The doctor of Chris Benoit had his surgery raided by the FBI yesterday and all his computers were seized. According to the LA Times newspaper it is possible that charges could be made against him today.
There is another story making the news that has caused a stir. It relates to the Chris Benoit page that can be found on the Wikipedia website.
On the Sunday night after Benoit failed to make his match at WWE Vengeance after citing 'personal reasons' someone updated the online encyclopedia announcing that Benoit had no-showed the ECW title match due to his wife dying.
The Benoits were found dead twelve hours after this post was uploaded to the site.
The conspiracy theorists jumped on this story like a pack of hyenas when the IP address of the individual was based in Connecticut which is where the WWE headquarters is based.
The Wikipedia site has managed to get an interview with the person that made the announcement. He or she wanted to remain anonymous claiming that they had made up the story after reading on other sites that Nancy's death was the reason for the wrestler's absence.
Things have got even creepier when I was reading and listening to comments made by Wade Keller of the Pro Wrestling Torch in regards to this story.
The person who made the claim has a history of changing items on Wikipedia. Keller recognised that one of the rare wrestling corrections the user had made was editing terrible comments about Chavo Guerrero Jr.
Guerrero was apparently the last person to have been contacted by Benoit.
Keller's comments on this topic are as follows;
This is a story I sat on for two days (I got emails on it dating back to Tuesday) because I didn't consider anything more than a lucky guess and not worth pursuing in a busy news week. But once the IP was traced to Connecticut, it became intriguing and worth exploring. Then, when investigation through Wikipedia's history linked to that IP address revealed that the individual had previously edited just a month earlier a Chavo Guerrero entry on Wikipedia - not to vandalize it, but to eliminate vile and outlandish accusations - it seemed too big of a coincidence. The fact that a person who accurately predicted something that few people could have had insight into at that point had also come to the defense on Wikipedia of one person who had tons of insight into Benoit's situation that weekend, then it became a story. The problem with the confession is that it fits two scenarios: One, a guy guessed right and is now sorry. Two, someone who broke confidence with someone who had inside info, who somehow has a tie with Chavo Guerrero, and is scared to death that he or she has just gotten into a lot of trouble and perhaps gotten Chavo or someone else who was a middleman between them in trouble because the Wikipedia entry indicates Chavo might have known more earlier than he let on. The only way to eliminate the potential tie-in to anyone who was privy to insight into Nancy's well-being or Benoit's potential actions or confessed actions is for this person to come forward and be investigated and then cleared of any such connection. This confession, frankly, makes me more suspicious that there's more to it than I was before the confession was made. A prankster who used vile anti-black and anti-gay terms in previous Wikipedia posts (those sharing the same IP number) doesn't seem like the type who would want to end the media frenzy surrounding his attention-seeking posts so quickly. This confession comes across as more likely someone doing damage control to try to stop the attention because there is something to hide. That's just my take on it, nothing more or less.
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