Chris Benoit and Wife found dead

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http://www.prowrestling.com/article/news/5064

Wikipedia Posts Confession From Mystery Benoit Editor
Date Added: June 29, 2007
Story By: Andy Steven
The following is from Wikipedia.com:

The anonymous individual responsible for suggesting, 14 hours before police discovered the body, that WWE wrestler Chris Benoit's wife was dead is confessing, saying his/her comment was a "terrible coincidence."

The anonymous editor left a lengthy apology to the Wikimedia community, explaining, "I hope this puts an end to this speculation that someone knew about the tragedy before it was discovered."

Below is the full, unedited apology:

"... Hey everyone. I am here to talk about the wikipedia comment that was left by myself. I just want to say that it was an incredible coincidence. Last weekend, I had heard about Chris Benoit no showing Vengeance because of a family emergency, and I had heard rumors about why that was. I was reading rumors and speculation about this matter online, and one of them included that his wife may have passed away, and I did the wrong thing by posting it on wikipedia to spite there being no evidence. I posted my speculation on the situation at the time and I am deeply sorry about this, and I was just as shocked as everyone when I heard that this actually would happen in real life. It is one of those things that just turned into a huge coincidence. That night I found out that what I posted, ended up actually happening, a 1 in 10,000 chance of happening, or so I thought. I was beyond wrong for posting wrongful information, and I am sorry to everyone for this. I just want everyone to know it was stupid of me, and I will never do anything like this again. I just posted something that was at that time a piece of wrong unsourced information that is typical on wikipedia, as it is done all the time.

Nonetheless, I feel incredibly bad for all the attention this got because of the fact that what I said turned out to be the truth. Like I said it was just a major coincidence, and I will never vandalize anything on wikipedia or post wrongful information. I've learned from this experience. I just can't believe what I wrote was actually the case, I've remained stunned and saddened over it.

I wish not to reveal my identity so I can keep me and my family out of this since they have nothing to do with anything. I am not connected to WWE or Benoit at all in anyway. I am from Stamford as the IP address shows, and I am just an everyday individual who posted a wrongful remark at the time that received so much attention because it turned out to actually happen. I will say again I didn't know anything about the Benoit tragedy, it was a terrible coincidence that I never saw coming.

I hope this puts an end to this speculation that someone knew about the tragedy before it was discovered. It was just a rumor that I had heard about from other people online who were speculating what the family emergency Chris was attending to. I made a big mistake by posting this comment on his page, since all we had were what we thought was going on and nothing about what actually was going on yet, and sadly what happened turned out to be my speculation at the time. I assumed wiki would edit out my information, which they did, so thats why I didn't go back to edit it out myself.

I know I keep repeating it but I feel terrible about the mainstream coverage this has received, since it was only a huge coincidence and a terrible event that should of never happened. I am not sure how to react, as hearing about my message becoming a huge part of the Benoit slayings made me feel terrible as everyone believes that it is connected to the tragedy, but it was just an awful coincidence. That is all I have to say, I will never post anything here again unless it is pure fact, no spam nothing like that. Thank you, and let this end this chapter of the Benoit story, and hopefully one day we will find out why this tragedy ever actually happened."

[KidLifeCrisis]

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why what's wrong with the pic?

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I am here to talk about the wikipedia comment that was left by myself.

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Passive voice, yuck.

[Borgland]

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Yes when you say stuff like "Anything reported on a wrestling site has to be taken with a grain of salt" oooooooooooobviously you're just talking about the clowns and not the legit reporters

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Meltzer doesnt mind using this chance to hock his newsletter, paid subscription required.
With 2 free issues! He should mention that in every article no matter how trivial!

Another offer too good to be true!
What a great guy giving us marks this obvious once in a lifetime offer. It's just a coincedence it's included in a story of the biggest news story he could every wish for. Hurray!

Table, canning, kosher, or sea with that?

[Rolen]

Apparently Benoit killed his son by using the crippler crossface.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2003560001-2007300340,00.html (gotta copy and paste)

Oh my god JR

[Earl Sleek]

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Apparently Benoit killed his son by using the crippler crossface.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2003560001-2007300340,00.html (gotta copy and paste)

Oh my god JR

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I wouldn't believe this for a second even if I didn't know that The Sun is always full of [censored].

[pirateboy]

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why what's wrong with the pic?

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Above Bart's head, you can see where the editor spraypainted (or some other photoshop tool) the original logo on the shirt. Same on the other side of the Simpsons pic.

[4thstreetpete]

Looks like Benoit's doctor got indicted with prescribing massive amounts of steroids to Chris, a massive dose of 10 month supply of steriods every 3 or 4 weeks. More details are coming out. Usually I'm down on the media on their portrayal wrestlers but this time I'm so glad there's a full on crackdown. I really hope the federal government steps in and really clean up the business. I'm fed up with the business and hopefully this saves some lives down the road.

Reported on wrestlingobserver.com

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Brief notes from the press conference about Dr. Astin's arrest and indictment...


-Records show that Dr. Astin prescribed over 1 million doses of numerous drugs over the past two years, many of them prescription painkillers and anabolic steroids, and many of the prescriptions were un-dated, which is illegal in and of itself.

-Quote from federal agent giving the press conference: ""Dr. Astin allegedly prescribed these drugs like candy.""

-Another quote from federal agent giving the press conference: ""Dirty doctors should be on notice that they face federal prosecution and federal prison time.""

--The agent also said, "Alleged in the complaint that Dr. Astin prescribed a very large amount of anabolic steroids to Chris Benoit," including a new ten-month supply of anabolic steroids every 3 to 4 weeks.

-Dr. Astin was arrested and subsequently released on $125,000 secured bond with numerous conditions, including surrendering his medical license and agreeing to home detention with an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet.

-Investigators are still searching through Dr. Astin's record, and there were lots of questions that yielded "no comment" responses. U.S. Attorney David Nahmias said additional charges are ossible as they have "voluminous" records to search through.

--Astin's attorney, Manny Arora, is the same attorney who is representing Adam "Pacman" Jones of the Tennessee Titans. He is well known in Atlanta for representing prominent athletes, and worked with Ed Garland representing Ray Lewis in his murder trial.

--New Jack was on WSB-TV in Atlanta saying he has used steroids, knows who does and doesn't and that the guys all have a doctor they can call 24/7 to get them. He said he was good friends with Nancy is mad at Chris.

Thanks to Ivan Trembow, Rich Tate and Mark Tyler

[Jack Bando]

Someone interviewed New Jack? Is there anyone that hasn't been interviewed yet? (Warrior was on Fox News today I think.) Although Dibiase's interview with Greta on Fox was a very good interview.

[The Stranger]

the rumor is these guys are going to be on Larry King some time this week: