Ginger Gargoyle's Gems

OMG - it has been a busy day!  Not even sure where to begin .... let's start with he Celebrity Deaths .... 

If you are a fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tv show) then you may remember Dawn, Buffy's suddenly there sister who turned ou to be a magical key to bring about the end of the world .... I found the character quite annoying, but she got a bit less whiney at the end .... or I just got used to it.

She was found dead in her apartment by her mother on Wednesday, 2025 Feb 26, and the official cause is listed as "Natural causes" .... did I mention that she was only in her 30's????  I'm sorry but "natural causes" doesn't apply here ....

By the sounds of it, photos on her Instagram acct showed her not looking so good - and it turns out that a couple months back she had a kidney transplant - awfully young for one of those .... but then, she has always been very skinny  I know there had been rumors of an eating disorder way back when, but I don't know if that would effect her kidneys in such a way.

I guess she had also been on some show called "Gossip Girl" .... my daughters may have watched it, I never did ... and they had just recently rebooted it, and she was playing an older version of her previous character.

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Then there's the deah of Gene Hackman and his wife.

At first, the NM police came out and said nothing looked suspicious - but then someone with half a brain stepped in and said they needed to take a deeper look.

As it turns out .... the wife was laying dead in the bathroom, with an orange prescript bottle and some medicine scattered on the vanity .... on the floor next to her was a toppled space heater .... and in the closet in the bathroom, was ONE OF their dogs - a german shepherd - in a crate.

There were 2 other dogs - which survived for all the time after the deahs (more to come)

One of the daughters apparently had said she lived with them, but subsequent reports have not repeated this early report .... hmmmm.

This daughter put out that it might have been carbon monlxide poisoning, since there was the space heater .... and the cops went with that theory at first ....

And normally in a situation where there is a space heater, and a couple dies along with their pets - it would be a natural conclusion ... but .... remember those 2 dogs???

One was found running around outside, the other was found close to the wife's body .... no word on what they had lived on though .... ewwwwww.

preliminary reports show no carbon monoxide poisoning .... and it appears Hackman had a PACEMAKER .... the last activity shown as having happened 2025 Feb 17 .... so they are thinking hat was when he died.

So, if this is true - then they passed about 10 days before they had been found .... 

I have heard the 911 tapes - where someone had called that hey saw the wive through the window - but they couldn't get in because he door was locked.

The Police Report, however, said the front door was unlocked and slightly ajar - no signs of forced entry .... 

So the next question is how did that happen???

I'm hopeing there is a security system with a good camera, which will show if anyone entered the house .... or at least what might have happened.

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Pope Francis is back in the hospital ... it's like his 4th time since becoming Pope ....

Sounds like he was getting ready to go home, when he started having such a severe coughing attack, that he had acually inhaled vomit.

This is how Jimmy Hendrix died .... aspersion is horrible.

But Francis is still alive ... but he will be staying in the hospital for a bit longer.