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06-29-2007, 09:48 AM
ATLANTA -- Investigators are looking into who altered pro wrestler Chris Benoit's Wikipedia entry to mention his wife's death hours before authorities discovered the bodies of the couple and their 7-year-old son.
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Benoit's Wikipedia entry was altered early Monday to say the wrestler had missed a match two days earlier because of his wife's death.
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I also found where someone that claims to have made the entery.
The comment, posted from the same IP address as the edit to Benoit's Wikipedia page (meaning it was probably, but not definitely, posted by the same person) begins:
HERE (http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2007/06/29/editor-of-chris-benoits-wikipedia-page-claims-it-was-an-incred/)
Hey everyone. I am here to talk about the wikipedia comment that was left by myself. I just want to say that it was an incredible coincidence. Last weekend, I had heard about Chris Benoit no showing Vengeance because of a family emergency, and I had heard rumors about why that was. I was reading rumors and speculation about this matter online, and one of them included that his wife may have passed away, and I did the wrong thing by posting it on wikipedia to spite there being no evidence. I posted my speculation on the situation at the time and I am deeply sorry about this, and I was just as shocked as everyone when I heard that this actually would happen in real life.
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Benoit's Wikipedia entry was altered early Monday to say the wrestler had missed a match two days earlier because of his wife's death.
MORE (http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070629/NATIONWORLD/706290522/-1/LOCAL17)
I also found where someone that claims to have made the entery.
The comment, posted from the same IP address as the edit to Benoit's Wikipedia page (meaning it was probably, but not definitely, posted by the same person) begins:
HERE (http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2007/06/29/editor-of-chris-benoits-wikipedia-page-claims-it-was-an-incred/)
Hey everyone. I am here to talk about the wikipedia comment that was left by myself. I just want to say that it was an incredible coincidence. Last weekend, I had heard about Chris Benoit no showing Vengeance because of a family emergency, and I had heard rumors about why that was. I was reading rumors and speculation about this matter online, and one of them included that his wife may have passed away, and I did the wrong thing by posting it on wikipedia to spite there being no evidence. I posted my speculation on the situation at the time and I am deeply sorry about this, and I was just as shocked as everyone when I heard that this actually would happen in real life.