{"id":700547,"date":"2010-03-25T06:05:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T10:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.74623"},"modified":"2010-03-24T17:24:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T21:24:29","slug":"blogger-irvin-muchnicks-foi-clash-with-the-stamford-police-regarding-death-of-wwes-chris-benoit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/700547","title":{"rendered":"Blogger Irvin Muchnick&#8217;s FOI Clash With The Stamford Police Regarding Death Of WWE&#8217;s Chris Benoit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Wrestling writer and blogger Irvin Muchnick is scheduled to be in Stamford today,&nbsp;promoting a book dealing with the World Wrestling Entertainment empire,&nbsp;former CEO Linda McMahon, and the death of one-time wrestler Chris Benoit. Benoit killed himself in 2007 after killing his wife and seven-year-old son.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Mushnick tangled with the Stamford police in a Freedom of Information case in the strange tale of a 19-year-old University of Connecticut student&nbsp;from Stamford who had changed Benoit&#8217;s Wikipedia entry before the bodies of his family members had been found.<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">The Stamford police interviews with the UConn student were videotaped, and Mushnick eventually obtained them.&nbsp;They are available below in three parts.<\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\"><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Part 1 at <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/wrestlingbabylon.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/28\/linda-mcmahon-chronicles-strange-tale-of-the-stamford-police-and-the-%E2%80%98benoit-wikipedia-hacker%E2%80%99-part-1\/\"><font face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#800080\" size=\"3\">http:\/\/wrestlingbabylon.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/28\/linda-mcmahon-chronicles-strange-tale-of-the-stamford-police-and-the-%E2%80%98benoit-wikipedia-hacker%E2%80%99-part-1\/<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Part 2 at <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/wrestlingbabylon.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/29\/linda-mcmahon-chronicles-strange-tale-of-the-stamford-police-and-the-%E2%80%98benoit-wikipedia-hacker%E2%80%99-part-2\/\"><font face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#800080\" size=\"3\">http:\/\/wrestlingbabylon.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/29\/linda-mcmahon-chronicles-strange-tale-of-the-stamford-police-and-the-%E2%80%98benoit-wikipedia-hacker%E2%80%99-part-2\/<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"3\">Part 3 at <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/wrestlingbabylon.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/31\/linda-mcmahon-chronicles-strange-tale-of-the-stamford-police-and-the-%E2%80%98benoit-wikipedia-hacker%E2%80%99-part-3\/\"><font face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#800080\" size=\"3\">http:\/\/wrestlingbabylon.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/31\/linda-mcmahon-chronicles-strange-tale-of-the-stamford-police-and-the-%E2%80%98benoit-wikipedia-hacker%E2%80%99-part-3\/<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrestling writer and blogger Irvin Muchnick is scheduled to be in Stamford today,&nbsp;promoting a book dealing with the World Wrestling Entertainment empire,&nbsp;former CEO Linda McMahon, and the death of one-time wrestler Chris Benoit. Benoit killed himself in 2007 after killing his wife and seven-year-old son. &nbsp; Mushnick tangled with the Stamford police in a Freedom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2522,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Wf9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}