How did police arrest Adam Matos? Details explored ahead of A&E’s Taking the Stand
John Parsons
Published Dec 27, 2025
In September 2014, Adam Matos was tracked down the superb suspect in four Hudson, Florida, killings. He was captured days after he supposedly serious the homicides when specialists gave a golden caution for his and Megan Earthy colored’s four-year-old medically introverted child, Tristan.
Adam Matos was captured in a midtown Tampa lodging on September 5, on one occasion after specialists supposedly found the breaking down bodies of the four casualties from a field about a mile from the Earthy colored family’s leased Hudson home. He purportedly killed the four casualties at their home on August 28.
A forthcoming episode of Standing up on A&E named Adam Matos will talk about the terrible killings exhaustively this Thursday, January 19, 2023, at 10.01 pm ET. The rundown peruses:
“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 odd examination.”
This article will additionally jump into the particulars of the situation that unfolded in the days that followed.
Close by killing his ex and her sweetheart, Adam Matos likewise killed the previous’ folks
Florida man Adam Matos was associated with killing his ex Megan Brown, her folks, and her new beau prior to escaping with his medically introverted child, Tristan. He supposedly shot and clubbed his casualties to death on August 28. Then, in the days that followed, Matos covered them with a digging tool he purchased with one of their charge cards.
Not long later, he was captured at an inn and accused of four counts of first-degree murder. Specialists found the bodies disintegrating in a side of the road region near the Hudson house where Matos dwelled with his child’s mom and her folks — three of his four casualties.
Megan Brown, Matos’ 27-year-old ex and mother of his child, died from a gunfire twisted to the head, like her kid father, Gregory Brown, who was additionally shot. In any case, her mom, Margaret Brown, was found with huge head wounds and a plastic pack covering her face, which probably caused suffocation. In the interim, the 37-year-former sweetheart, Nicholas Leonard, was pummeled to death.
As per reports, Matos dealt with his mentally unbalanced child in the days after he carried out the homicides. Before his capture, he let neighbors know that the family was away while utilizing Margaret’s charge card to buy pizza for the four-year-old and a digging tool he supposedly used to cover the bodies. Up to that point, he was residing in the Earthy colored family home with the bodies actually present.
Adam Matos was cornered by the police at the Floridan Royal residence Lodging
Specialists showed up at the Browns’ home on September 4 when a concerned companion called 911 subsequent to neglecting to reach out to any relatives. That very day, specialists found the slimy parasite covered, rotting bodies about a pretty far from the house, after which the manhunt for Adam Matos began.
At the point when police looked into the suspect’s call records from August 28, they found 200 calls to Megan Brown and her mom between 7.49 am and 4.13 pm. Megan was most recently seen leaving her working environment that day at around 11 pm. Simultaneously, specialists additionally gave a golden alarm for the previous couple’s child, which went on for around 12 hours.
On September 5, Matos and Tristan showed up at the Floridan Castle Inn right on time determined to head out to the Florida Keys by transport sometime thereafter. In any case, Adam Matos was captured before long.
The specialists guaranteed that they fooled him into leaving his room on the eighteenth floor of the old lodging subsequent to discovering that he had actually looked at in utilizing his genuine name. The police then, at that point, captured and accused him of four counts of first-degree murder.