Gene Hackman Death Bodycam Footage & Autopsy Not To Be Made Public, For Now
deadline.comThe very private Gene Hackman will be allowed to retain some of that privacy posthumously, at least for a few more weeks. Almost three weeks after the two-time Oscar winner and spouse Betsy Arakawa were discovered dead at their Santa Fe home, a New Mexico judge Monday granted their estate’s request to seal medical records.
As well, Judge Matthew Wilson has sealed all police photos and video footage of the couple’s bodies and one of their dogs when they were found February 26.
Suffering from Alzheimer’s and heart disease, the 95-year-old Hackmanis assumed to have died on or about February 18, according to New Mexico authorities.
That was almost a week after 63-year-old Arakawa is said to have died as a result in part of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, a disease primarily spread by rodents’ feces, as state medical officials and Santa Fe County Sheriff Adam Mendoza revealed.
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