Gene Hackman, who suffered from Alzheimer’s, lived in the house with his dead wife for a week before he died.

Of the three dogs living in the house, one died because it was locked in a carrier and therefore probably starved to death. The two free-living dogs were the only ones to survive.

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    2 months ago

    https://youtu.be/nWwKJxCa_Ao

    Notable points:

    • Betsy likely died on or shortly after Feb 11.
    • Gene’s pacemaker recorded last heart activity on Feb 18.
    • Betsy died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, likely transmitted to her by a mouse. Hantavirus mortality rate in the US southwest is 38% to 50%.
    • The pills in the bathroom were thyroid medication.
    • Gene’s cause of death was heart related. He showed severe cardiac and pulmonary problems, had a history of heart attacks and related surgeries.
    • Gene’s brain showed advanced Alzheimer’s.
    • Gene did not have hantavirus. Neither had Covid, flu, or any other common respiratory disease. No effects of carbon monoxide were seen.
    • No mention of the dog, but with the time frames involved, it’s not hard to speculate.
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      2 months ago

      Also, he was found to have not eaten recently, hut no indications of being dehydrated.

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    2 months ago

    Then how were neither of them discovered until remarkable time afterward? His wife may have died before him, but nobody noticed gene well after he was dead. All of us still seems extreme less suspicious.

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      2 months ago

      Joel?

      But…you can’t imagine a case where a notoriously private couple might not get visitors for a week? Visitors who wouldn’t just leave when no one answered the door, assuming they weren’t home or in the shower or something?