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More unsettling details about the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa<\/a> are emerging. According to recently released body-cam footage featuring Arakawa\u2019s hairdresser, Gene Hackman and his late wife allegedly had two unsettling interactions with a stranger in the weeks leading up to their deaths.<\/p>\n The alleged interactions were described in detail by Arakawa\u2019s hairdresser, Christopher,<\/strong> in body-camera footage posted by Fox News<\/em> on Monday, March 24<\/a>. In the interview with New Mexico authorities, Christopher described his deceased client as \u201cfrazzled\u201d and said that she had allegedly expressed concern about being followed by the same strange man on two separate occasions while out with her husband in Santa Fe.<\/p>\n \u201cShe mentioned to me that there was a man that had parked outside of their gate and followed them,\u201d Christopher told law enforcement. \u201cOn two separate occasions\u2026. One occasion is when they went to White Rock. They went and had lunch there and the guy followed them from parked [outside of their gated community], followed them all the way to White Rock. She said, \u2018Christopher, I\u2019m surprised that security didn\u2019t [know] how he got there \u2026 because when we left, I noticed that this car had followed us from the residence to White Rock.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Arakawa told Christopher that the man who allegedly followed them \u201cpulled out a folder of photos of her husband and wanted him to sign them.\u201d The hairdresser noted that the alleged behavior was strange, because Santa Fe is \u201cnot a place of paparazzi and stuff,\u201d and said that Arakawa confronted the man. \u201cShe said\u2026 she approached him and said, \u2018I told him he needed to have more respect,\u2019\u201d recalled Christopher. He also claimed that she said the same man followed the deceased couple to a different location on another occasion, offering them a bottle of wine, which Christopher says they declined.<\/p>\n The final days of the two-time Oscar winner and his classical pianist wife have been under scrutiny ever since New Mexico authorities found Hackman and Arakawa\u2019s bodies, along with one deceased dog, in their $3.8 million dollar Santa Fe home on February 26. According to activity from his pacemaker, Hackman, 95, most likely died on February 18 from cardiovascular disease, with Alzheimer\u2019s as a contributing factor. The New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator initially determined<\/a> that Arakawa, 65, most likely died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare and potentially fatal disease carried by rodents, a week earlier than her husband on February 11. But Dr. Josiah Child,<\/strong> Hackman\u2019s doctor, recently claimed that Arakawa called him on February 12 regarding an \u201cechocardiogram for her husband,\u201d a full day after her estimated time of death<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cMrs. Hackman didn\u2019t die on February 11 because she called my clinic on February 12,\u201d Child told the\u00a0Daily Mail<\/em> on Sunday, March 16. Child claims that Arakawa also canceled an appointment on February 10, saying that Hackman was sick. The appointment was allegedly rescheduled for February 12, but, per Child, Arakawa never showed up. \u201cShe did not show any symptoms of respiratory distress,\u201d he told the tabloid. \u201cThe appointment wasn\u2019t for anything related to hantavirus. We tried calling her a couple of times with no reply.\u201d<\/p>\n Hackman was one of Hollywood\u2019s most celebrated actors, winning Academy Awards for The French Connection<\/em> (1971) and Unforgiven<\/em> (1992). He married Arakawa in 1991, and retired from acting in 2004. Hackman moved to Santa Fe in the 1980s and lived there with Arakawa full time. He reportedly left behind an $80 million fortune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n