Gene Hackman Died of Heart Disease and Alzheimer’s a Week After Betsy Arakawa; Wife’s Cause of Death Determined to Be Hantavirus
variety.com
Gene Hackman died of cardiovascular disease about a week after his wife died of hantavirus, according to the New Mexico medical examiner.

Gene Hackman, who suffered from Alzheimer’s, lived in the house with his dead wife for a week before he died.

Of the three dogs living in the house, one died because it was locked in a carrier and therefore probably starved to death. The two free-living dogs were the only ones to survive.

  • @ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•11 days ago

    Joel?

    But…you can’t imagine a case where a notoriously private couple might not get visitors for a week? Visitors who wouldn’t just leave when no one answered the door, assuming they weren’t home or in the shower or something?