A Hidden Device Recovered From Gene Hackman’s Tunnel Contained Something Disturbing

For nine days, no one knew. When sheriff's deputies finally entered the locked estate on the edge of Santa Fe, they moved through it the way they would move through a crime scene, throwing open windows to test the air for poison, scanning the doors for any sign of forced entry, searching for a trace of whoever might have done this. They found none of it. What had happened inside the home of one of the most celebrated actors in American history was not a crime at all. It was something far sadder, and far quieter, than anyone who walked through that door was prepared to find.