Posted on 02/28/2025 4:09:58 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Columbo was great. 4 seasons if you need something to binge. Peter Falk, great plots and awesome guest stars.
Gene Hackman never made a bad movie.
Follow the money, who stood to gain and was tired of waiting?
Crime scene seems poorly staged, act of an amateur. Cops are in over their heads.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
INTERESTING THAT the pacemaker gives them time information.
DO ANY OF THE KIDS LIVE NEAR THEM IN SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO???
MY ROTT mix I got from the pound will imitate CUJO until you give him a bone-—
THAT is the ‘price of admission’
Then he becomes a pest for more attention.
Decorum. Well played.
Mom’s logs heart data.
Excellent point. That scenario might also explain why a door was open.
I agree with your scenario but I think Hackman may have had a heart attack soon after he found his wife.
I can imagine that the children never boughtht into daddy’s much younger wife...she’s probably the sam3 age.
But the first Columbo show he was dressed much better..his “ look” sort of came on.
I had a friend who died and was found by his landlady. I was worried about him, and wanted to check, but he had just moved and I didn’t know where.
Whoa, I didn’t realize Wife #2 was 32 years younger than Hackman. Yes, that could tick off the three kids by Wife #1.
Gene and Faye Maltese married in 1956 and had three kidsâChristopher, Elizabeth, and Leslie. They divorced in 1986 after 30 years.
You could see where the kids were really resentful and angry at Dad for doing that to their mother.
Gene Hackman met Betsy Arakawa in the mid-1980s (often cited as 1984 or 1985) at a gym in California where she worked part-time as a fitness instructor and classical pianist. They married in 1991. There is no public info about whether they dated before he divorced Wife #1.
So it sounds like Betsy Arakawa might lured him and that might have broken up his first marriage (there were public rumors about that). By the mid 80s, his best work was behind him, so he might have been hoping to rejuvenate things with a younger bride.
And an application of inheritance potion?
“Hey Mick! I outlived another one.”. Keith Richards
RE: dog outsmarting me....
What can I say? I’m only human.
She had some kind of medical episode in the bathroom and collapsed. The pills scattered as she fell.
She had locked up the dog right before this. (Dog was being a nuisance perhaps?)
Hackman found her, and he was heading outside to see if any of the hired help were around.
He fell down in the mudroom and couldnât get up. His glasses and cane were found next to him. He died there, unable to lift himself. This happened to my mom at age 85. She fell in the bathroom. She was on the floor for 20 hours, and then fortunately a neighbor stopped by the house to check on her.
I think this may be a possible and plausible scenario. She fell ill, perhaps fainting or having a stroke or a heart attack and he heard her fall and was either coming to help her or going to try and get help and fell himself (itâs been said he was becoming increasingly frail) and perhaps the stress trigged a heart attack in him, (he had a bad ticker).
FWIW I had a Huskey, while a beautiful and loving dog and sort of broken house, she couldnât be trusted to be left alone for any extended time. She also liked to eat cat poop out of the catâs litter box or get into the trash, etc. So, there were times, even when I was home that I temporarily crated her, like when I was going to take a long shower or bath, because if not, sheâd find trouble so that could explain why the one dog was crated.
Also, after my dad came to live with me after my mother died, my nieceâs daughter was going to the elementary school just up the street from my house, and she would come after school and hang out with her great grand pa until I got home and or her mother picked her up after work. They both very much enjoyed their time together.
But one day I came home, and my great niece greeted me at the door and told me âGrandpa is on the floorâ.
âWhat do you mean?!!!â
He had a bit of a cold but was fine when I left work that morning but soon became very ill and weak and having trouble breathing but didnât want to call or âbother meâ. When my great niece came after school, he tried to get out of bed but fell next to it and couldnât get back up. She wanted to call me or call 9-11 but he was very insistent that she shouldnât and that he was OK.
Of course, I called 9-11 when I got home and found him lying on the floor next to his bed and unable to get up. Long story short, he had developed bacterial pneumonia and after 12 weeks in the ICU he died. My poor great niece, who was at the time only about 7-8 years old blamed herself âš
Before he moved in with me, he lived in a lower income seniors apartment (run by Catholic Charites with some HUD funding), not a nursing home or assisted living but it did have amenities one of which was a help call button that knowing my dad, he would have never used.
As far as blaming his children for not checking in with him every day, I know from personal experience that it can be a fine line to navigate.
My dad didnât want me to help him make doctorâs appointments, shopping, etc., or other things he needed help with IMO, and resented me calling him every day to check in. But then at the same time expected me to drop everything I was doing, often at the last minute to take him to the doctors or to the grocery store.
If I tried to help him with these things, esp. in advance I was âtreating him like a childâ. If I didnât âI didnât careâ. I could never win.
I wonder then why the daughter just automatically assumed that carbon monoxide poisoning was the cause if she was not there and was not in contact with him. Very strange.
He found her dead upon waking in the morning then went to get help from maintenance workers then slipped and fell in the process.
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