The College Student Who 'Knew' About the Benoit Murder-Suicide Before Police

Brilliant investigation!

Hi, I'm from Wikinews. I'd like to point out that we are a seperate project from wikipedia. Although we are both hosted by the same people, we are seperate and different. Wikipedia administrators did not confirm it is the same IP address as the original user, Wikinews admins did. Thanks

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-bawolff

Nice work, Corey... and welcome back.

Nice job, Corey. Still at the end of it we have some guy, now outted, who claims to know nothing about a death that occurred hours after he posted a very specific comment. Of course, it doesn't mean he's got anything to do with it. Otoh, it doesn't mean he's got nothing to do with it either. I suppose it would serve him right if the police were to remain interested in his 10,000:1 coincidental knowledge for just a bit longer.

So wait, he apologizes for posting incorrect info the one time he actually posted something that was accurate?

Great work, Corey!

I haven't read anything else about this, but I'd be surprised if the police didn't take more than a passing interest in this "coincidence."

Amazing investigative reporting, Corey. Kudos to you! What a bizarre coincidence, to say the least. Hard to believe that with all of the information out there, this guy just happened to pick Benoit. Weird.

Great Job Corey!!!!! That is a full 5, count'em FIVE exclamations.

This is how the 'media' should do updates. I wish Wiki News or some other news affiliate would include this not to take it out on one of three immature preppies, but rather so it's not like a in my opinion, half-assed apology isn't just pass and go.
Thanks for the update.

A very incredible coincidence. We had heard unconfirmed reports two days ago that said WWE related websites were reporting Bonoit would not be performing because his wife and kid were throwing up blood. Supposedly this info was put out by Bonoit himself through cell phone text messages sent after he had already killed his wife last Friday. He then smothered the poor child on Saturday, finally ending his own life on Sunday. Although the info has probably been removed from those site, caches may reveal the truth. Overall, the crimes don't really fit into a "rage" pattern so much as a premeditated effort by him. Sad that so many people now think they have to take out loved ones before doing themselves in. Pretty freaking selfish.

The way he explained himself he made himself look more guilty than innocent. Send the police over to his house and do some investigating. That'll teach him how to grow up.

Very thorough investigation, I had never heard about this. It's quite an interesting "conicidence."

It isn't so much of a coincidence, as someone being an Arse, I mean anytime someone (someone as in a celebrity) misses something, there is almost always someone somewhere posting why they missed it, and in this instance it just happened to be correct. I bet if all the message boards were searched from Sat/Sun, there would be 1000's of "reasons" why Benoit Missed the PPV, and maybe some of them would be correct but the majority would be wrong.

Thanks for the excellent investigation. It's nice to know there are media outlets like this one that like to report the truth and not just spin available informtion into whatever "facts" will give them the best ratings (i.e. Nanct Grace). As stated in the article, just because the IP address was from Stamford, certain media outlets were assuming, and reporting, that they likely came from someone within the WWE, which we now know is obviously false. It's too bad all reporters don't take the time to check their facts. Thanks again for the excellent work.

OK, what are the odds that he not only metioned the death, he lives in the town where Bonoit sent info?

Corey -- I clipped this to my Citizen Journalism group. Maybe you're aware, but I'm constantly trying to push people to make the sort of effort you've made here:

Is there any chance you could post an article which details how you stumbled into this, how you gathered your info?

I think too many people feel that CJ work is "too hard" or "too much work" and in many cases, it's just a matter of aggregating and presenting information that is already available. I have to admit, I'm curious about your methodology on this story, especially since you piqued the interest of ABC news.

At any rate, another great win for Newsvine, and another example for me to cite when I see people slamming Newsvine as irrelevant.

Great job!

Charge the S.O.B. Make an example out of him to deter other idiots from posting knowingly incorrect information. Because of his misinformation, police manpower has been used. What are the penalties for calling in false alarms? Fine him.

Wow, and he wasn't even a clever wiki-vandal.

I wonder if he's crying now that his precious internets got taken away. A true example of "Failing at Life" if I ever saw one.

Way to slander a kid's name without all of the facts. This is yet another perfect example of knee-jerk reporting at its finest. The kid in that picture didn't do it, I can give you my personal guarantee. So, uh, people could, ya know, not be mouthbreathers and post his pic and whatnot.

Journalistic integrity takes another hit.

As someone who uses and edits wikipedia regularly, and often having to revert vandalism such as what the Connecticut punks did, I hope this comes to bite him fairly hard, to make an example out of him.

Well, I Googled that info, and that is not me, interestingly enough.

Regardless, I do hope they take care of this.

coincidence my arse ! if so this guy should go buy a lottery ticket . A LESSON TO ALL YOU SO CALLED JOURNALISTS OUT THERE - GET THE FACTS FIRST !!!!!