Chris Benoit

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By Scott E. Williams

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Further Details

• Published: 15th Jan 2008
• ISBN: 1600080758
• Pages: 228

From the Publisher:

Chris Benoit - a professional wrestler for over twenty years - longed for respect and fame. He performed, sometimes in obscurity, in Europe, Japan, Mexico, and his native Canada, before finally achieving superstar status in Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling and Vince McMahan's World Wrestling Entertainment over the past decade. However, Benoit achieved lasting infamy on June 25, 2007, when he, his wife Nancy, and seven-year-old son Daniel were found dead in their suburban Atlanta home.

In Chris Benoit: The Definitive Story of Murder, Drugs, and Wrestling's Darkest Hour, crime reporter and longtime wrestling columnist Scott Williams pieces together this shocking and perplexing double-murder suicide.

The media frenzy that occurred in the wake of this tragedy left more questions than answers and served to perpetuate myths and half-truths regarding what exactly took place in the Benoit home during the murders, Chris Benoit's steroid and drug usage, and whether Daniel had fragile X syndrome. Using autopsy reports, medical findings, police reports, affidavits, and dozens of interviews, Williams sorts out fact from fiction and offers educated conclusions on what triggered these crimes.

Chris Benoit also explores the parallels between Benoit's death and the deaths of so many young wrestlers over the past two decades, as well as the lasting effects the murders and round-the-clock media attention will have on the business.