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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.
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Aug 30, 2023 · On Jan. 26, 1996, Dave Schultz, one of America’s most accomplished Olympic wrestlers, was murdered in cold blood by John du Pont on his Pennsylvania estate, the heir to one of America’s greatest fortunes.
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, died...
Apr 2, 2014 · On January 26, 1996, du Pont shot and killed wrestler Dave Schultz, a 1984 Olympic gold medalist who was training for a comeback at the 1996 Atlanta games. After a tense two-day standoff at...
Feb 5, 1996 · In a civil suit filed in 1985, his former wife Gale Wenk du Pont charged that John had threatened her with a knife and gun and tried to push her out of his moving car.
John du Pont, American philanthropist who supported and ran a training facility for amateur freestyle wrestling and who shot and killed freestyle wrestler Dave Schultz, an Olympic gold medalist, in January 1996. Du Pont was convicted though found to be mentally ill, and he died while in prison.
May 14, 1997 · John E. du Pont, the mentally disturbed heir to a chemical fortune, received a 13- to 30-year sentence today for the murder of David Schultz, an Olympic wrestler who lived at Mr. du Pont's...
