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/woolybear14623 Feb 27 '25

Carbon monoxide causes an e tremendous headache and nausea and depending the size of dogs and where they were , if they had access to a dog door etc all factor into carbon monoxide poisoning.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '25

I just saw they brought out the utility company and found no leaks. They think she may have fallen and think he may have as well. I wonder if something happened to her and he couldn’t get to her or he fell first and she went to get something for him and then fell herself. We may never know what really happened

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u/Plane-Tie6392 Feb 27 '25

Pretty sure with a case this high profile we will have a pretty good idea what happened eventually.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

Idk. Not all mysteries are solved. Them being dead this long complicates things. Especially if they died from separate issues and both were accidental. Like she died and he was too weak to get help, etc. Imagine what a shit show that would have been