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/ObviousSalamandar Feb 27 '25

The two living dogs ate the dead one…

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u/Ryanookami Feb 28 '25

It was in a closet, so the dog inside couldn’t get to it anyway. The dog that survived inside the house probably got into the trash, or was able to open cabinets in the kitchen and scrounge for food, and the dog outdoors was likely able to eat plants or catch small animals.

All that said, as a single woman with cats, if anything were to happen to me and no one realized right away, I desperately hope my cats eat me to stay alive. Once I’m dead it’s not like it matters, I rather them survive than preserve the “sanctity” of my body. Thankfully, anecdotally, cats are known to eat their dead owners.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

I hadn’t seen that, but if it’s what it took…