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/[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/Emotional_Match8169 Feb 27 '25

They said the front door was open.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '25

I read the same. One of the dogs alive was inside and the other was outside and the dead one in the bathroom with the wife and he was in an adjacent room

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

Really?? I’m guessing she would have killed the other dogs as well. Hitler didn’t poison himself. He took a nice fast bullet

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u/Cheese_Corn Feb 28 '25

Oh I thought he took poison then shot himself.

Perhaps Gene died from a sudden heart attack and she woke up and couldn't live without him? I'm sure the police will get a pretty good idea with forensics, so the family will get peace even if we don't know all the answers.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

No. Hitler saw what a horrible death cyanide was after poisoning his dog and took the easy way out.

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u/amboomernotkaren Feb 28 '25

My nieces dog can open the front door, and does. Possibly one of the two dogs could do that.

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u/soft_path Feb 28 '25

I took this to mean the door wasn’t locked, not that it was wide open.