Father: Misty Upham Did Not Commit Suicide

According to Charles Upham, the father of actress Misty Upham, he doesn’t think his daughter’s death was suicide. Instead, he said, he thinks his daughter died trying to avoid police by hiding from them.

Charles said his daughter ran behind her apartment into a wooded area, which has a hidden drop off. According to evidence, his daughter slipped and fell from the steep embankment when trying to keep out of view of the road. He said his daughter just did not see the drop-off.

Upham, who went missing Oct. 6, was found at the bottom of a 150-feet embankment near her home in Auburn, Washington. She was 32.

Charles, in a statement to the media, said his Misty suffered from mental illness and had been recently treated poorly by the Auburn Police Department. He said they picked her up on an involuntary E.R. transport, placed handcuffs on her and then put into the cruiser. Several officers, he said, began teasing her while she sat in the car, tapping on the glass and making faces at her.

Charles said the officers didn’t know the family could see them doing this. He said Misty was crying and telling them they couldn’t treat her disrespectfully because she was a movie actress. She told the officers she’d use her connections to expose them.

Steve Stocker, Auburn police commander, did not comment on the accusations, but did say he had never talked to Misty or even seen her.

When police were called to her apartment on Oct. 5, because her family feared she was suicidal, the responding officers saw that Misty wasn’t there.

Claims had been made earlier that the police were not handling the case correctly because they didn’t rule her disappearance as an “endangered” missing person.

Charles said his daughter had no medication for her mental illness, and was alone. Misty, he said, grew up on the Blackfeet reservation in Montana.

The actress appeared in “Django Unchained” and “August: Osage County”.

Her family has set up a memorial fund in Misty’s memory.

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