Gene Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, made phone calls to a medical center on the morning after the day officials first identified she was believed to have died -- throwing a wrench into the timeline of both their deaths.
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00:00Well, the investigation into Jean Hackman's death
00:02was not complete, even though the Sheriff's Department
00:05in Santa Fe said that they believed
00:07she died on February 11th and that he died a week later.
00:10That was based upon evidence.
00:12Where she had been, surveillance cameras.
00:14And the autopsy.
00:14But they said that we're still looking at her cell phone
00:19records to see if she placed any calls,
00:22but they said she probably did die on February 11th.
00:24Right.
00:25Turns out, not true.
00:26No, because they got the phone records back
00:29and found out that Betsy made three phone calls on February
00:3412th to a local medical center.
00:37Although, they say she was not calling in distress.
00:42And it was not apparently about the Hantavirus.
00:45No, it was not about Hantavirus, which she contracted.
00:47People at the medical center said
00:49that she was calling about an appointment,
00:51a future appointment.
00:53Which is kind of weird, because if she died from Hantavirus
00:56and was that ill, why wouldn't she have mentioned it?
00:59Why wouldn't she have mentioned it to the medical office
01:02with three phone calls?
01:03So that's part of this mystery.
01:05Yeah.
01:06It's very strange, right?
01:07The three outgoing calls, she might not
01:09have known the extent of how the sickness was progressing.
01:13Maybe she wanted to remain calm.
01:14What's most telling to me, however,
01:16is that there was one missed call in the other direction,
01:19from the medical operation.
01:20Incoming call to her phone.
01:21Incoming call to her.
01:22And that might indicate that maybe she
01:24was OK during the three calls out,
01:26but then may have passed out on that day.
01:29So it's possible that she died on the 12th.
01:31Stevie Derrick, Indianapolis, Indiana.
01:34I think this entire situation is really strange.
01:36And I really hope that the investigators
01:38dig a little deeper into what that phone call and phone
01:41calls from her would have been.
01:42And what really happened behind this.
01:44Because it's so strange to hear that she made a phone call,
01:47but didn't really tell what happened
01:50or what was going on with her.
01:51It's really, really strange.
01:53The other thing that's odd is, at whatever
01:55the medical center is, that his death was so high profile.
01:59And when they held that news conference,
02:01and they were talking about February 11th,
02:03you would think they would have called and said, hey,
02:05we got calls on the 12th.
02:07Yeah, that they would call the sheriff.
02:08Right.
02:09Right.
02:10Right, it's just odd.