Huh???? Web Time Stamps Indicate Benoit Death Reported About 14 Hours Before Police Found Bodies Thursday, June 28, 2007 By Blane Bachelor An anonymous user operating a computer traced to Stamford, Conn. — home to World Wrestling Entertainment — posted an entry to pro wrestler Chris Benoit's biography on Wikipedia.org announcing the death of his wife Nancy about 14 hours before police in suburban Atlanta said they found her body along with her husband's and that of their 7-year-old son, FOXNews.com has learned. Employees at Wikipedia.com said the posting went live on their site on Monday at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Police, however, said they found the bodies Monday at 2:30 p.m. EDT. Wikipedia.org's computers are set to record Standard and Universal Time, a spokesman told FOXNews.com. The posting reads: “Chris Benoit was replaced by [[Johnny Nitro]] for the ECW Championship match at Vengeance, as Benoit was not there due to personal issues, stemming from the death of his wife Nancy.” The posting was apparently made in reference to Benoit's scheduled appearance on Sunday night at an Extreme Championship Wrestling event in Texas, with the last phrase noted in red to indicate an edit made to the original entry. An employee from Wikipedia.org told FOXNews.com that he called and left a message with investigative authorities in Fayetteville, Ga., at around 11 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, after the posting was brought to the attention of the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Web site. “I chat with other editors on IRC -- Internet relay chat -- and somebody pointed it out to me on a relay chat and that it came from a Stamford connection, and that it took place at midnight Eastern Standard Time on Monday morning,” said Wikipedia.org volunteer coordinator Cary Bass. “I called and left a message with the police department.” The computer-generated time and date stamp of the Benoit entry are listed as 4:01, 25 June 2007. Wikipedia.org lists its entries according to Universal Time, also known as Greenwich Mean Time. A message left by FOXNews.com with Lt. Tommy Pope of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department was not immediately returned. Investigators so far have ruled the Benoit killings as a double homicide-suicide. Wikipedia.org claims to be one of the largest reference Web sites, and is written collaboratively by users from around the world. Approved users can make submissions and change entries that are posted on the site almost immediately. Bass said the site is constantly monitored to correct inaccuracies. Bass said when there is a high-profile case, such as the Benoit killlings, Wikipedia.org limits postings to registered users, which is now indicated at the top of the Benoit entry. According to the listed history on the Benoit entry, the computer used to post the 12:01 a.m. entry had a Stamford, Conn., Internet Protocol — or IP — address, a numeric designation that is assigned to every computer with an Internet connection, and that same address has been used to post about a dozen other messages on the site, dating back to May 16, 2007. FOXNews.com also has learned, through widely posted Web reports, that former pro wrestler Sherri Martel, who was found dead on June 15, was linked to former wrestler Kevin Sullivan — ex-husband of Nancy Benoit. Martel, who had a reputation as one of the top managers in pro wrestling, was found dead at her mother’s home in near Birmingham, Ala., on June 15. She was 49. Investigators, who have not yet determined Martel's cause of death, say foul play is not suspected but that Martel did not die of natural causes. LINK
I was surprised he didn't ask "her" what she did with "her" penis when "she" cut it off. Seriously, she's a tard and was having trouble putting coherent thoughts together and Rome basically guess what she trying to say and fed her lines the entire interview.
Surely approved posters on Wikipedia have registered screen names, right? Shouldn't they be able to very quickly figure out who this person is that posted about Benoit's wife's murder so quickly? I'm betting this is a mistake somehow. I bet the person that posted it had heard that Benoit wouldn't be at his show because of his wife and son's health and somehow misunderstood it to mean she had died.
No...there are no screen names on Wikipedia. You can edit it virtually anonymously. From my understanding of the facts: 1. Chris Benoit died late Saturday night/early Sunday. 2. His text message stated that the dogs were in the enclosed pool area. 3. The wikipedia edit occurred at 12:01am Monday (long after Chris died). 4. When the police arrived on the scene, they had trouble getting into the house because the dogs were in the way. Add all this to the Sherri Martel/Kevin Sullivan info, and what you have is one odd story. There is something seriously missing from this story. Who was in the house to let the dogs out of the pool area? Who edited wikipedia? Is it possible that Chris did not do this. Was he murdered in such a way to make it appear a suicide? Far fetched, but the dogs and wikipedia do not add up when you look at the timeline of events.
The wikipedia editor is claiming terrible coincidence.... http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Chris_Benoit_mystery_editor_confesses:_Claims_"terrible_coincidence"
I'm not sure I am buying this. It still does not explain why the dogs were loose when Benoit's text message stated that they were in the enclosed pool area. It does not make sense that he posted the death of Benoit's wife. A coincidence?
The Ulitmate Warrior is going to be on Hannity and Comes tonight to talk about Wrestling, Benoit, etc. This guy is weird, so who knows what he's going to say. Might be worth checking out.
who knows...maybe they got loose...maybe benoit sent that text, than later on let em out...couple possibilities
that's one of the first I thought about on steroids. loved that dude though. I don't know if this was posted yet, but another good article on wrestling deaths. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=2917133 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 the pulley of a weight machine, authorities said Tuesday. Investigators found prescription 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." AP Photo/WWE, HO Authorities are investigating whether steroids may have been a factor in the deaths of Chris Benoit, above, his wife and child. 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. "In a community like this it's bizarre to have a murder-suicide, especially involving the death of a 7-year-old," District Attorney Scott Ballard said. "I don't think we'll ever be able to wrap our minds around this." In an interview with ESPN.com on Tuesday, Ballard indicated that the boy had needle marks in his arms. The district attorney said he believed that the boy had been given growth hormones for some time because the family considered him undersized. That was only one of the strange facts that Ballard revealed. He said that two text messages of note caused authorities to investigate the house. In one, Benoit told somebody he knew that his wife and son were sick. "Of course, they were dead," Ballard told ESPN.com. In a second message to a neighbor, Benoit said that the door of the house was open and the pets were outside. "And our assumption is that that was an effort to try and get somebody to come find the bodies after the suicide," Ballard said. "That is our assumption." Recent Pro Wrestler Deaths Chris Benoit's death in a murder-suicide is the latest in a string of professional wrestlers who died relatively young. Here is a list of some prominent performers and how they died: Date Name Age Cause of Death 2005 Eddie Guerrero 38 Heart failure * 2003 Curt Hennig 44 Acute cocaine intoxication** 2002 David Smith 39 Heart attack*** 1999 Owen Hart 34 Accidental fall 1999 Rick Rude 40 Heart failure believed caused by overdose of GHB, steroids 1997 Brian Pillman 35 Heart attack**** * Guerrero had not used illicit drugs and alcohol in four years prior to his death, but his prior lifestyle was widely blamed as a contributing factor. ** Hennig's father said a combination of steroids and painkillers contributed to his death. *** Smith's autopsy said steroid use may have played a role in his death. His brother-in-law Bruce Hart said Smith "paid the price" for using. **** Pillman, a former NFL player, had a prior history of abusing steroids and painkillers. The Montreal-born Benoit was one of the stars of the World Wrestling Entertainment 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 met and fell in love when their wrestling story lines intertwined. 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 three rooms of the house, off a gravel road. Ballard said that Benoit's wife, 43, 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 told ESPN.com that it appeared that she had been pinned to the floor and asphyxiated with some sort of cable. The son, Daniel, was probably killed late Saturday or early Sunday, the body found in his bed, Ballard said. The district attorney indicated that he had been choked to death. Benoit, 40, apparently killed 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. Ballard said that he had used weights, the pulley and cable to choke himself to death. 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. Ballard told ESPN.com that investigators smelled what they ascertained to be decomposing bodies when they entered the home. The varying degrees of decomposition between the bodies helped indicate the staggered times of death. Toxicology test results may not be available for weeks or even months, he 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." Benoit received drug deliveries from a Florida business that sold steroids, human growth hormone and testosterone on the Internet, according to the Albany County, N.Y., District Attorney's Office, which is investigating the business, MedXLife.com. Six people, including two of the pharmacy's owners, have pleaded guilty in the Albany investigation, and 20 more have been arrested, including doctors and pharmacists. 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. Perfect" Hennig blamed steroids and painkillers for Hennig'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. The WWE, based in Stamford, Conn., issued a statement Tuesday evening saying steroids "were not and could not be related to the cause of death." "The physical findings announced by authorities indicate deliberation, not rage," the company said, adding that Benoit tested negative April 10, the last time he was tested for drugs. 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. "You always rooted for him, because he was a good guy and he overcame the odds," said Dave Meltzer, editor of the Wrestling Observer, a weekly news letter. "It's like if you watched 'Rocky,' and in the end it comes out that Rocky killed his wife and his son." 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. WWE said on its Web site that it asked authorities to check on Benoit and his family after being alerted by friends who received "several curious text messages sent by Benoit early Sunday morning." On Saturday, Benoit was slated to appear at a WWE live event in Beaumont, Texas. According to a release from the WWE, Benoit contacted WWE that afternoon to inform them that his wife and child were ill, and that he would not be able to attend the show. The release also stated that WWE executives rebooked Benoit's flight for the following morning, making arrangements for Benoit to attend the pay-per-view event in Houston on Sunday. Employees attempted to confirm his travel plans but were unable to contact him. The WWE, based in Stamford, Conn., said authorities asked that it not release further information on the deaths. "WWE extends its sincerest thoughts and prayers to the Benoit family's relatives and loved ones in this time of tragedy," the company said in a statement on its Web site. "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 with the World Wrestling Federation. The federation has since changed its name to World Wrestling Entertainment. Benoit had maintained a home in Atlanta from the time he wrestled for the defunct World Championship Wrestling. The Fayette County Tax Assessors Office lists the value of the house, on more than 8.5 acres, at nearly $900,000. 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 had two other children from a prior relationship.
There are a couple of possibilities. The authorities decided in a couple of hours what happened. I'm not saying they were wrong. All I am saying is that the unexplained elements of this needs to be investigated.
How could anyone support this guy? He didn't accomplish except being a double murderer. The thread should be changed to R.I.P with his wife and son's name. His legacy is he murdered and defenseless woman and child. He's human garbage and that's plain and simple. He's worse then O.J. is. Yet, good old wrestling fans will always defend these guys. Unbelievable
the whole wikipedia page part of the story has been blown out of proportion, however I believe investigators are looking into the facts... for what its worth, wikipedia members do have screen names and profiles, and while an anonymous user can still edit entries, members get more access and clout when they edit from their account...
Calm down? I don't think I said anything over the line. Now I certainly didn't read through the 13 pages of the thread admittedly, but I saw a few jokes and what not that i thought were completely classless. I just want you to point out a part of my post that is over the line or that warrants a "calm down." I would bet that he still has some supporters in the thread (I could be wrong though)
