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Final Autopsy Reports Confirm Cause Of Death For Gene Hackman & His Wife Betsy Arakawa
Final autopsy reports have been released for Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa.
His pacemaker showed an abnormal heart rhythm on February 17, the day he likely died, according to New Mexico’s chief medical examiner. The report for Arakawa also confirmed she died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare but potentially fatal disease spread by infected rodent droppings, and that her lungs were fillled with fluid. Married since 1991 and notoriously private, Hackman and Arakawa’s bodies, as well as that of their deceased dog, were first discovered by maintenance workers on the afternoon of February 26.
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