The Double-Murder-Suicide of WWE Superstar Chris Benoit | CTE - Part 1

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🗓️ 22 April 2021

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Summary

For the next two episodes we're going to discuss two murder-suicides where chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is considered a contributing factor due to the assailant being involved in contact sports.

Over the weekend of June 22, 2007, WWE superstar Chris Benoit killed his wife Nancy and their 7-year-old son Daniel before using his exercise equipment to hang himself.

The media was quick to call this an episode of "roid rage," but after Chris's brain was studied, it was revealed he suffered from severe CTE due to years of head trauma.

In this episode, we cover everything related to the Benoit double-murder-suicide. Next week we discuss the recent murder-suicide involving ex-NFL player, Phillip Adams.

Should CTE be a defense for murder?

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0:00.0	what's up guys welcome to another episode of true crime society podcast with
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0:27.5	update for a while so that means it is Saturday April 17th for Olivia right
0:34.3	now at least eight 12 a.m. so I'm still waking up must took my pajamas on as
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0:46.5	having having a white call like a basic bitch and we're ready to do this
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0:56.0	breakfast while we do this but I haven't done it yet well I feel like
0:59.6	switch it up one day where yeah it's the morning for me in the afternoon for
1:03.2	you but it's hard because I work most days at 7.30 in the morning and I have
1:07.9	kids so I let you go to bed yeah we'll have to switch that one day we all have
1:14.5	options so what's been happening well I am half-accinated I got the first
1:22.9	fatt of the Moderna vaccine a couple weeks ago and I think in like two
1:28.2	weeks week and a half I'll get the second one so right now I am officially a
1:32.6	half-vaccinated don't mean to brag but you know I've got no chance of being
1:37.0	vaccinated for so long even though we've got basically no COVID here which I
1:40.4	guess is good because we also have no vaccinations so the vaccination rollout is
1:45.0	really really really slow here I mean we'll be in the last group they were
1:50.3	saying I think October was gonna be that that would be the last group but I
1:54.4	don't even know if that will happen yet it might be next year so I'm a way
1:57.1	off getting vaccinated I'm fully getting it yeah well they've also what they've
2:03.3	done here now is so we have Pfizer AstraZeneca I don't know if we do have the
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