Bob Holly offered his personal account of the Chris Benoit tragedy during a 2009 RF Video / Title Match Wrestling interview, revealing that he believes he was likely the last person Chris Benoit spoke to before the murders.
Holly recalled that Benoit called him around 11:30 a.m. on the day Nancy Benoit was killed, a conversation that seemed completely normal at the time. Holly said Benoit expected him to visit that week so they could go out to eat together. When Holly didn’t show up, Benoit questioned him about it, telling him, “I was waiting for you to call me. We were going to go get something to eat.” Holly said the exchange was casual, adding, “He sounded fine on the phone.”
During that same conversation, Holly brought up Benoit’s relationship with Nancy Benoit, knowing the two had been having problems. What Benoit said next would later haunt him:
“I said, ‘How are you and Nancy getting along?’ because I knew they weren’t getting along that well. He said, ‘She’s acting like Hitler.’ I just kind of laughed it off a little bit because the way he said it was kind of comical in a sense. Nothing comical about what happened, don’t get me wrong. No disrespect to Nancy or anything.”
After the tragedy, that comment took on a far darker meaning, especially given Holly’s belief about what happened next. “I guess he went home and killed Nancy,” Holly said. “I think I was the last person he talked to before he killed her.”
Holly admitted the realization weighed heavily on him and led to feelings of guilt that lingered for some time. He said he repeatedly wondered whether simply showing up that week could have changed everything.
“It bothered me a little bit because I felt like, you know, you never know if I’d have gone up there that Wednesday and ate with him, it might have changed everything,” Holly explained.
Holly speculated that his presence might have disrupted whatever tension was building inside the house. “It could have changed the events that took place, and maybe they wouldn’t have gotten in a fight that day, or if I’d have gone there and hung out with him. I don’t know.”
He acknowledged that the guilt stayed with him until he eventually came to terms with it. “It bothered me for a little while that I should have gone and seen him because then maybe it wouldn’t have happened. But then I just had to realize things happen.”
Despite the shocking nature of the murders, Holly rejected the idea that Benoit showed obvious warning signs beforehand. When asked whether Benoit had exhibited paranoia or odd behavior leading up to the tragedy, Holly was firm in his response. “No,” he said, explaining that they traveled together not long before everything happened. “He seemed like just normal Chris. Quiet, laid-back, polite to everybody.” Holly’s account stands in contrast to later narratives suggesting Benoit was visibly unstable in the days before the murders.
Holly also strongly pushed back against claims that steroids or drugs were to blame, arguing that outsiders were too quick to assign causes without understanding the reality of Benoit’s home life. “People blame it on a lot of stuff, but nobody knows what was going on between Nancy and Chris.” He dismissed substance-related explanations outright, stating, “You can’t blame it on steroids, you can’t blame it on drugs. You can’t blame it on anything because nobody knows what was going on in that household.”
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