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John du Pont was a wealthy American who inherited the du Pont family fortune and became a convicted murderer in 1997. He was also a scientist, philatelist, and a sponsor of amateur sports, especially wrestling, at his Foxcatcher Farm estate.
Aug 30, 2023 · John du Pont, a wealthy heir and wrestling patron, shot and killed Dave Schultz, a former Olympic champion, on his Foxcatcher estate in 1996. Learn about the true story behind the film Foxcatcher and the motives behind du Pont's bizarre crime.
Aug 16, 2024 · John du Pont was a wealthy philanthropist who sponsored amateur wrestling and killed Olympic champion Dave Schultz in 1996. He was a former pentathlete, a naturalist, and a paranoid schizophrenic who died in prison.
- Pat Bauer
Apr 2, 2014 · Murder, Arrest and Will Controversy. Long known for his eccentricities, du Pont began displaying increasingly alarming behavior after the death of his mother. He spoke of seeing ghosts in the...
Mar 31, 2014 · John du Pont shot Olympic wrestler David Schultz dead in the driveway of the family’s mansion in 1996. Two years later, the decomposing body of a Las Vegas prostitute was found stuffed...
- Kia Makarechi
Nov 17, 2014 · John E. du Pont was a wealthy heir who killed Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz in 1996. Learn about his troubled childhood, his obsession with wrestling, and his undiagnosed mental illness that led to the tragic crime.
Dec 10, 2010 · John E. du Pont, an heir to the du Pont chemical fortune whose benevolent support of Olympic athletes deteriorated into delusion and ended in the shooting death of a champion wrestler,...
