Back in the early 90s, shortly after Kerry Von Eric committed suicide, A Current Affair did an expose' or a documentary on the Von Eric family called The Curse Of The Iron Claw. It was very sad, considering how much tragedy has befallen that particular family over the years. First one of the boys dies as an infant on Christmas morning (electrocuted). Then David Von Eric dies in Japan of an intestinal infection (although there is speculation that it was actually a drug overdose). Then another brother falls gravely ill after achieving success in the ring and commits suicide by taking an overdose of pain killers. Then the runt of the family, who always wanted to join his father and brothers in the family business but couldn't due to his size and severe athsma, commits suicide with a pistol. Then Kerry, who had achieved the greatest success out of all of his brothers (WWE Intercontinental Champion, NWA World Champion, etc), begins having personal problems. His wife was leaving him. He was struggling with addictions to pain killers and other drugs. He was in constant pain from wrestling with a prosthetic foot (he had lost his right foot in a motorcycle accident back in the 80s and didn't tell anybody). Finally he couldn't take it anymore and he took his own life as well.
My mom and I watched this together and we both bawled our eyes out. I had recorded it on video and watched it several times since then. Willie Nelson's song, Heaven Needed A Champion, which he wrote in honor of David Von Eric, always choked me up. Unfortunately I made the mistake of loaning that tape to a friend of mine, who then lost it.
But if there's one story that'll make you cry, that'll be it for sure.
