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Sheriff Answers Questions About Gene Hackman's Final Days.

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Law Enforcement, Military, Crime, True Crime

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Sheriff Answers Questions About Gene Hackman's Final Days Gene Hackman is a Hollywood legend, starring in iconic films like The French Connection, Superman, and Unforgiven. But despite his illustrious career, Hackman has been noticeably absent from the spotlight in recent years. What happened to Gene Hackman in his final days? The death of his wife Betsy Arakawa and the fact that he lived for perhaps one week longer than her gives people pause, did his Alzheimer's prevent him from knowing she was dead?

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0:00.0

We will go ahead and take questions. I ask that there be one question per agency.

0:05.0

And please state who you're directing the question to as there's several individuals here at this conference.

0:14.0

Sir.

0:15.0

Does this mean Gene Hackman was likely to call with his deceased wife for a week before he passed away himself?

0:23.9

Yes, I would assume that that is the case.

0:27.1

Do you would have given his Alzheimer's status that Mr. Hackman was able to live on his own and survive for those seven days?

0:34.3

I think that's more a question.

0:36.7

Maybe for Dr. Drell.

0:38.3

Just for just to repeat, so that everyone could hear the question was, do we believe that Mr. Hackman was able to live on his own and survive?

0:50.3

The answer to that question is that Mr. Hackman showed evidence of advanced Alzheimer's disease.

0:59.7

I'm not aware of what his normal daily functioning capability was.

1:06.0

He was in a very poor state of health.

1:08.7

He had significant heart disease, And I think ultimately that is what

1:13.1

resulted in his, in his death. I did, I was able to look at fluid to determine if he was dehydrated.

1:25.0

And I did not see evidence of dehydration.

1:28.3

I did see evidence of very poor kidney function and I think he died as a result of his heart disease

1:38.3

and with Alzheimer's being that contributing factor.

1:41.3

What about starvation?

1:43.3

The question was what about starvation?

1:47.0

So there was no food in his stomach, which means he had not eaten recently, but he had also no evidence of dehydration. So based on your understanding of the progression of the Alzheimer's, do you believe that he was possibly not aware that his one had died or didn't know what to do in that situation?

2:12.6

It's difficult to answer. The question was, was he aware that Ms. Hackman had died?

2:19.3

And I think that question is difficult to answer, but I can tell you that he was in an advanced state of Alzheimer's,

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