Santa Fe, New Mexico – Jesse Kesler Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawastill uneasy about the couple’s mysterious death.
Kesler knew the couple well, refusing to describe what he saw when he arrived at the actor’s house and made a creepy discovery on February 26 but told Fox News Digital he was “heartbroken.” He is the owner of Mudcity Builders in Santa Fe and has been a private contractor for Hackman and Arakawa for more than 16 years.
Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa died Wednesday in Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Donaldson Collection/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Authorities believe Hackman, 95, and Arakawa, 63, have been dead for more than a week, but no cause of any death has been determined.
The audio of Kesler 911 phone was obtained on Wednesday by Fox News Channel. In it, Kessler begged frantically to rush to his residence in New Mexico immediately. In the recording, he can be heard telling the operator that he “found two or one dead persons”[s] In the house. ”
Kessler urged: “Please send it to someone very quickly.”
Kesler said Hackman and Arakawa treated people “like gold” and he, his son and all his employees remember meeting the couple.
Kesler said that leading to a strange death, he never noticed anything unusual, and he wanted people to remember that Hackman and Arakawa were “beautiful people, kind and generous people.”
Hackman and Arakawa are “beautiful people, kind and generous.”
right hackman dies His wife launched on Wednesday after New Mexico authorities believed the death and the death of one of the dogs. Officials confirmed that no external trauma was seen on Hackman or Arakawa, and that the case is still open for autopsy and toxicological results.
Gene Hackman in the 1988 film Full Moon on Blue Water. (Media Family Entertainment/Everett Series)
Hackman and Arakawa’s corpses poisoned carbon monoxide and Winning the Oscar Officials revealed that the actor may have died about nine days before authorities discovered his body.
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At a Friday press conference, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza confirmed that the last event mentioned on Hackman’s pacemaker was February 17. When asked about February 17 (nine days before his body was found), it might be the day Hackman died, Mendoza noted that it was a logical conclusion.
Law enforcement officers spoke at the home of actor Gene Hackman on Thursday. (AP Photo/Roberto Rosales)
“I think this is a good assumption for the last day of his life, according to pathologists,” Mendoza said. After he also discussed with medical examiners, he confirmed that Hackman and his wife “tested negatively on carbon monoxide.”
“The way and cause of death have not been determined yet,” Mendoza said.
Listen to: Gene Hackman 911 Phone
Although Kesler refused to elaborate on what he saw, while the dispatcher talked to the paramedics, he heard the audio crying and repeatedly said, “Damn it.”
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“[The house] Closed. It is locked. I can’t go in. “He said. “But I saw her lying on the floor through the window. ”
The caller told the dispatcher that Hackman and his wife were not “wake” or “alarm.”
Hackman is an award-winning actor who has spanned decades of career. (Paul Natkin/Getty Images)
“No, man, they didn’t move! Just sent someone here soon!” the man on the 911 phone said urgently.
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Larry Fink and Stephanie Giang-Paunon of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.
