Could Wikipedia provide clues to a double-homicide and suicide?

Filed at 12:37 am, Friday June 29th 2007
by Arlen Parsa

I wasn’t going to write about this, but there’s an intruiging new development in the case of that pro-wrestler who killed himself and his wife and son. The following is certainly very intriguing:

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.

Benoit’s Wikipedia entry was altered early Monday to say that the wrestler had missed a match two days earlier because of his wife’s death.

A Wikipedia official, Cary Bass, said Thursday that the entry was made by someone using an Internet protocol address registered in Stamford, Conn., where World Wrestling Entertainment is based.
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Benoit’s page on Wikipedia, a reference site that allows users to add and edit information, was updated at 12:01 a.m. Monday, about 14 hours before authorities say the bodies were found. The reason he missed a match Saturday night was “stemming from the death of his wife Nancy,” it said.

Almost worthy of a 21st century mystery novel.

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