Chris & Nancy

  Full text of the email exchanges between author Irvin Muchnick and Fayette County Sheriff’s Detective Ethon Harper

  Sheriff’s report logs of the text messages to and from Chris and Nancy Benoit’s cell phones

  The file of author Irvin Muchnick’s Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission complaint against the Stamford police

  Summary of Georgia Bureau of Investigation Medical Examiner’s toxicology report

  Full text of the email exchanges between author Irvin Muchnick and WWE personnel: vice president for corporation communications Gary Davis, head of publicity Jennifer McIntosh, and attorney Jerry McDevitt

  Copyright © Irvin Muchnick, 2009

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  Muchnick, Irvin

  Chris & Nancy : the true story of the Benoit murder-suicide and pro wrestling’s

  cocktail of death / Irvin Muchnick.

  ISBN 978-1-77090-006-6

  ALSO ISSUED AS:

  978-1-55490-902-5 (PDF); 978-1-55022-902-8 (PBK)

  1. Benoit, Chris, 1967–2007. 2. Benoit, Nancy. 3. Wrestlers — Canada — Biography. 4. Murder — Georgia — Fayetteville. 5. Suicide — Georgia — Fayetteville. 6. Wrestling. I. Title. II. Title: Chris and Nancy.

  GV1196.B45M83 2009 796.812092 C2009-902533-7

  Cover design: David Gee

  Cover images: Mike Lano; Mike Mastrandrea; ECW Press archives

  Text design and photo section: Tania Craan

  Typesetting: Mary Bowness