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Gene Hackman's Wife Made Calls the Day After Officials Said She Likely Died | TMZ Live
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3/19/2025
Gene Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, made phone calls to a medical center on the morning after the day officials first identified she was believed to have died -- throwing a wrench into the timeline of both their deaths.
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Well, the investigation into Jean Hackman's death
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was not complete, even though the Sheriff's Department
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in Santa Fe said that they believed
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she died on February 11th and that he died a week later.
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That was based upon evidence.
00:12
Where she had been, surveillance cameras.
00:14
And the autopsy.
00:14
But they said that we're still looking at her cell phone
00:19
records to see if she placed any calls,
00:22
but they said she probably did die on February 11th.
00:24
Right.
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Turns out, not true.
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No, because they got the phone records back
00:29
and found out that Betsy made three phone calls on February
00:34
12th to a local medical center.
00:37
Although, they say she was not calling in distress.
00:42
And it was not apparently about the Hantavirus.
00:45
No, it was not about Hantavirus, which she contracted.
00:47
People at the medical center said
00:49
that she was calling about an appointment,
00:51
a future appointment.
00:53
Which is kind of weird, because if she died from Hantavirus
00:56
and was that ill, why wouldn't she have mentioned it?
00:59
Why wouldn't she have mentioned it to the medical office
01:02
with three phone calls?
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So that's part of this mystery.
01:05
Yeah.
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It's very strange, right?
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The three outgoing calls, she might not
01:09
have known the extent of how the sickness was progressing.
01:13
Maybe she wanted to remain calm.
01:14
What's most telling to me, however,
01:16
is that there was one missed call in the other direction,
01:19
from the medical operation.
01:20
Incoming call to her phone.
01:21
Incoming call to her.
01:22
And that might indicate that maybe she
01:24
was OK during the three calls out,
01:26
but then may have passed out on that day.
01:29
So it's possible that she died on the 12th.
01:31
Stevie Derrick, Indianapolis, Indiana.
01:34
I think this entire situation is really strange.
01:36
And I really hope that the investigators
01:38
dig a little deeper into what that phone call and phone
01:41
calls from her would have been.
01:42
And what really happened behind this.
01:44
Because it's so strange to hear that she made a phone call,
01:47
but didn't really tell what happened
01:50
or what was going on with her.
01:51
It's really, really strange.
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The other thing that's odd is, at whatever
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the medical center is, that his death was so high profile.
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And when they held that news conference,
02:01
and they were talking about February 11th,
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you would think they would have called and said, hey,
02:05
we got calls on the 12th.
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Yeah, that they would call the sheriff.
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Right.
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Right.
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Right, it's just odd.
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