
Gene Hackman death mystery deepens: Doctor claims wife Betsy Arakawa called him a day after authorities report she had died
Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, has taken a bizarre turn. A Santa Fe doctor has come forward with a shocking claim that Arakawa called his clinic a full 24 hours after authorities claimed she had died—throwing the official timeline into question and adding another layer of mystery to the unfolding saga.
Dr. Josiah Child, a physician at Cloudberry Health in Santa Fe, has contradicted the medical examiner’s report, which stated that 65-year-old Arakawa died on February 11 from hantavirus, a rare respiratory disease transmitted by rodents. But according to Dr. Child, she was very much alive the next morning.
“She called back on the morning of February 12 and spoke to one of our doctors,” Dr. Child revealed. “She was supposed to come in that afternoon for an appointment. But she never showed up.”
Even more perplexing is the fact that Arakawa had already canceled a prior appointment, allegedly citing her husband’s declining health.
The couple’s bodies were discovered in their Santa Fe home a week later, with Arakawa’s lifeless form found in the bathroom near scattered pill bottles and Hackman, 95, collapsed in a utility room. Authorities initially ruled their deaths as unrelated and due to natural causes—Hackman’s being attributed to heart failure and complications from Alzheimer’s.
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