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ARCHIVE: Beverly Hills, California – 19 January 2003
1. STILL of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa arriving at Golden Globe Awards
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Exact location unknown – 7 March 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Victor Weedn, Forensic Pathologist:
"This is a fairly rare cause of death. It happens in the Four Corners area of the country and really not other areas. It it happens, you know, a few times a year in New Mexico is my understanding."
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ARCHIVE: Santa Fe, New Mexico – 27 February 2025
3. STILL of police and vehicles outside home of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa
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Dallas, Texas – 7 March 2027
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Sonja Bartolome, Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center:
"So the initial parts of the illness again body aches, feeling much like having the flu or a severe cold as the illness progresses. And if it’s becoming dangerous or one’s getting the pulmonary syndrome from hantavirus, that will feel more like short windedness. Feeling very short winded just trying to go around the house or doing activities of daily living when may develop a cough that can progressed rapidly.:"
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ARCHIVE: Santa Fe, New Mexico – 27 February 2025
5. STILL Aerial shot of home of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa
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Exact location unknown – 7 March 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Victor Weedn, Forensic Pathologist:
"Yes, this is an unfortunate case in that one person dies and and was really the provider, the caretaker and the other person who was dependent on that caretaker, then later dies because of his Alzheimer’s or other mental diseases. The person who is dependent on on the caretaker who died, they can’t always communicate that to other people. They may or may not be able to care for themselves. And in this particular case, it is quite possible that there might have been some early symptoms that he himself didn’t recognize and didn’t go to to a doctor."
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ARCHIVE: United States (exact location unknown) – March 1993
7. STILL of Gene Hackman and his Academy Award
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Exact location unknown – 7 March 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Victor Weedn, Forensic Pathologist:
Hypertensive heart disease is really quite common, and it really is a killer. People really ought to take their antihypertensive hypertensive medications. It’s really one of the most common causes of death that we see. And it can be very sudden. It can result in arrhythmia, that there’s no prodrome, there’s nothing to suggest it’s about to happen. They just fall dead."
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ARCHIVE: Unknown Location – 1993
9. STILL of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa
STORYLINE:
Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease a full week after his wife died from hantavirus in their New Mexico hillside home, likely unaware that she was dead because he was in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease, authorities revealed Friday.
Authorities didn’t suspect foul play after the bodies of Hackman, 95, and Betsy Arakawa, 65, were discovered Feb 26. Immediate tests for carbon monoxide poisoning were negative.
Hackman’s pacemaker last showed signs of activity a week later and that he had an abnormal heart rhythm Feb. 18, the day he likely died.
Their bodies were found a little over a week later. Hackman was found in the home’s entryway. His death was tied to heart disease with Alzheimer’s disease contributing.
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