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- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
Summary
Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman, 95, his wife Betsy Arakawa, and their dog were found dead in their New Mexico home, authorities confirmed Thursday.
Foul play is not suspected, but an investigation is ongoing.
Hackman, a revered actor known for The French Connection and Unforgiven, retired from Hollywood two decades ago and spent his later years writing novels.
He lived in New Mexico since the 1980s, remaining largely out of the public eye. His death comes just days before this year’s Academy Awards.
Does “foul play” include gas leaks, etc., or are those counted as accidents or similar?
Unless the leak was caused intentionally, it’d be considered an accidental death.
She couldve passed first and been sole care taker
That’s dark. Fingers crossed they tried to barbeque indoors then.
Could have been something like a leak in the exhaust of a gas furnace etc as well.
Oh yeah. Because for gas itself to have killed them it would have had to have been a pretty massive leak.
Natural gas utilities are also required to add sulphur to it so that it stinks. You would notice and evacuate long before it overcame you.
Mercaptan is the chemical they add to it, which has a very recognizable smell. It is a sulfur compound though, so I guess I’m just being pedantic.
It’s not just the recognizable smell they add it for, it’s the fact that it’s an odorant that’s detectable at an INCREDIBLY small concentration (humans can smell it at 1 part per BILLION).
Suicide? Old people sometimes decide to end life on their own schedule.
Suuure sounds like carbon monoxide poisoning, which accidentally kills lots of people every year.
It’s the dog that knocks it off the possibility list for me. Most people who commit to the act of suicide start giving stuff away. That and a sudden ‘happiness burst’ are things that you sometimes see in people who have made the decision. Why would you take a chance to kill your dog, when you could just take a half day and get a vet to do it, or just ask someone to take care of the dog for a few days with the excuse you’ll be out of town or are hosting a party or a half dozen of the other plausible reasons?
It doesn’t, but per comments from the fire department and the gas company there were no signs of leaking pipes or carbon monoxide.
The fact that the dog died makes me think it was environmental of some kind though. Maybe something they all ate/drank?
Apparently not a gas leak.