Corinne Rey-Bellet

Personal life Rey-Bellet underwent kinesiology treatments (an alternative medicine) to help her regain movement in her knee following her 1996 injury, which she believed helped her recovery. While competing, she used alternative medicine treatments, including acupuncture and homeopathy, to treat allergies, to the chagrin of her skiing team's doctors. They were still engaged in January 2001. By October 2001, Stadler asked to marry her shortly after they met.

Murder

In mid-April 2006, the separation of Rey-Bellet and Stadler was officiated before a St. Gallen lawyer.

On 30 April, Stadler brought their son home to Les Crosets and put him to bed upstairs. Afterwards, Stadler and Rey-Bellet went downstairs at 9:30 and had a conversation about their separation. According to Rey-Bellet's mother, he took his gun out from under a towel and opened fire without saying anything. Her mother was left disabled without use of her arm, having been shot five times. Their son was left unharmed. Search dogs were deployed, as was a military helicopter using thermal imaging. The media presented it as a crime of passion or an act of madness, in contradiction to the processes that typically lead to family murders. The case also influenced the debate on changing Swiss gun laws, with a popular initiative for reform forming in the aftermath, particularly spearheaded by the women's magazine Annabelle. The magazine launched a petition, which gained 17,400 signatures, for the removal of military weapons from homes. Switzerland was then noted to have a high rate of family murders, with a contemporary study putting 58% of all murders as family-related, compared to 29% for the Netherlands. At the time, Switzerland had a very high rate of suicide amongst young males, and more familicides than the United States. The vast majority of Switzerland's soldiers did not keep their ammunition at home prior to this change, with only a few thousand doing so. An additional change was instituted, with soldiers of the army also able to keep their weapons at a central register, instead of guns being mandatory to keep at home. This law change was disputed by anti-gun activists, who argued it was ineffective as it only applied to soldiers, not civilian gun owners. A previous gun debate had resulted from the 2001 Zug massacre, in which 14 people were murdered. Following both the Zug massacre and Rey-Bellet and her brother's murders, in 2011 a referendum was held on instituting stricter firearms laws, which would have entirely banned military weapons from private homes. It failed after it was voted against by 56% of the population.

Her son, orphaned in the shootings, was placed with a related foster family by the authorities of St. Gallen. This followed several high-profile custody controversies between the families on both sides, and following the placement several visitation controversies resulted.

Fifteen years after her murder, the Swiss government honored Rey-Bellet as part of the Hommage 2021 project, which honors women significant to the history of Switzerland. It was created in response to the 50th anniversary of the achievement of women's suffrage in Switzerland. They described her as, in addition to being a champion, "one of too many women victims of domestic violence and femicide in Switzerland. She embodies both female success and the worst injustices suffered by women." As part of the project, a portrait of Rey-Bellet was to be projected onto the exterior of the Berner Kantonalbank and onto the Swiss National Bank in August 2021.