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Showing posts with label wrestler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wrestler. Show all posts

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Wrestler guilty of housing sex slaves

A federal jury in Atlanta has found a former pro wrestler guilty in a prostitution and sex trafficking case. Harrison "Hardbody" Norris is charged with keeping eight women as sex slaves at his two homes in Cartersville, northwest of Atlanta. Norris claimed the women willingly lived at the homes because they wanted to train as pro wrestlers. He faces life in prison.

Monday, October 8, 2007

Government says wreslter had illegal steroid prescriptions

Pro wrestler Chris Benoit got illegal steroids prescriptions before he killed his wife, son and himself, according to federal prosecutors. Benoit killed his family in June at their suburban Atlanta home. Now the government is formulating a case against Benoit’s personal doctor, Phil Astin. Prosecutors say Aston prescribed Benoit amounts of testosterone that well-exceeded normal dosages.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Brain damage may have led to killings

Doctors say brain damage may have led former pro wrestler Chris Benoit to kill his wife, son and himself at their suburban Atlanta home in June. Specialists with the Sports Legacy Institute examined Benoit’s brain matter and say they found damage from multiple concussions. Another brain expert says while the brain injury Benoit suffered can cause depression and irrational behavior, there’s no way to know if that’s why he did it. Other tests show Benoit had roughly 10 times the normal level of testosterone in his system when he died.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Wrestler was on steroids

Georgia's top medical examiner says the pro wrestler who killed his wife, son and then himself last month had steroids in his system. But Dr. Kris Sperry said the results do not show whether steroids led Chris Benoit to the killings at the family’s suburban Atlanta home. Sperry says 7-year-old Daniel Benoit was sedated when he was killed.

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