Solution to Wikipedia Jones and The Case of the Dead Wrestler

Wikipedia Jones knew that Chris Benoit and his family had been murdered because someone had anonymously revised Chris Benoit’s Wikipedia entry to reflect the death of his wife, Nancy Benoit, hours before the bodies were discovered by police.

Wikipedia looked at the history of Chris Benoit’s Wikipedia entry and saw that at 4:01am GMT, or one minute after midnight in Atlanta on June 25, 2007, someone had added that Benoit had missed a match that weekend “stemming from the death of his wife Nancy.” While Nancy Benoit was dead at that time, it would be 14½ hours before police would discover the bodies. Unless the anonymous editor writing from IP address 69.120.111.23 could foretell the future, he or she had to be connected to Nancy Benoit’s untimely demise. That could mean nothing but murder.

Wikipedia Jones quickly emailed webmasters at Wikipedia as well as the media. Some further digging told Wikipedia that the IP address from which the anonymous editor had posted belonged to an apartment complex 2¾ miles from World Wrestling Entertainment in Stamford, Connecticut.

Wikipedia smelled an elaborate conspiracy but, thanks to his detective work, the net was closing. This could be the case that would take him far away from his parents’ garage in Idaville. The more he discussed the facts with Sally, the more his certainty grew that he was onto something big. Thank goodness Sally was there, because being on a big case gave Wikipedia a boner.

Wikipedia became something of a celebrity during the next few days as concerned parties feverishly sought the mystery editor. It would be several days before the editor who added the entry to Chris Benoit’s Wikipedia entry confessed. While Wikipedia Jones found the confession itself somewhat anticlimactic, the days before the confession were anything but.

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