The deaths of Gene Hackman and the woman “suspicious enough” for investigations, according to the warrant | Gene Hackman

An active examination is in the death of the Oscar winner Gene Hackman and his wife, the classic pianist Betsy Arakawa, after her body was found together with that of one of her dogs in her house in New Mexico “in a state of decomposition”, the local sheriff department confirmed.

The local gas provider, the New Mexico Gas Co Co, was involved in the investigation in addition to the Santa Fe County Department, Associated Press reported and stated that the carbon monoxide poisoning was behind the deaths. However, the emergence later on Thursday of a search command occupied doubts about a possible gas leak and asked alternative questions about the discovery of prescription pills near Arakawa's body.

The 95 -year -old Hackman and the 63 -year -old Arakawa were found on Wednesday by MPs in their house in the Hyde Park area of ​​Santa Fe. The sheriff's spokesman said that the foul was not suspected that “the exact cause of death was not determined”.

The spokesman added that the cause of death is probably not known until an autopsy is complete.

Further questions were raised on Thursday after TMZ and Variety received a search command that gave new details about what the MPs had found during their first visit. According to the outlet, the search command shows that Hackman and Arakawa were dead for some time before their body was discovered in their hands and feet as “the body in a state of disassembly with bloating in their face and mummification”.

A prescription bottle was also found on a worktop in the house, with pills being scattered.

According to the search command, Arakawa was found on the floor of a bathroom near the worktop next to a room heater that the MPs believed that they could have plunge and overturn. Hackman's body was in a separate room, fully dressed; The MPs believed that he had had a sudden fall.

The search command showed that no problems with leaks were found in the first search.

TMZ quoted the search order and came to the conclusion that the deaths were “suspicious enough to request a thorough search and examination”.

“I can only say that we are in the middle of a preliminary death examination,” said the sheriff, Adan Mendoza from Santa Fe County, compared to the Santa Fe Fe New Mexican. There were three German German Shepherd in the house at the time when the MPs entered the property, one of which had died in a kennel.

The MPs reported that there were no signs of trauma for the bodies. According to the New York Times, no suicide grade was discovered.

The couple had lived in New Mexico since 2004 when Hackman from Hollywood went back. They married in 1991.

Elizabeth Jean Hackman, the daughter of the actor and one of his three children with Faye Malteser, said TMZ that the family suspected that carbon monoxide poisoning could be to blame.

She told the outcome that they were not sure, but that they thought that poisonous vapors could be the cause of death.