Santa Fe, NM – A court of New Mexico is weighing whether to block the dissemination of a variety of records of an investigation into the death of the actor Genes Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, at the request of the couple’s property.
Santa Fe headquarters, Matthew Wilson, schedu Seal photos, video and documents to protect the constitutional right of the family to privacy. The court puts a temporary retention On the launch of records waiting for the audience.
The partially mummified remains of Hackman and Arakawa were Found at his home in Santa Fe On February 26, when maintenance and security workers appeared in the house and alerted the police. The authorities have confirmed that Hackman, 95, died of heart disease with complications of Alzheimer’s disease approximately one week after his wife’s death. Hackman could have been without realizing that Arakawa, 65, was dead.
His cause of death was as Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, which is a rare disease and transmitted by rodents.
The Law of Open Registries of New Mexico blocks public access to confidential images, including representations of corpses. Experts also say that certain medical information is not considered public records under the Public Registry State Inspection Law.
Peters has emphasized the possibly shocking nature of the photographs and the video in the investigation and the potential for their dissemination by the media in the attempt to block them.
The demand for Hackman Family Estate also seeks to block the release of autopsy reports from the Office of Medical Researcher and Death Research Reports of the Sheriff’s Office of the Santa Fe County.
Most of the investigations of death by the application of the law and the autopsy reports by medical researchers are generally considered public records under state law in the spirit of guaranteeing the transparency of the government and responsibility.
The authorities unravel the mysterious circumstances of the couple’s deaths and described their conclusions at a press conference on March 7 without publishing most of the related written and photographic records.
One of the three dogs of the coupleA Kelpie mixture called Zinna, was also found dead in a box in a bathroom close to Arakawa. Two other dogs survived.
The written request to seal the records indicates that the couple put “a significant value in their privacy and took affirmative vigilant measures” to safeguard him during their lives, even after they moved to Santa Fe and Hackman retired. The state capital is known as a Refuge for celebrities, artists and authors.
Arakawa had no children, while Hackman survives three children from a previous marriage. It is likely that privacy will also play a role as the couple’s assets are resolved. According to the documents of the Court of Successions, Hackman signed an updated testament in 2005 leaving his assets to his wife, while the testament that signed that same year directed his assets. With both dying, the management of the farm is in the hands of Peters.
It is pending a request to appoint an administrator to administer assets in two trusts associated with assets. Without the trusted documents that are made public, it is not clear who the beneficiaries are and how the assets will be divided.
Lawyers who specialize in patrimonial planning in New Mexico say that more details may come out if there are legal disputes over assets. Even then, they said, the parties would probably ask the court to seal the documents.
