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Inside The Benoit Family Tragedy on Talk Is Jericho - EP259

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2016

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Sandra Toffoloni, sister of Nancy Benoit, aunt of Daniel and nanny to the family, joins TIJ on the 9 year anniversary of their deaths to celebrate their memories with happy stories of their lives. Sandy also speaks in-depth about what may have caused her brother-in-law, Chris Benoit, to murder his family and himself. Sandy was close to Chris and paints a vivid picture of his behavior and personality from when they first met up until the months leading up the unspeakable tragedy. She talks openly about what it was like after the tragedy unfolded; how she and her parents dealt with the press and curious fans; and how they're coping today.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, welcome to Talk Is Jericho. This is the plot of Thunder and Rock & Roll. The

0:18.1

Remedy for boredom has arrived and it is Friday with a little bit of a different turn

0:23.5

of events on this show today. If you listen to the station fire tragedy show with

0:31.7

microcardi that we had on a couple months ago, this was recorded on the same day as that

0:36.6

very very heavy subject, especially for me because I was very close to it. Today is the

0:41.4

nine year anniversary of the death of Chris Benoit and the tragedy of the Benoit family,

0:47.8

the loss of Nancy Benoit and their son Daniel Benoit. I had done an interview with Bill

0:54.1

Aptor a few months ago, a year ago, whatever it was where he had a certain theory on Chris's

0:59.8

death and the whole facts and figures and the events that took place on that weekend. A

1:07.4

bit more of a fantastic, I think there was a conspiracy idea that he had or someone

1:11.2

was lying. After that happened, Sandra Topheloni contacted me. Sandra is Nancy Benoit's sister.

1:19.4

They grew up together. She was there for Nancy when she was married to Kevin Sullivan and

1:23.8

then throughout the whole duration of the relationship of Chris and Nancy and to Daniel,

1:30.8

Nanny of the family as well. She contacted me and said for the first time ever, she wanted

1:36.8

to do a full and depth interview on her, I guess her thoughts and her side and her experiences

1:48.4

with the whole situation of what happened nine years ago in 2007, June 24th, 2007. So she

1:56.8

contacted me and we met up in Orlando. She lives in Florida, Southern Florida. I live

2:02.3

over in Tappas. You guys know, we met up in Orlando the weekend of the Royal Rumble to

2:07.3

have this conversation. I wanted to wait until this weekend to air the show very point

2:13.3

in to very timely. She is going to talk for the first time ever in depth about her sister

2:19.2

and nephew's murder and what may have caused her brother-in-law Chris Benoit to kill his

2:23.9

family and then take his own life. Now everyone knows that Chris was one of my closest friends,

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