Art and life converged in a sad way on Sunday’s edition of the Yellowstone spin-off Marshals, as a storyline memorial scene was also dedicated to Cole Brings Plenty, the late actor who was part of the Western franchise.

Cole Brings Plenty, a nephew of the show’s Mo Brings Plenty, was found dead in Kansas in April of 2024 at the age of 27.

The actor, who had appeared on two episodes of the spinoff 1923 in 2023, had been declared missing amid a domestic violence probe he was named as a suspect in, prior to the grim discovery in a rural area.

In the scene on Sunday’s episode of the CBS series, relatives of Monica, played by Kelsey Asbille, gathered at the Brocken Rock reservation for a memorial for the late character.

Among those who attended included her widower Kayce (played by Luke Grimes); son Tate (Brecken Merrill); and grandfather (Rudy Ramos).

Also on hand were Belle Skinner (Arielle Kebbel) and her group of Marshals: Miles Kittle (Tatanka Means), Andrea Cruz (Ash Santos) and Pete ‘Cal’ Calvin (Logan Marshall-Green).

Kebbel spoke with People about the somber feeling when cameras rolled on the funeral scene.

‘We filmed the ceremony and Mo Brings Plenty brought his family to it, and it was a way of honoring his nephew,’ Kebbel, 41, told the outlet Sunday.

She added, ‘I will remember that day for as long as I live. It was very emotional.

‘And it was a real reminder that the lines between art and life are very blurred and very powerful.’

Kebbel described the Brings Plenty family as ‘such a beautiful community’ she was planning on commemorating with a fashion statement.

‘They’re sending me handmade jewelry that I’m going to wear in their honor,’ Kebbel said. ‘I mean, it brings me to tears to be part of this community and also to learn more about what happened to Cole and bring that awareness.

‘You can never plan for going into it, but [it] has deeply impacted me forever.’

Mo Brings Plenty last month said his nephew’s mysterious death and the lack of resources put toward solving it was ‘heartbreaking.’

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, the Yellowstone actor said, Cole ‘was my nephew, but he was like a son to me.’

‘For his murder to go uninvestigated, and for it to be written off as “no foul play,” because they didn’t want to invest anything into it?’ the actor said. ‘Because we’re taxpaying people as well.

‘So for them to not work for us, no different than how they work for anyone else is pretty sad.’

The actor said that he hoped ‘we continue on to talk about that in our storylines,’ adding that ‘there are a lot of families such as mine that are going through this right now, and we still have a lot of unanswered questions.

‘Because I saw his body, I saw the evidence that is there that someone caught him. So for them to say that there was nothing, I can’t believe that. I still can’t.’

The actor was critical of the attention and resources local authorities put into finding his late nephew after he was declared missing.

‘The departments didn’t put much effort into it,’ the actor said. ‘In fact, they weren’t even really looking for him. They were hunting him. They weren’t searching for him.

‘They were hunting him until the day when a good friend of mine and I rented a helicopter and told the Lawrence Police Department that we were going to go and search from the air, and that day, they were out in full force.’

Both of the Kansas-based law enforcement agencies involved in the probe surrounding Cole Brings Plenty’s death issued statements published by People following Mo Brings Plenty’s remarks.

The Lawrence Police Department said through a spokesperson that with the ‘family’s permission,’ they would be ‘willing to release a full report of our investigative efforts and results.’

Officials added: ‘We provided a complete, in-person presentation of the evidence to the family, which included videos, witness statements, and photographs.

‘The family chose not to release the facts. Out of compassion, we complied with their wishes.’

A spokesperson for the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office said it ‘conducted a thorough investigation in the death of Cole Brings Plenty and revealed these findings to the family.

‘JCSO is unable to provide details of the investigation due to the court order obtained by the family sealing the records from public release.’

Marshals can be seen Sundays at 8/7c on CBS.