RIP Gene Hackman

[SexyGreyFox]

Why does the public need to know about mummification!?

because it gives Pathologists a good estimate of time of death and in a case like this the public are interested.
The Pacemaker data may not be enough.

 

[judmann]

joint suicide maybe

 

[Jokester]

So the fact that the pacemaker never made an emergency call....suggests the phone died first...meaning he didn't charge it.

That could mean anything from half a day to a couple of days of battery life depending on modern phones. So the time of death would have been before the phone ran out of battery...so it could be much earlier than the 17th.

You've got that the wrong way round. The police seem satisfied he was alive at least on the 17th based on the pacemaker date they've been able to retrieve, not sure if that was the phone (possibly meaning he died afterwards if the phone battery died) or the pacemaker itself.

Was listening to a podcast this morning that brought this up as they had the emergency call and the handy man was explicit in stating he couldn't get into the house to check them both as the call handler went through the usual "are they moving" "are they breathing" etc checklist. It's possible the dogs were "stopping" him as you could hear them barking in the background.

 

[GGizmo]

The odd thing about this, if still true, who or why was one of the dogs locked in a cupboard, while leaving 2 outside.

 

[Efour]

He was playing extreme hide and seek

 

[PlacidCasual]

Wife might have died and if he had dementia or other neural condition he couldn't charge his phone or look after himself. He may have died a day or two later than his wife. He was a very old guy.

 

[Werewolf]

The odd thing about this, if still true, who or why was one of the dogs locked in a cupboard, while leaving 2 outside.

Not too odd.

I can think of a number of reasons, if it was a young dog or small it might not have been allowed outside unsupervised because of the risk from local wildlife, might have had an injury or something there are a bunch of routine reasons and that assumes it just didn't want to go outside.
I know a few people who have had two or more dogs and sometimes 1 of them wouldn't be allowed outside at the same time as the others, or without supervision.

 

[Tram]

I felt pretty depressed looking sat his picture now and then. Life is harsh.

 

[LostCorpse]

Wife might have died and if he had dementia or other neural condition he couldn't charge his phone or look after himself. He may have died a day or two later than his wife. He was a very old guy.

seems the logical.
dog locked in room for some reason, naughty or just need them out the way quickly,
she has a Heart attack,
he's incapacitated either medical condition or natural and can move or isnt concious.

alterantive, but similar : he passed away, it caused her to have a heart attack when she found him.

by all accounts they loved each other deeply and loved their dogs. the kind of love they and other portray would mean it would be a terrible shock to her.
if it was planned i'd have expected them to ofload the dogs.
so suggests what ever happen was unplanned.

we all got to go some time, i just hope it wasnt something other than natural, and it was quick :/
sad times, we are loosing some great people.