Authorities Reveal Contents Of Benoit’s Text Messages

District Attorney Scott Ballard said that two text messages caused authorities to investigate the house. In one, Benoit told somebody he knew that his wife and son were sick. “Of course, they were dead,” Ballard told ESPN.com.

In a second message to a neighbor, Benoit said that the door of the house was open and the pets were outside. “And our assumption is that that was an effort to try and get somebody to come find the bodies after the suicide,” Ballard said.