Chris Benoit and wife found dead

[kept back]

I know that Benoit left a house show Saturday because his wife and son were sick(coughing up blood). If they were both gone when he arrived home, that could be enough to push anyone over the edge towards harming themselves. I'm just numb right now. I don't think I can handle anymore wrestler deaths. Mike "Road Warrior Hawk" Hegstrand, Ray "Big Bossman" Trailer, Curt Hennig, Miss Elizabeth, Rick Rude, Eddie Guerrero, Brian Pillman, Owen Hart...it just keeps going on and on. Keep hearing U2's Bono..."I can't believe the news today. I can't close my eyes and make it go away." Sorry. Been a huge wrestling fan over the years and all of these losses really hit me hard.

[JDeRouen]

Apparently he didn't leave, but rather never showed up. He kept rescheduling his flight, and finally canceled it, and called WWE and said his wife and son were coughing up blood. But this is only what I've read. There seems to be a lot of conflicting information out there.

[Hulk]

When I read that he had left the tour for "personal reasons" that pretty much conviinced me my theory of Carbon Monoxide poisoning was out the door. Maybe some other sort of poisoning, unless, and I shudder to think, he did it with his bare hands.

This is senseless. I'm not sure if I can even watch Raw tonight.

When Vince started this I'm Dead storyline, my first thought was he better wrap it up quickly before someone dies. When Sherry Martel died last week, and they buried the silent tribute to her in the middle of the shows, I figured he got off lightly.

If Benoit did this, he will have disappointed a lot of fans that saw him as being somewhat above the stupidity of the storylines.

[JDeRouen]

I don't want to believe it either. Boy, I think I'm finally through watching wrestling.

[The Toyroom]

From the AP:

Detective Bo Turner told television station WAGA that the case was being treated as a murder-suicide, but said that couldn't be confirmed until evidence was examined by a crime lab.

The station said that investigators believe the 40-year-old Benoit killed his wife, Nancy, and 7-year-old son, Daniel, over the weekend, then himself on Monday. A neighbor called police, and the bodies were found in three rooms.

Lead investigator Lt. Tommy Pope, of the Fayette County Sheriff's Department, told The Associated Press the deaths were being investigated as homicide, and that the causes of death awaited autopsy results on Tuesday. Pope said the bodies were discovered about 2:30 p.m., but refused to release details.

That's freakin' chilling....it's what I suspected but I really don't want to believe it.

[MegoSteve]

This is horrible. Who would have thought less than three and a half years after Wrestlemania XX, both Benoit and Guerrero would be dead?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:WMXXBenoitGuerrero.jpg

[Hector]

Holy smokes.

I'll reserve judgement until the entire truth comes out.

[Marvelmania]

WOW just saw on Fox news that police are speculating that Benoit killed his wife and son over the weekend and then commited suicide today. Really hoping this is not true.

[The Toyroom]

Holy crap! That's just sad...and a little creepy. According to Wikipedia:

Fayette County, Georgia police are investigating Benoit's house following the discovery of the bodies, and no details have been released other than to announce that none of the three were shot or stabbed to death, and it is being investigated as a possible murder-suicide

I hate to think that's what happened to that poor 7 year old boy.

[toys2cool]

Not yet, Mike, Raw comes in about an hour hour from now.

As much as I hate McMahon, I have to give him some credit for immediately dropping his own death storyline and pay respects to Benoit and his family.

It's the least he could do

[Hector]

One of the news said he complained his whole family was sick and they were all coughing up blood.
Would CM do that ?
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Hector,
Did you see Raw yet on the west coast yet ?

Vince came on from the start and said he was done with his dead storyline because of this.

The whole Raw is devoted to Benoit.

Not yet, Mike, Raw comes in about an hour hour from now.

As much as I hate McMahon, I have to give him some credit for immediately dropping his own death storyline and pay respects to Benoit and his family.

[JDeRouen]

I'm speechless. Benoit was my absolute favorite wrestler, and seemed like a really good guy to boot.

[Marvelmania]

Totally shocked. Very sad news.

[Mikey]

One of the news said he complained his whole family was sick and they were all coughing up blood.
Would CM do that ?
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Hector,
Did you see Raw yet on the west coast yet ?

Vince came on from the start and said he was done with his dead storyline because of this.

The whole Raw is devoted to Benoit.

[Hector]

Benoit was probably the second best pure technical wrestler out there after Kurt Angle.

It's going to be a very uneasy show tonight on Raw, not only because of Benoit and his family's tragic deaths, but because tonight was supposed to be the mock tribute of McMahon's supposeded death. This will teach McMahon to hopefully stop coming up with these idiotic "death" storylines, especially in a business where death occurs for real amongst wrestlers in a very frequent manner.

I hate Vince McMahon, he's the friggin' anti-Christ.