Gene Hackman death: Doubts cast over theory that actor and wife took their own lives together

Warning: Contains suicide references An expert medical examiner has cast doubt over speculation that Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa , died by a joint suicide. The circumstances of the couple’s death remain unclear more than a week after Hackman and his wife were found lifeless in their New Mexico home . Authorities, who launched an inquiry into the “suspicious” deaths , said the Unforgiven actor, 95, had probably been dead for over a week.

The couple were found dead in separate rooms, with Hackman in the mudroom and Arakawa next to an open bottle of pills in a bathroom..