I became aware of the death of , his wife & son due to fan friends on LJ, with the death announcement quickly becomeing a statement of Murder-Suicide.
Today I note the followign twist to the tale that involves Wikipedia:
Wikipedia notes death of Benoit's wife before body found
Investigators are looking into who altered pro wrestler Chris Benoit's Wikipedia entry to mention his wife's death hours before authorities discovered the bodies of the couple and their 7-year-old son.
Benoit's page on Wikipedia, a reference site that allows users to add and edit information, was updated at 12:01 a.m. Monday, about 14 hours before authorities say the bodies were found. The reason he missed a match Saturday night was "stemming from the death of his wife Nancy," it said.
Oooookay!
Firstly, this occured before anyone was supposed to know (unless this is a timestamp screw up) and secondly, were this the case....
Would your first instinct be to update Wikipedia?
On the other hand, one of the implications is that Chris Benoit himself may have updated the page:
An IP address, a unique series of numbers carried by every machine connected to the Internet, does not necessarily have to be broadcast from where it is registered.
..messages from Chris Benoit's cell phone were being sent to co-workers a few hours after the Wikipedia posting.
WWE employees are given WWE e-mail addresses, McDevitt said, though he did not know whether Chris Benoit had one.
"I have no idea who posted this," McDevitt said. "It's at least possible Chris may have sent some other text message to someone that we're unaware of. We don't know if he did. The phone is in the possession of authorities."
So, I often apparently post from somewhere in the US, where my work IP portal is despite being based in the UK. So you would THINK I was in the US when I was at work, but somewhere in the UK (again, not my home town but the home town of our ISP) when at home.
*sigh* Either way, whoever he was, it is a sad end to any life.
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