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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Gene Hackman, wife and dog found dead in their home in New Mexico
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 07:15:37 -0800
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On 2/27/25 4:32 AM, shawn wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Feb 2025 06:52:38 -0500, Robin Miller
> <robin.miller@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> https://news.yahoo.com/news/actor-gene-hackman-wife-betsy-092903724.html
>>
>>
>> Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found
>> dead in their home in New Mexico, the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office
>> told CNN. He was 95.
> 
> Damn, I know the guy wasn't performing any more but still.
> 
>> Their cause of death has not been confirmed but it is not believed to be
>> foul play, Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Denise
>> Womack-Avila told CNN Thursday morning.
>>
>> Deputies responded to a welfare check request at the home around 1:45
>> p.m. Wednesday and found Hackman, Arakawa and a dog deceased,
>> Womack-Avila said. An investigation is ongoing, police said.
> 
> I wonder if they suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning? That would
> explain all three dying from what otherwise sounds like a non-violent
> death.

That's my thought too - the only way the dog also dies under "non-foul 
play" circumstances is something like CO poisoning.

But he made it to 95. (His wife only made it to her 60s.)

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