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The gas company confirms “no significant results”

The New Mexico Gas Company confirmed “no significant results” when examining the home of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa, which were found dead last week.

Santa Fe County's Sheriff's Office announced on Tuesday that natural gas is “not assumed as a factor for deaths, but that the report of the gas company will be forwarded to the medical investigator's office. Autopo speeches are still pending.

The workers found a “tiny” gas leak on one of the oven burners and registered 0.33% gas in the air, which was not enough to be fatal, the sheriff's office said. The gas company also found four other violations of the “Red Day” with a hot water and three gas bread in fireplaces, but none of these problems concerned a gas leak or carbon monoxide.

Sheriff Adan Mendoza confirmed last Friday that Hackman and Arakawa's bodies had negatively tested on carbon monoxide, which was apparently excluded as the cause of death.

The corpses were found on Wednesday afternoon by maintenance workers in the extensive house outside of Santa Fe. Arakawa was found on the bathroom floor while Hackman was found in the mud room next to the kitchen. A dog was also found dead, although two other dogs seemed to be healthy.

The investigators believe that both the 65 -year -old Arakawa and the 95 -year -old Hackman fell to the ground. A pill bottle was found on the bathroom switch together with pills that were scattered on the worktop.

At a press conference on Friday, Mendoza said that the “last event”, which was recorded on Hackman's pacemaker, was nine days before her discovery on February 17th.

Detectives have won two mobile phones, medication and a monthly planner in the search for the house. There was no security video. The Sheriff's office said from the start that it was not a bad game, although the case was “suspicious” enough to justify further investigations.