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by ninetyninenine 484 days ago
Very unlikely for two people to die like that at the same time without some common factor. Add a dog and the probability becomes even crazier.

The evidence doesn't show any foul play but the probabilities and unlikelihoods do.
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sparky_z 484 days ago
Keep in mind, he was 95 and was forced into retirement by health issues over 20 years ago. If your base rate is based on two healthy people in their prime, that's a little different. It could be as simple as he found her dead or dying, tried to get help and had a heart attack from the stress or simply just fell. Reports are they weren't found for two weeks, which sadly could explain the dog.

Tragic situation all around, but I'm not ready to use a probability based argument to insist on foul play.

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ninetyninenine 484 days ago
3 things dying in 2 weeks in the same house is just unlikely and the people must have died within minutes. This is still unlikely EVEN when you take into account age and health issues.
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Projectiboga 484 days ago
Maybe he dropped dead and she just decided to go too? The one dog may have just been accidential injestion. But the Medical Examiner will figure out most plausible causes. Sad no matter how it happened.

From https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/202...

Hackman and Arakawa were found in separate rooms. The actor was found in a mudroom near his cane, appearing to have fallen, while his wife was found in an open bathroom near a space heater, with an open prescription bottle and pills scattered on the nearby countertop, according to the warrant

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ninetyninenine 483 days ago
for that to happen randomly is unlikely. And a dead dog too.
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relistan 483 days ago
The dog that died was locked up and probably died without water. The two that weren’t locked up survived. It’s likely she was in some kind of danger and he had a heart attack trying to deal with it. He was found in the mud room by the door and she was in the bathroom with an open bottle of pills spilled.
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ninetyninenine 483 days ago
Unlikely. The reasoning all makes sense except for the part about him trying to deal with her danger I don’t see anyone mentioning evidence of that.

But it’s unlikely for so many things to converge like this.

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