Retraction

[seabird78]

So it's looking like the circumstances surrounding the Benoits' deaths may even be more disturbing than I initially realized.

I don't get it. And I'm not gonna even begin to try. It's horrible and depressing and makes me rethink the fond feelings I expressed in my last post. I don't normally latch onto news stories, but I guess I've got one that'll have me riveted until the official toxicology reports are released.

Comments

[claudine3000.livejournal.com]

I had never heard of him, but it's depressing and sad. It reminds me of Judith Barsi, a child actress from the 80's who did voices in The Land Before Time and All Dogs Go to Heaven. She had an abusive father who murdered her, her mother, and killed himself. I was completely shocked when I found out about this through perusing IMDB.

[troubl3maker.livejournal.com]

i'm probably in the extreme minority on this one, but i still feel sympathetic towards what happened with him and his situation. i think it's the psychologist in me.. but i can't help but to just think "what was going on with him that lead him to this extreme action?"... i've seen so many 'i hope he goes to hell, what a terrible human being, he should have stayed alive to suffer' (ect) comments that have really disturbed me a lot.

i do not condone what happened, obviously. neither his wife or his son deserved to meet the endings that they did... but neither did chris.

[seabird78.livejournal.com]

I wonder about that as well, and I also would be interested to find out if he was really able to conceal such inner turmoil well enough that nobody noticed, or if there were signs that everyone around him just chose to ignore. I know these things don't occur in a vacuum, so I have to think there was some indication, some sign and it just went overlooked. *shrugs*

Those "I hope he goes to hell" comments disturbed me quite a bit too. I made the mistake of visiting the cpw boards yesterday afternoon because I wanted to see if there was any additional breaking news, and the sentiment you mentioned above seemed to be the dominant one. Reading all that negative shit really made me feel unpleasant, and kind of spoiled the rest of my day.