Gene Hackmans wife expressed concern over being followed by mysterious man before their deaths: hairstylist

Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa Hackman had two strange interactions with a man months before their deaths. In newly released bodycam footage obtained by Fox News Digital, the classical pianist’s hairstylist detailed how a “frazzled” Betsy allegedly expressed concern about being followed on two separate occasions in December by an individual she had never seen before. “She mentioned to me that there was a man that had parked outside of their gate and followed them,” her hairstylist, a man named Christopher, told law enforcement.“On two separate occasions.

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, ‘Christopher, I’m surprised that security didn’t [know] how he got there…  because when we left, I noticed that this car had followed us from the residence to White Rock.'”Christopher said Betsy told him the man had “pulled out a folder of photos of her husband and wanted him to sign them.”“And I said, we were sitting here and I said, ‘That’s so weird because Santa Fe’s not a place of paparazzi and stuff,'” he told police.

“She said… she approached him and said, ‘I told him he needed to have more respect.’”On a separate occasion, the same man followed them to a different location.He had offered the Hackmans a bottle of wine, Betsy told Christopher.They declined to accept the gift. “I said, ‘Oh my gosh, Betsy, that’s crazy.You should not have approached this person.

This makes me nervous,'” Christopher said.“He knew what [they] drove.

That’s the scary part.”On March 13, a lawyer for the Hackmans’ estate filed a petition in state District Court in Santa Fe attempting to prevent the medical investigator and the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office from releasing footage, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican.Lawyer Kurt Sommer wrote that once the imag...