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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:52:14 -0500
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:42:50 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

>moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> On 2/28/2025 10:42 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2/27/2025 6:14 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>> 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:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> . . .
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> [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).
>>>>> 
>>>>> The article said the people that found them called it in because the door
>>>>> was standing open
>>>> 
>>>> I can't fit all those circumstances into any reasonable scenario.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Maybe PETA killed the dog. Or Instacart.
>> 
>> Maybe someone read the pill bottle and misapplied 'expiration date'...
>> 
>
>Both PETA and Instacart are known for going to peoples homes and killing
>their dogs

Sadly the latest I heard made it sound like one of the dogs was in a
cage and may have died from dehydration after Hackman and his wife
died.