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Subject: Re: Gene Hackman, wife and dog found dead in their home in New Mexico
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:38:47 +1300
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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:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> . . .
>>>>> 
>>>>> [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

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

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