The county sheriff’s office have confirmed that Betsy Arakawa made the phone call on 12 February disproving their initial belief that she had died a day earlierA private healthcare clinic in New Mexico has cast doubt on official findings about the timing of the death of Gene Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, claiming that she rang them on 12 February – the day after police say she died.Dr Josiah Child, the head of Cloudberry Health in Santa Fe, where the couple lived, told the Mail on Sunday: “Mrs Hackman didn’t die on 11 February because she called my clinic on 12 February.” Continue reading...
A New Mexico clinic claims Gene Hackman's wife, Betsy Arakawa, called them on February 12th, contradicting the official date of death of February 11th determined by the county sheriff's office, who have since confirmed Arakawa made multiple calls to a health clinic on February 12th. Arakawa reportedly made an appointment for herself, cancelled it due to her husband's illness, and then rebooked and spoke to one of the clinic's doctors that morning. Questions are also being raised about the cause of death, hantavirus, as the clinic doctor says most patients who have that diagnosis die in hospital.