Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza and the city’s Fire Department Chief, Brian Moya, gave a cryptic update regarding the death of Gene Hackman and his wife.
Hackman, 95, and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, 65, were found dead in their New Mexico home along with one of their dogs on Wednesday. The couple’s other two dogs were found elsewhere on the property, still alive and in good health.
During an appearance on The Today Show on Friday, Mendoza revealed that the department is not “ruling [foul play] out.”
He stipulated that authorities are “pretty confident there's no foul play just based on the lack of evidence” found at the scene. "But we, of course, are not ruling that out,” Mendoza continued. “I think the autopsy results, the official results, are going to help steer us in the right direction.” He said that while Hackman and Arakawa’s autopsies will “take some time,” the outcomes will be “key” to the investigation. Mendoza admitted that it’s “very difficult to put a timeline together” regarding their deaths, but he admitted Hackman and Arakawa may have been dead for “up to a couple of weeks” before they were found.
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"When we arrived on scene, my paramedics did do an evaluation,” Moya explained, “and it was obvious [that they were dead]. We didn't do any life-saving measures, so at the time, we didn't need to get any closer due to the fact that it was an obvious sudden death.”
Moya didn’t rule out the possibility of a gas leak or carbon monoxide poisoning, but evidence at the scene didn’t suggest either. "At the time of the incident, we did not determine anything that was in the house with our meters that was concerning to our guys doing the searches," he said.
Hackman and Arakawa’s bodies are currently at the Office of the Medical Investigator in Santa Fe. Autopsies were conducted, but their cause of death have not been confirmed.
from Men's Journal https://ift.tt/lSg2sON
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