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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).