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More than two months after her death, Betsie Arakawa’s autopsy and toxicology report was released.
In the report, Associated PressBetsy struggled with fluid build-up in the chest, congestion, heavy lungs and mild stiffening of blood vessels.
The autopsy confirmed that Betsy died of the hantavirus and tested negative for Covid-19, influenza, alcohol and drugs.
Betsy carbon monoxide levels were in the normal range.
A few days ago, Jean’s autopsy report was published by the Medical Researchers Office at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, citing cardiac problems and signs of fasting, and concluded that he had died of natural death due to “hypertension and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.”
The autopsy obtained by “Extra” points to Hackman’s history of “congestive heart failure,” “changes in severe chronic hypertension to the kidneys,” all the features of Alzheimer’s disease, and evidence to go without food for a long period of time.
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Hackman became very thin in his later years, and investigators also decided that his wife had also died a few days before him.
Hackman tested negative for the Hantavirus, the disease that killed Betsy.
