Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawas.
Images of spgranitz/wireimage/gettyGene hackman wife Betsy ArakawaThe causes of death have been revealed.
Hackman died from hypertensive atheroscular cardiovascular disease with Alzheimer’s disease as an important factor that contributes, Doctor Heather JarrellNew Mexico medical examiner at the medical researcher’s office, revealed at a press conference on Friday, March 7. Jarrell said that authorities believe he died on February 18.
“The cause of death by Mrs. Hackman is the Hanteavirus Pulmonary Syndrome. The cause of death is natural,” said Dr. Jarrell. Officials believe that he died in the evening on February 11.
The family was informed of the conclusions of the autopsy before the press conference.
Use weekly confirmed on Thursday, February 27 that the couple was He is dead In his house from New Mexico a day before.
“ On February 26, 2025, at approximately 13.45, the deputies of the Sheriff of the County of Santa Fe were sent to an address to Old Sunset Trail in Hyde Park, where Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife Betsy Arakawa, 64, and a dog was dead, ” said the Santa Fe County Office in a shared statement with us. “At this moment it is not suspected that the game of foul as a factor in these deaths, however, has not been determined (the) the exact cause of death.”
The Academy Award winner, Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, died in February 2025 at the respective ages of 95 and 64. Weekly confirmed you on February 27, 2025, that the actor and his spouse were found dead one day before his shared house Santa Fe, New Mexico. “It’s with great sadness that (…)
Following the news of Hackman and Arakawa’s death, the couple was lamented by their loved ones in a statement to Us. “It is very sad to announce the passage of our father, Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy,” said Hackman’s daughters, Elizabeth and Leslie and Neta Annie. “He was loved and admired by millions from all over the world for his brilliant actress career, but for us he was always just father and grandfather. We will miss him a lot and we are devastated by loss.”
Elizabeth previously told TMZ that his family suspected Hackman and Arakawa died from carbon monoxide poisoning. (Hackman shared Elizabeth, Leslie and son Christopher with ex-wife Faye Maltesewho died in 2017. The Oscarscar winner tied the knot With Arakawa in 1991.)
In the midst of Elisabeth’s speculation, the Santa Fe county sheriff Adan Mendoza He published a statement that a “preliminary” investigation was underway and that the department “expected approval of a search order”. After obtaining a term on Thursday, authorities said that “suspicious” circumstances, in a copy obtained by Tmz.
Update 02/27/25 At 12:15 ET: In a copy of the search mandate, the law supplements said that both Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa “suspicious”. In the sworn statement obtained by TMZ, the Fire Corps did not find any carbon monoxide leakage or poisoning when they completed a search. The place (…)
A detective wrote in the affidavit: “The death of the two deceased individuals to have enough suspicious in nature to require a comprehensive search and research because the information party found the main door of the unvured and open residence, the deputies observed a healthy dog that was released on the property, another healthy dog near the deceased female, a deceased woman in a woman of a woman, Closing of the bathroom, the heating was moved, the pill that opened and the bottle opened, and the bottle opened, and the bottle opened, the bottle opened and the bottle of a heating was opened, and the bottle of a heater was opened and a heating was opened. Evident signs of gas leak. “
The documents stated that Arakawa was unconscious next to a space heater and was in a presumed “state of decomposition with swelling on his face and mummification in his hands and feet.” Tmz He reported that Hackman was in a separate room, totally dressed in sunglasses next to him, with some suspicion that he fell.