Last month marked the 19th anniversary of the murder of American former gold medal-winning wrestler Dave Schultz by multi-millionaire John Eleuthère du Pont on the latter's Foxcatcher Farm.
It is a story that has been dramatised in the film Foxcatcher, starring Mark Ruffalo, Channing Tatum and Steve Carell, which has received five nominations for the upcoming Oscars.
But there is also a book by one of the main protagonists called Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold by Mark Schultz, Dave's younger brother and an Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler, who also involved with the Foxcatcher wrestling facility at one time.
Tonight on Off The Ball, we heard Mark's story as he joined us to talk about the book and the real-life events.
"I suppose it is a cathartic type experience to get it all out there on paper and see it all on film, and know that somebody found my life interesting. It was a very tough life, very painful, very hard and there's a lot of things I would've done differently," he said, before highlighting the differences between his book and the movie.
"The book is very different from the movie. I would go as far as to say that the movie is not based on the book. It's very, very different. The book is my entire autobiography and the movie is a very small slice of my life - the darkest, worst part of my life. I'm not sure why the director chose to focus on that part of my life."
The dark part he was referring to was the shooting dead of Dave by Du Pont, and Schultz explained how he ended up working at the facility.
"It's really sad that the only guy, group, organisation or club that was willing to pay its wrestlers to just compete was Team Foxcatcher. We were desperate.
"When I went to Foxcatcher - a lot people don't know this - I actually didn't take a job to work at Foxcatcher. I took a job to work at Villanova University. Joining Team Foxcatcher was simply a side deal as part of the deal for coaching at Villanova. Du Pont, he didn't say he wasn't going to have anything to do with the Villanova program and I believed him," he said, going on to explain how Du Pont, who died in prison just over four years ago, would begin to come round every day under the influence of drugs and drink.
"I couldn't do my job and I started to wonder ... why did you bring me here? John was very manipulative" Schultz recalled, adding that he could "visualise" his brother Dave getting under Du Pont's skin.
"I think with Du Pont, it made Du Pont angry and want to kill him," he said, going on to speak about the sibling rivalry between himself and Dave and contrasting the negative way American wrestlers were treated with their Russian counterparts.
But he also opened up about his emotions about the moment he learnt that his brother had been murdered by Du Pont.
"I didn't think he was capable of murder because I didn't think he was crazy or insane. I thought he was pretty smart and I still think he knew exactly what he was doing."
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