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What Chavo Guerrero told the authorities about his Saturday, June 23, 2007, conversations with Chris Benoit supports the detailed timeline of events published in the New York Daily News. It also raises questions about the undocumented assertion by WWE that company executives arranged a Sunday morning flight for Benoit from Atlanta to Houston. Last, it sets off the bullshit meter on WWE’s contention that higher-ups had no awareness of Benoit’s final text messages until 12:30 p.m. Monday, nearly a day and a half (and a Benoit no-show at the Houston pay-per-view show) later. What Scott James told the authorities leads to identical conclusions.

So even though Chavo Guerrero has chosen not to return my messages, his statements to Detective Ethon Harper add up to an endorsement of the Daily News timeline. Chavo is in a terribly awkward position, but even in silence he gives us one more reason to wonder just what that WWE timeline was all about.

Back on June 25, 2007, Michael Benoit couldn’t have cared less about the exact timelines for the determination that his son, the famous pro wrestler Chris Benoit, had murdered his wife Nancy and their 7-year-old son Daniel before killing himself, all over the course of a weekend at their gated mansion outside Atlanta, Georgia.

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Below is my email exchange with Gary Davis, vice president of corporate communications for World Wrestling Entertainment.

“I run security for World Wrestling,” Dennis Fagan says at the beginning of the recording of his call to Fayette County 911 on June 25, 2007 – the call that prompted the discovery of the dead bodies of Chris, Nancy, and Daniel Benoit.

On Monday I talked with Detective Ethon Harper of the Fayette County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office.

Three days ago World Wrestling Entertainment’s vice president of corporate communications, Gary Davis, responded to my query about WWE security chief Dennis Fagan’s call to 911 for a welfare check on Chris Benoit’s home.

Dear Scott and Chavo: I am following up on voice messages left at what I believe are your respective cell phone numbers.