US television station WAGA reported last night that investigators believe wrestling star Chris Benoit killed his wife and son over the weekend, and then himself sometime on Monday.
There were no signs of gunshot or stab wounds, but the “instruments of death were located on scene'’, Tommy Pope of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department told an American broadcaster. Police were now considering it a “possible double-murder suicide'’, he said.

The bodies of the 40-year-old wrestler, his wife, Nancy Benoit, 43, and their seven-year-old son, Daniel, were discovered by police at their Atlanta, Georgia, home at about 2.30pm local time on Monday. According to the Edmonton Journal, the house is in a secluded neighbourhood set back about 60 yards off a gravel road, surrounded by stacked stone wall and a double-iron gate. On Monday night, the house was dark except for a few outside lights. There was a police car in front, along with two uniformed officers.

“The details, when they come out, are going to prove a little bizarre,'’ Fayette County District Attorney Scott Ballarde told local paper the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Benoit, 40, was a former world heavyweight champion for World Wrestling Entertainment as well as a intercontinental champion and held several tag-team titles. A Canadian native, he maintained a home in Atlanta from the time he wrestled for the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling.

In a further twist, this week’s live Monday Night RAW program was supposed to have been a whodunit into the fictional death of Chairman Vince McMahon, whose limousine burst into a fiery explosion moments after he stepped into it after a bout two weeks ago. That storyline was quickly scrapped and Vince McMahon instead appeared to explain about the death of Benoit. The company then aired a three-hour tribute to Benoit.

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