Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy take their privacy to the tomb. Julia Peters, the legal representative of the deceased couple in February within her residence, has obtained a court order on Monday that temporarily prevents any image obtained inside the house in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Matthew Wilson, the judge who granted that restriction at the request of Peters, has set a hearing by the end of the month to decide whether he maintains or withdraws the prohibition that affects the information related to the death of the actor, 95, and his wife, 65.
The order issued this morning in the first judicial district of New Mexico prevents photographs or any type of images containing the bodies found within the number 1425 of Old Sunset Trail street. Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found on February 26 within the residence in two different rooms by employees of a maintenance company. These called the authorities to notify the finding.
The lifeguards and agents of the Sheriff’s Office of Santa Fe must comply with the judicial prohibition. The document prevents them from making public video fragments recorded by their body cameras. The order slows down the dissemination of photographs inside the house, even if they do not show the bodies. The prohibition includes the photographs of the remains of Zinna, one of the three dogs that the couple lived, who had recently been operated and died at the same time as their owners.
The death of Hackman and his wife, given in strange conditions, aroused a lot of interest in the United States. From the first moment, the authorities ruled out that there are elements that aimed at a robbery or a murder. The different location of people’s bodies and the dog inside the house caused several speculations, however. The authorities determined at a press conference held on March 7 that Arakawa died several days of being found due to a Hantavirus infection. Hackman later perished and was inside his house without food and disoriented by an advanced Alzheimer’s case. The deaths were due to natural causes, the forensic arranged.
New details of death
The press has questioned the official version of the couple’s death, which was together since the mid -80s and had married in 1991. The British newspaper The Daily Mail He affirms that one of Arakawa’s doctors denies that his patient has died on February 11, as reported by Adam Mendoza, the Santa Fe County Sheriff.
“Mrs. Hackman did not die on February 11 because she called my clinic on February 12,” said Dr. Josiah Child a The Daily Mail. At the beginning of the month, Betsy had also called the Cloudberry private center to schedule an appointment for a tomography from her husband. In that call, he also asked for a space to be reviewed on February 12 by a situation that, according to the doctor, “had nothing to do with a respiratory problem.”
The authorities determined that the date of death was on February 11 because there was no email, the favorite form of Arakawa, after that date. The Sheriff Mendoza, however, said on March 7 that they were still waiting to obtain the details of the calls of the two mobiles that the agents of the house took.
Hantavirus is a potentially deadly infection transmitted by coming into contact with urine remains or rodent excrement. The researchers believe that Arakawa confused their symptoms with those of influenza. The police found in their first review of the house medicines such as Tylenol, for pressure and thyroid next to the woman’s body.
The actor, twice Oscar winner, had retired in 2004 from cinema and lived in New Mexico a quiet life away from the reflectors of the film industry. Betsy, a pianist 30 years younger than him, was not only his wife, but also made an agent. On Friday it was reported that the fortune of 80 million dollars of the protagonist of The conversation y The Royal Tenenbaumsonly two housing hits within a long filmography, he was going to be inherited to Betsy, his faithful companion for decades.