Contractor who found Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa dead says discovery was ‘one of the worst days’ of his life
The contractor who found Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s decomposing bodies last month described the time he made the chilling discovery as “one of the worst days of my life.”
Jesse Kesler, 52, who worked as Hackman’s contractor and handyman for 16 years, was one of the two workers who found the couple and one of their beloved pups dead on Feb. 26 — and has spent the last few weeks agonizing over whether he could have saved them.
“I wish I’d gone in quicker … I might have been able to save Gene or the dog,” Kessler told the DailyMail.
“To be honest, it was awful. It was one of the worst days of my life, and I’ve had some bad days. To see someone like that …,” he said, his voice breaking.
“I was hoping for a better outcome, that maybe they were out of town and they just didn’t tell anyone, or they got locked in the wine cellar by accident.”
Arakawa was dead for about a week before Hackman, authorities revealed last week.
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