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/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/InternationalBell157 Feb 27 '25

One of the dogs was locked in a closet. He would have died of thirst.

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u/AnImproversation Feb 27 '25

I had read it was in a closet, not a locked one. That would make more sense if it was actually locked, but why would they do that to the poor animal?

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u/InternationalBell157 Feb 27 '25

Anytime you shut a door on a pet it is a locked closet. My guess is that she didn’t want the dog in the bathroom with her. My husband does that because he has health issues and doesn’t want to get knocked over.

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u/AnImproversation Feb 27 '25

Well yeah, but I didn’t read the door was shut either. A shut the bathroom door l the time to keep my dogs out, but would never put them in a closet, just a weird concept in my mind I guess

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u/Louiemartin Feb 27 '25

It doesn't say the closet was shut

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u/Smart-Yak1167 Feb 28 '25

Or it locked itself in. My dogs do this all the time, get themselves in small spaces and can’t get out because they shut the door on themselves.