I know this sounds odd, but do any of you think that Kevin Sullivan may have killed the Benoits?

Question

Satanists live for revenge and Kevin Sullivan (who was one) said he was going to kill Chris because Nancy divorced Kevin for Chris. And Kevin said he would kill Chris Benoit.

Answer 1

chris benoit is the one who did it as much as some people dont want to except it chris benot is the one that killed his wife and child and then him self we will never no why a man that so many said was a loving father would take the life of his 7 yr old son but he did and thats the fact

Answer 2

Former wrestling champion Johnny Angel believes that fellow wrestler and Nancy Benoit's ex-husband Kevin Sullivan may be responsible for murdering the family.

Johnny Angel reveals his theory In a series of Youtube.com videos posted as REASONABLEDOUBTHERE.

In the clips Angel claims that Sullivan murdered the Benoit family as an act of revenge and points out that the deaths fall exactly ten years after Nancy divorced Sullivan for Benoit.

Sullivan reportedly practiced Satanism with his then-wife and scripted her into having an affair with Benoit.

The pretend-affair spilled over into real life and Nancy divorced Sullivan for Benoit.

Angel explains that committing the murders would have fulfilled Sullivan?s Satanic creed of revenge, while also ruining Benoit?s reputation since he is the one getting the blame for the murders.


Who do you think was responsible for the Benoit murders?

Chris Benoit 27%
Kevin Sullivan 73%

Answer 3

I said the same thing, but nobody believed me. It doesn't sound like anyone believes you either. I do. I think he killed them.

There was someone else on here a while ago, when the Benoit thing had just happend, who claimed to be a preacher. He had a lot of suggestive evidence to prove Kevin Sullivan indeed did it, but everyone said he was lying.

For example, he said about the bibles being placed there as a way to mock them. By placing them there he was basically saying "Look what your precious book did. It didn't help you at all".

Another example would be the way he killed them. Anyone suffering from supposed "roid rage" wouldn't have killed them in such a quiet way. He would have brutally murdered them, such as stabbing, shooting, or drowning. They instead said he used a wrestling move on his son, and smothered his wife.

The final example was the fact that Kevin Sullivan is a Satanist, like you said. He wanted revenge on Benoit for taking his wife (even though it was his fault in the first place) and figured if he framed him like this, he was taking the three things away from Benoit that meant the world to him.

One was his family. He loved his family more than he loved himself. He put them on a pedastal far above his own.

Second was the WWE Hall Of Fame. Sullivan knew Benoit lived for wrestling. He loved it, and did it with a passion.

And third, is respect. On the WWE tribute alone, they proved his determination that not only he treat everyone with respect, but he expected everyone to treat each other with respect as well.

He didn't demand respect. He knew it had to be earned, and he earned it from all those around him.
Without the respect of his peers, he would slowly have been destroyed, even if he hadn't died.

I will admit there is a chance that he probably killed himself. Maybe he came home and saw his dead family? That alone would've been enough to drive him over the edge.

I do not believe he killed his family, however, and I thank those of you who feel the same way.


R.I.P. Chris Benoit
R.I.P. Nancy Benoit
R.I.P. Daniel Benoit

Answer 4

my response to Johnny Angel's "theory" the theory is, in a word, a hypothesis. First off, Johnny Angel was a wrestler from the 80's very few people actually know because he wasn't huge in the WWF (now WWE). A former KKK member, he became an evangelist minister and began spewing all sorts of bizarre, outlandish, and some factually incorrect statements about everything from music to politics (see his wikipedia and then get back to me about his "sane" viewpoints). Through my small amount of research I have found NO confirming reports that Sullivan is a satanist - BEYOND him playing one on television in a storyline. Is it possible he is a satanist? Yes, but then again many of Mr. Angel's punchlines regarding his satanism aren't even correct. He wants us to believe that since he is a satanist, and benoit took his wife, that he HAD to have killed the three benoits...To me, that is quite a stretch. Trust me, the WWE, the police, and most of the benoit loving public would love for this to be a murder investigation and not suicide - it is much easier to believe someone is an evil satanist who wants revenge for his wife leaving him and murdered them than a downright lovable wrestler everyone respected going 'insane' and doing the 'unthinkable'. technically, Sullivan could be a satanist, he could have still hated benoit and not been involved, but according to angel that proves he killed him. No mention of the police saying this is a possibility, no mention of why there would be no signs of a struggle at the scene, no mention of why he is the ONLY PERSON in the WORLD who has decided this is such a possibility that it has to be investigated. It is public knowledge (and has been since it happened) that Benoit "took" sullivan's wife, and that sullivan wasn't happy about it. This isn't new or insider information. Why now? Why, if Sullivan is the hate-mongering, vengeful satanist (completely unproven), would he wait until Benoit took off work (unexpectedly), go to his house, have NO struggle take place, and THEN slowly and methodically kill each member of the family - and waited to kill benoit ?by hanging? (not sure how that would work) 2 days later, then walked on out of the door like he was going to deliver the monday morning paper - to disappear into the afternoon, driving away with a satanist grin on his shoulder, knowing that only a right wing, kkk converted, media blow-hard like johnny angel would be able to figure out his diabolical plan. Georgia cops might not be Columbo or perry mason, but they aren't that stupid. With no signs of struggle, footprints, or anything of the sort - how can anyone take this serious, especially coming from someone who has written other pieces that distort facts and take urban legends to be true?? I hope they do investigate sullivan. I kind of even hope he is a satanist too, just to twist up on Mr. Angel. And, when they find out he was drinking blood and doing coke off goth chicks asses with Gangrel and other former-wrestlers-who-played- satanists but really - are satanists in a los angeles bar that weekend, Mr. Angel will just chalk it up to the liberal media protecting the WWE and not wanting to expose the real truth. *sigh*

Answer 5

In 1985, Sullivan married Nancy Daus (née Toffoloni), his valet. In the mid-1990s, Sullivan, the then World Championship Wrestling booker, scripted a storyline in which Daus would leave him in favor of his on-screen rival, Chris Benoit. During the execution of the storyline, Daus legitimately left Sullivan in favour of Benoit, divorcing Sullivan in 1997 and marrying Benoit in 2000. [2]

Between June 22 and June 25, 2007, Benoit allegedly murdered Daus and their son, Daniel, before committing suicide. Following the incident, Sullivan expressed shock at Benoit's actions, stating "I'm in the dark...I wrestled with him a lot. I thought he was a great performer...it was shocking, just shocking." [2] [3]

Kevin and his wife Linda have a son named James Foley, who was born in December 2006.

Answer 6

Okay, if this were true, they would have had to find evidence linking Kevin Sullivan to the murders. But since everything pointed to Benoit, there would be no way to say that Sullivan did anything or had anything to do with the crime.

Answer 7

You must have read that washed up wrestler turned preachers blog who was saying all that around the time it happened. He's just bitter, and there is no proof sullivan is a satanist other than the gimmick him and woman(nancy benoit) had in wcw.

Answer 8

It's silly to blame anyone but Benoit for this. Truly it is.

Read these two articles about other fathers who kill their children and then themselves, and tell me they don't remind you of Chris Benoit. Warning, they're long and very very graphic. I can only include excerpts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1516969.stm

"These people, who we call family annihilators, always have a fear of losing their wives and children. They feel there is no future and they have all sorts of cognitive distortions."

Prof Browne said fathers who kill their children and then take their own lives experience an overwhelming feeling of utter hopelessness and the inability to see any future.
He said suicidal feelings of hopelessness were uppermost in the minds of these people and once the decision had been taken to end his own life, the father would meticulously plan the demise of the rest of his family.

He said: "These people believe if they commit suicide they will lose their families and not be able to care for them, so they illogically convince themselves that the best way forward is to kill them all and meet them on the other side.

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He said there would inevitably be warning signs prior to a murder-suicide.
He said the perpetrator would often visit his GP on a regular basis before the incident.
It was common for him to complain of minor ailments in the hope the GP would probe further into his problems.
He would often attempt to seek support or help from someone at some stage prior to the incident but would feel that support unforthcoming, said Prof Browne.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article1993580.ece

And then there is a third category, says Dr Black, of individuals in whom a neurotic or psychopathic disorder interacts with a particularly stressful set of circumstances. This last category includes men who no one imagines could be violent - until they kill.

Part of the problem is that most people's stereotype of a murderer is pretty inaccurate. In cases of domestic murder says the now-retired Broadmoor chief psychologist, "the typical killer is likely to be a quiet, retiring person, who wants to be accepted socially" but who "may have difficulty expressing or identifying emotions".
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In the United States, where they now have 10 such "murder-suicides" a week, they have coined a phrase for such men. They are family annihilators. "The profile of a family annihilator is a middle-aged man, a good provider who would appear to neighbours to be a dedicated husband and a devoted father," says Professor Jack Levin, of North-Eastern University in Boston, who has made a study of such men.

"Quite often he tends to be quite isolated. He is often profoundly dedicated to his family, but has few friends of his own or a support system outside the family. He will have suffered some prolonged frustration and feelings of inadequacy, but then suffers some catastrophic loss. It is usually financial or the loss of a relationship. He doesn't hate his children, but he often hates his wife and blames her for his miserable life. He feels an overwhelming sense of his own powerlessness. He wants to execute revenge and the motive is almost always to 'get even'."

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The motive is not always revenge, says Mr Bailes. "Sometimes they are deeply depressed. They feel 'My life is finished, my children are lost to me. The best thing is that we all go to sleep'." Psychologists speak of the "altruistic" murder committed out of misplaced love. "The ones who try to kill themselves along with their children can feel they have let the family down in some way - debt, lost job, gambling - magnified by a psychotic delusion," says Tony Black. "They feel that their suicide will leave the family without a breadwinner, so they've got to take the family with them - though some botch the job, or lose their nerve, or are brought to their senses by the act of killing their own children and then survive themselves."

Opinion is divided as to moral culpability. "They know the difference between right and wrong," says Professor Levin. "These are well-planned executions. They are never spontaneous. They are well planned and selective. There are certain people the killer blames for his problems. If a friend came along, he wouldn't kill him or her. He kills his children to get even with his wife because he blames her and he hates her."

Answer 9

if kevin sullivan was responsible, im sure detectives would have found evidence to indicate such, but the fact is it is overwhelming evidence that chris was the killer and then killed himself

Answer 10

I was a fan of Chris's for many years & this tragedy floored me but don't you think the detectives would have found some kind of evidence if someone else had done it??? As hard as it is to accept, Chris did this to his family & himself. I prefer to remember him as the great wrestler he was for so many years...