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Nov 17, 2014 · On Jan. 26, 1996, John Eluthère du Pont shot and killed Olympic gold wrestler Dave Schultz on du Pont’s Foxcatcher estate in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. Schultz, along with other wrestlers,...
- John Du Pont, Heir to A Vast Fortune
- Dave Schultz Takes The Helm of Team Foxcatcher
- John Du Pont’s Descent Into Madness
- The Shocking Murder of Dave Schultz
- John Du Pont Faces Justice, Then Foxcatcher Reopens Old Wounds
Born Nov. 22, 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, John E. du Pont was American royalty as a member of the family behind the du Pont chemical company. His family raised thoroughbred horses on their 800-acre farm in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, where a young du Pont wandered the grounds obsessing over birds and wildlife — a small refuge from an isol...
Dave Schultz was du Pont’s second choice for the face of Team Foxcatcher. At first, he’d hired Dave’s brother Mark, another Olympic gold medalist in his own right, to train his Foxcatcher Team. It didn’t take Mark long, though, before he became frustrated with the way du Pont treated him, like a toy he’d bought with a $70,000 salary. “We were his n...
Dave Schultz had turned out to be a godsend for Foxcatcher Farm. Most importantly, he was the only person who could handle John du Pont. After John du Pont lost his mother in 1988, his sanity started to crumble. Life at Foxcatcher Farm became a living hell. du Pont would insist that he could see Disney characters hiding on his property or trees upr...
According to one Dave’s friends, Mike Gostigian, Dave was the only person who could really handle John du Pont: “Dave was the person closest to John. He was a calming influence, a confidant. But Dave wasn’t a yes man. If John said he saw things coming out of the walls, Dave said nothing was coming out of the walls. I think John might have harbored ...
The victims got justice – but at the terrible cost of ensuing publicity. Du Pont’s lawyer tried to blame the whole thing on Patrick Goodale. She accused him of milking du Pont for his money and feeding his paranoid schizophrenia until he turned into a killer, dragging his name through the mud while the world watched from their living rooms. Dave’s ...
Jul 10, 2008 · ON JAN. 26, 1996, John du Pont shot and killed 36-year-old Dave Schultz, a gold medal winner for the United States at the 1984 Olympics and an international wrestling folk hero. At the time, he was training for one last comeback at that Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
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.
Nov 14, 2023 · The first day of a two-day sentencing for Jeremy Goodale, 18, who killed a Fairfield High Spanish teacher in 2021, revealed more details of her brutal beating with a baseball bat.
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Jan 4, 2015 · Why did multimillionaire sports benefactor John du Pont kill his top athlete? Jacqui Goddard tells the real story of new film Foxcatcher.
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Aug 19, 2022 · When Pastor John Goodale turned age 60, he realized he wanted to make the most of his remaining years of life. In this broadcast, he recalls how many leaders in the Bible started out strong in their faith but failed to stay true to God by the end of their lives (eg. the kings of Israel, King Solomon, King David, etc.).
