Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa tested negative for carbon monoxide, officials say

Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, tested negative for carbon monoxide poisoning officials said Friday as they continue to investigate what caused the couple's deaths.

Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, tested negative for carbon monoxide poisoning officials said Friday as they continue to investigate what caused the couple's deaths.

The pair were found dead at their Santa Fe, New Mexico, home Wednesday. Hackman likely died more than a week earlier — on Feb. 17, the last day his pacemaker recorded an “event," Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said at a Friday news conference.

“I think that is a very good assumption, that that was his last day of life,” Mendoza said.

Both Hackman and Arakawa tested negative for carbon monoxide poisoning, Mendoza said, but added that the pathologist would be the one to rule out the poisonous gas as the cause of death.

He also said it was likely neither Hackman nor Arakawa had a fatal fall, because there was "no trauma indicated on the body," he said Friday.

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