Chris Benoit by Scott Williams

Chris Benoit: The Definitive Story of Murder, Drugs,
and Wrestling’s Darkest Hour

by Scott E. Williams

Format: 6 x 9 softcover
Page Count: 225

ISBN: 978-1-60008-075-3
Price: $18.95
Publication Date: January 15, 2008

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Book Description

Chris Benoit—a professional wrestler for over twenty years—longed for respect and fame. He performed, sometimes in obscurity, in Europe, Japan, Mexico, and his native Canada, before finally achieving superstar status in Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling and Vince McMahan’s World Wrestling Entertainment over the past decade. However, Benoit achieved lasting infamy on June 25, 2007, when he, his wife Nancy, and seven-year-old son Daniel were found dead in their suburban Atlanta home.

In Chris Benoit: The Definitive Story of Murder, Drugs, and Wrestling’s Darkest Hour, crime reporter and longtime wrestling columnist Scott Williams pieces together this shocking and perplexing double-murder suicide.

The media frenzy that occurred in the wake of this tragedy left more questions than answers and served to perpetuate myths and half-truths regarding what exactly took place in the Benoit home during the murders, Chris Benoit’s steroid and drug usage, and whether Daniel had fragile X syndrome. Using autopsy reports, medical findings, police reports, affidavits, and dozens of interviews, Williams sorts out fact from fiction and offers educated conclusions on what triggered these crimes.

Chris Benoit also explores the parallels between Benoit’s death and the deaths of so many young wrestlers over the past two decades, as well as the lasting effects the murders and round-the-clock media attention will have on the business.

Author Information

Scott E. Williams is a criminal-justice reporter for The Galveston Daily News in Texas. He has published three books on professional wrestling: Terry Funk: More Than Just Hardcore, Hardcore History, and The Cowboy and the Cross: The Bill Watts Story. He lives in Dickinson, Texas.