A&E’s Taking the Stand: Who are the alleged victims of Adam Matos?
Sarah Richards
Published Feb 14, 2026
A Florida father named Adam Matos was sentenced in the August 2014 killings of his previous sweetheart, Megan Brown, her folks, Greg and Margaret Brown, and her new beau, Nick Leonard. He then, at that point, asserted that self-preservation and neurosis drove him to carry out the slayings. Adam supposedly imparted a four-year-old child to Megan and recently lived with the Earthy colored family in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley.
On September 4, the breaking down bodies of the four casualties were found in an open field heaped onto top of each other. Additionally, the previous couple’s young, medically introverted child disappeared from the family’s Hudson home, prompting specialists giving a golden alarm. This hence followed Matos’ capture a day after the bodies were found.
A&E’s Standing up is booked to return to the grisly killings committed by Adam Matos and the marvelous preliminary that followed. The impending episode is booked to air on Thursday, January 19, 2023, at 10:01 pm ET.
The summation states:
“At the point when a whole family is found in a rotting heap of bodies by the side of a Florida street, the chase is on to find what police dread may be two additional casualties; a man and his child are viewed as alive, sending off an unusual investigation.”Adam Matos was sentenced in the killings of ex Megan Brown, her folks, and her new-sweetheart
In the mid year of 2014, after over 10 years of dwelling in Heidelberg Municipality, the Earthy colored family, alongside Adam Matos, migrated to the Tampa locale from Lehigh District, Florida, and were residing in a leased house at that point. Megan Brown and Matos had just a short time before the killings, yet the last option kept dwelling with the family even after the separation.
Reports guarantee that Matos killed four people, including the mother of his four-year-old child, Megan, her folks, Greg and Margaret Brown, and her new sweetheart, Nick Leonard, on August 28. He then, at that point, remained at the house nearby for seven days. The 28-year-old supposedly got into a contention with Megan that very day, after which she called the police, however Matos left before they could show up.
Megan, 27, and her dad, Gregory, 52, died from gunfire wounds to the middle. Margaret, likewise 52, died from suffocation and gruff power injury to the head. Police guaranteed she was found with a plastic sack covering her head. Nicholas Leonard, 37, Megan’s new sweetheart, was killed by a hit to the head.
In the days that followed the killings, Adam Matos purportedly let neighbors know that the Browns’ were out traveling to West Virginia, sold the family’s effects, even their pet canines on Craigslist postings, and utilized one of the casualty’s Mastercards to purchase a digging tool, which he supposedly used to cover their bodies. He even focused on his mentally unbalanced child Ismael “Tristan” Santisteban while attempting to conceal his wrongdoings.
On September 4, in line with a concerned companion, specialists went to the Hudson home of the Earthy colored family to direct a government assistance check. There, they found a lot of blood in the carport and found the house unfilled.
The breaking down bodies of the four casualties were found stacked on top of each other by representatives around the same time in a field about a mile from the house, where they had been reserved for a few days.
In spite of the fact that Tristan was available in the house the whole time, he was safe. Besides, a 12-hour golden alarm look for the kid at last prompted the capture of Adam Matos on September 5, when he was cornered by a Specialized squad in a midtown Tampa inn. He was accused of four counts of first-degree murder.