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Actor Jin Hakman and his wife Pitce Arakawa, in Los Angeles, California, in 1986.
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Officials say that actor Jin Hakman, 95, has probably died a few days before he and his wife were found on Wednesday at their home in Santa
Sharif, Santa County in County Adam Mendoza, told a press conference on Friday that Hakman was active on February 17.
Sherif said it was “a very good assumption,” Hakman died that day, based on information from a pathologist.
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The authorities said that the death of Hakman, 95, and Petsi Arakawa, 65, immediately pushed doubts. Initial reports did not find any signs of forced entry, wrong play, theft, carbon monoxide or other gas leakage.
Mindoza said on Friday that a pathologist told him that Hakman and Arakawa’s bodies have tested negative to the first carbon monoxide.
Earlier on Friday, Mendoza NBC told Today’s offer These initial reports indicate that the husband probably died “several days, perhaps even up to two weeks” before they were discovered. He said it was not clear whether the two had passed at the same time.
The investigators were still trying to determine the last time or spoke to the spouses, but Mendoza said that the couple was “very special”, which is part of the challenge in the investigation.
What we know yet
Hakman and Arakawa are found in separate rooms from their home by a maintenance worker on Wednesday afternoon. The worker told the authorities that the front door of the house was open when it arrived, according to an inspection order.
Mindoza later on Friday explained that the front door was closed but open.
When the Santa patrol deputies arrived at the scene, the actor’s body was discovered in an area believed to be an clay room while the Arakawa’s body was in the bathroom closest to the front of the residence. The testimony said that a prescription bottle seemed open and found the birth control pills spread on the countertop near the Arakawa’s body.
Meanwhile, a German sponsor was also found dead in a bathroom cabinet. Hakman and Arakawa were wearing hall clothes.
Two other dogs, both of whom are alive, were found around property, one inside the Arakawa’s body and the other outside the home, according to the written statement.
Before Wednesday, the last time the worker or his colleague was in contact with the couple almost two weeks ago, the testimony said. Both workers told the officers that they rarely saw homeowners and communicating in the first place with the wife through the phone or text.
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Hakman and Arakawa met in the mid -eighties of the last century in a gym in California, New York Times It was mentioned in 1989. The two were later married and settled in Santa in.
Hakman was a long -standing actor famous for his roles in The French relationship, which does not spoil, Hoosiers and Royal Tenbauums. Arakawa was a classic pianist and a co -founder of the home furnishing company, according to Associated Press. Hagman was one and two daughters with his first wife, Fay Malti.
“He was loved and admired by millions around the world because of his professional life in wonderful acting, but for us, he was always just my father and found,” said his two daughters, Elizabeth, Leslie Hakman and his granddaughter Annie in a statement. Ktla 5. “We will miss him strongly and destroy the loss.”