What we know about the death of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa

The legendary Hollywood actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead in their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico on Wednesday, which caused the investigator to describe their death as “suspicious”.

The corpses of Hackman (95) and Arakawa (65) were found in separate rooms, according to the Sheriff’s Office of the Santa Fe County. One of her dogs was also found dead.

Hackman was an Oscar winner who was best known for roles in “The French Connection”, “The Convers” and “unforgives”. Arakawa was a classic pianist.

Here is what we know about your death.

How did you die?

It remains unclear how Hackman and Arakawa died and the officials examine the circumstances.

The sheriff’s office said on Thursday afternoon that no cause of death had been found. Officials said that no signs of a foul are recognizable, and an autopsy did not find an external trauma for Hackman or Arakawa.

Toxicology and carbon monoxide tests were requested for both, and the results are still out of the question, according to the sheriff office.

According to an affidavit, the fire brigade of Santa Fe City did not find any signs of carbon monoxide leak or poisoning, and New Mexico Gas Co. found no evidence that there was a problem with the pipes in and around the house.

“Circumstances in connection with the death of the two deceased people who are suspicious in nature enough to request a thorough search and examination,” said the affidavit.

When were they found?

Hackman and Arakawa were found on Wednesday afternoon after someone called 911 to report the corpses. Sheriff Adan Mendoza said on Thursday that the couple was “for a while”.

A pest control worker was in the residence on Wednesday and noticed that the couple was not at home, which was apparently unusual. The worker contacted a security officer in the subdivision who went into the house and discovered the couple inside, said Mendoza.

A man who described himself as a caretaker of the subdivision called 911 to report the corpses according to the Call audio. He said that the door was closed and that he couldn’t go in, but that he saw it through the window and that it did not move.

Two maintenance workers stated that they found the couple’s front door when they followed the residence after the affidavit.

The MPs of Santa Fe County “did not observe any signs of forced entry into the house,” said the affidavit.

Where were they found?

According to an affidavit, the MEPs found Arakawa’s body on the ground of a bathroom. There was a room heating near her head, and an open prescription bottle was on the counter with pills that were “scattered on the other side”. It was not immediately clear what kind of pills they were.

The MPs suspected: “The heating could have fallen if the woman fell abruptly to the ground.”

Then they found the dead dog, a German German Shepherd, about 10 to 15 feet from Arakawa in a closet in the bathroom.

When the MPs cleared the house, they found Hackman in the Mudroom of the house, and the MPs believed that he could suddenly have fallen, says the affidavit.

According to an affidavit, both bodies showed “obvious signs of death”. Arakawas also showed signs of a “body decomposition”.

According to the affidavit, two other dogs were found alive on the property. One was in the bathroom near Arakawa and the other outside the house.

What do we know about the investigation?

The examination continues.

When demanding for a “thorough search and investigation”, the officers of the affidavit cited a number of curiosities that were found in the residence: the freedom -switched front door, the room heating on the bathroom floor, the open pill bottle with scattered pills, the presence of two living dogs and a third, which was dead, the fact that Hackman in a separate space from Arakawa and without obvious signs of gas delicacies in a separate room.

After found the couple, the MPs searched the rest of the property and found nothing else “out of place”, according to the affidavit. All other buildings on the property and the garage were closed, and there was no evidence that the house was “taken through the interference or objects”.

Although there was no clear evidence of a bad game, Mendoza said on Thursday that the investigators do not rule out anything.

According to Mendoza, the investigators collected information about the pills near Arakawa.

“This is obviously a very important proof of the crime scene,” he says on Friday in NBC’s “Today”. “So yes, we look at this specifically and other medication that may have been in the residence. That is something important. “

When asked whether it is known how long the couple had been dead, Mendoza said to “Today”: “It is very difficult to put together a timeline, even with the help of the medical investigator’s office, only based on your body and others on the body. It seems that a few days, possibly up to a few weeks.”

He said the autopsy was the key to the investigation and a toxicological report could take up to three months or more.

The investigators also put together a timeline of the past few weeks of the couple and try to determine when they were last seen and spoken and determine whether they have passed at the same time.

What did the family say?

In a short explanation on Thursday, Hackman’s family said that he was “loved and admired from millions around the world for his brilliant acting career, but for us he was only dad and grandpa”.

“We will miss him very much and are destroyed by the loss,” said Elizabeth, Leslie and Annie Hackman.

This article was originally published on nbcnews.com