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

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:
 

. . .

 [Gene Hackman]
 

I do wish he hadn't totally retired, but it's likely best for his legacy
that he did.

 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.
 More like he wasn't working due to circumstances.

  Deadline says he retired for health reasons after being advised to do so by his doctor.
 But here are some startling new developments:
  “Suspicious Enough”: Gene Hackman & Wife’s Deaths Probed By Cops; Scattered Pills Found, No Gas Leak
 https://deadline.com/2025/02/gene-hackman-death-suspicious- police-1236303855/
 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.
 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.
 “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.
  --Robin

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

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).