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  2. Aug 30, 2023 · Heir to the vast du Pont family fortune, John du Pont murdered Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz at Foxcatcher Farm in Pennsylvania on January 26, 1996. When the 911 operator asked why du Pont had just shot his favorite coach, Dave Schultz's wife simply replied: "Because he’s insane!"

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › John_du_PontJohn du Pont - Wikipedia

    On February 25, 1997, he was convicted of murder in the third degree for the January 26, 1996, shooting of Dave Schultz, an Olympic champion freestyle wrestler living and working on du Pont's estate that was located in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.

  4. Nov 14, 2014 · So when Dave Schultz was murdered in cold blood by his athletic sponsor, the eccentric millionaire John du Pont, Mark’s entire world was turned upside down. “Losing Dave was like losing my...

  5. Feb 25, 2015 · Dave only actually went to Foxcatcher Farm after Mark had already left. They never lived there at the same time. In 1996, Dave said that he would leave the farm after the 96 Olympics and that made Du Pont start acting stranger and stranger and that's the main reason for the murder.

  6. Aug 24, 2022 · On January 26, 1996, Du Pont murdered Dave in cold blood. The film attempts to untangle the relationship between Du Pont and the Schultz brothers and offers an explanation for the slaying. While...

  7. Nov 13, 2014 · In researching the Foxcatcher true story, we learned that in real life, Mark Schultz left Foxcatcher Farm in 1988 and his brother Dave didn't arrive until 1989. The movie overlaps their stays to condense the story into a period of time from 1984 to 1988.

  8. Nov 17, 2014 · John du Pont, center, is taken from the Newtown Township Police Station in Pennsylvania to a waiting police car following his processing on Jan. 28, 1996, on charges that he shot and killed Olympic...