The Santa Fe County sheriff said the actor’s pacemaker was inspected and last showed activity nine days before his and his wife’s bodies were found.

Actor Gene Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa, and their dog were found dead in their Santa Fe home, in a scene that one detective had deemed “suspicious enough in nature to require a thorough search and investigation.

The sheriff said it is "a very good assumption" Hackman had been dead at least 9 days, noting the "last event" on his pacemaker was on Feb. 17.