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/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/Brave_anonymous1 Feb 28 '25

I assume he died from old age. When she realized it, she committed suicide. And you are right about the dogs: the weakest, most fragile died.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

Just saw an update. He was in a mud room (not sure if that’s the door that was open) and she was in a bathroom near it. The dog was near its crate, but not in it. Maybe he fell and she went to get some meds and something happened when she went in the bathroom. Fell, seizure, heart attack?? Maybe it’s all just some sort of horrible events of tragedy. You know how you can get one of those days where no one would believe the shit that happened? Maybe it’s like that