Chris Benoit double-murder and suicide

Chris Benoit double-murder and suicide
Benoit in February 2006
Location	Fayetteville, Georgia, U.S.
Coordinates	33°23′36″N 84°31′15″W / 33.393450°N 84.520699°W / 33.393450; -84.520699
Date	June 22–24, 2007 (EDT)
Attack type	Murder–suicide, familicide, uxoricide, filicide, pedicide
Weapons	Strangling cord
Deaths	3 (including the perpetrator)
Victims	Nancy Elizabeth Benoit, aged 43 Daniel Christopher Benoit, aged 7
Perpetrator	Chris Benoit, aged 40
Motive	Unknown (possibly related to CTE, abuse of steroids, alcohol and emotional issues)

Over a three-day period between June 22 and 24, 2007, Chris Benoit, a 40-year-old Canadian professional wrestler employed by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), murdered his wife Nancy and their seven-year-old son, Daniel, before hanging himself at their residence in Fayetteville, Georgia, United States. Autopsy results showed that Benoit's wife was murdered first, having died of asphyxiation on the night of June 22.^[1]

Daniel, who also died of asphyxia, was killed as he was lying sedated in his bed on the morning of June 23. Then, on the evening of June 24, Benoit killed himself in his weight room, when he used his lat pulldown machine to hang himself. He placed Bibles near the bodies of his wife and son.^[2][3] Since the tragedy, numerous explanations for Benoit's actions have been proposed, including severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)^[4] and steroid and alcohol abuse,^[5] leading to a failing marriage and other personal problems.^[6] This led to numerous media accounts, and a federal investigation into steroid abuse in professional wrestling.