WWE has long been on a sticky wicket trying to hide Benoit when they have Superfly in the HOF... This guy lost a civil case much as OJ did, a judge held him responsible for the death of his girlfriend and Vince of all people was the one who "stood up" for Snuka by saying he was like his character on TV, a savage.
There will never be enough evidence to say categorically that Benoit murdered, killed or even hurt anyone that weekend. All they have is what appeared to have happened and a badly damaged brain. While I am not supposing that Sullivan or anyone else was involved you can never 100% rule it out either so it'll be up there with the Snuka mystery, we will never know... so if Snuka could go into the HOF and still show up on TV etc, then there is absolutely no reason Benoit can't without WWE coming across as majorly hypocritical.
They didn't remove Verne Gagne when he bodyslammed his roommate to death in the retirement home... think about it, the UDISPUTED MEDICAL EVIDENCE is that Benoit's brain was as far gone on the day he died as the 85+ brain that Verne had when he did that... In Verne's case it was "a tragedy" that a senile old man did that, so why is it any different for Benoit? At worst, the man everyone loved, the wrestler we idolised was gone and there was a scared, bewildered man with the brain function of an Alzheimer's patient, the tragedy is that no one noticed until it was far too late and cos a child was involved, he becomes evil... the one thing Benoit was not at that time was evil...
This is what has always bothered me as well.
Now, I am not some fanboy saying that Benoit didn't do. He most likely did. But there is no harm in exploring all possibilites.
The police use evidence to say that Benoit did it by saying that there was no forced entry, no fingerprints of a fourth person, and Benoit's fingerprints were on Daniel's neck.
Okay. I bet if cops came to my house, they would find my fingerprints all over it too. You know why? Because I friggin' live there, that's why! Of course Benoit's fingerprints would be over everything in his own residence.
No forced entry? But what if there was a knock on the door, and the person outside had a gun, or had grabbed one of the family members, and threatened to kill them unless they were let inside.
For instance, what is Daniel went to play outside, and then there is a knock on the door. Nancy answers it. A guy is standing there with a knife at Daniel's throat, saying if they don't come inside, Daniel will be killed in front of her. She opens the door to the intruder, and this could be how he gets inside. No interference to the locks.
Or maybe it was someone they knew, other than Benoit. A neighbor or a relative. Nancy could invite them in, and once inside, the person could then kill her, and stay inside the house, hold them all hostage, and kill each on seperate days.
Benoit's fingerprints on Daniel's neck. Again, it is his child. Maybe he hugged his son, and touched his back and neck in the hug, leaving fingerprints.
Benoit's fingerprints are all over the house because he doesn't wear gloves around the house. Maybe an intruder wore gloves the entire time, so no fingerprints.
The problem is that Benoit has no alibi. But he could have been driving home alone, and then came home and found Nancy dead. He then could have been hit with something and tied up.
The thing is, no-one knows, including the cops. But because of public pressure, and little leads or evidence, they come up with a theory and a suspect. And let's face it, their suspect can't be put onto a witness stand. No suspect, no trial, no look into how the police conducted the case. There was one story of police accidentally tainting eveidence. Could there be a cover-up, with no-one to rat them out on it.
Also, I have some facts for the police. Chris Benoit cheated with, and eventually married, another man's wife. What's more, this same man SUGGESTED that Benoit and this guy's wife turn up the romance for the sake of a wrestling storyline. How humiliating then, when they do this, and it becomes a real life romance, and she leaves you for your wrestling rival.
Also, this man didn't just have a gimmick as a Satanist, he actually delved into it, and so did his ex-wife, who later left him. What does the Church of Satan think of this, especially considering that the ex-wife left the Church to live a normal life.
Do you also know that satanists leave Bibles next to murder victims, as a way of mocking God, saying that He failed to protect them against the power of Satan? Coincidentally, Bibles were found next to the bodys of a former Satanists ex-wife and the product of the union between her and this guy's wrestling rival.
Also, this man is reported to have once made a death threat to his rival, which police ignored, and wasn't taken seriously. Yet, years later, police don't even interrogate this person who made the threat, when his rival and his family end up dead.
Also, police never investigate the very strange occurence of someone editing the ex-wife's wikipedia page and putting the exact death date next to her birthdate, despite the fact that the information had not been realised by the police to the public until a few hours later.
Also, how everyone just accepts the police's versions of events, when there is no motive, no weapons used, no witnesses, or wonder how a brain-addled man would come home, kill his wife, have the thought to put a Bible next to her body, then next day kill his child, do the same thing, and then use an exercise machine, rather than a rope and chair, to hang himself, in a fashion that is complicated to pull off, and the absence of a suicide note. If this guy was trying to make a point, we still don't know what it is.
Imagine, some guy steals your wife, after suggesting that they "fake" it for a wrestling angle, and she likes the guy she is "pretending" to get intimate with, for the sake of the story, for real,and leaves you for him. Furthermore, imagine when they have a child together, how that would make you feel. Also, imagine that this wife-stealer is also one of the most loved, most well-respected and highly-regarded wrestlers in the profession, and has achieved a lot more than you ever did, and is more well-known and a bigger household name. Imagine also, you have been involved in an evil cult in the past, surrounded by people who can take a life and think nothing of it.
Imagine how seething jealous and angry you might be. You try to deal with it, but, over the years, your sense of injustice and unfairness swarm you. You hear voices in your head, saying "how dare he?" and "Who does he think he is?" . Imagine that you feel that the only revenge for someone like this is to destroy everything your rival has ever had- his wife, his child, his career, and most importantly, his reputation. Imagine the feeling of taking everything from this man who did you wrong. It is the ultimate knocking someone off their pedestal, by destroying everything they hold dear, and then having them get blamed for it. The perfect plan.
Then it is made even more perfect by the police not interrogating you or even considering the possibility of you or anyone else, other than the dead man, doing it, and a media and public who want to accept that the guy the cops said did it, did it, and then put the spotlight on drugs, only for the promoter of the wrestling company the dead man worked for denying that drugs played a part, despite this promoter facing a trial for drug charges back in 1984, and ignoring the fact that this dead man and his best friend had both won titles shortly after their muscle-mass had expanded greatly in the space of a few months, to say that the dead man deliberately did it, and then to accept a report that concussion may have played a part, and this promoter then both runs concussions tests and tightens up the company's drug program, despite drugs having nothing to do with it.
But then, hey, I am only thinking aloud, throwing some ideas around. Maybe the cops got it right. I mean, there is no one in prison who has ever been falsely accused and jailed, right. Cops never make mistakes, do they? I'm sure that they were thorough in their investigations.
I mean, people are innocent until PROVEN guilty, and usually when there is solid evidence and witnesses to convict that person. I'd hate to think that other possiblities weren't explored or that people just jump to conclusions without facts.
