Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife Betsy Arakawa, 65, were discovered deceased in their Santa Fe, New Mexico home after being unseen for at least two weeks. Friends reflected on the couple's increasingly isolated lifestyle, noting they had stopped entertaining guests and rarely interacted with others. Their deaths remain unexplained, with investigators facing challenges in determining the circumstances surrounding the tragedy. Community members, who cherished the couple's camaraderie, expressed their disbelief at the sudden loss and recognized a change in their social habits over the years.
"People loved to be around them. We used to spend a lot of time at their house but it'd been a while since they were comfortable having others over."
"They were a little insular and that was fine, it just got tougher for them to have people over. We're all deeply saddened. We're all just in shock and can't believe [that they are dead]."
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