Why Gene Hackman's Death Is Now Considered 'Suspicious'

Townhall ^ | February 27, 2025 | Matt Vespa |

[Jonty30]

No way!

He had the right amount of comic timing, while portraying himself as a menace.

[bray]

Enemy of the State. Him and his cat.

[C210N]

Deserve's got nothin' to do with it

[Az Joe]

Are you thinking what I’m thinking?

[notdownwidems]

“Whatever you do, don’t sell that cow!”

[Quentin Quarantino]

A serious actor. I doubt he ever phoned it in.

[Az Joe]

Scarecrow,...with Pacino.

Good buddies-on-the-road pic from the ‘70s.

[MayflowerMadam]

“deceased dog was located about 10 to 15 feet away from Arakawa inside the bathroom’s closet,”

Was the closet door opened or closed? Seems important. A bad guy would shut a dog in a closet; an owner would not.

[luckystarmom]

Interesting that he had 3 children and none of them were concerned about not hearing from their father for 2 weeks.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Building (another) house? That suggests that he was still mentally sharp and engaged.

That was his character's last line in Unforgiven, just before Eastwood's character shoots him in the face.

[Red Badger]

Speculation:

The dog was very old and would not have lived long, so an owner might have given the dog an overdose of a drug...........

[George from New England]

How about bad heater/furnace?
Kills them, plumber doing multi-day upgrade/repair
Returns next day to find deaths due to his bad work
Plumber repairs cause of CO leak and leaves
Columbo called in

[allendale]

This is New Mexico. Nothing will be found or determined. Most of the country will forget or move on. However it will become fodder and the souce of weird speculation for the celebrity obsessed cults for a very long time.

[Red Badger]

That would be a good plot for a TV movie.................

[mykroar]

Great movie. I’ll toss Hoosiers out too.

[Hieronymus]

If they rule out a common cause of death (CO or gas being the most likely), natural death-suicide, murder-suicide, suicide-suicide, and murder-murder seem the remaining options.

Perhaps her cooking was bad, they both developed food poisoning, he died and she couldn’t live with the situation.

Speculating is fun. And pointless.

[Red Badger]

He was a great actor in dramas as well as comedies. His comic accomplishments are overlooked.......................

[angcat]

Me too! I bought the DVD he was a hunk.

[Red Badger]

They didn’t say, just ‘open’ is all they said. That apparently is how the two other dogs survived...................

[Dilbert San Diego]

Some people are estranged from their children. We don’t know the particulars here. Sometimes adult children are distant because they don’t get along with their stepmother. Some adult children resent the stepmother.