Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s bodies still unclaimed more than a month after their deaths

The bodies of Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa remain unclaimed at a New Mexico medical examiner’s office more than a month after their deaths, according to reports.

Hackman and Arakawa – whose bodies were found in their Santa Fe home on Feb. 26 – were still on the New Mexico Medical Examiner’s unclaimed decedents list as of Monday, TMZ reported.

Gene Hackman at a Santa Fe gas station on March 7, 2023. SplashNews.com

Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa pose for a photo in 1986 in Los Angeles, California. Getty Images

The Santa Fe home of Hackman and Arakawa. AP

That list is updated each week, indicating that as of days ago they were still lying in the local morgue.

But bodies lying unclaimed for up to a month is not necessarily unusual, officials told TMZ, indicating that the 95-year-old actor’s family could still be making funeral arrangements.

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