The first results of the preliminary autopsies performed on the Oscar -winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, show that “there were no external traumas for either of them”
What happened
Everything is mysterious in the scene that presented himself to the agents who rushed after one of the custodians of the villa, among the sobs and the curses, had given the alert to the 911 emergency number. Hackman, in a suit. slippers, it was spread on the ground in an inguration “as if it had fallen out of the crash”, next to him his sunglasses and a stick, his wife in a bathroom, was poured on the floor between pills fallen from a bottle of medicines opened on the bench. The couple was found dead in their home in the new Mexico Wednesday, together with their dog. Hackman was 95 years old. The way and the causes of the couple’s death have not yet been well determined. According to a press release from the Sheriff office: “The investigation remains open”. A track could be death by poisoning, toxicological exams and carbon monoxide have been required for both Hackman and Arakawa. Although, among the firefighters, trapes skepticism on this track. Although a murder is not suspected, the officials of the new Mexico claim not to have excluded this possibility. The bodies, especially that of his wife, were found in a state of “semi mummification”, no signs of struggle were found on the scene and, it seems, no objects have been removed from the house. The couple had long been deceived.
The call to 911
According to the police, the call was made just before 14.00 on Wednesday time. The caller was excited when he described the scene at the 911 switchboard operator, noting that he could not enter the house but he could see two people who passed out through the window. «No, friend, they don’t move. Send someone immediately, “said the custodian on the switchboard.
Monoxide poisoning?
The body of the firefighters, at the moment, has excluded carbon monoxide poisoning, but specified: “The relationships of the coroner with the final cause of the death generally require from 4 to 6 weeks to be completed”
