{"id":7753,"date":"2025-04-26T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=7753"},"modified":"2025-04-26T05:00:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T05:00:56","slug":"more-police-videos-show-early-days-of-gene-hackman-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=7753","title":{"rendered":"More police videos show early days of Gene Hackman investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — <\/span>Authorities released more videos Friday related to their investigation of the deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, including images of agents returning to the couple’s Santa Fe home days after they were found to look for more evidence.<\/p>\n

The bodies of Hackman, 95, and Arakawa, 65, were discovered Feb. 26 after maintenance and security workers called police.<\/p>\n

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office has been releasing redacted records on a rolling basis since a recent court order allowing them to be made public as long as any images of the dead couple are obscured. More are expected.<\/p>\n

The latest release includes hours of police body camera video and builds on what has already been made public<\/a>, including a lengthy investigative report, photos and hours of body camera and security video showing the initial police response.<\/p>\n

The new videos show authorities interviewing workers and returning to the home to search for more evidence early on in the investigation before they knew how Hackman and Arakawa died.<\/p>\n

An hourlong video shows detectives searching the home in early March for Arakawa\u2019s laptop and any other clues. Representatives of Arakawa\u2019s family let them inside the house and led them to the bathroom where her body was found.<\/p>\n

In another video, detectives are reviewing security videos at a pharmacy for any footage of Arakawa in mid-February.<\/p>\n

The employee helping them asks what they’re looking for, and one of the detectives says a woman is dead.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re trying to see her last moments,\u201d the detective says.<\/p>\n

Another video shows a man who does pest control on the property telling officers that he has not seen Hackman in at least a month, but that it is normal to not see or talk to the couple during his monthly visits.<\/p>\n

The last time he saw Hackman, he says, they waved to each other but did not speak.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was looking frail,\u201d the worker says. \u201cHe was bent over with a cane. His hair was sort of wild.\u201d<\/p>\n

Authorities say Arakawa died of the rare hantavirus pulmonary syndrome<\/a>, a rodent-borne disease that can cause a range of symptoms including flu-like illness, headaches, dizziness and severe respiratory distress. Hackman is believed to have died about a week later of heart disease with complications from Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n

One of the couple\u2019s three dogs<\/a> also was found dead in a crate near Arakawa’s body, while two other dogs were found alive. A state veterinary lab attributed the dog\u2019s death to dehydration and starvation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Authorities released more videos Friday related to their investigation of the deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, including images of agents returning to the couple’s Santa Fe home days after they were found to look for more evidence. The bodies of Hackman, 95, and Arakawa, 65, were discovered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7755,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753\/revisions\/7755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}