Posted on 02/27/2025 6:18:11 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
No. I clicked the link and it is a scene from the movie The Conversation.
Sorry for the lost of a great actor and good man - but damn this is setting up for a great movie, either docu-drama or semi based on true events
Gene died of “yellow fever” (dude joke)
“I’m not inside the house. It’s closed. It’s locked,” he told the dispatcher. “I can’t go in, but I see them ... She’s laying down from the window.”
The fire department conducted testing but “did not locate signs of a carbon monoxide leak or poisoning,” the warrant states.
You guys don’t remember that movie? First thing I thought of when I heard the news. Well, almost first. That being the actor Albert Salmi and his wife ending.
Okay now this is ODD because authorities said the DOOR WAS AJAR when they rolled up.
The toxicology report will fill in the details.
Could be she came home, saw her husband dead on the floor and decided to off herself(The door was wide open so it will be interesting to find out when anyone had contact with her or when she was last seen at any store)..and the dog in the kennel died of starvation..the two dogs who are alive were roaming around the house so maybe they had access to food/water
The dog that died was in the closet in a kennel..the two dogs that are still alive were roaming around the house..if there was carbon monoxide poisoning the two other dogs would have died too
Poor family - after all the great movies Gene Hackman made this is what passes for news about him.
thats weird because in police statements they said the doors were wide open so which is it
Look at the last picture of him from about a year ago...He looks nonagenarian fragile, he is unrecognizable. Lost so much weight. I don’t think he was very healthy.
The whole affair is not that shocking. Will wait till full report out. Won’t be expecting to find out what really happened. The Hollywood b.s. artists will be working full time.
The house is around 8,000 sq. ft. according to one article. The maintenance men & police may not be referring to the same door.
A real mystery at this point.
What amazes me is that they weren’t found sooner. They didn’t have a cleaning lady or home health people coming in regularly? No one regularly went to the house or talked to either one of them on the phone or online?
That is really odd to me.
The Santa Fe Sheriff thinks there is enough that is suspicious that he's not ruling out foul play. The gas company tested the property. No gas leaks and no CO leaks.
Could be the particular door the caller was at was not the door found open. That's a big house and could have a lot of doors.
This article contradicts every thing I’ve read or watched.
What puzzles me is only one dog dead. If it were carbon monoxide poisoning the other dog inside would be dead also. The instinct of a dog is to lay down beside their master if he is distress. That dog would have died with his master in the kill zone of the Carbon Monoxide poisoning. I am not suggesting foul play but it is strange.
PS
Hackman was one of the greatest actors of recent times. He had skill.
wife has aneurysm
drops dead
gene has full blown dementia
unable to take care of himself
and unaware of what is going on
dies of thirst/starvation
the dog in the crate dies of same
the loose dogs are able to forage to survive
pure speculation
agree
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