The estate of Gene Hackman has petitioned a New Mexico court to block the release of autopsy and investigative records related to the recent deaths of the actor and his wife, Betsy Arakawa.
The request seeks to prevent the publication of photography and police body-camera footage after the couple’s partially mummified bodies were discovered in their Santa Fe home on 26 February.
Authorities last week confirmed that Hackman, 95, died of heart disease with complications from Alzheimer’s, likely on 18 February, days after his 65-year-old wife succumbed to hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare rodent-borne disease.
Julia Peters, representing the estate, argued…