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Emotional 911 caller tells of the search for gene hackman and wife

The authorities investigate the death of the Oscar winner Gene Hackman, his wife and her dog in their house in New Mexico after their partially mummified bodies were found on Wednesday by a maintenance worker.

The MPs of the Santa Fe County Sheriff reacted to the incident and discovered Betsy Arakawa's body in a bathroom with prescription pills, which were scattered on a tip nearby. Hackman's body was found in a separate room, according to an affidavit of the search command, which was submitted to the district court in Santa Fe County. Both bodies showed signs that they had fallen abruptly and were partially decomposed, and they floated in the face and mummification in the hands and feet.

There was no signs of obvious stump trauma, carbon monoxide poisoning or forced entry into the house. Although a dog was found dead in the house, two other dogs ran around the property.

The arriving MPs believed that “the circumstances in connection with the death of the two deceased people are suspicious enough to demand a thorough search and examination,” said the arrest warrant. The Sheriff's office announced in a press release that there were no obvious signs of foul.

The audio of the 911 call from Fox News reveals the shocking moments in front of the police.

The emotional caller, whose name has been reduced, can be heard as he tells the dispatcher that he can see what seems to be one or two immovable bodies in the house. He is shaken by the sight, says repeatedly “damn” and asks the authorities to answer quickly.

“No, they don't move. Please send someone out of here quickly, ”says the caller.

The deputies arrived in the house on the Old Sunset Trail in Santa Fe shortly before 2 p.m. and found that the front door was Ajar. Inside they found Hackman, 95, Arakawa, 64, and the dog.

Arakawa's body was found in a bathroom near a room heater that could have been a representative if she fell abruptly onto the floor according to the arrest warrant.

The sheriff's office said a complete investigation was underway. According to the civil servants, the cause of death is determined by the medical investigator, and the case remains open, with the authorities waiting for complete autopsy and toxicologists.

The first autopsier results showed that there was no external trauma for Hackman or Arakawa.

According to the arrest warrant, the deputies found a dead German shepherd in a bathroom cabinet about 10 to 15 feet from Arakawa.

Hackman's body was found on the floor near the kitchen, and according to the arrest warrant, he suddenly seemed to have been accepted. The deputy found a hiking pipe and sunglasses near his body.

Hackman's daughter Leslie told Fox News Digital that her father was in good health and regularly did yoga and Pilates.

She said she hadn't seen him in a few years, but she stayed close and “in the past few months.”

“I loved him very much,” she told the news page. “He was a really good -hearted person.”

Adan Mendoza, Sheriff of Santa Fe County, told the Santa Fe New Mexican that it was unclear when the couple died.

“I can only say that we are in the middle of a preliminary death examination,” he told the newspaper. “I would like to assure the community and the neighborhood that there is no immediate danger to anyone.”

The maintenance worker, who last had the couple in contact two weeks ago, was in contact with them, according to the arrest warrant.

The deputies found two other dogs on the property, one in the bathroom near Arakawa and the other outside the house, according to the search command. The garage was closed together with other buildings on the property, and there was no signs that the house was “bumped from the residence through the sticks or objects”.

The deputy reported that nothing seemed to be out of place when he had removed the house according to the arrest warrant.

The Santa Fe fire brigade found no signs of carbon monoxide leak or poisoning when they tested the house. There were no direct signs of problems with the gas line in the house, and New Mexico Gas Co. supported the investigation.

As a rule, the couple's maintenance workers were in contact with Arakawa in accordance with the arrest warrant. They spoke to Hackman and Arakawa two weeks earlier and rarely interacted directly with the couple when they did routine tasks around the house.

After the house had been classified as safe, a search order was carried out around 9:30 p.m., and the investigators worked at home overnight, and Hackmans and Arakawa's bodies were transported early Thursday morning.