Deceased actor Gene Hackman: Heart pacemaker should show the time of death

Oscar winner Gene Hackman (1930-2025) could have died more than a week before he and his wife Betsy Arakawa (1961-2025) were found dead in their house in Santa Fe. , could provide data from his pacemaker about the actor’s time of death.

The responsible sheriff of Santa Fe County announced at a press conference on February 28 that Hackman’s pacemaker was examined. This recorded the last event on February 17 – around nine days before his and Arakawa’s corpses were discovered. “I think that is a very good assumption that this was his last day of life,” said the sheriff.

The bodies of the 95-year-old and his 64-year-old wife and that of their dogs were found on February 26 after a pension employee had raised the alarm when he had not received the residents’ response from the house. The circumstances of death have so far been unclear. According to a search report from which several US media quote, the corpses were in different rooms. Jackman was in the entrance area of ​​the house and Arakawa was found in the bathroom. Nearby, the investigators discovered a can with tablets, some of which are said to have been scattered next to it. For whom the two the medication had been prescribed is not yet known.

What is certain is that the dead have probably been in the property for a long time. The corpses are said to have shown signs of mummification on hands and feet. There are no traces of external violence, but the investigators classified the case as “suspicious”. Initially, the assumption of gas poisoning by carbon monoxide was in the room, but according to the investigation report there was no sign of a gas leak in the house.

The death of one of the couple’s three dogs also gives up a big puzzle. He was found lifeless in the bathroom and is said to have been in a kind of kennel. The other two dogs of the couple met the police alive.

If it should take four to six weeks for all autopsy results, including the result of toxicological studies.