A Body Believed to Be That of Actress Misty Upham Has Been Found
Local police said late Thursday night that a body found in a wooded area outside Seattle was believed to that of missing actress Misty Upham. The 32-year-old August Osage County actress had been reported missing by her father on Oct. 6. A day earlier, she had told her father she was suicidal, local television station KIRO reports. Police in Auburn, a suburb near Seattle, said in statement that a person in a search party organized by Upham's family had found the body at around 1 p.m. on Thursday. "Because a purse containing identification of Misty Upham was at the scene, the body is presumed to be that of Upham," the police said. A spokesperson for the family told Variety that the body has since been positively identified. Police said there was no initial evidence of foul play, but the body had been turned over to the local medical examiner's officer for a determination of the cause of death. It took almost five hours and a 10-person crew to recover the body from "150 feet down a steep embankment near the river heavily covered in brush," police said. Upham also had roles in Frozen River and Django Unchained.