Overview
- Officials estimate Jacqueline Falk died on or around April 22 and her body was discovered at her Los Angeles home on April 27 after a friend requested a welfare check.
- The late June autopsy says she hanged herself in a garage and investigators found multiple handwritten notes taped to the garage wall; the contents of those notes were not released.
- She was identified at the scene by her driver’s license and toxicology testing showed no evidence of alcohol or drugs in her system at the time of death.
- Jacqueline was one of two daughters adopted by actor Peter Falk and his first wife Alyce Mayo and she was predeceased by both parents.
- Her surviving sister, Catherine Falk-Rothchild, who previously led a public fight over Peter Falk’s care and helped pass ‘Peter Falk’s Law’ in New York, has been identified as informed of Jacqueline’s death and continues advocacy on guardianship and family visitation rights.