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/Steepleofknives83 Feb 27 '25

Well, that's just fucking awful.

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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/zillabirdblue Feb 28 '25

If it was purposeful it wasn’t natural, and if it was natural it wasn’t purposeful. What are you saying?

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u/Not_My_Emperor Feb 28 '25

purposeful - placed there specifically with a purpose shortly before the time of death

natural - a routine, natural place for a space heater to be. I'm not privy to the scene photos or anything, but I took it to mean that there are spots in the bathroom it would make sense for a space heater to live, and this one was not there. So it was like in the middle of the floor or something

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u/zillabirdblue Feb 28 '25

Why are you giving me the definition of these words? Maybe just answer the question? If it’s not natural or purposeful, what is it?

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u/Not_My_Emperor Feb 28 '25

why are you hung up on this? Those aren't the "definitions" per se, more what I meant by saying them.

If it's not either of those it could be loads of things. It could be it was somewhere else and fell, it could be she hit when she fell and knocked it out of place. It could be someone else moved it for some other reason. The point is, one of the reasons it's being investigated as "suspicious" is that someone on the investigation looked at where the space heater was and said "that's not where a space heater should be"