We were also shocked when we turned on wrestling last night! DH has followed WWE since he was a kid! I was even more shocked when I read today that it was an apparant Murder/Suicide. He did seem like a nice guy. I too am wondering if steroids played a role here. It sounds like he may have been depressed or something. Why would he cancell his appearance on a major Pay Per View?

As far as the VInce story line: I was mad that they did this in the first place. I think they crossed the line with that one.

If nobody else noticed another WWE personality died last week. I don't remember her name & I didn't recognize her, but I thought that they should have pulled the VInce story then!

I kind of like the WWE sagas, but this has gone too far.

Well, I couldn't care less about those stupid wrestling shows, but as soon as you hear about these family found dead things it's almost ALWAYS a murder/suicide. That is my first thought. What an ass - why not just kill yourself first - trust me your family will survive without you.

AMEN!!! I have no grief for this a@@hole!! How dare anyone commit two murders, on their own wife and son, then hang his own self? HOW WEAK!!!!!!! Please don't flame me for that comment either. I had an uncle commit suicide, but he sure as shoot didn't take out his family with him......

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Yes, I heard about the woman who died also but I didn't catch
her name. I don't think it's a good idea to make up stories about
people dying like they were. I think it's all to sad. They just had a
update on the story but I didn't catch it all but what I heard was
horrible. Makes me so sad. I just don't understand people these
day.

what I dont understand is how they are out to nail any baseball player who does steroids but NOT these guys and ya know 1/2 of em are probably on them???!!!

Steroids should be banned period!!!

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Sensational (scarey as some called her) Sherry was the female wrestler that died earlier that week. She was an older wrestler in her late fourtys. But she was good back in the day and help pave the way for other women in wrestling. I read somewhere that they didn't even want to mention that she died because of Vince's death storyline. How sad that they would worry about their stupid storyline might be overshadowed by someone's real death. Well me and dh was talking how stupid it is to pretend death when they started this whole storyline. Because something really bad may happen and it did. I maybe old fashioned but I was always taught to be careful about playing like something's wrong because it just might happen. I hope Vince learns some lessons thru this whole ordeal. It is sad and shocking that all of this happened because they always said that he was a good man that loved his family. His son was around my son's age. I couldn't even imagine how a person could take a child's life. He looked just like his dad. They said on CNN that their was a Bible placed by the son and one by the wife and that he hung himself by a pulley cord on his weights in the basement. They also said that the wife was bound by her hands and feet. The way I understood she was choked to death. The boy was found in his room. They didn't go into alot of detail but I assume he was smothered. This is all very sad and hard to take in.

I still just can't beleive this. It is so tragic that he took the lives of his wife & son. I understand if you are so depressed that you want to take your life, but to take the lives of others is incomrephensible to me. As far as I am concerned suicide is a sin.

n my soapbox: Again, I was not happy with the whole Vince is dead story & I have really lost respect for the writers of WWE. I have always really liked JR, but as I understand it he is a writer & I just can't believe that he went along with the story. I think they owe society an apology for this stunt.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. - Pro wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife, suffocated his 7-year-old son and placed a Bible next to their bodies before hanging himself with a weight-machine pulley, authorities said Tuesday.

Investigators found anabolic steroids in the house and want to know whether the muscle man nicknamed "The Canadian Crippler" was unhinged by the bodybuilding drugs, which can cause paranoia, depression and explosive outbursts known as "roid rage."

Authorities offered no motive for the killings, which were spread out over a weekend, and would not discuss Benoit's state of mind. No suicide note was found.

"I'm baffled about why anybody would kill a 7-year-old," District Attorney Scott Ballard said. "I don't think we'll ever be able wrap our head around that."

The Montreal-born Benoit was one of the stars of the WWE wrestling circuit and was known for his wholesome family-man image. His wife, Nancy, was a wrestling stage manager who worked under the name "Woman." They married in 2000.

When he won the world heavyweight championship in 2004, Benoit (pronounced ben-WAH) hoisted the belt over his head and invited his wife and child into the ring to celebrate. Asked by the Calgary Sun that same year to name his worst vice: Benoit replied: "Quality time with my family is a big vice. It's something I'll fight for and crave."

Nevertheless, Nancy Benoit filed for a divorce in 2003, saying the couple's three-year marriage was irrevocably broken and alleging "cruel treatment." She later dropped the complaint, as well as a request for a restraining order in which she charged that the 5-foot-10, 220-pound Benoit had threatened her and had broken furniture in their home.

In the divorce filing, she said Benoit made more than $500,000 a year as a professional wrestler and asked for permanent custody of Daniel and child support. In his response, Benoit sought joint custody.

The bodies were found Monday afternoon in the house, situated off a gravel road in this suburb about 20 miles south of Atlanta.

Benoit's 43-year-old wife was killed Friday in an upstairs family room, her feet and wrists were bound and there was blood under her head, indicating a possible struggle, Ballard said. Daniel was probably killed late Saturday or early Sunday, the body found in his bed, the district attorney said.

Benoit, 40, apparently hanged himself several hours and as long as a day later, Ballard said. His body was found in a downstairs weight room, his body found hanging from the pulley of a piece of exercise equipment.

A closed Bible was placed next to the bodies of the wife and son, authorities said.

The prosecutor said he found it "bizarre" that the WWE wrestling star spread out the killings over a weekend and appeared to remain in the house for up to a day with the bodies.

Toxicology test results may not be available for weeks or even months, Ballard said. As for whether steroids played a role in the crime, he said: "We don't know yet. That's one of the things we'll be looking at."

Steroids have been linked to the deaths of several professional wrestlers in recent years. Eddie Guerrero, one of Benoit's best friends, died in 2005 from heart failure linked to long-term steroid use.

The father of Curt "Mr. Pefect" Henning blamed steroids and painkillers for Henning's drug overdose death in 2003. Davey Boy Smith, the "British Bulldog," died in 2002 from heart failure that a coroner said was probably caused by steroids.

Benoit was a quiet, roughhewn figure amid the glitz and bluster of pro wrestling. He performed under his real name, eschewed scripted personas and didn't bother to fix a gap where he had lost one of his front teeth. (According to the WWE Web site, he lost the tooth while roughhousing with his pet Rottweiler.)

His signature move was the "Crippler Crossface," in which he would lock his hands around an opponent's face and stretch his neck.

He met his wife in the 1990s when she was married to rival wrestler Kevin Sullivan. As part of the scripted rivalry, Benoit and Nancy were supposed to act as if they were having an affair. A real romance blossomed, and she left Sullivan for Benoit.

Neighbors said the Benoits led a low-key lifestyle.

"We would see Chris walking in his yard from time to time. He wasn't rude, but he wasn't really outwardly warm," said Alaina Jones, who lives across the street.

Jimmy Baswell, who was Benoit's driver for more than five years, placed a white wreath at the Benoits' gate. "They always seemed like they were the happiest people," he said.

World Wrestling Entertainment said on its Web site that it asked authorities to check on Benoit and his family after being alerted by friends who had received "several curious text messages sent by Benoit early Sunday morning."

"He was like a family member to me, and everyone in my family is taking it real hard," said fellow Canadian Bret Hart, a five-time champion.

The WWE canceled its live "Monday Night RAW" card in Corpus Christi, Texas, after the bodies were discovered.

Monday's show was supposed to be a memorial service for WWE owner Vince McMahon. In a storyline concocted by the WWE, McMahon was supposedly "assassinated" in a limousine explosion two weeks earlier. McMahon appeared at the beginning of Monday's telecast and acknowledged the bombing was made up.

The McMahon storyline has been dropped.






Benoit strangled wife, smothered son - Yahoo! News

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This just breaks my heart. The entire thing is truly sickening, however........i am really sad about how he spread out the murders.
They said that he killed his wife friday or saturday, and his son saturday night and then himself sunday or monday. That means that his son was still alive an entire day after he killed his mom!! I hope that he wasn't aware of it and didn't have to spend that entire day scared!!
It just makes me sick.
As far as "roid rage" being the reason..........i say bs on that. This was not a sudden outburst kind of thing.........it lasted three days. I think that in todays society people look for excuses wherever they can. I know that steroids probably didn't help, but he was obviously aware enought to place the bibles and blah blah blah. So i say boo hiss to that!

This story upsets me so much, it made me sick to my stomach when
I heard the whole story. God bless that woman and that little boy.