Calls to medical clinic show Betsy Arakawa, Gene Hackman's wife, was alive longer than previously believed

Cellphone records indicate Betsy Arakawa, wife of actor Gene Hackman, was alive a day after her estimated time of death, a New Mexico sheriff's official said Monday.

Cellphone records indicate Betsy Arakawa, wife of actor Gene Hackman, was alive a day after her estimated time of death, a New Mexico sheriff's official said Monday.

Her phone records indicate Arakawa made three calls to Cloudberry, a private medical clinic, on the morning of Feb. 12 and may have missed a return call in the afternoon, Santa Fe County sheriff’s spokesperson Denise Womack Avila said in response to an NBC News inquiry.

The state medical investigator’s office estimated that Arakawa died Feb. 11, seven days before Hackman is believed to have died — Feb. 18.

Maintenance workers found their bodies at their home in Santa Fe on Feb. 26. One of their three dogs was also found dead.

Arakawa was 65. Hackman was 95.