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New details of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s final days released

Arakawa was shown to have been researching medical conditions related to Covid-19 and flu and police bodycam footage from inside the couple’s home released

Authorities on Tuesday released a lengthy investigation report detailing some of the last emails, phone calls and internet searches by Gene Hackman’s wife Betsy Arakawa in the days before her death, indicating that she was scouring for information on flu-like symptoms and breathing techniques. Arakawa died in February of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome – a rare, rodent-borne disease that can led to a range of symptoms that include flu-like illness, headaches, dizziness and severe respiratory distress, investigators said. She also had mentioned in an email to her massage therapist that Hackman had woken up on 11 February with flu or cold-like symptoms but that a Covid-19 test was negative and she would have to reschedule her appointment for the next day “out of an abundance of caution”.

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