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215: From WWE Superstar to Cold-Blooded Killer: The Rise & Fall of Chris Benoit

Lights Out

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 153 minutes

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? What's up everybody? Everybody.

0:15.0

What's up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Lights Out.

0:19.0

I'm your host Josh.

0:20.0

And I'm your host Austin.

0:22.0

And I'm Daniel.

0:23.0

We're back with another one today,

0:26.0

a case that is, you know, one that I feel many have either forgotten about or have never heard of before surprisingly.

0:36.0

Even though it's a pretty high profile.

0:39.0

Yeah, absolutely, especially at the time that this all happened.

0:42.0

We're going to be covering the Chris Benoit case,

0:46.0

and this is a very dark and tragic story.

0:49.0

If you're not familiar with Chris Benoit, he was really one of the greatest icons in

0:54.6

wrestling history. In the WWE world, W W W W WF there's a lot of different leagues

1:01.3

that he participated in over the years but he was at

1:05.9

at his height of his career he was on top of the world one of the best to ever do it.

1:12.2

Yeah he won a world championship title too.

1:15.0

Yeah, yeah, and so, you know, this story is, you know, one of, I think there's several lessons in this one, but basically if you're not familiar with

1:28.1

Chris Benoit, you know, he reached the height of his career, he had everything going for him, and then all of a sudden, seemingly

1:35.9

out of nowhere, he murders his wife and his son before taking his own life.

1:43.0

And, you know, there's a lot of layers to this one and a lot of different sort of perspectives to look at it.

1:52.0

Because according to everybody that knew him has you know other

1:55.3

family members his other son that is still alive you know he was a gentle giant he's his

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