<Tr> <Th> Perpetrator </Th> <Td> Chris Benoit </Td> </Tr> <P> Over a three - day period between June 22 and June 24, 2007, Chris Benoit, a 40 - year - old veteran professional wrestler employed by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), killed his wife Nancy Benoit and strangled their 7 - year - old son Daniel . Autopsy results showed that Benoit's wife was murdered first as she was bound at the feet and wrists and died of asphyxiation on June 22 . Nancy was found wrapped in a towel and with blood under her head, although Fayette County District Attorney Scott Ballard reported no other signs of a struggle . </P> <P> The couple's son, Daniel Christopher Benoit, also died of asphyxia, apparently killed as he lay in bed on the morning of June 23 . Then on the evening of June 24, Benoit died by suicide in his weight room, when he used a weight lifting machine to break his own neck . He placed copies of the Bible alongside the bodies of his wife and son, as well as a third Bible on his weight lifting machine . Since Benoit's suicide, numerous explanations for his actions have been proposed, including brain damage, steroid abuse, and a failing marriage . The incident led to numerous media accounts, and a federal investigation into steroid abuse in professional wrestling . </P> <P> On Friday, June 22, Chris Benoit killed his wife Nancy in an upstairs bedroom . Her limbs were bound, and her body was wrapped in a towel . A copy of the Bible was left by her body . Injuries indicated that Benoit had pressed a knee into her back while pulling on a cord around her neck, causing strangulation . Blood was also found under her head, suggesting that she may have tried to fend off Benoit . Officials said that there were no signs of immediate struggle . Toxicologists were unable to determine whether alcohol found in her body was there before death or a decomposition product . Decomposition also made it difficult to estimate pre-death levels of hydrocodone and alprazolam, found in "therapeutic levels" in her body . In any case, her medical examiner saw no evidence that she was sedated like her son . </P>

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