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Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

Alone, Hungry, Thirsty and Lost: The Final Days of Gene Hackman

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the latest information regarding the death of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa. Their deaths have been called "suspicious" by some in the press, but Joe Scott explains what actually happened and why their deaths, while shocking and sad, are not suspicious.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Transcribe Highlights

00:00.90 Introduction - The Death of Gene Hackman

03:40.86 Gene Hackman found in "Mud Room" and wife found in Bathroom with pills spilled around her

08:59.26 Dog found dead in bathroom had some type of treatment at the vet

14:09.85 Actors with dementia trying to perform

19:03.30 Gene Hackman was totally dependent on his wife

24:31.11 What does "mummify" mean

28:59.43 Gene Hackman's wife died from Hantavirus

33:23.47 Hantavirus is spread by rodents

39:08.17 Gene Hackman didn't drink any water or eat any food days leading up to his death

41:44.62 Conclusion

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0:00.0

Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.

0:05.0

I guess probably after the past two weeks, I've come to view the word suspicious in a whole new light.

0:17.0

And granted, I've been at this quite some time.

0:22.3

And I'm a grown man.

0:23.4

I should have known better.

0:43.8

But with the death of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arcaro, that term was thrown around initially by the police in New Mexico.

0:49.7

And then it took off like wildfire with the media.

1:00.1

I guess we could spend an entire episode talking about how the media will hook into something and won't let it go.

1:12.9

And all you're left with is a memory of things that seemingly are unanswered because you never could quite get past that one word suspicious or questionable but what we are left with is the passing of one of the

1:24.0

greatest actors certainly in my lifetime.

1:32.3

And by all appearances,

1:35.2

a very fine man as well.

1:40.1

I'm Joseph Scott Morgan,

1:41.8

and this is Bodybacks.

1:46.4

Well, Dave, we finally have some answers relative to the death of Gene Hackman,

1:57.9

and more specifically, his cause of death, his manner for my money, has never been in question.

2:09.3

I have not felt that necessarily that there was anything particularly suspicious about Gene Hackman's death, but unfortunately,

2:21.8

we went down that road, didn't we, relative to, you know.

2:25.9

I think really it was because of, not that he died at the age of 95 inside his home, but it was the fact that his wife, who

2:37.1

was 31 years younger than him, also was dead inside the home, where he was found inside what

2:45.8

they have referred to as the mud room. I have never referred to my utility room as a mud room, but now I will.

2:53.4

I actually, Joe, when I first saw that in the mud room, I thought it was like, like a room that, you know,

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