Gene Hackman and wife test negative for carbon monoxide poisoning in huge update

Gene Hackman and his wife tested negative for carbon monoxide poisoning. (Image: Getty)

and his wife Betsy Arakawa have tested negative for carbon monoxide poisoning, but their cause of death remains unknown. Santa Fe County Sheriff Aden Mendoza said in a press conference on Friday that he spoke with the pathologist from the New Mexico office of the medical investigator, who said that both Hackman and Arakawa tested negative for carbon monoxide.

The Oscar-winning actor and his wife are believed to have been dead for days or even a couple of weeks when investigators found their bodies while searching the couple’s Santa Fe home on Wednesday. Investigators are trying to figure out the last time anyone saw or spoke to them, Mendoza told NBC’s Today show on Friday.

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