The results of the autopsy on Gene Hackman: heart failure, serious chronic renal hypertensive changes and Alzheimer’s disease
New documents have clarified the causes of death of the Oscar -winning actor and his wife Betsy Arakawa
The official cause of the death of the Oscar -winning actor Gene Hackman of his wife, Betsy Arakawa, a case of last February that left the world amazed was revealed. Hackman’s autopsy revealed new details of the health of the star of The French Connection and the ruthless, with the results that say that he had one « History of congestive heart failure » as well as « serious chronic, kidney hypertensive changes » And « Neurodegenerative characteristics compatible with Alzheimer’s disease « . Confirmed that his wife Arakawa died a week before Hackman.
The definitive results of Hackman’s autopsy arrive more than two months after the foundation of the actor’s corpse in his house together with his wife in Santa Fe. The bodies of the Oscar -winning actor, 95 years old, and of his wife Betsy Arakawa, 65, were found together with their dog on February 27. They had been dead for some time before being discovered by a maintenance officer.
The first investigations had excluded death from carbon monoxide poisoning while the autopsy confirmed that Arakawa had died due to the pulmonary syndrome from Hantavirus, a rare disease transmitted by rodents.
The legendary actor was the bearer of a « bi-ventricular pacemaker » who had been included in April 2019. In the autopsy there is also talk of « neurodegenerative characteristics consistent with Alzheimer’s disease ». Furthermore, the autopsy showed « a serious atherosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease, with a steering positioning of the coronary artery and a bypass graft, as well as a previous replacement of the aortic valve ». So we read in the documents that are very detailed and very technical with medical terms
The couple had been found on February 26 by maintenance workers Jesse Kesler and Roland Lowe Begay. Kesler, who had worked as a personal assistant for the couple for 16 years, as soon as he found himself in front of the scene he immediately called the 911. A sworn declaration of the search mandate revealed that Arakawa was found decomposed with swelling on the face and mummification in the hands and feet. And also Hackman was found with the same signs of decomposition as his wife.
The investigators immediately understood that there was something strange And they immediately described the deaths of the couple as « of a quite suspect nature to require in -depth research and investigation » and the New Mexico authorities promptly started a criminal investigation on their death.
In the investigation, he also looked at his wife’s computer: Investigators discovered that he had studied Covid-19 several times and flu-like symptoms before dying. Investigators recovered an e-mail that Arakawa had sent to his masseur on February 11 in which he admitted that Hackman had made a « Covid test » after showing « flu-like/cold-like symptoms ».
Before his e-mail, Arakawa had done research on the « Covid » at least four times between 8 and 11 February before turning to a doctor at the Cloudberry Health center in Santa Fe, in New Mexico.
« These data suggest that Betsy was actively looking for medical conditions related to Covid-19 and flu-like symptoms in the days preceding his death, » says the report.
As for the cause of Arakawa’s death, it is « HantaVirus lung syndrome » which is transmitted from animals to humans and is commonly found in rodents, confirmed the New Mexico health department. In fact, numerous mice were found in the villa of the star. Hantavirus disease spreads through urine, feces and rodents’ saliva. Hantavirus is characterized by « flu-like symptoms that consist of fever, muscle pain, cough, sometimes vomiting and diarrhea that can progress up to lack of breath and heart or cardiac failure and lung failure », explained Dr. Heather Jarrell during a press conference last month.
