Web Entry About Wrestler Was Altered Before Bodies Were Found

ATLANTA, June 28 -- Investigators are looking into who altered pro wrestler Chris Benoit's Wikipedia entry to mention his wife's death hours before authorities discovered the bodies of the couple and their 7-year-old son.

Benoit's Wikipedia entry was altered early Monday to say that the wrestler had missed a match two days earlier because of his wife's death.

A Wikipedia official, Cary Bass, said Thursday that the entry was made by someone using an Internet protocol address registered in Stamford, Conn., where World Wrestling Entertainment is based.

An IP address, a unique series of numbers carried by every machine connected to the Internet, does not necessarily have to be broadcast from where it is registered. The bodies were found in Benoit's home in suburban Atlanta on Monday, and it is not known where the posting was sent from, Bass said.

Benoit strangled his wife and mentally retarded son, placing Bibles next to their bodies, before hanging himself on the cable of a weight machine in his home, authorities said. No motive was offered for the killings.

Federal drug agents also said they had raided the west Georgia office of a doctor who prescribed testosterone to Benoit.

The raid at Phil Astin's office in Carrollton, in west Georgia, began Wednesday night and concluded early Thursday morning, said agent Chuvalo Truesdell, a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration in Atlanta.

Truesdell said that records and other items were being sought, but he said he could not be more specific. No arrests were made.

Investigators were looking for Benoit's medical records to see if he had been prescribed steroids and, if so, whether that prescription was appropriate, said a law enforcement official speaking on the condition of anonymity because records in the case remain sealed.

Astin did not return calls to his cellphone.

Benoit had been under the care of Astin for treatment of low testosterone levels. Astin said Wednesday that the condition probably originated from previous steroid use.