Corinne Rey-Bellet

Corinne Rey-Bellet (2 August 1972 – 30 April 2006) was a Swiss alpine skier. Rey-Bellet shared a World Championship silver medal in the downhill event in St. Moritz in 2003 (in a tie with Alexandra Meissnitzer) and won a total of five World Cup races. Her "double win" (two race wins on the same day) at St. Anton am Arlberg on 16 January 1999 is the only double win in the women's Alpine World Cup. She retired in 2003 due to a series of injuries sustained to her right knee. On 30 April 2006, 10 days after separating from her husband, he shot her dead.

Career
Rey Bellet was born 2 August 1972 in Les Crosets.

She shared a World Championship silver medal in the downhill event in St. Moritz in 2003 (in a tie with Alexandra Meissnitzer) and won a total of five World Cup races. Her "double win" (two race wins on the same day) at St. Anton am Arlberg on 16 January 1999 is the only double win in the women's Alpine World Cup. She retired in 2003 due to a series of injuries sustained to her right knee.

Death
Rey-Bellet was shot and killed in her parents' home in the Swiss village of Les Crosets, Canton of Valais on Sunday, 30 April 2006 by her husband Gerold Stadler. She was three months pregnant. Her brother Alain, who was to have been married the following Friday, was also killed, and her mother Verena was severely injured. Corinne and Stadler's two-year-old son, home at the time of the attack, was left unharmed.

A warrant was issued for the arrest of her husband. The couple had separated approximately 10 days before the murders took place. His body was recovered in a forest on 3 May 2006, Stadler having killed himself roughly 36 hours before. Stadler – a 34-year-old private banker with Credit Suisse and a captain in the Swiss Armed Forces – used his service pistol, which all Swiss men under the age of 42 are issued, in the shooting. Rey-Bellet's parents expressed their forgiveness of Stadler in his obituary.