The bodies were in 3 different rooms . Benoit had been showing signs of instability these past few days. Even WWE.COM is acknowledging the thing now.
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Post by grover on Jun 25, 2007 22:58:35 GMT -5
I keep hoping it was Woman who did it and not Benoit. Holy crap, this is disastrous.
If it is revealed that he is the one who killed his family, I will be disgusted. Jesus, WWE may have just had a 3 hour celebration for a guy who murdered his wife and child.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jun 25, 2007 23:04:34 GMT -5
Grover, its pretty much revealed. Its all over the place.
Seems like he killed Woman a few days ago, from what is said. She was found in the living room. The son that he supposedly doted over was in his bedroom. Benoit did away with himself in his weight room.
I am at a loss right now. I need to come to grips with this. I have never had a perennial favorite anyone of mine involved in a murder/suicide incident. I am appalled.
Details only starting really coming in well into the Raw "tribute" but the "testimonials" from Benoits friends making him look like Jesus incarnate are still on the website, along with the double murder/suicide blurb.
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Post by grover on Jun 25, 2007 23:15:34 GMT -5
Yeah, I just went to check the observer and torch and both said what you just said. It really seems that Benoit snapped, killed Woman and his kid, and then offed himself.
And the details will only get worse.
I'm disgusted right now. A few hours ago I was thinking about going to grab some Benoit DVDs. Not now. Not ever. I can't enjoy any of his matches the same way. How could you watch a match and know this guy killed his family, and continue to enjoy the match.
Unreal...
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jun 25, 2007 23:22:34 GMT -5
On that newspaper site someone commented on the "no gunshots" part and said, "what did you do, asshole, put your kid in the crippler crossface till he died?"
I am in a weird place right now. I changed my wallpaper pretty fast to MVP. And yeah, I have been thinking about Benoits matches, and the DVD I have recommended to EVERYONE. It will make me feel dirty to watch this stuff again. Its going to be that thing in my rack that is like a forbidden fruit sort of thing. Really macabre. What I really want to see is what WWE does tomorrow, for its Smackdown/ECW taping.
And think of how offended some of us, as FANS, are. What do the "friends" who made all these testimonials feel now? I hope in no way are any of them shrugging this one off... Wow. This is like, wow. Fucking bizarre.
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Post by grover on Jun 25, 2007 23:44:53 GMT -5
I wonder how the WWE will go about things and prior-footage once it is confirmed that he indeed killed Woman and their son. I'm sure they will leave the reels alone for quite sometime. Wow, they are stuck in a bad spot right now.
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Post by sancho231 on Jun 26, 2007 0:02:56 GMT -5
On my way home from work i ran into an old friend, not a big wrestling fan, who told me that benoit was dead. i told him he had to be mistaken thaT he had just taken time off for Personal reasons. i figured it was a dumb rumor. got home and check the News sites and was floored. whats worse is i went to the local pub to raise a glass for him , thinkin it was the "normal' wrestling death of Steroids and/or drugs. when i got back and read the current news i felt like i should have puked all i had drank.this is really fucked up. I know nothing is official yet, but damn i really dont wanna watch his matches if he murdered Woman and his Seven year old son. SHIT i wish it was steroids/drugs. this is a dark day for the wrestling world. Whats really fucked up to me is when i first heard about this i was not shocked at all. wrestlers dieing just does not shock me. Wrestlers killing their wife and kid, fuck that shocks me and ,makes me sick. right now all im hoping for is that Sullivan is not involved. the recent Nitros on WWE24/7 are all about that feud that lasted a good 2 years. and shit fuck i cant even type any more FUCk this shit
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Post by sancho231 on Jun 26, 2007 0:14:06 GMT -5
and by the way if he did it or not it , the fuckin head line at the top is really fuckin tasteless and shold be removed
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Post by cactusjames on Jun 26, 2007 0:17:59 GMT -5
Thank you, first tnhought was assholes. This is nothing to fucking boast about, true or not. And I don't care if it is true and he is a disgusting human being, he was and still is one of the best of all time.
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Post by sancho231 on Jun 26, 2007 0:28:11 GMT -5
are you a fan of Superfly snuka or mike tyson then?
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Post by cactusjames on Jun 26, 2007 4:01:51 GMT -5
Fuck that, the double standard here is horse shit.
Pipe dream or not, I wanted to be a wrestler more than anyone here, and for a long ass time, my top three of all time consisted of HBK, Benoit, Flair. and Some funerals I don't can't cry at, 5 or 6 times I almost cired tonight, 4 more than Eddie and Owen combined, and I know so much about this crazy shit because of all of then.
And no matter what kind of person Benoit is or isn't, it don't matter if I ever have the honor of being in a ring with him or not,if I get a chance to step in a ring, I paying him some respect. Shame on all of you for basing his in ring acheivements cause of it. If you can recognize him as one of the best of all time, STOP WATCHING WRESTLING. Assfucks.
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Post by MSBNYY on Jun 26, 2007 5:40:14 GMT -5
If this guy really murdered his family, he's a piece of shit. He should never be honored. He should remembered only for murdering his family.
A 7 year old child killed by Chris Benoit. A 43 year old woman. Killed by Chris Benoit.
You are an idiot if you can separate that from his talent in the ring. Big fucking deal. He could jump off a top rope and headbutt someone.
If he really killed his family, I hope he rots in hell and suffers.
I'm glad Tom changed the headline on the board.
You can't fault the WWE for the tribute. No one knew at the time.
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Post by Jason Giambi on Jun 26, 2007 6:50:49 GMT -5
who gives a shit about him being one of the best of all time. Killing your own child is despicable. James, you idiot, it's fucking fake, and you want to honor an actor who killed his family.
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Post by thecaptain15 on Jun 26, 2007 6:57:43 GMT -5
I still can't believe all this stuff...My cable has been out since yesterday afternoon so I did not get to see Raw yet....
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Post by IronHorse4 on Jun 26, 2007 7:00:24 GMT -5
O.J. was one of the best running backs of all-time too. You're a moron, James.
Only difference is, if this is all found to be true, then what Benoit did was worse. Killing his 7-year-old kid. I hope to hell it's not true, but wow.
This fucking sucks. Benoit was one of the few wrestlers I would have still paid to see, and he was undoubtedly one of my absolute favorites. Being at WM XX was an incredible experience for me, to see Eddy and him lift their belts together.
And now, if this is all true, I can't wear that t-shirt again, and I can't watch those DVDs. I can't watch those matches and honor the memory of, as Pete put it, an actor who killed his wife and kid.
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Post by thecaptain15 on Jun 26, 2007 7:09:06 GMT -5
Justin I agree with everything you said 100%.....
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Post by joetee316 on Jun 26, 2007 7:10:26 GMT -5
Gotta speak up as well because I'm just as big as a fan as you guys.
I turned on Raw last night right before the 9:00 hour. I saw Vince standing in the middle of the ring in an empty arena talking how this week was supposed to be the continuing storyline of his character's demise but instead he was talking about Benoit and his career. Then the images on the bottom left of the screen start popping up about Benoit and then shortly after about his family. It was getting real eerie. Stopped what I was doing and called the four or five people I know that would be interested. Don't you hate it when people don't pick up their phones? Ended up watching the rest of Raw with my mind still trying to digest what the fuck I just heard.
This morning I woke up to see if new details had been discovered. I now hear that Chris probably was the killer, which really disgusts me. The dude was a great wrestler and one of my favorites. If you love wrestling there is no way you didn't like him. So skilled and so much fun to watch in the ring, but we all know these wrestlers are so fucked in the head. If it looks like he committed this violent act (which it now looking like) then I think he is a total piece of shit and I will not shed a tear or show any remorse. I can't believe he would kill his kid.
We'll see what happens in the next few days.
He did steal Nancy away from Kevin, so what does that say about the guy?
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Post by MSBNYY on Jun 26, 2007 7:37:15 GMT -5
It's interesting that Justin brought up OJ. I was about to do the same. I can understand thinking that this is worse, though a life is a life. To me, murder is heinous no matter how old the victim.
I didn't watch all of Raw last night, and tuned out in the last hour. But now I don't think I can stomach finishing it.
I can understand the opinion that this is worse than OJ because of the kid though. Throughout the night, when they showed the pictures of the kid, that was the most disturbing.
It's hard to imagine the death of a kid.
And for a parent to murder his child? That's sick.
Chris Benoit will never be remembered as a wrestler if this is true.
I'm going to reserve total judgement for now. I really hope for his legacy that the evidence is wrong.
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Post by Domi on Jun 26, 2007 8:26:51 GMT -5
He'll always be a vanilla midget.
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Post by violenta79 on Jun 26, 2007 8:30:08 GMT -5
Being at WM XX was an incredible experience for me, to see Eddy and him lift their belts together. I'm with you Justin. I was there too that night and it was truly an amazing moment. I just can't believe this could possibly be true. If it is, it's really a damn shame.
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Post by MSBNYY on Jun 26, 2007 8:34:26 GMT -5
The funny part is that he may have looked small but that was compared to other wrestlers. The guy was 5'11" and 220 pounds. That's a pretty big person.
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Post by thecaptain15 on Jun 26, 2007 8:43:55 GMT -5
Ah Balls come on you could barrell him over....
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Post by MSBNYY on Jun 26, 2007 8:50:44 GMT -5
This is true, but we all know what a badass I am. Against an ordinary man though, Benoit would have been quite formidable.
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Post by King98er on Jun 26, 2007 9:03:04 GMT -5
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.
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Post by King98er on Jun 26, 2007 9:18:13 GMT -5
Heard this report on the Monsters this morning. From an email sent to Russ from a supposed second cousin to someone in the investigating police department. Not necessarily a reliable source.
All of this is alleged.
1 - Benoit's wife killed their 7 year old. Suffocated him with a plastic bag.
2 - She called Chris and told him to come home.
3 - He flipped out and strangled her with the cord from the alarm clock.
4 - He wrote a suicide note then hanged himself.
Again...not sure about the reliability of the source.
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Post by MSBNYY on Jun 26, 2007 9:24:21 GMT -5
If true, he would have had a manslaughter defense, and maybe even temporary insanity. More important, he would have been able to live for the kids he had left.
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Post by thecaptain15 on Jun 26, 2007 9:25:19 GMT -5
Well if that is what happened..I then would cut him some slack.....there is nothing worse than your child dying or being killed......No murder is really justified but I would defintely look at this differently....from all reports Woman was a bit loopy so I could see this...
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Post by MSBNYY on Jun 26, 2007 9:26:51 GMT -5
Some murders are justified. Killing someone who killed your child would certainly fall into that category. We need to hear facts as they come out.
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Post by King98er on Jun 26, 2007 9:28:15 GMT -5
That is now being reported as a FALSE RUMOR.
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Post by Jason Giambi on Jun 26, 2007 9:57:01 GMT -5
isn't false rumor an oxymoron? lol
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