When Dune and The Walking Dead actress, Alicia Witt asked a relative to check on her parents, Robert Witt, 87, and Diane Witt, 75, at their Worcester, Massachusetts home because she hadn't heard from them in several days, she hadn't imagined she would be receiving the news of their death. Calling the tragedy 'unimaginable,' Witt asked her fans to give her some privacy to 'wrap her head around this turn of events, and the surreal loss.'