The couple, who married in 1991, were found dead at their New Mexico home on Thursday, Feb. 27, Parade previously reported.
Though the investigation into Hackman and Arakawa's "suspicious" deaths is still ongoing, law enforcement officials have now addressed what's been called a "very important" piece of "evidence" in the case.
The contents of the bottle have not been and may never be revealed to the public, leading Guthrie to ask Mendoza if he believed "it may be possible that that prescription could be related in any way to the deaths that we’ve seen here?"
"That information was collected, that information was passed to the office of the medical investigator to help them make a determination," he added. "So we’re looking at that specifically and other medications that were possibly in the residence."
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Unfortunately for the family, it could be some time before they have real answers in this tragedy.
That said, police are "pretty confident there’s no foul play just based on the lack of evidence of foul play." But they "of course are not ruling that out."
"The autopsy is key," Mendoza added. "That’s going to take some time, so I hope a little bit of patience on the family’s part, on everybody’s part, so we can have some answers into these deaths."
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