He has served others as a physician for over twenty years. “John Forsyth is a beloved son, brother, father, and member of the community. John Forsyth had recently finalized his divorce and was ordered to pay thousands of dollars a month in alimony and child support, Richard Forsyth said. The father of eight was not only recently engaged, he had plane tickets to leave the next day for Idaho and Utah to visit some of his children, his brother said. Meanwhile, Richard Forsyth said his brother’s death has left the family stunned. The Benton County Sheriff’s Office said their investigation is ongoing and they cannot release any details. “It said something was terribly wrong.”įorsyth had plans to visit his children out of state the next dayĭana Kammerlohr, Cassville’s police chief, confirmed that Forsyth’s body was found in Benton County, Arkansas, but declined to provide more information, citing an ongoing investigation. “He was never without these essentials,” Richard Forsyth said. The doctor then got out of the car and walked away, but it’s unclear where he went, Richard Forsyth said.įinding personal items such as Forsyth’s phones in his car was another red flag, his brother said. Surveillance footage also captured his car arriving at a Cassville aquatic park shortly afterward and a white SUV pulling up near him. Richard Forsyth, 47, said police told the family that surveillance cameras showed the doctor walking toward his RV near the hospital on the morning of May 21. With every new detail, more questions emerged. Amateur sleuths pored over scraps of information and posted theories. John Forsyth’s patients shared messages on the page about their positive experiences with him. He was reported missing the next morning after he didn’t show up for his shift without notifying anyone.įorsyth was so passionate about his job that he slept in his RV in the hospital parking lot when he had back-to-back shifts – so his missing work raised a red flag, his brother said.įamily members had organized search parties and launched a Facebook page to help find answers. local time on May 21, the Cassville Police Department said in a statement. Forsyth was a doctor at the town’s Mercy Hospital, where his family says he’d worked for two decades.įorsyth, 49, was last seen about 7 a.m. The discovery of Forsyth’s remains has stunned the community of Cassville, a city of about 3,000 people in the Ozarks of southwestern Missouri, not far from the Arkansas line. Surveillance footage showed his car at a local park The revelation about him being shot has sent new ripples of anguish.” “We were all gathered at dinner with family, extended family, and John’s fiancée when the state police came to report that his body was found. We are devastated,” Richard Forsyth told CNN. John Forsyth had proposed to his girlfriend three days before he disappeared and was looking forward to the future after his divorce was recently finalized, his brother said. It’s a tragic end for someone who appeared to be starting a promising new life chapter. The body was found near the shore, about 20 miles south of Cassville, and had an apparent gunshot wound. The family spent frantic days searching and posting missing-person notices on social media before a kayaker discovered Forsyth’s body Tuesday afternoon in northwest Arkansas’ Beaver Lake, the Benton County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Forsyth never went anywhere without his phones in case he got calls about his patients, his brother said.
To the family, this was a sign that something was terribly wrong. Inside the car were his two cell phones, wallet, passport, driver’s license, his work briefcase and the keys to his car and RV, Richard Forsyth said.
Investigators told the family they found his Infiniti sedan unlocked at a nearby park. Surveillance footage from that day showed the doctor walking toward his RV outside the hospital in Cassville, Missouri, his brother said. And that’s the last time his loved ones heard from him. Then he abruptly stopped responding to messages, said his brother, Richard Forsyth. He’d just finished his overnight shift at the hospital, he told her, and would see her in a little bit. Emergency room physician John Forsyth sent a text to his fiancée in the early morning hours of May 21.
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