He attended and played football at Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota),[2] where he was coached by Jim Christopherson.
Bennett and his wife Carol were found shot to death at their Long Prairie, Minnesota, home on August 21, 2019.
On August 23, the couple's son, 22-year-old Dylan Bennett, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder, without premeditation, in connection with the killings.
He is believed to have taken his mother's car and traveled to Columbus, Ohio, from where he boarded a flight to Cancun, Mexico.
Barry had told the Todd County Sheriff's Office in December 2018 that Dylan had expressed thoughts about killing his parents while being treated at a mental health facility.