Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s dog probably died of dehydration and hunger.

A report from the US Ministry of Agriculture’s Veterinary Laboratory has detailed partial mummification and also provided insight into the dog’s death.

The report says the stomach of the kelpie mixture named Zinna, one of the parets’ three dogs, mostly was empty except for small amounts of hair and bile, People Magazine reported.

The other two dogs turned out to be healthy despite being rescued in a week after the couple died in their Santa Fe apartment, where actor Gene, 95, and Arakawa, 65, led a private life.

Authorities confirmed last week that Hackman died of heart disease with complications from Alzheimer’s illness in February 2025-Om a week after his wife’s death, which had succumbed to a rare, rodent-borne disease Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.

Hackman, in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s, was apparently unaware that his wife was dead.