Doctor found dead 9 days after not showing for work at Missouri hospital, family says
A Missouri doctor who was missing for more than a week has been found dead in Arkansas, his family says.
John Forsyth, 49, had last been seen Sunday, May 21. He was later reported missing after not showing up for work at Mercy Hospital in Cassville, according to the Cassville Police Department.
The doctor stayed at a trailer near the hospital and went there “for a short amount of time” after leaving the clinic the day he was reported missing, KY3 reported.
Forsyth’s car, police said, was located abandoned at a Cassville park. His wallet, passport, checkbook and keys were left behind, according to KOLR.
His brother said in a Facebook post early Wednesday that he was found dead. Forsyth’s body was found in northwest Arkansas, KOLR reported.
It’s unclear how Forsyth died, but the Associated Press reported there were “no signs of foul play.”
“Our lives have (led) us in very different directions, but in the last couple of years we’ve been bonding over our intense desire to understand the mysteries of the universe, and I’ve treasured those conversations like precious jewels,” Forsyth’s brother, Richard Forsyth, said in a May 29 Facebook post. “I rarely meet anyone I can toss around ideas with like he can.”
John Forsyth was a doctor in the Aurora area “for many years,” his sister previously said.
He practiced medicine for more than 20 years after receiving his degree from Ross University School of Medicine.
“He really cared about his patients,” Richard Forsyth told the AP. “And he loved his kids.”
Cassville is about 200 miles south of Kansas City.
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