I heard about the story of the murder-suicide of wrestler Chris Benoit and his wife recently. I mainly paid interest because my paper included a nice graphic of every pro wrestler who’d died in recent years…and it’s a big number…which made for top quality reading.
Now the story gets very interesting though. Seems Benoit’s Wikipedia entry was edited to include his wife’s death 14 hours before the police found her body. The first edit included text saying she was dead. This was subsequently removed. The text was re-added, this time quoting “pro wrestling websites” as a source. The reference was again deleted, but was reinserted as a “family emergency“. It remained in this form until the after the police found the body.
Interesting. Were these posts inserted by Benoit himself as a sort of public confession? What are these “pro wrestling websites” and how did the information get to them…if it did? I don’t know. What I do know is that this story is moving forward…and now I’m paying attention.