July 19, 2007 Observer Newsletter: Part 4 of Chris Benoit double murder suicide coverage

Okay. Let’s get some things out of the way first. They’ve been said before, but to preface all this, they have to be said again. Vince McMahon is not to blame for Chris Benoit killing his wife and son. The WWE is not to blame. Anabolic steroids are almost surely not the main reason, whether they show up in his toxicology reports at the time of his death. However, they may be a part of the equation, perhaps small, because no matter how much of this can’t be understood by anyone, the closest thing to an explanation is that drugs ruined Benoit’s mind.

While we will never understand why things happened, there was a history of marital issues that at some point did get violent in the past. While you hear people say if you lined up 1,000 people in wrestling and asked them who would commit such a crime, he’d be right at the bottom of the list, that’s because those people didn’t know him at home.

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