Gene Hackman’s wife died first, he a few days later

Betsy Arakawa, the wife of Gene Hackman whose body was found on the floor of the couple of the couple’s house, probably died before her husband, said Dr. Heather Jarrell, a medical investigator head at the New Mexico medical investor office. Arakawa was seen last time on February 11, when he was filmed by the surveillance cameras while visiting a local CVS pharmacy and a dog food shop before returning to his fenced community, said the sheriff of Santa Fe Adam Mendoza.

February 11 is also the last day on which Arakawa had communications via e-mail. According to Jarrell, her husband, Gene Hackman, probably died on February 18, when her pacemaker recorded her heartbeat for the last time. “According to circumstances, it is reasonable to conclude that Mrs. Arakawa died first,” Jarrell said to journalists.

Gene Hackman also died of natural causes, Dr. Heather Jarrell said at the press conference. The 95 -year -old was hypertensive, he suffered from an atherosclerotic and Alzheimer’s cardiovascular disease, which according to Jarrell was “a significant contribution factor”.

Dr. Heather Jarrell, a medical investigator head at the New Mexico medical investor office, said that it is possible that the actor Gene Hackman “was not aware” of the death of his wife who took place several days earlier. Hackman “showed evidence of an advanced form of Alzheimer’s,” he said.
A spokesman for the Hackman family had previously declared to the CNN that the news on the Alzheimer “is totally false”. When asked if Hackman would have been able to live alone and survive after the death of his wife, Betsy Arakawa, Jarrell replied: “I am not aware of what his normal everyday operating capacity was. He was in bad health conditions. He suffered from a serious heart disease and I think that in the end this was the case that caused his death”.
He said he had not seen evidence that Hackman was dehydrated, but that he had not found food in his stomach, “which means that he had not recently eaten”.

Hunger may have been the cause of the death of the dog found dead in a cage in the bathroom of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa last week, but the authorities are not yet certain. “I don’t think we know the answer to this question,” said the veterinarian of the public health of the State of New Mexico, Erin Phipps, in response to a question during a press conference today in which he asked if the cause of the dog’s death had been hunger. “However, given the timing presented, it is a possibility.”
Shortly thereafter he answered another question, saying that dogs are unable to contract the pulmonary syndrome by Hantavirus, the disease that, according to the head doctor of New Mexico, caused the death of Arakawa.