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In a comment on his update today at the Wrestling Observer <\/em>website, Dave Meltzer pulls off the daily double of being both cryptic and weak.<\/p>\n

“There is … an article [at SLAM!] by Irv Muchnick on the Chris Benoit case,” Meltzer writes. “He was critical of the police department and absence of certain records, although at the same time, I don’t think there is anything in any evidence that will explain what happened.”<\/p>\n

Meltzer is the dean of wrestling journalists and all that. Still, readers might want to take a gander at the piece at http:\/\/slam.canoe.ca\/Slam\/Wrestling\/GuestColumn\/2008\/05\/04\/5467876.html<\/a> and decide for themselves whether “absence of certain records” might be a tad passive for a description of more than a day’s worth of calls that seem to have been willfully wiped off the log of Chris Benoit’s cell phone activity, and of the sheriff’s report’s failure to produce primary-source cell voicemail.<\/p>\n

As I’ve told Meltzer directly, his item also carries the misleading implication that I think these serious investigative gaps could “explain” the double homicide\/suicide. Like everything I’ve written about the case, my SLAM! article clearly states that these questions pertain to the surrounding narrative, not to the crime itself.<\/p>\n

Is Meltzer trying to say that as long as Chris killed Nancy, Daniel, and himself, it doesn’t matter what WWE, a publicly traded company, might have said or done between Saturday afternoon and Monday afternoon?<\/p>\n

If so, I disagree.<\/p>\n

Irv Muchnick<\/em><\/div>\n

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