July 23, 2007 Observer Newsletter: Benoit family toxicology reports, WWE attempts damage control
As expected, the final toxicology report on Chris, Nancy and Daniel Benoit provided nothing close to what could be called answers.
About the only significant piece of information was that Daniel Benoit at enough Alprazolam (Xanax) in his system that would have put him unconscious, and would have been very close to a level that could have been a lethal overdose. The theory is now that Chris gave Benoit the drugs, which are not designed for a seven-year-old child, with the idea he’d be out cold and wouldn’t feel any pain when Chris killed him with essentially a modified version of his crippler crossface finisher.
Chris Benoit tested positive for high quantities of testosterone, which has in almost hilarious fashion attempted to have been twisted by WWE as him being steroid free. Benoit had a 59-1 testosterone/epitestosterone ratio (1-1 is considered normal and 4-1 would fail drug tests in most sports; to my knowledge, in all of the athletic commission drug testing here in California and with all the steroid positives of fighters and boxers, there is only one test, that of Johnnie Morton, that came in with a higher t/e ratio.
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