{"id":687156,"date":"2026-05-22T21:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/687156\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T21:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:16:09","slug":"stewart-mclean-missing-may-have-been-murdered-investigators-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/687156\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart McLean Missing, May Have Been Murdered, Investigators Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTV actor Stewart McLean<\/a> has been missing for one week, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have turned the missing person\u2019s case into a homicide investigation.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn May 18, the Squamish RCMP received a missing person report after McLean had not been seen since May 15. It was announced on Thursday that the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team took over the case and believe McLean to be the victim of a homicide. McLean was last seen at his home in Lions Bay, British Columbia, Canada.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOn May 20, IHIT deployed and assumed conduct of the investigation,\u201d a press release on Thursday said. \u201cSquamish\u00a0RCMP\u00a0continues to work closely with IHIT and the Integrated Forensic Identification Service (IFIS)\u00a0to advance the investigation. Squamish\u00a0RCMP\u00a0initiated an investigation and, through investigative efforts, uncovered evidence that led investigators to believe Mr. McLean was victim of homicide. Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to call the IHIT information line at 1-877-551-IHIT (4448) or by email at\u00a0ihitinfo@rcmp<\/a>\u2013grc.gc.ca.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMcLean was often credited as Stew McLean, according to his IMDb profile. Most recently, he played a barfly on a 2026 episode of \u201cVirgin River<\/a>,\u201d the Netflix drama that films in British Columbia. He also appeared in an episode of the Canadian series \u201cMurder in a Small Town,\u201d \u201cHappy Face,\u201d the DC show \u201cArrow,\u201d \u201cTravelers,\u201d \u201cThe Killer Inside: The Ruth Finley Story\u201d\u00a0and the Freeform TV series\u00a0\u201cBeyond.\u201d His acting credits date back to 2015. According to his IMDb, he was also a producer and he often filmed in the Vancouver area, including Bowen Island and Squamish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TV actor Stewart McLean has been missing for one week, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have turned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,251637,189676],"class_list":["post-687156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-stewart-mclean","tag-virgin-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}