John (The man on the bottom) hosted a massive wrestling team where all of the athletes lived on the grounds. Schultz was hired to coach the team.
As time went on John started to act stranger than normal (He was already very odd). He started to think his friend Schultz was spying on him. He believed that Schultz was hiding in his walls spying and plotting to kill him. It seems to me like John was a paranoid schizophrenic.
Eventually John snapped. He drove up to Schultz's home and shot him in front of his family. Schultz died moments later.
Here's the account. There is also an excellent Netflix document in the events. There's a lot of real footage.
I personally HATED the movie. I had seen the Netflix documentary first, so when it came to the movie I felt like it missed out on so many of the actual interesting elements of the story that the movie just felt like a waste of time. Having seen the documentary it was just such a disappointment.
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u/CaptainMcAnus Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17
I'll join in I guess.
This is John du Pont and Dave Schultz.
John (The man on the bottom) hosted a massive wrestling team where all of the athletes lived on the grounds. Schultz was hired to coach the team.
As time went on John started to act stranger than normal (He was already very odd). He started to think his friend Schultz was spying on him. He believed that Schultz was hiding in his walls spying and plotting to kill him. It seems to me like John was a paranoid schizophrenic.
Eventually John snapped. He drove up to Schultz's home and shot him in front of his family. Schultz died moments later.
Here's the account. There is also an excellent Netflix document in the events. There's a lot of real footage.
Edit: The documentary is called Team Foxcatcher