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Records show Gene Hackman's wife researched symptoms of illness days before her death


Authorities released an investigation report detailing some of the last emails, phone calls and internet searches by Gene Hackman's wife in the days before her death.

Authorities on Tuesday released a lengthy investigation report detailing some of the last emails, phone calls and internet searches by Gene Hackman's wife in the days before her death, indicating that she was scouring for information on flu-like symptoms and breathing techniques. Betsy 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 have said. A state veterinary lab tied the dog's death to dehydration and starvation.An attorney for the estate, Kurt Sommer, argued during a hearing last month that the couple had taken great pains to stay out of the public light during their lifetimes and that the right to control the use of their names and likenesses should extend to their estate in death.The Associated Press, CBS News and CBS Studios intervened in the matter, saying in court filings that they would not disseminate images of the couple's bodies and would blur images to obscure them from other records.___Associated Press writers Rio Yamat in Las Vegas and Jacques Billeaud in Phoenix contributed to this report.

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