{"id":3295,"date":"2026-05-23T18:34:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T18:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/friends-chilling-words-about-virgin-river-actors-suspected-murder-revealed-after-fatal-discovery\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T18:34:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T18:34:54","slug":"friends-chilling-words-about-virgin-river-actors-suspected-murder-revealed-after-fatal-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/friends-chilling-words-about-virgin-river-actors-suspected-murder-revealed-after-fatal-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Friend\u2019s chilling words about &#8216;Virgin River&#8217; actor&#8217;s suspected murder revealed after fatal discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/128582541.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A friend of \u201cVirgin River\u201d actor Stewart McLean revealed he knew that something was very wrong ahead of McLean\u2019s disturbing death.<\/p>\n<p>McLean was found dead Friday, and is <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/22\/celebrity-news\/virgin-river-actor-may-have-been-murdered-after-going-missing-investigators-say\/\">believed to be the victim of a homicide<\/a> after going missing earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>McLean\u2019s friend, actor Jeff Seymour, said that the weekend ahead of his death, he didn\u2019t show up for a scheduled day of filming \u2014 a major red flag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was meticulous about everything and there would be no chance he blew it off or slept too late,\u201d Seymour<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianpressnews.ca\/entertainment\/remains-of-missing-b-c-actor-stewart-mclean-found-homicide-police-say\/article_aa70da9c-5cbe-5590-b982-9ea43ffd310b.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> told the Canadian Press<\/a>. \u201cAs soon as I heard he didn\u2019t make it on Saturday morning, I knew there was big trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>A friend of Stewart McLean (seen here in Netflix\u2019s \u201cVirgin River\u201d) said that he knew something was wrong ahead of McLean\u2019s body being found Friday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Actor Jeff Seymour said McLean didn\u2019t show up for a scheduled day of filming the weekend before his body was found. <span class=\"credit\">Sergei Bachlakov\/NBC via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Seymour, who\u2019s been friends with McLean for eight years, just saw him last month in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just doesn\u2019t make any sense,\u201d he said of the suspected murder. \u201cHe was incredibly situationally aware.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI bring it up because for the life of me, I don\u2019t know how anybody could get the drop on Stew,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Seymour described McLean as a \u201cstraight arrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Seymour described McLean (seen here in Fox\u2019s \u201cMurder in a Small Town\u201d) as \u201cmeticulous\u201d and said there was no chance he blew off filming or slept in late. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Seymour (pictured here) also said McLean was \u201cincredibly situationally aware.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEverybody loved this guy, it wasn\u2019t like he was in nefarious activities or, you know, kind of ran with another crowd,\u201d he shared. \u201cI mean, he was a bit of a loner. He spent a lot of time reading and being at his home out there in Squamish.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/article-15843079\/stewart-mclean-virgin-river-death-friend-warning.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Facebook post<\/a> Friday, Seymour called his late friend a \u201clovely\u201d and \u201cthoughtful\u201d actor, and recalled his recent visit with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe day before he headed back to Vancouver, a few of us drove along Mulholland Drive, looking at the views while Stew sang along to songs from the 60s and 70s.\u201d he wrote. \u201cHe seemed know the lyrics to everything. You will be greatly missed, my friend. You were a good egg. I\u2019m grateful to have had you in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McLean, 45, was first reported missing on May 18 after he was last seen at his Lions Bay home on May 15.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>McLean\u2019s death is being investigated as a homicide. <span class=\"credit\">RCMP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>He was 45 years old. <span class=\"credit\">Sergei Bachlakov\/NBC via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Police didn\u2019t go into detail regarding the evidence found, but said the actor\u2019s remains were located in the Lions Bay area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will always be remembered for his kindness and humour. Our hearts go out to his family and everyone who knew and loved him at this very difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/23\/celebrity-news\/friends-chilling-words-about-virgin-river-actors-suspected-murder-revealed-after-fatal-discovery\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of \u201cVirgin River\u201d actor Stewart McLean revealed he knew that something was very<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/128582541.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}