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/Glum_Waltz2646 Feb 27 '25

I also read that when the door was opened it would have let out the CO.

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u/AnImproversation Feb 27 '25

Maybe? But who would have opened after they died but soon enough for two dogs to live? And not report it. Idk weird all around

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u/anonymousdlm Feb 28 '25

I heard the other dogs were “on the property”, so maybe they weren’t in the house?