{"id":2563,"date":"2007-06-25T18:28:54","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T00:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:31:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:31:33","slug":"chris-benoit-and-family-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/chris-benoit-and-family-found-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Benoit and family found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WWE Superstar <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwe.com\/shows\/ecw\/superstars\/chrisbenoit\/\">Chris Benoit<\/a><\/strong>, his wife <strong>Nancy<\/strong> and a 7 year old son, <strong>Daniel<\/strong> were found dead in their Atlanta home earlier today.<br \/>\nAccording to several sources, the 40-year-old Benoit missed a house show on Saturday night and the Vengeance Pay-Per-View last night due to a &#8220;family emergency.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe family was found around <del datetime=\"2007-06-26T02:38:51+00:00\">4 p.m.<\/del>2:30 p.m. Monday afternoon.<br \/>\nThe only news coming from Georgia Police, is that the &#8216;family was not shot to death&#8217; but they are still investigating.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: According to <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2007\/more\/06\/25\/wrestler.dead.ap\/?cnn=yes\">CNN\/SI<\/a>: <strong>Lt. Tommy Pope<\/strong> of the Fayette County Sheriff&#8217;s Department said the three were found at their home about 2:30 p.m., but refused to release details.<br \/>\nPope said results of autopsies on Benoit, his wife Nancy, and 7-year-old son Daniel were expected Tuesday.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wwe.com\/content\/media\/touts\/feature\/29062\/4957126\" width=400><br \/>\nRead the latest from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&#038;ned=&#038;q=chris+benoit&#038;btnG=Search+News\">Google News<\/a><br \/>\nMore on Benoit from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Benoit\">Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\nIncidentally, Benoit was best friends with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eddie_Guerero\"><strong>Eddie Guerrero<\/strong><\/a>, from El Paso, who died in November of 2005, after his heart stopped in his hotel room, the night before a huge pay-per-view where Guerrero was expected to win the WWE Championship again.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/chris+benoit\">chris benoit<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWE Superstar Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy and a 7 year old son, Daniel were found dead in their Atlanta home earlier today. According to several sources, the 40-year-old Benoit missed a house show on Saturday night and the Vengeance Pay-Per-View last night due to a &#8220;family emergency.&#8221; The family was found around 4 p.m.2:30 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/chris-benoit-and-family-found-dead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chris Benoit and family found dead<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,20,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-newsandpop","category-squared-circle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-Fl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10804,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/10804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}