Harrowing new details of the 911 call made after Gene Hackman was found dead have emerged.
A frantic male caller is heard telling the dispatcher that he has found two bodies which are not moving while pleading for help at the actor’s compound in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
TMZ reported that the caller, whose identity was redacted, was emotional and repeatedly exclaimed ‘Damn’ while sniffing away tears.
Disturbingly, the caller, believed to be one of the two maintenance men who stumbled across the bodies, was unclear if they’d stumbled across one or two corpses.
Oscar-winning actor Hackman, 95, and Arakawa, 64, were found partially-mummified in two different rooms of their $3.3 million home on Wednesday afternoon.
A dispatcher can be heard asking the caller for details about the ‘patients.’ The caller was unable to give details on Hackman or Arakawa’s ages or genders.
He could be heard saying there was no movement coming from inside the house.
The caller was standing outside looking through a window while making the 911 call.
Investigators fear Hackman and Arakawa may have lain dead in the house for up to two weeks.
Harrowing details of the 911 call made after Gene Hackman and wife Margaret Arakawa were found dead have emerged. Hackman and Margaret (right) are pictured with Hackman’s daughters Leslie and Elizabeth at a 1996 movie premiere in Beverly Hills
Investigators are pictured parked outside Hackman’s $3.3 million Santa Fe compound on Thursday afternoon. A cause of death for the star and his wife could take weeks to confirm
Both were found decomposed and partially-mummified. The cold, dry air of the New Mexico desert climate likely helped preserve their skin and tissues.
The couple’s bodies appear to have taken hours to identify, with news of their deaths not released until after midnight Thursday morning.
Hackman was found dead a mud room just off the couple’s kitchen.
His sunglasses and cane were on the floor next to him, sparking speculation he may have died from a fall.
Arakawa was found dead on the floor of the couple’s bathroom. An open bottle of prescription pills was found partially scattered on a countertop nearby.
Neither showed any sign of wounds. It remains unclear how they died and who died first.
The results of an autopsy could take four to six weeks to be published, local officials have said.
One of the couple’s three pet dogs, a German Shepherd, was found dead in a closet just off the bathroom where Arakawa was found.
Their two other dogs survived.
A sheriff who arrived on the scene initially deemed the deaths as possibly suspicious, but Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office now say they do not believe there was any foul play.
Hackman’s daughter Elizabeth was among those who speculated her father and stepmom may have been killed by carbon monoxide poisoning earlier today.
It has since emerged a firefighter was called out to the house after the bodies were found and discovered no sign of a gas leak.
Hackman was one of Hollywood’s most famous and prolific actors and enjoyed a lengthy Tinseltown career.
He won a best actor Oscar in 1972 playing a hard-bitten cop in iconic thriller The French Connection.
Hackman went on to win a best supporting actor Oscar in 1993 for Western classic Unforgiven.
He stared in dozens of memorable movies including Bonnie and Clyde, The Poseidon Adventure, Superman, Mississippi Burning, Postcards from the Edge, The Firm, Get Shorty, The Birdcage and The Royal Tenenbaums.
Hackman retired from acting after 2004’s Welcome to Mooseport and enjoyed a quiet life in Santa Fe. He moved to the New Mexican city during the 1980s.
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