Pills Found by Wife’s Body Identified

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The investigation into the deaths of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa has yielded new findings.

After the couple and one in all their three canines had been discovered useless of their New Mexico dwelling Feb. 26, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza supplied new particulars about vital proof within the case.

Arakawa, 65, was discovered mendacity on the toilet flooring with an area heater and an open bottle of prescription medicine close by with tablets “scattered on the counter-top,” per an affidavit for the search warrant obtained by NBC Information Feb. 27. The medicines taken from the house had been an unspecified thyroid medicine, the painkiller Tylenol and the blood stress medicine Diltiazem, based on the outlet.

Investigators additionally collected data from MyQuest—a web-based well being lab outcomes portal—in addition to a 2025 month-to-month planner and two inexperienced cellphones utilizing the warrant.

Earlier within the day, Mendoza harassed the significance of the pills amid the continuing investigation, characterizing them as “one thing of concern.”

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“That’s clearly essential proof on the scene,” he informed Savannah Guthrie throughout an interview on Today. “That info was collected, that info was handed to the workplace of the medical investigator to assist them make a willpower. So we’re taking a look at that particularly and different medicines that had been presumably within the residence.”

Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa — Ron Galella/Ron Galella Assortment through Getty Photos

The sheriff additionally famous {that a} full toxicology report “might take as much as three months and even presumably longer” to finish, however added that his staff is “hoping it comes prior to later.”

In the meantime, authorities have ruled out the possibility that the couple and their canine died of carbon monoxide poisoning after each Hackman and Arakawa examined adverse for the substance, Mendoza mentioned in a Feb. 28 press convention. Nevertheless, he famous that police might revisit the trigger if “there’s one thing else that comes again within the toxicology report.”

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