Gene Hackman feels that his dog should be buried with his wife.
You can listen to actor Elizabeth’s daughter, 61, making the suggestion in a campocam footage of the day after the bodies were recovered.
The images of February 27 show an officer who calls Elizabeth from inside a police vehicle to ask what to do with the body of the deceased dog, a mixture of Kelpie Zinna, which was recovered from the same bathroom, Betsy was found dead.
Elizabeth asked the officer for the first time if the cremation was an option. When the animal control officer confirmed the possibility, she gave more instructions for the burial.
“I am thinking of creating the dog and burying it with Betsy,” he heard say, for People’s magazine.
“And” he requested later, “if the dog wears a necklace, could you save that for me?”
Another bodycam video recorded a dog coach out of the couple’s residence on February 26, remembering how the couple was “dog nuts.”
“You can see, there are toys everywhere on your property,” said the owner of a local nursery and a training installation, Santa Fe Tails, to the authorities in the footage. “They loved their dogs.”
The couple also had two German Shepards, Bear and Nikita, who were found alive and healthy in the same apartment from which the bodies were recovered.
The causes of Gene and Betsy’s deaths were revealed in March, weeks after they were found dead. The pianist died of Hantavirus, a flu virus linked to rodent droppings, while her husband actor died a week after a combination of severe heart disease, high blood pressure and Alzheimer’s advanced disease.
Meanwhile, Zinna probably died of dehydration and starvation, previously revealed the control of animals in Santa Fe County.
