Who or What Killed Gene Hackman?

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Mystery deepens as Gene Hackman and his wife's autopsies are completed and doubts grow over smiling daughter's carbon monoxide theory. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss how authorities investigating the mysterious death of the legendary actor, his wife, and their dog have concluded autopsies on both victims. Amid intense speculation about how Hackman and Betsy Arakawa, aged 95 and 64, tragically died inside their $3.8 million home in Sante Fe, New Mexico, investigators have revealed no external trauma was seen on either body. How did 95-year-old Gene Hackman and his 64-year-old wife die at the same time - in different areas of their home?

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00:00.25 Introduction

05:34.35 Career of Gene Hackman

09:03.74 Father abandoned Gene Hackman when he was 8

13:55.49 Hackman wife is concert pianist

17:13.61 Body Bags now around 350 episodes

20:58.98 Discussion - Hackman is 95, wife is 64 - die at the same time?

24:50.05 Talk about reporting of the case

27:58.09 Why were they found in different areas of house

31:23.12 In public Hackman was leaning on his wife to steady himself

34:56.15 Talk about the search warrant

39:06.13 Discussion of Carbon Monoxide

44:31.40 Looking at the medical history of Hackman

47:35.12 Randy Quaid think Hackman was murdered because of residual money

52:07.40 Discussion of impact open doors could have on remains
Conclusion

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0:00.0	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:05.5	Probably one of my earliest memories of when I was a kid of watching a movie, and I probably should not have been allowed to see it, was the original Bonnie and Clyde movie with Warren Beatty and Fade Dunaway.
0:26.5	Now, we have done an episode of Bodybags on Bonnie and Clyde.
0:32.5	It was done within the last few months, I think.
0:35.4	If you get a chance, go back and check that out.
0:37.9	But it's not Warren Beatty that really sticks in my mind or certainly Fay Dunaway.
0:44.4	It's probably Gene Hagman.
0:46.6	And one of the reasons I enjoyed it, it was one of his early roles.
0:51.4	And he was so genuine.
0:58.5	You know, Fay Dunaway and Warren Beatady are so polished. It's like they are hermetically sealed and kind of broken out. But Gene Hackman was great in that movie.
1:06.1	And boy, was it bloody, because if I remember correctly, I think it was a Sam Peckinpaw movie.
1:10.4	I might be wrong
1:11.1	about that. I can't remember. But today, we're going to talk about the death of, in my estimation,
1:20.6	one of two of the greatest actors, the other one being Robert Duvall and Gene Hackman.
1:28.1	But Gene Hackman was found deceased recently in his home, along with his wife, Betsy.
1:35.7	And of course, there was a pet dog.
1:38.6	He loved German Shepherds that was found deceased as well.
1:41.8	But we're going to talk about this because there's been a lot rumblings in the news about
1:47.9	his death and all kinds of things have been thrown about with people speculating.
1:56.0	To be speculating as a death investigator is a very, very slippery slope.
2:02.6	And this man, as far as I'm concerned, deserves the best because he entertained us for so
2:09.6	long he deserves, as well as his wife, the best investigation that could possibly be conducted.
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