A police officer investigating Gene hackman wife Betsy Arakawa is sharing more details about the Died of the couple.
As he appeared in the Today Show on Friday, February 28, the sheriff of the county of Santa Fe Adan Mendoza Researchers still have some unanswered questions, including the couple’s duration before the bodies were found.
“It is very difficult to gather a timeline even with the help of the medical researcher’s office,” said Mendoza Savannah Guthrie. “Only based on your body and other tests on the body, it seemed like it looks (they died for several days), even up to a couple of weeks.”
Mendoza said his team is trying to “combine a calendar” that includes when the deceased was seen or spoken for the last time. He added that it was a challenge “because they were very private people and a private family.”
When asked if Hackman and Arakawa died at the same time, Mendoza said he was “very difficult to determine.”

“I think it will be very close,” he continued. “There was no hint that someone moved around the house or did nothing different, so it is very difficult to determine if they happened at the same time or how far they happened together.”
Use weekly confirmed on Thursday, February 27, that Hackman and his partner were found dead The day before inside his shared house Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was 95 years old while his wife was 64 years old.
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Police said Tmz that Arakawa’s body was “in a state of decomposition” with a swollen face and mummification In her hands and feet after a couple of maintenance workers found her her husband’s body and body on Wednesday, February 26. The workers said they had not seen the couple in about two weeks.
An official cause of death has not yet been determined. Mendoza reiterated Today That there are no signs of dirty play “but of course we are not discarding it.”
As part of the investigation, Mendoza confirmed that there was a recipe bottle open to the scene. The tests were collected and passed to the medical examiner’s office.
When asked when a toxicology report could be complete and released to the audience, Mendoza warned that it could take “a while”.
“It could take up to three months or even possibly longer,” he shared. “Only it depends (on) the occupation of the laboratory. But we hope it will sooner than late, so that we can answer some of these questions, and we hope it will help us in our research to help determine the matter and the cause of death.”
“The autopsy It’s key, “Mendoza added.” This will take a while so I look forward to a little patience in the Part of the familyOn the part of everyone, so we can have some answers to these deaths. “”



