Toxicology reports in the Chris Benoit murder-suicide case indicate
that the former WWE champion had steroids and other drugs in his body
at the time of the incident, according to the chief medical
investigator at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The reports also
determine that Benoit's 7-year-old son, Daniel, was sedated with Xanax
when he was killed.
Those were among findings announced on Tuesday (July 17) by the
GBI at a press conference in Decatur, Georgia. And while they provided
another piece of the puzzle surrounding the case, they did not prove
whether steroids were connected to the killings or offer up any
conclusions as to why Benoit murdered his wife and child before taking
his own life at their Fayetteville.
The toxicology report also revealed that Benoit had Xanax and the
painkiller hydrocodone in his body. Benoit's wife Nancy had three drugs
in her system at the time of her death — hydrocodone, hydromorphone (a
byproduct of her body's breakdown of the hydrocodone) and Xanax —
though all of those were found at a therapeutic level. Her blood
alcohol level was .18, though it wasn't clear whether that level was
due to ingestion of alcohol or her body's decomposition process.