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May 20, 2009Author Irvin Muchnick’s appeal of the refusal of the Stamford Police Department to release the video of the June 2007 interrogation of Matthew Greenberg, who had made an unauthorized edit of the Wikipedia page for wrestler Chris Benoit, has been officially docketed by the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission.
Benoit Author Muchnick’s Dispute with Stamford Police Is on Connecticut FOI Commission Docket
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Author Irvin Muchnick’s appeal of the refusal of the Stamford Police Department to release the video of the June 2007 interrogation of Matthew Greenberg, who had made an unauthorized edit of the Wikipedia page for wrestler Chris Benoit, has been officially docketed by the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission.
Irvin Muchnick v. Chief, Police Department, City of Stamford; and Police Department, City of Stamford is listed as Docket #FIC 2008-493. The commission has assigned an ombudsman, Tracie C. Brown, to attempt to mediate the dispute.
Muchnick, author of Wrestling Babylon: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal, is working on a book about Benoit’s murder of his wife and son, and suicide, entitled Chris and Nancy: The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling’s Cocktail of Death (ECW Press, 2009).
Fourteen hours before the Benoit family’s bodies were discovered on June 25, 2007, Greenberg posted an edit at Wikipedia stating that Nancy Benoit was dead. The police interviewed Greenberg on videotape four days later.
For full coverage, see the blog WRESTLING BABYLON News, http://muchnick.net/babylon.