Background of severe heart disease, several heart attacks and Alzheimer’s in a very advanced state. This is what reflects the final autopsy, which reveals the delicate state of health of the actor, which. The interpreter had “history of congestive heart failure” and “serious chronic hypertensive changes in the kidneys”, according to the document to which he has had access to New Mexico (United States), a state where the well -known performer and his wife, the pianist Betsy Arakawa, died days before a virus contracted by an infection caused by rodents resided. Since April 2019, Hackman had a “Bi Ventricular pacemaker” and “Neurodegenerative characteristics consisting of Alzheimer’s disease,” according to autopsy. These results have come to light two months after Santa Fe (New Mexico), on February 26, 2025, almost 10 days after their deaths: Hackman between February 17 and 18 and Arakawa on 13.
“The autopsy revealed a severe atherosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease, with placement of stents in the coronary artery and a bypass graft, as well as a previous replacement of the aortic valve,” reads the documents to which he has had access Fox and that have reproduced numerous media. Remote myocardial infarctions were also observed that affected the left ventricle and septum, which were significantly large. On the state of his neurodegenerative disease, the microscopic examination of the brain showed findings that the Alzheimer’s was in an advanced state.
At the time of his death, Hackman had traces of acetone in his system, which could be “product of a diabetes -induced ketoacidosis and fasting, as well as a metabolism after the ingestion of isopropanol”, it is indicated in the report. The toxicological test of the interpreter showed acetone levels of 5.3 mg/dl, being the normal levels of up to 0.3 mg/dl, according to the autopsy. These findings are consistent with a prolonged level of fasting.
due to a heart failure, while Alzheimer’s and kidney disease were contributing factors to his death. “Mr. Hackman showed advanced Alzheimer’s signs and his state of health was very bad,” the autopsy manager, at a press conference held in Santa Fe on March 7, 2025. The doctor determined the death of the actor and that of his wife were due to natural causes.
Arakawa died at age 65, a week before her husband, around February 13, because of respiratory symptoms caused by, as confirmed by the New Mexico Department of Health. According to the pianist had searches online They suggested that he had been investigating medical conditions with symptoms similar to Covid and the flu before his death. The forensic doctor in charge of the case indicated that Hackman, on the other hand, gave negative in the Hantavirus test: “The carbon monoxide test showed a saturation of less than 5%, within the normal limits.”
The bodies of the marriage were found on February 26 by maintenance workers of the couple, who were the ones called 911. At first, the police suspected that. At first it cost to determine the reasons for deaths because – of the thyroid and common analgesics—
A week after the bodies were discovered, on March 5, 2025, the Department of Public Health of New Mexico carried out a health evaluation in marriage ownership. The department staff, led by the veterinary head of the service, Erin Phopps, determined that in the main residence of the complex in which marriage lived everything was clean and clear: there were no signs of rodent activity and the health risk was low. However, . Rodent stool were found in three garages, three sheds and two other small homes located inside the property. In addition, in the three garages there were also rodent nests, as well as one of them dead and another alive. In fact, even in two vehicles that were also on the property – which in the report appear as “abandoned vehicles or agricultural equipment” – there were signs of rodents, a nest and feces. There were also several active traps for them, which suggests that marriage (or at least their workers) knew that there was an active problem and were trying to control it.
Hackman had three children of his previous marriage with Faye Maltese – Christopher, 65, Elizabeth, 62, and Leslie, 58— But. In his will, dated September 1995, the actor left everything to Arakawa. And in that of the pianist and businesswoman, it was stipulated that she left everything to Hackman and, if not, she would go to a beneficial background according to her “beneficial preferences and interests” and those of her husband.
