Did Benoit's Wikipedia page tip off cops?

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Did Benoit's Wikipedia page tip off cops?
FOXSports.com, Updated 2 hours ago
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There's a disturbing, rather technical twist in the Chris Benoit murder-suicide saga.

FOXNews.com is reporting that the wrestler's Wikipedia page was updated with a report of his wife's death nearly 13 hours before police discovered the bodies of her, Benoit and the couple's 7-year-old son.

The posting was made by an anonymous user, whose IP address was traced to Stamford, Conn., the home of WWE headquarters. The report does not say whether the IP address came specifically from the headquarters building.

The posting showed up on Wikipedia.org at 12:01 a.m. ET Monday and was removed under an hour later. Police discovered the bodies at 2:30 p.m. ET on Monday.

It read "Chris Benoit was replaced by [[Johnny Nitro]] for the ECW Championship match at Vengeance, as Benoit was not there due to personal issues, stemming from the death of his wife Nancy."

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The posting was removed with the comment "Need a reliable source. Saying that his wife died is a pretty big statement, you need to back it up with something."

Wikipedia.org is a user-driven web encyclopedia, both updated and edited by Internet users. Because of the open nature of the site, vandalism is frequent and is policed by volunteer editors.

Benoit's page has been restricted to updates from registered users to avoid vandalism in the near future, a frequent tactic for subjects in the news.
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Also Thursday, federal drug agents and sheriff's officials raided the office of Benoit's personal physician in search of records and other items, an official told The Associated Press.

The raid at Dr. Phil Astin's office in Carrollton began Wednesday night and concluded early Thursday, said agent Chuvalo Truesdell, a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration in Atlanta.

A search warrant obtained by the Fayette County Sheriff's Department in connection with the Benoit investigation was executed there, he said.

Police say Benoit murdered his wife and son over the weekend, then hung himself sometime Monday.

Answer 1

I think that could be coincidence, but that looks to be some hardcore evidence of prior knowledge!

Answer 2

It is an interesting turn of events. What you heard is a little different than what I heard today on Sports Talk radio. I heard it was confirmed to have come from Stamford, but it was not ascertained if it came from WWE headquarters. That is what I heard anyway. Apparently this was posted very early Monday Morning before anyone should have had any idea of what was going on inside WWE. It is very possible that someone within the WWE offices posted this, so maybe someone was a little more aware of what was going on and did not let on until it was confirmed that Benoit killed his family. I don't know.

At this point though, Im just worn out from the whole ordeal, and whatever comes about from all of it, is what it what will be. At this point Im just going to kind of close myself off from the whole Benoit story.

Answer 3

HERES A LINK TO WHAT WIKI SAID ABOUT ALL THIS INCLUDING THE IP ADDREESS

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Death_of_Nancy_Benoit_rumour_posted_on_Wikipedia_14_hours_prior_to_event

Answer 4

Someone obviously knew what was going on while it was happening and I'd sure like to know who it was and why that person didn't call the police immediately! It's strange and it really creeps me out to think that someone could have stopped him from murdering his child!

Answer 5

I'm not even gonna talk about Benoit you people are such hypocrites first you love benoit because he died then you find out he is a murderer and now everybody hates benoit

Answer 6

did anybody bother to think the anonymous user may have been Benoit himself or someone related to him?

Answer 7

i dont even know what to say to this. could the wwe have set chris benoit up? did chris benoit tell someone there, and was not stopped? wow...

Answer 8

first do believe everything that FAUX news tells you?

Another thing is that everyone that registers with Wikipedia can make changes to a page on wikipedia.

Answer 9

jeeze you bastards,how could you turn on benoit after all the entertainment he gave you throughout those YEARS?just because he makes 1 mistake,hes "evil" and "sadistic."

if wrestlers turned on us for a bad thing we did
there wouldn't be wrestling.you all should be ashamed.

you all suck ****.

Answer 10

i agree with "Rated R 619 Pac"