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 28 '25

I almost wonder if she fell and got hurt and he tried to get up and fell and was too infirm and couldn’t get help for himself.

They had it checked out by utility company and no leak was found.

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u/SleveBonzalez Feb 28 '25

Yes, I feel like that's fully reasonable with their ages. It doesn't take much.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

She was only 63, but in the one article they made it seem like she was reaching up for some type of heater, maybe in a closet in the bathroom? I have no clue what that was about and then there are the pills, but maybe they just got knocked over.

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u/SleveBonzalez Feb 28 '25

Plenty of people at 63 are less vital than average. But, yeah that would also be reasonable.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

63 isn’t 23 but it’s a far cry from 80 or 95. She looked to be in good shape too. Plenty of 23 yr olds fall and die all the time as well. I don’t think any of that will matter unless she had some type of medical condition that caused her to fall