The following chronology of Monday, June 25, 2007 — uncovered by drilling deeper into the final phone calls to Chris Benoit than the sheriff’s report chose to do — may prove crucial:
An English translation of Sunday’s report on deaths in pro wrestling, on L’Effet Papillon on France’s Canal +, can be viewed at http://muchnick.net/FrenchScript.pdf. Thanks to Sybilla Suda for the translation.
A little more on our previous posts (here, here, and here) about calls to Chris Benoit’s cell phone that the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office log mysteriously dropped:
The 52-page case summary has not a single reference to Malenko. The report does, however, go on at length about the Aqua Pro pool-cleaning service and about Pastor George Dillard’s interpretation of why Chris looked up a Wikipedia reference to the First Book of Kings, Chapter 17.
In the last days, NBC has reversed field on its plan to do a story for the Dateline investigative series pegged to the first anniversary of the Benoit double murder-suicide.
As usual, the media reports out of Atlanta about the U.S. Attorney’s “superseding” indictment of Dr. Phil Astin — wow, 175 new counts! — misses the point.