The 95-year-old actor and his 65-year-old wife were found dead on February 26 at their New Mexico mansion after a contractor and security guard found their mummified bodies and alerted the authoritie…
Authorities in northern New Mexico released of trove of documents this week, including photographs of the little notes Betsy and Gene Hackman would write each other.
Dr Josiah Child, a former emergency care specialist who now runs Cloudberry Health in Santa Fe, New Mexico, says that Betsy called his private clinic 24 hours after police claim she died.
The running joke among friends of two-time Academy Award-winning actor Gene Hackman was that they knew who really wore the pants in his house - his devoted, oddly overprotective, wife, Betsy.
It's a story that sent shivers down the spine of anyone with an aged parent. Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife, Betsy, 65, dead within days of each other.
Autopsies have revealed how Gene and Betsy died, solving the mystery that hung over them after their corpses were discovered at home earlier this month.