Wrongful Death Attorneys

The doctor to professional wrestlers. The doctor charged by the federal government with overprescribing drugs.

The name clicked with Tyrone Police Det. Dean Johnson as he heard and read the news about the grisly deaths in June of professional wrestler Chris Benoit and his wife and young son in neighboring Peachtree City, another suburb about 45 minutes south of Atlanta.

When it did, Johnson flashed back to a 911 call from 16 months earlier, one that rang in to the Tyrone Police Department late in the morning on Feb. 16, 2006.

In the ring, Chris Benoit earned in excess of $1 million a year. Here, he’s handlingTriple H.
That call led Johnson to a house trailer in town, where he found Michael Durham, a former pro wrestler known in the ring as Johnny Grunge, lying on his side and clogging the narrow hallway. Durham, 349 pounds globbed onto a 6-foot frame, was partially clothed in dark velour pants with an elastic waistband and a white sock on his left foot. His arms and shoulders were covered with tattoos.

He was 40 years old, and he was dead.

The autopsy report attributed Durham’s death to heart disease and obesity, and cited a significant condition of “acute toxicity of carisoprodol and hydrocodone” — a potent mix of muscle relaxants and narcotic painkillers.

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