Posted on June 26th, 2007 at 7:16 am by Editor
Chris Benoit sent “several curious text messages” to friends before taking his life in the Fayette home where his wife and 7-year-old son lay dead, WWE.com reported. Police late Monday called the deaths a murder-suicide. WAGA-TV reported investigators believe the 40-year-old Benoit killed his wife, Nancy, and son, Daniel, over the weekend, then himself on Monday. Police have not said how the three died. The bodies were found in three rooms. Autopsies were planned for Tuesday. “The details, when they come out,” said Fayette County District Attorney Scott Ballard, “are going to prove a little bizarre.”
WWE spokesman Richard Hering said that “several curious text messages sent by Benoit early Sunday morning prompted concerned friends” to contact the wrestling company, which then asked Fayette County sheriff’s on Monday to go to Benoit’s Green Meadow Lane home and check on the family. Authorities initially had trouble getting to the home because of two large German shepherds on the property, the WWE said. Sheriff’s deputies were standing guard at the home on Tuesday morning, keeping back the media and the curious. The three bodies have been received by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab, in Decatur, Ga., where autopsies will be performed Tuesday morning. Toxicology reports will not become available for at least two weeks.
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.
I continue to be saddened by this situation as more information emerges. Read more from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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