Gene Hackman cause of death revealed as sheriff says his wife died from rare virus linked to rodents a week before he did
succumbing to complications from heart problems and Alzheimer’s disease, officials revealed Friday.Betsy Arakawa died of Hantavirus, a rare flu-like disease linked to rodents, the Santa Fe officials said.Arakawa’s last left her and Hackman’s home on Feb.
11 which was also the last time she sent out any communications, according to Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza.She died of the virus likely that day, New Mexico Chief Medical Examiner Heather Jarrell said at a highly anticipated press conference Friday afternoon.Hackman, who had late stage Alzheimer’s likely died roughly a week after his wife from hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and from Alzheimer’s, Jarrell said.The bodies of Hackman, 95, and Arakawa, 65, were discovered by maintenance and security workers at their Santa Fe, New Mexico, mansion on Feb.
26.The two-time Oscar winner was found in the mud room of the home near his cane and sunglasses while his pianist wife was discovered in a bathroom with an open prescription bottle and pills scattered on the counter.One of their three dogs, Zinnia, was also found dead in a crate in the bathroom closet near Arakawa.
Their two other dogs, Bear, a German Shepherd and Nikita, an Akita-Shepherd mix survived and were found roaming inside and outside the property.The couple’s bodies had begun decomposing and partially mummifying due to the dry air and high altitude of the area – located at the southern point of the Rocky Mountains.The last detected activity on the “Hoosiers” star’s pacemaker registered on Feb.
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