The anonymous user has posted an apology on Wikipedia and called the incident a huge coincidence. The person writes, "I had heard about Chris Benoit no showing Vengeance because of a family emergency, and I had heard rumors about why that was. I was reading rumors and speculation about this matter online, and one of them included that his wife may have passed away, and I did the wrong thing by posting it on wikipedia to spite there being no evidence."

"I posted my speculation on the situation at the time and I am deeply sorry about this, and I was just as shocked as everyone when I heard that this actually would happen in real life. It is one of those things that just turned into a huge coincidence. That night I found out that what I posted, ended up actually happening, a 1 in 10,000 chance of happening, or so I thought. I was beyond wrong for posting wrongful information, and I am sorry to everyone for this."

Wikinews is also reporting there was more than one edit done to the Benoit Wikipedia entry.   The first edit was made from an IP address in Connecticut and the second one came from Syndey, Australia. Both edits claimed that Benoit’s wife had passed away

Wikipedia Benoit Posting Mystery

Benoit’s Wikipedia entry had been updated early Monday to say that the wrestler had been absent from a match two days earlier because of the death of his wife.

A Wikipedia official said Thursday that the entry was made by someone using an Internet protocol address registered in Stamford, Connecticut, where the World Wrestling Entertainment has its headquarters.

The bodies were discovered in Benoit’s home in Atlanta and Wikipedia said they do not know the origin of the posting. Benoit’s page on Wikipedia was updated just after midnight Monday, around 14 hours before the bodies were found, according to authorities.

The original posting reads,"Chris Benoit was replaced by Johnny Nitro for the ECW Championship match at Vengeance, as Benoit was not there due to personal issues, stemming from the death of his wife Nancy."

Reporters alerted the Fayette County district attorney’s office of the Wikipedia posting Thursday, and they communicated the information to sheriff’s investigators who are looking into the matter.

On Benoit’s Wikipedia page there is a note that says editing of the entry by unregistered or newly registered users is disabled until July 8, 2007 due to vandalism.

 Here is an update to this story.