Archive for June 28th, 2007

The Sins of The Father

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

For days I’ve been reading everything I’ve come across regarding the apparent murder-suicide of the Chris Benoit family. All of the evidence is pointing to the assumption that he snapped and killed his family over the course of a weekend.

Maybe I read too much crime fiction. Maybe I watch Lenny Briscoe more than I should, but I have this nagging gut feeling about this situation that things aren’t exactly as they appear.

Let me start out by saying I was never a fan of Chris Benoit. He wasn’t a wrestler that I particularly enjoyed watching; none of this generation of wrestlers really are. My instincts on this do not stem from the fact that I want him to be innocent of this. My instincts are my gut reactions based on the facts of the crime.

It’s being said that he flew home on Friday for a “family emergency.” He claimed his wife and child were sick from food poisoning and he had to be home with them. When he got there, he strangled his wife. More than 24 hours later, he suffocated his son. Another 24 plus hours later, he hung himself.

He’d have to have gone absolutely batshit insane to have done this. How many people that crazy have you heard of that plan these elaborate crimes, and then carry them out? If he truly went crazy, wouldn’t he have done it all Friday night, in the heat of passion? How could someone in the mental state that he’d have to have been in have carried out this deliberate and well thought out scenario?

Think about it for a moment. Then add something else to the mix. Something more sinister. I’m gonna give you a scenario.

Chris Benoit pissed someone off. I mean, really pissed someone off. He pissed someone off to the point, that this person showed up at Benoit’s house Friday night, and called him from his wife Nancy’s phone. Maybe he threatened Benoit’s family, and forced him to fly back home and make up an excuse about the family being sick.

Maybe this person or persons killed the Benoit family and made it look like a murder-suicide. It’s happened before.

Benoit had some issues with drugs. Maybe he was gonna go public on his supplier. Maybe he could have implicated someone much bigger, more powerful. Professional wrestling has been at the center of drug scandals for years.

It’s a feasible theory, don’t you think?

Or maybe what we’re getting is true, and Chris Benoit truly went off the deep end.