Authorities investigating the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa removed a handful of items from the legendary actor’s Santa Fe, New Mexico, home while acting on a search warrant.
They include two green cellular devices, records from a medical diagnostics and health tracking company called MyQuest and a 2025 monthly planner. Officials also removed three types of medicine from the house: Diltiazem, typically used to treat high blood pressure; a thyroid medication; and Tylenol.
The items were enumerated in a search warrant return released Friday and obtained by the Santa Fe New Mexican. More details will likely be released by the Santa Fe County Sheriff at a press conference scheduled for 3 p.m. local time Friday.
Hackman, 95, and Arakawa, 65, were found dead in the home Wednesday during a welfare check, along with one of their dogs.
While the sheriff said there were “no apparent signs of foul play,” the circumstances were “suspicious enough in nature to require a thorough search and investigation.”
According to the affidavit, Hackman’s body was found in a mudroom near his cane, and he appeared to have fallen, while authorities found Arakawa in a bathroom with a space heater near her head.
A countertop near Arakawa had an open prescription bottle and pills scattered on its surface.
Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza told NBC’s Today Show the couple appears to have been deceased for “several days, possibly even up to a couple weeks,” based on the decomposition of their bodies.
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A dead dog was found in the bathroom closet, yet two “healthy” dogs were also found: one inside the home, near Arakawa’s body, and another outside the residence.
The Santa Fe Fire Department found no immediate signs of a carbon monoxide or natural gas leak, but the full results of an autopsy, performed Thursday, are still pending.