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Bruce Willis' wife admits Gene Hackman and Betsy's tragic deaths hit home amid actor's dementia battle
Autopsies have revealed how Gene and Betsy died, solving the mystery that hung over them after their corpses were discovered at home earlier this month.
Bruce Willis' wife has admitted that Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa's deaths hit home, amid her own husband's dementia battle. Betsy, 62, succumbed to a rodent-borne disease called hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) on February 11 - and then lay in their Santa Fe house decomposing as Gene, 95, suffering from advanced Alzheimer's, wandered about the luxury property confused and possibly unaware she was even dead. Gene himself eventually lost his life to a cardiovascular disease exacerbated by his Alzheimer's, several days after his wife, with officials noting that the final activity on his pacemaker occurred on February 17.
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