Re: Gene Hackman, wife and dog found dead in their home in New Mexico

Your Name wrote:

On 2025-02-28 03:38:47 +0000, Your Name said:
 

On 2025-02-27 23:14:47 +0000, anim8rfsk said:

Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2025-02-27 18:41:02 +0000, Ian J. Ball said:

On 2/27/25 10:11 AM, Robin Miller wrote:

Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
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[Gene Hackman]
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I do wish he hadn't totally retired, but it's likely best for his legacy
that he did.

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He didn't retire. I recall an interview he gave several years after his
final movie in which he complained he wasn't being offered any scripts.
It's not like he was unwilling to play supporting roles, which he had
done throughout his long career.
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More like he wasn't working due to circumstances.

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Deadline says he retired for health reasons after being advised to do
so by his doctor.
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But here are some startling new developments:
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“Suspicious Enough”: Gene Hackman & Wife’s Deaths Probed By Cops;
Scattered Pills Found, No Gas Leak
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https://deadline.com/2025/02/gene-hackman-death-suspicious- police-1236303855/
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Gene Hackman‘s death has raised enough suspicion among the Santa Fe
police that they have obtained a search warrant for the Oscar winner’s
home after the nonagenarian, his wife Betsy Arakawa and one of their
dogs were found dead last night.
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Two men who worked on the Hackman’s property reported the decomposed
bodies in the home on Wednesday. The 30-year long married couple had
not been seen for a few weeks, sources say. There are no indications of
a home invasion or anything like that, sources tell me, but the cops do
believe more in going on than first assumed.
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“Affiant believes that the circumstances surrounding the death of the
two deceased individuals to be suspicious enough in nature to require a
thorough search and investigation because the reporting party found the
front door of the residence unsecured and opened, deputies observed a
healthy dog running loose on the property, another healthy dog near the
deceased female, a deceased dog laying 10-15 feet from the deceased
female in a closet of the bathroom, the heater being moved, the pill
bottle being opened and pills scattered next to the female, the male
decedent being located in a separate room of the residence, and no
obvious signs of a gas leak,” the document adds.
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--Robin

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So, one read of that is that he died (naturally), and she killed
herself (and a dog)?!...

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Perhaps she simply dropped the pill bottle and the dogs ate some
themselves. That would explain why the dog outside is still alive
(assuming al the dorrs were shut).

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The article said the people that found them called it in because the door
was standing open

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It says the front door was open, but the outside dog might have been in a fenced in area out the back.  :-)

 Or, maybe the front door was open, but internal doors were shut.
 

But I did misread about the second live dog inside the house.

 

Now this article quotes the maintenance worker who called 911 and told the operator that the house was locked up:
https://news.yahoo.com/news/entertainment/gene-hackman-betsy-arakawa-harrowing-183926752.html

As the dispatcher paused to call for the paramedics, the caller began crying while repeatedly saying, “Damn.”
 However, the man didn’t seem to have a personal connection to Hackman, 95, and Arakawa, 64, as he could not tell the dispatcher any personal details about them.
 “[It’s] a female and a male probably. I don’t know, sir. Just send somebody up here really quick,” he said.
 The caller said he had “no idea” if the two were “awake” or “breathing” because he “was not inside the house” with them.

“[The house] is closed. It’s locked. I can’t go in,” he said. “But I see that she is lying down on the floor from the window.”
 He insisted they were not “awake” or “alert” and saw no signs of movement.
 “No, dude, they’re not moving!” he said while growing increasingly concerned. “Just send somebody out here really quick!”

As usual when something has just happened, the facts are unclear. But it does sound as though they may have been dead for a while.
--Robin