Deaths of Chris Benoit, Wife and Son Ruled as an Apparent Homicide – Suicide
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at 10:34 pm · 14 views
I called my mom this afternoon to share some news with her. At the end of the call she shared the latest Benoit news with me. The latest news reports said that Chris Benoit, former WWE champion, killed his wife, son and then himself.
I believe that I was more speechless when I heard this news than when I heard about his death last night.
Please tell me that someone is framing him. Is it possible that someone could have arranged all of this and wants us to believe that Chris Benoit killed his family? I must be in denial. I just do not want to believe that a husband would strangle his wife then smother his son… a seven year old son then commit suicide by hanging himself. I refuse to believe.
“Autopsy results showed that Benoit first murdered his wife, Nancy. She was bound at the feet and wrists and died of asphyxiation sometime on Friday, Fayette County District Attorney Scott Ballard told a news conference.
She was wrapped in a towel and some blood was found under her head but Ballard said there were no other signs of a struggle.
The couple’s son, who also died of asphyxia, was apparently killed as he lay in bed on Saturday morning, hours before Benoit hung himself, Ballard said.
“It was the cord from the weights,” he said, describing how Benoit managed to strangle himself.
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idUSN2634708220070627
