Chris & Nancy Read Online Free

people who want to believe that such a finding tells us very little are far outnumbered by the many people who know that it tells us a lot; it’s just that the few add more heat to the discussion than the many add light. While in other areas of life we may need fewer facts, wider-ranging intuition, and a spirit of live-and-let-live, wrestling has reached the point where it needs more facts — facts tethered to accountability — and less paralysis by analysis.
    No, the butler didn’t do it; Christopher Michael Benoit did. But honest scrutiny of what transpired before and after can demonstrate how WWE , as desperate and cagey as any gun or tobacco lobbyist, pulled the strings to ensure that wrestling’s death pandemic would remain unaddressed. In real estate, the key is “location, location, location.” In the Benoit story, the most fertile ground is “timeline, timeline, timeline.” WWE ’s published timeline was as phony as its match results, and simultaneously far less entertaining and more illuminating.
    To the question, “Was there a Benoit conspiracy?”, we have a clear answer: you bet there was. It was a conspiracy between those who care too much about wrestling and those who care too little. The first group consists of the fans who enjoy the pageantry and the people who profit from them. The second group consists of those who can’t be bothered, except possibly to blow hard on cue whenever a comment, no matter how ill-informed, is deemed fashionable.
    Like everyone else, I’ll take my best stab at what it all means, but even this is only the second draft of history. The most important step is simply to cut through all the taboos that make wrestling an appropriate subject to cluck about, but not to study for its off-the-charts human fallout and for its seedy but pseudo-respectable big-business DNA . I submit that anything to which millions of people devote blocks of time every week is serious. Clusters of deaths are serious.
    Let’s tell and retell the Chris Benoit story in the hope that it will eventually make enough of the right people care in just the right amounts.
    [ 1 ]. Weicker left the WWE board after Linda McMahon’s 2010 Senate race against Richard Blumenthal, in which Weicker remained neutral. Weicker openly supported McMahon’s opponent Chris Murphy in the 2012 Senate race.

CHAPTER 1
“They’ve Killed the Family!”
    THE FIRST PERSON TO ENCOUNTER the dead bodies of Chris Benoit’s wife and their seven-year-old son, at around 2 : 45 p.m. Monday, June 25 , 2007 , was the next-door neighbor. Holly Schrepfer ran out of the house screaming to two Fayette County Sheriff’s officers on the driveway outside, “Daniel and Nancy have been murdered! They’ve killed the family!”
    At 1 : 35 , Deputy Donna Mundy and Lieutenant Larry Alden had pulled up to the front of the Benoits’ property in unincorporated Fayetteville, Georgia, in response to a call nineteen minutes earlier to the county 911 Communications Center. The cops faced an electronically locked double-iron gate separating a stacked stone wall from the circular driveway, which was set off nearly 200 feet from the main road. (The whole plot measured more than eight acres, typical for this area.) Mundy tried the call box outside the gate: no answer.
    The officers noted that the fence on either side of the gate could be easily scaled. But the more significant obstacle to access was the presence of two German shepherd guard dogs roaming the front lawn near the gate and menacing anyone who might dare to traverse it.
    Deputy Mundy had 911 dispatcher Chris Nations ask a World Wrestling Entertainment security consultant, Dennis Fagan, if anyone knew the gate pass code and how to pacify the dogs. Fagan had made the original emergency call. After checking with other WWE people, he reported back that while he couldn’t come up with a pass code, he did learn that the