Authorities say prescription steroids were found in the home of pro wrestler Chris Benoit and his slain wife and son were found with Bibles placed beside their bodies.

Fayette County District Attorney Scott Ballard said at a news conference Tuesday that Benoit strangled his wife in the family’s office and asphyxiated his son in his bed before hanging himself in the basement of their home, using weights attached to a pulley.

Sheriff’s Lt. Tommy Pope says autopsy results reveal the wife was killed Friday and the son was likely killed the next day.

Pope said investigators also believe Benoit killed himself hours after the son was killed Saturday or Sunday morning.

He said a Bible was placed by the bodies of each victim.

Chris’ wife was bound by her feet and wrists and blood was found near her head, her body was wrapped in a towel.

The seven-year-old boy was found killed in his bed. Autopsy reults show mother and son died of asphyxiation.

The bodies were found in three separate rooms of the house, off a gravel road about two miles from the White Water Country Club.

Nancy Benoit filed for a divorce in May 2003, saying their three-year union was irrevocably broken and alleging “cruel treatment.”

But she later dropped the complaint, as well as a request for a restraining order in which she charged that Benoit had threatened her and had broken furniture in their home.

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