Santa Fe, New Mexico – Jesse Kesler, a man who urgently called 911 after finding his bodies Gene Hackman and Betsy ArakawaHe is still upset about the mysterious death of the couple.
Kesler, who knew the couple well, refused to describe what he saw when he arrived at the acting home and made a terrible discovery on February 26, but said Fox News Digital that he was “broken from the heart.” The owner of the Mudcity Builders in Santa Fe, served as a personal contractor for Hackman and Arakaw for over 16 years.
Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa were found on Wednesday at their Santa Fe house, New Mexico. (Donaldson Collection/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Authorities believe that Hackman, who was 95, and Arakawa, who was 63 years old, was dead for over a week, but have not yet determined the cause of anyone’s death.
Audio Kesler’s call 911 has received Fox News Channel on Wednesday. In it, Kesler frantically declared that the police immediately rushed to a residence in New Mexico. The recording can be heard by telling the operator that he “found two or one deceased person[s] inside the house. “
“Please send someone really fast,” Kesler called.
Kesler said that Hackman and Arakawa treated people “like gold”, and that he, his son and all his employees remembered only pleasant encounters with a spouse.
The death of Gene Hackman and the wife called “suspicious,” bodies showed signs of “mumification”
Leading to a strange death, Kesler said he never noticed anything unusual and wanted people to remember Hackman and Arakawa as “beautiful people, cordial and generous.”
Hackman and Arakawa were “beautiful people, cordial and generous.”
Criminal investigation o The death of Hackman And his wife was launched on Wednesday after the authorities in Novi Mexico considered death cases, and one of their dogs, suspicious. Officials have confirmed that no external trauma has been noticed on Hackman or Arakawa either, and the case remains open until the results of autopsy and toxicology.
Gene Hackman of 1988, “Full Moon on Blue Water.” (Media Home Entertainment/Everett Collection)
Hackman and Arakawa bodies tested negatively to carbone monoxide and Conquering The actor probably died for about nine days before the authorities discovered, the officials revealed.
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During Friday’s press conference, Santa Santa Fe Sheriff Adan Mendoza confirmed that the last event was recorded on Hackman’s landscape of Paysmeker on February 17th. Asked if he was on February 17 – nine days before his body was found – he could have been the day Hackman died, Mendoza noted that it was a logical conclusion.
The law officials talk on Thursday to talk outside the house of actor Gene Hackman. (AP Photo/Roberto Rosales)
“According to the pathologist, I think it is a very good assumption that it was his last day,” Mendoza said. He also confirmed after a discussion with the medical examiner that Hackman and his wife “tested negatively on carbon monoxide.”
“The way and the cause of death are not determined,” Mendoza said.
Listen: Gene Hackman 911 Call
Although Kesler refused to elaborate on what he saw, he heard him sound crying and repeatedly saying, “Damn,” while the dispenser talked to the paramedics.
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“[The house] is closed. It is locked. I can’t get in, “he said.” But I see that she is lying on the floor from the window. “
The caller told the dispatcher that Hackman and his wife were not “awake” or “awake”.
Hackman was a award -winning actor whose career has stretched for decades. (Paul Natkin/Getty Images)
“No, man, they don’t move! Just send someone here really fast!” The man on call 911 said urgently.
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Fox News Digital, Larry Fink and Stephanie Giang Paunon contributed to this report.
