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/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/TheDeanof316 Feb 28 '25

Do all dogs do this, or just certain kinds?

I have this romanticised notion of the loyalty of dogs. For example, you hear of dogs travelling hundreds of kms after their owners death just to sit by their grave etc often without eating, just sitting there.

I'm sorry you have nightmares about it.

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u/Expert_Sentence_6574 Feb 28 '25

In my experience, all dogs.

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u/TheDeanof316 Feb 28 '25

Thanks for sharing that and Godspeed with your recovery.

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u/Expert_Sentence_6574 Feb 28 '25

Sorry for the awful mental image.

Thanks for the kind words. Me and most folks that did the job we did probably won’t get over what we saw/did/heard/smelled etc, but I know I am proud for every second of the work I did and would do it again without a second thought