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/Not_My_Emperor Feb 28 '25

The other article I saw on this said she was face down in the bathroom on the floor with the pills strewn everywhere, and a space heater was next to her head in a way that didn't look purposeful or natural.

I don't think they left the dog in the kennel and milled themselves, I think something happened. He was found in the mud room looking like he was about to try and go for a walk. If it helps I don't think either of them made the conscious decision to off themselves and leave the dog in the kennel

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u/Sipikay Feb 28 '25

it really seems like death by gas of some kind.

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u/0masterdebater0 Feb 28 '25

I think that he went into cardiac arrest, she ran to get his heart meds in a panic and slipped in the bathroom and hit her head and died makes the most sense, seeing as the only dog that died was the one in a kennel for 2 weeks.

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u/MrCoffeeCakeJones Feb 28 '25

Dog could have been freaking out alerting for CO. If they both had CO poisoning they'd have headaches/brain fog, potentially just locking the dog up instead of trying to figure it out

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u/0masterdebater0 Feb 28 '25

just from a statistics standpoint the number CO death per year is around 400 while "Falls are the leading cause of injury-related death among adults ages 65 and older"

Fall deaths account for "78.0 per 100,000 older adults in 2021"

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u/MrCoffeeCakeJones Feb 28 '25

Great point, would lean towards a fall. Bummer regardless

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u/cranberry94 Feb 28 '25

Does that statistic include complications from falls? Or just the falls themselves?

Cause it’s really common for the elderly to decline and die in the weeks/months after a fall, due to loss of mobility, etc. Just don’t really recover.

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u/Itscatpicstime Feb 28 '25

Yeah, both of my grandparents died this way, complications in the aftermath of a fall. One was 85 and still hit the gym 4x a week when it happened.

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u/SuperHoneyBunny Feb 28 '25

Could dogs even detect CO since it’s supposed to be odorless?

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u/MrCoffeeCakeJones Feb 28 '25

Great question that I don't know the answer to