12-27-2018
COUPEVILLE, Wash. — The Island County Coroner’s Office has identified a body that was found on a Whidbey Island beach.
A woman called 911 on Tuesday to report that she found a body on the beach just below Madrona Way in Coupeville.
The coroner and sheriff’s office recovered the body of an adult male.
The coroner identified the person as 45-year-old Matthew Fitch, who had gone missing from his home in central Whidbey on October 29.
The Whidbey News-Times reports Fitch had began to “exhibit paranoid and irrational behaviors” in 2016, and that he had been using the drug prednisone.
Officials say they’re investigating the circumstances surrounding his death.