New body camera footage reveals scene outside Gene Hackman’s home after he was found dead

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and the workers said they didn’t see how that could have been the case.“Something’s not right,” one of the workers said.Authorities soon determined there were no leaks that could have been fatal, further fueling a mystery that captured the public’s attention.It was solved about a week later when medical investigators confirmed that Hackman died of heart disease with complications from Alzheimer’s about a week after hantavirus pulmonary syndrome — a rare, rodent-borne disease — took the life of his wife.The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office released only some of the footage from the investigation.A New Mexico court last week granted a temporary restraining order against the release of any photographs and video showing Hackman and his wife inside of their home.Hackman’s estate had filed the petition to withhold images, citing the need to protect the family’s constitutional right to privacy in grief under the 14th Amendment.Workers who had maintained the property talked to investigators about respecting Hackman and Arawaka’s privacy.

One worker described Arawaka as a private person.The body camera footage also shows brief sightings of one of the couple’s dogs running in the wooded hills on their property on the edge of Santa Fe.

A man who identified himself to officers as a dog trainer who cared for the couple’s pet dogs said the couple were “nuts” about their dogs.“There’s toys everywhere around the property,” he said.In a separate video, Arakawa’s hairdresser told investigators that his client took the dogs with her everywhere and that the smallest one would often hang out inside the salon with them during her visits.That dog was found inside a crate, not far from Arakawa’s body.