WWE Pro Wrestler, Chris Benoit, his wife and 7-year-old son were found dead in their Fayetteville, Georgia home on Monday afternoon. The deaths have been rules a double murder suicide.

Preliminary reports are that Benoit strangled his wife, Nancy (aka Woman) on Friday. She was found with her hands and feet bound. He apparently suffocated his son, Daniel, sometime early Saturday.

Benoit then called to say he wouldn’t be making a scheduled appearance on Saturday evening due to a family emergency. He sent text messages to friends on Sunday that were alarming enough for the friends to notify Richard Hering, VP of Government Relations for WWE, who in turn contacted the Fayette County Sheriffs office. When authorities entered the home they found all three family members dead.

Authorities believe he hung himself with his weight equipment sometime late Sunday or early Monday. The bodies have been sent to the Georgia Department of Investigation’s crime lab.

There is a lot of discussion about the possibility of ‘Roid Rage’, that this incident may have been precipitated by steroid use. The WWE is denying that citing clean drug screens among other things. None is terribly convincing. It’s not that hard to get around a drug screen.

I have seen a lot of his colleagues speak of Benoit in disbelief that these events have transpired. They spoke of his love and affection for his son. But there are suggestions there might have been a darker side to Benoit. His wife had filed for divorce and obtained a restraining order in 2003 stating she feared her own and her son’s safety. The Atlantic Online reports that it is looking like Benoit might have lead a ‘tortuous, rageful life’ culminating in this horrific act.

Chris Benoit’s wife, Nancy, has an interesting history of her own. She was a wresting manager from 1984 until her death last weekend. Her stage name was ‘Woman’.

The story of this tragedy will continue to unfold. The toxicology results should confirm whether or not steroids might have exacerbated Benoit’s rage. People will talk more and the pieces of the puzzle will slowly get put into place.

I find it so odd that he felt responsible to call and tell the WWE that he wouldn’t make his appearance on Saturday night. I don’t know why that has puzzled me so much. Perhaps he didn’t want them finding him before he was ready.

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