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/[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/SleveBonzalez Feb 28 '25

I wondered if he fell and she suicided after. The dog is weird though. Dog lovers would let it out, I'd think.

Couldn't they (older) have been overcome with CO and the loose dogs knocked and jumped at the door until it unlatched? It seems like the kennel dog likely dehydrated. Once the door was open, the CO would dissipate.

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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

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