Word: schultze
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JOHN E. DU PONT AWAITED A PRETRIAL HEARING IN THE murder of Olympic wrestling champion Dave Schultz, Team Foxcatcher, the elite squad of wrestlers the millionaire supported on his Pennsylvania estate, had to balance their mourning with concerns about the future. Not only is Schultz, their friend and team leader, dead, but their patron is in jail--just as they are preparing to qualify for the Atlanta Olympics...
According to police, Du Pont shot Schultz three times with a .38-cal. revolver during an argument outside Schultz's home on the Foxcatcher property. He then holed up in his gun-filled mansion (modeled after James Madison's Montpelier) about a mile away. Because Du Pont never bothered to restore telephone service after a fire damaged his home in October, police first established contact by cellular phone, then got the phone company to repair the line in the middle of the night...
...Schultz, who lived with his wife and two school-age children, coached Du Pont's Team Foxcatcher wrestlers and had been intent on making an Olympic comeback. Schultz won the 1984 Olympic freestyle gold medal in his 163-lb. weight class. He was ranked No. 1 in the U.S. in his weight class and seemed assured of a spot on the U.S. team in Atlanta this summer. Acquaintances had seen few signs of trouble between Schultz and Du Pont before the shooting. "Dave Schultz was John's best friend," says Pauline Gostigian, a neighbor who spoke to Schultz hours before...
Chaid says that in 1987 he, Metzger and Schultz actually helped Du Pont dry out, "staying with him 24 hours a day, in shifts." But Du Pont eventually lapsed into old habits, and last fall his behavior became increasingly bizarre. On Oct. 12, 1995, without warning or provocation, Du Pont cornered Chaid in the weight room, pointed a machine gun at his chest and said, "I want you off this f--- farm...
...many in the wrestling world were aware of the unstable nature of Du Pont, who had as many as 90 young athletes in his charge at one time, is not clear. Stan Abel, Schultz's former coach at the University of Oklahoma, claims he had tried to warn Schultz away from Foxcatcher but won't say why. Now Abel says simply, "I wish he'd taken my advice...