(02-28-2025, 08:17 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote:

(02-26-2025, 02:08 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: Michelle Trachtenberg, age 39. Cause uncertain at this time, but she had recently received a liver transplant and may have been suffering complications.

Her family has requested there be no autopsy, and because there was no suspicion of foul play their request was honored.

(03-10-2025, 01:17 PM)Bob Schroeck Wrote:

(03-01-2025, 09:21 AM)Shepherd Wrote:

(02-28-2025, 08:19 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote:

(02-27-2025, 06:09 AM)robkelk Wrote: RIP Gene Hackman

And the story on this one is starting to get weird...  Hackman appears to have been dead for a day or so before he was found, but his wife had been dead long enough for decay to set in and for her hands to start to mummify.

Today's paper said it was more than that. According to the pathologist, Hackman's pacemaker stopped sending signals on 2/17, nine days before his body was found. Tests for carbon monoxide poisoning also came up negative.

A formal announcement on the causes of death has been made by the Santa Fe sheriff. Betsy Arakawa died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome on February 11 or 12. Hackman died from hypertensive atherosclerosis cardiovascular disease, with Alzheimer's as a contributing factor, on on or about February 18. The sheriff's office is still investigating a few "puzzling holes" in the case -- in particular if Hackman contacted anyone after his wife died. He also appeared to have not eaten for a while before his death, although he wasn't dehydrated.

Quote:Actor tested negative for hantavirus, which likely killed his wife, Betsy Arakawa

Quote:Jon Callas, a co-founder of PGP Corporation, told The Register that Young was a complex character, and while the site did carry a lot of material about cryptography, its main purpose was to serve as a repository of all data that he thought citizens needed to know, regardless of what the government thought.

"I think he was absolutely a product of the 50s, 60s, and 70s, with cultural arguments over government secrets and what's really going on in the world, in social things like civil rights and other protests. He grew up in a world of MKUltra, the CIA, Watergate, and Vietnam," Callas told us.