The chemical dynasty son who killed an Olympic wrestler on his own estate.
Due to documented mental illness and extreme paranoia, John du Pont shot and killed Olympic wrestling champion Dave Schultz in 1996 on his Foxcatcher Farm estate in Pennsylvania.
The heir to the DuPont chemical fortune had spent millions creating a wrestling training facility, yet his deteriorating psychological state led to increasingly erratic behavior including the belief that people were spying on him through his walls.
This industrial dynasty murder proved that inherited billions provided no protection against severe mental illness—where a chemical empire heir's paranoid delusions culminated in killing the very athlete he had been sponsoring.
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THE DUPONT MURDER HEIR
The chemical dynasty son who killed an Olympic wrestler on his own estate.
Due to documented mental illness and extreme paranoia, John du Pont shot and killed Olympic wrestling champion Dave Schultz in 1996 on his Foxcatcher Farm estate in Pennsylvania.
The heir to the DuPont chemical fortune had spent millions creating a wrestling training facility, yet his deteriorating psychological state led to increasingly erratic behavior including the belief that people were spying on him through his walls.
This industrial dynasty murder proved that inherited billions provided no protection against severe mental illness—where a chemical empire heir's paranoid delusions culminated in killing the very athlete he had been sponsoring.
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