Gene Hackman Final Autopsy Results Revealed

The results of Gene Hackman‘s autopsy are in, two months after he and wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead on February 26 in their shared Santa Fe home in New Mexico. He was 95 years old and she was 63.

The Office of the Medical Investigator in New Mexico shared the results on Sunday (April 27), via Fox News.

According to a final autopsy, the actor was fasting for an extended period of time, and had “trace amounts” of acetone in his system.

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The colorless solvent, which is found in nail polish and paint remover, is also a product of prolonged starvation, via Heathline.

The final autopsy’s toxicology test showed acetone levels “at 5.3 mg/dl, where as reported normal endogenous acetone levels in blood are up to 0.3 mg/dL,” which is consistent “with a prolonged level of fasting.”

The autopsy also noted that the actor had a “history of congestive heart failure” and “severe chronic hypertensive changes, kidneys.”

A “bi-ventricular” pacemaker was placed in April 2019. The autopsy also acknowledged the actor had “neurodegenerative features consistent with Alzheimer’s Disease.”

He and his wife’s causes of death were revealed during a March 7 press conference.

Our thoughts are with their loved ones at this incredibly difficult time.