Gene Hackmans House had no “significant” gas, carbon monoxide leaks: gas company

In connection with the death of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa, the authorities published a new update of the New Mexico Gas Company on March 4. In the explanation, the likelihood that the couple will have died of carbon monoxide poisoning continues.

The New Mexico Gas Company (NMGC) conducted a comprehensive examination for gas leaks and carbon monoxide “in the couple's house on February 26, the 95 -year -old actor and his wife, 64, when the couple was found. After the press release on Tuesday, there were no significant results.”

“NMGC exhibited five red tags. A red day was on one of the stove burners for a tiny leak (0.33% gas in air – no fatal amount).

On Friday, the investigators announced that both Hackman and Arakawa had negatively tested for carbon monoxide poisoning. Both showed no signs of external trauma. The police are waiting for the results of a toxicological report that determines the cause and type of death.

Adan Mendoza, Sheriff of Santa Fe County, said that a complete autopsy report will be “the key to this investigation”. The last day of Hackman's life was probably February 17th when his pacemaker recorded his “last event”.

One of the three dogs from Hackman and Arakawa was found dead near their body. There was some confusion about which dog died when the police initially said it was the couple's German German Shepherd. However, this dog lives with a friend of the family. A mixed dog named Zinna was died.

Joey Padilla, an owner of dog care who worked with the couple's dogs for a decade, spoke with Fox News Digital about what the protectors Arakawa was from her husband and pets.

“You know, after Covid she was very precise to bring people around genes. So she was super protective,” said Padilla. He added that Arakawa and Zinna “were tied to the hip”.

“It is difficult to explain and record how much these dogs meant for these people,” he said.

Padilla told the outlet that it was at least a month since he last saw Arakawa.

Friends of the couple have given various interviews to media business in recent years that paint a similar picture of the withdrawn life of Hackman and Arakawa.

A couple Santa Fe, Barbara Lenihan (75) and her husband Daniel Lenihan, were long -time friends of the couple. They told the New York Post that the couple had become increasingly “insular”.

“We used to spend a lot of time in your house, but it was a while since you had had to have others,” she said. “They were a little island and that was fine, it was only more difficult for them to have people.”

Daniel said it was “years” since he personally seen Hackman. Barbara saw Arakawa at the beginning of this year and informed the outlet that they had corresponded by e -mail in the past few weeks.

Hackman's friends and his children offered public perspectives of his health before his death.

Leslie Ann Hackman, one of his three children from a previous marriage, told him Daily Mail “There was no indication that there was a problem” with his health.

“Despite his age, he was in very good physical condition,” she said, but admitted that she hadn't spoken to him in the months before his death.