May 31, 2026

In a heartbreaking turn, a private search party has found the body of Alaskan Bush People star Matt Brown in a Washington river after days of desperate searching, the Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office said, with his remains now in the hands of the coroner as investigators work to determine the cause and manner of death. The discovery comes after reports that he had died by suicide, with dispatch audio referencing a suicidal man who allegedly shot himself before being swept into the Okanogan River, while earlier search efforts were hampered by brutal weather and dangerous conditions. Brown’s brother Bear confirmed the death and said he never imagined Matt would hurt himself, and the grim find caps a troubling period marked by Matt’s estrangement from his family, alarming livestream behavior, and his departure from the show in 2019 after entering treatment.

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