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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I have the cause of deaths of Gene Hackman and
his wife.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Oh oh, man, If only they could have seen your reaction.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
This is why you were holding in the whole time.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Yeah, for the last sixty seconds I've been reading this.
So it's going to be silacious. Mmmmm hmm.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Selacious has a Salisbury stink. Let's go ahead and start.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
First of all, Gene Hackman, legendary actor, they have announced.
According to the Chief Medical Examiner Heather Jerrell for the
New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator, Gene Hackman died
of cardiovascular disease, with Alzheimer's disease as significant contributing factor.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Sad but not silacious.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
He Uh yeah, he had advanced Alzheimer's disease, had severe
heart disease, did have a history of heart attacks, and
probably had an episode that he just could not survive.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I just googled what silatious means. I don't think I'm
using it appropriately and continue nice. Here's the twist.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
His wife, Betsy Arakawa, was died likely for had died
like a week earlier than he had died. Uh oh,
of Hanta virus. What anta virus?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Say it one more time?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Hanta virus. Stop it. That is a fatal virus transmitted
by mice.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Ooh.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
They were calling both of them natural deaths. So she
probably died and he was still just living. She I mean,
that doesn't make it. We don't have answers on the pills.
We don't have answers why she was in the bathroom.
Maybe he just had come to like, hey, this is
the end for me and I'm just gonna live out
my days without calling anybody. But he had Alzheimer's. Nobody's
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in the house, nobody checked on them. She was taking
care of him, So when she died, probably yep, I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's crazy though, Hanta virus, Anta virus. Yeah, yeah, No,
foul play is suspected. A news conference which was held
just minutes ago and has been shared in the last
ten minutes. This is I don't want to play the
whole thing, but her car. Here's the deal. They found
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Betsy Arakawa. They went through surveillance cameras and they showed
Betsy Aracara had done errands. On February eleventh, she went
to a pharmacy in a market and corresponded with massage
therapists by email. On February eleventh, her car entered their
gated subdivision where they live in Santa Fe around five
to fifteen pm that day. No activity or communications were
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found after that. So there you go. Now, the dead
dog wasn't the same dead dog that we thought it was.
It was a different of the dead dogs. But the
two other dogs were healthy and ready to go. They
are their dogs. Those three dogs were their dogs. The
dog in the kennel probably died from lack of food,
which is just unfortunate, just insanely unfortunate. Arikara was found
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dead on the bathroom floor. Pills were scattered on the countertop.
I don't know how those got there, unless maybe Gene
had gone in there, and I don't know. It's tough
when you're dealing with somebody with advanced Alzheimer's, if that
makes sense. Yeah, there you go. What do you think hantavirus?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I think that's really sad and also very strange. How
acute is the whole hantavirus thing? And how do you
get it?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Don't you have to?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Kind of it sounds like a job for TAGIPD. Yeah,
how do you get hant of virus? I feel like
this is going to be googled or searched a lot
here primary translate oh gosh, oh uh, oh boy.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Are you ready for this? I don't know if I am.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Hantavirus is primarily transmitted to humans through contact with infected rodent,
urine droppings or saliva.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I knew it.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
The most common way people get infected is by inhaling
airborne particles contaminated with the virus, though, which makes you
think maybe they had a mouse problem in their house
that hadn't been resolved. This can happen when rodent waste
is stirred up, such as sweeping or cleaning in closed
spaces like barnstads, cabins, or storage areas. You can also
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get it through direct contact tact with these things and
then touching your mouth, nose, or eyes, although rare. A
rodent bite can also transmit the virus or eating or
drinking something that has been contaminated by rodent waste. Hantavirus, however,
is not known to spread from person to person, and
the best way to prevent infection of hantaviruses to avoid
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full contact with rodents, particularly properly seal homes and buildings
and safely clean areas where rodents may have been present hantavirus.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Don't you want to wanta hanta?
Speaker 1 (04:39):
No no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
You don't want that. That's bad.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Don't use that for the PSA because you know they'll
be PSA's. Now, I avoid hantavirus.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
So here are the symptoms. Fever and chills. These are
one to five weeks after exposure, right, So like I guess,
theoretically five weeks, right, it wouldn't be immediately.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Oh that's it's horrible.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
So you wouldn't know until you started getting symptoms fever
and chills, muscle aches, especially in thighs hips, back and shoulders,
general fatigue, headaches, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain. After
a few days of noticing those things, the disease will
worsen with severe shortness of breath, coughing, fluid build up
in the lungs which is handivirus pulmonary syndrome, and low
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blood pressure and organ failure in several and severe cases.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
No wonder is she one of the massage therapists because
there muscles hurt.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Antivirus pulmonary syndrome can be life threatening with a high
futality rate. If someone's been exposed to rodents and develops
flu like symptoms that worsen into breathing difficulties, they should
seek medical attention immediately. Wow, hopefully we're helping some people
out there. Just keep this on their radar.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
She must have been sick.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
You have to be if you, I mean, like you
would think that she probably died on that day.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
It's just such a weird thing to just like be operational.
You're driving, you're visiting places, you're out of pharmacy, explains
the pharmacy trip probably, but and then you just like
pass out and die. But again, and this is why
assisted living is i think becoming more popular for people
who are getting elderly after that. I mean, Gene is
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like the dogs and Jean had no chance after that. Yeah,
So yeah, it's tough, but now we know maybe not
is it? Is it more or less interesting than you
thought it would be?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Oh, because because it's no longer Yeah, and it's no
longer a true crime situation, right, I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
It's very sad.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I feel like this is a very if if you
could say, it's it's a very sad update, very sad,
especially how Jane died, Like, that's just it's got of heartbreaking.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Like a week later, right, like.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
A week man, they think up to a week he
was living when she had been dead, and just he
didn't call anybody.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Oh, that's just it's just brutal.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
It's it's heartbreaking to imagine, because I mean that that's
what you say. You know, a lot of times when
there is a dimension situation, there is that sort of
like dependency on the partner, and then you'll see that
commonly when when when when you lose your partner, you
kind of lose your bearings on life, you lose your compass.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Well, and just I don't know how advanced exactly his
Alzheimer's was, because let's be realistic here, I mean, would
he even have thought to.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Call somebody if it was I would think that it
has to be I would be shocked if it was
anything but the Alzheimer's that created a situation where he
didn't immediately call for help.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Or didn't even like know what to do. Yeah, or
maybe we will never know, but maybe he just was like, eh,
but the dogs though, Yeah, the dog is that's an
Alzheimer's thing. Yeah, like you left a dog in a
kennel and it didn't get fed. All of it's bad.
All of it's just super sad, bad, bad, all the
way around, bad all the way around. Check on the
people close to you, especially if they're getting elderly, especially
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if they're sick. My mom texts me sometimes when she
knows that I'm you know, I haven't been feeling well
or something. It's important. That's important, right, yeah, spawn and
say you're okay, and maybe if you're not okay, get
checked out before it's too late. Just don't want to
be preachy. But my goodness. We'll have more on the
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