'Gene's wife called day after police say she died'

By Sasha Morris

A post-mortem concluded Betsy Arakawa, 65, died on February 11 from hantavirus, a rare rat-borne respiratory disease.
Her Oscar-winning husband, 95, passed away a week later on February 18 from heart failure combined with Alzheimer’s disease.
However, Dr Josiah Child, a former emergency care specialist who runs Cloudberry Health in Santa Fe, has cast doubt on the official timeline.
He revealed Betsy called his clinic, saying: "Mrs Hackman didn't die on February 11 because she called my clinic on February 12. She had made an appointment for herself for February 12. It was for something unrelated to anything respiratory."
Dr Child said she called on February 10 to cancel the appointment as Mr Hackm...

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