Investigations into Gene Hackman's mysterious death with the update of the New Mexico authorities

Santa Fe, NM (AP) – The authorities will reveal more information about an investigation of the death of the actor Gene Hackman and Ms. Betsy Arakawa, whose partly mummified bodies were discovered in their home in New Mexico last month.

The Santa Fe County's sheriff office said it does not suspect a bad game and tests Carbon monoxide poisoning was negative.

Sheriff Adan Mendoza and State Fire, Health and Forensics officers planned a press conference in the afternoon on Friday to get updates from the case.

Mendoza said the couple could have it died up to two weeks Before they were discovered on February 26th. Hackman's pacemaker last showed activities on February 17, nine days before maintenance and security personnel performed in the house and the police made aware of.

Arakawa was found with an open prescription bottle and pills that were scattered on the bathroom switch Hackman was found in the entrance to the house.

One of the three dogs of the couple was also found dead in a box in a bathroom cabinet near Arakawa, while two other dogs survived. Authorities initially The breed incorrectly identified of the dead animal.

The authorities have accessed personal items from the house, including a monthly planner and two mobile phones that are analyzed. Medical investigators have worked to determine the cause of their deaths, but the toxicological reports often take weeks.

When they were found, the bodies decomposed with a little mummification, a sequence of body type and climate in Santa Fe, particularly dry air at a height of almost 7,200 feet (2,200 meters).

Hackman, a Hollywood icon, won two Oscars during a famous career in films such as “The French Connection”, and “The French Connection,” “Hoosiers” And “Superman” from the 1960s to his retirement in the early 2000s.

Arakawa, born in Hawaii, studied as a concert pianist, visited the University of Southern California and met Hackman in the mid -1980s when he worked in a Californian gym.

The couple's house of the Pueblo Revival style is located on a hill in a closed community on the Southern tip of the Rocky Mountains. Santa Fe is known as a refuge for celebrities, artists and authors.

Hackman dedicated a large part of his time in retirement to paint and write of novels that far away from Hollywood's social race track. It served several years in the Board of Trustees of the Georgia O'keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, and he and his wife were investors in local companies.