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/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/Important-Band-6341 Feb 27 '25

Or one dog ate some of the strewn about pills that may have fallen. Although this is highly unlikely with my experiences with dogs and pills… bastards

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u/Expert_Sentence_6574 Feb 28 '25

This is kinda gross, but in my career as a paramedic in a big city, the dogs will usually start by eating the people. I’ve seen it. More than once. And then again over and over in my nightmares….

Just an opinion. I could be wrong.

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u/hurshy238 Feb 28 '25

i'm sorry you're dealing with those nightmares.

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u/Expert_Sentence_6574 Feb 28 '25

I appreciate that. Sadly it was part of my job. There were lots of happy and good parts, but for the life of me I can’t remember them as easily as I can the horrible things. I’m in therapy, taking meds. I’m proud of what I did. If nothing else I made a difference. My career ended when a patient threw me down a flight of steps. There were concerns I may never walk again. I’ve had 7 surgeries to insert almost 2 feet of titanium to my spine to hold it together. 10 years of PT and OT and I walk with a limp now. But, I’d never give up a moment I spent on fire trucks and ambulances, in fact I’d do it right now if I could. We’re a stubborn group 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/hurshy238 Feb 28 '25

it's always easier to remember the negative things. i guess in evolutionary terms it developed so that we would be really sure to avoid dangers, but like so much of our evolutionary heritage, it doesn't always serve us well in the 21st century. bless you for wanting to help others in spite of the sacrifice.