What We Know So Far About The Deaths Of Gene Hackman And Betsy Arakawa
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The Hollywood icon, his classical pianist wife and one of their three dogs were all found dead under mysterious circumstances in their Santa Fe, New Mexico, home.
Investigators on Friday pored over evidence found around the partially mummified bodies of Oscar-winner Gene Hackman and his wife at their New Mexico home as officials awaited the results of autopsies.
A maintenance worker reported the deaths of Hackman, 95, and Betsy Arakawa, 65, on Wednesday, according to a Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office search warrant affidavit. Investigators are still working to determine what caused the deaths, though they said they don’t suspect foul play.
Hackman, a Hollywood icon, won two Oscars during a storied career in which he played an array of heroes and villains in films including “The French Connection,” “Hoosiers” and “Superman” from the 1960s until his retirement in the early 2000s.
What we know about the deaths
Hackman and his wife apparently had been dead for days or even a couple of weeks when investigators found their bodies while searching the couple’s Santa Fe home on Wednesday, authorities said.
