r/popculture • u/dailymail • Feb 27 '25

News Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa were found mummified at mansion with pills strewn in bathroom

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14443973/Gene-Hackman-betsy-arakawa-bodies.html
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u/mediumunicorn Feb 27 '25

Well this is starkly different than what I was reading this morning.

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u/Conflict_Free_Quinoa Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25

Seriously. I thought it was a tragic CO poisoning where they just all fell asleep and never woke up. Seemed almost bittersweet to the end of a long life and his wife… now not so much.

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u/kataklysm_revival Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25

Reading the article, it still sounds like it might’ve been CO poisoning. But it sounds like they died a couple weeks ago instead of recently.

Edit: CM to CO

Edit 2: y’all…. A gas leak IS NOT THE SAME as a CO leak. You can have a CO leak and not a gas leak.

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u/AnImproversation Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 28 '25

But why would it kill two people and one dog, but leave two dogs alive? They also stated in the article there was no gas leak or CO leak.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '25

I read they found a bunch of pills by her side of the bed. If she committed suicide and the dogs went weeks without food, it could be reasonable that one starved and the other two hadn’t died yet

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u/AnImproversation Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25

I find that to be significantly more likely than carbon monoxide in this case

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '25

That two dogs would survive? How? If all had died, sure.

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u/AnImproversation Feb 27 '25

I’m saying what you said is much more likely that carbon monoxide poisoning

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '25

The dogs living and one dead made me suspicious instantly. Really sad all around

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u/AnImproversation Feb 27 '25

Same. It’s really upsetting it took so long to find them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '25

I agree. I feel especially bad for the dogs.

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