MO JOHN FORSYTH: Missing from Cassville, MO - 21 May 2023 - Age 49 *Found Deceased*

Brother: Authorities told family that body of missing Missouri ER doctor was found in Arkansas

The brother of a Missouri ER doctor who has been missing for more than a week says that his body has been found in Arkansas. Dr. John Forsyth was last heard from in text messages around 7 a.m. May 21. His brother, Richard Forsyth, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that authorities called the...

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Authorities search for Missouri doctor who has been missing more than a week​

Authorities in a small Missouri town are searching for an emergency room physician a week-and-a-half after his mysterious disappearance.

Dr. John Forsyth, 49, was last heard from May 21. Police said he was reported missing when he failed to show up for work that day at Mercy Hospital in Cassville, a town of 3,100 residents deep in the Missouri Ozarks.

Forsyth’s black Infiniti was found in a remote area near an aquatic park in Cassville. The car was unlocked with his wallet, two phones and a laptop inside.

Several law enforcement agencies, including the Missouri State Highway Patrol, have joined in the search using people, dogs and drones. Forsyth’s family set up a Facebook page seeking information.

Richard Forsyth said his brother had been at the Cassville hospital for about 15 years. He described John Forsyth as a doting father who became engaged to his girlfriend just a couple of days before he disappeared.

 

[GrandmaBear]

More talk of life and death and importance to it/to him around the time before his death. Of course that is if all the stuff from this brother is truth. Most of what we have stems from him.

But if true, this could lend to suicide plans and/or knowing someone was done with him and intent on killing him and that he didn't have long to live.

Where the HECK is LE in this? CAN they rule out suicide?? Can they rule IN foul play??? Can they even share THAT?

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Death of Missouri doctor whose body was found in Beaver Lake ruled a suicide

The Arkansas State Crime Lab medical examiner ruled the death of Dr. John Forsyth as a suicide.

www.nwahomepage.com

by: Justin Trobaugh
Posted: Apr 19, 2024 / 09:49 PM CDT
Updated: Apr 19, 2024 / 09:49 PM CDT

CASSVILLE, Mo. (KNWA/KFTA) — The Arkansas State Crime Lab medical examiner ruled the death of Dr. John Forsyth as a suicide.

According to KY3 in Springfield, Mo., the investigation with the Benton County Sheriff’s Office is still open.

Forsyth was last seen at 7 a.m. on Sunday, May 21, 2023, before failing to show up to work at Mercy Hospital in Cassville, Mo. His vehicle was later located at the Cassville Aquatic Center.

Several law enforcement agencies searched about a 9-mile radius around the park. Police at the time did not believe foul play was suspected.

 

[Guess Who]

Death of Missouri doctor whose body was found in Beaver Lake ruled a suicide

The Arkansas State Crime Lab medical examiner ruled the death of Dr. John Forsyth as a suicide.

www.nwahomepage.com

by: Justin Trobaugh
Posted: Apr 19, 2024 / 09:49 PM CDT
Updated: Apr 19, 2024 / 09:49 PM CDT

CASSVILLE, Mo. (KNWA/KFTA) — The Arkansas State Crime Lab medical examiner ruled the death of Dr. John Forsyth as a suicide.

According to KY3 in Springfield, Mo., the investigation with the Benton County Sheriff’s Office is still open.

Forsyth was last seen at 7 a.m. on Sunday, May 21, 2023, before failing to show up to work at Mercy Hospital in Cassville, Mo. His vehicle was later located at the Cassville Aquatic Center.

Several law enforcement agencies searched about a 9-mile radius around the park. Police at the time did not believe foul play was suspected.

So how did he get there?

 

[GrandmaBear]

So how did he get there?

No kidding, talk about a total lack of any detail, explanation of how he killed self, got there, tox or anything other than suicide. I don't see any real way they could know this either, gunshot reside on the hands maybe, does that disappear when in water though? Found the gun and it was hiis with only his prints? I'm not sure I am buying this although some of his remarks did sound a bit suicidal however, most came from the brother and not him, etc.

The tittle of the article mentions the lake but nothing in the body of it does and they don't even state the date he was found either. Total lack of info.

I kept thinking of this case off and on but when I would, I couldn't recall the name and I knew you hadn't been around much and never saw any new activity on it. So we are almost a year past his disappearance date and this is all they've got?

Will they share the other details, are other findings shared when it is suicide in your state? It does say the investigation is till open.

Was he a runner at all, do we know? Or biker? Because yes how did he get there without someone else being involved?

I know this much, this isn't enough to satisfy me, and answer all our questions. It answers none actually because there's nothing here to sell me that they are right. Or wrong.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Death of Missouri doctor whose body was found in Beaver Lake ruled a suicide

The Arkansas State Crime Lab medical examiner ruled the death of Dr. John Forsyth as a suicide.

www.nwahomepage.com

by: Justin Trobaugh
Posted: Apr 19, 2024 / 09:49 PM CDT
Updated: Apr 19, 2024 / 09:49 PM CDT

CASSVILLE, Mo. (KNWA/KFTA) — The Arkansas State Crime Lab medical examiner ruled the death of Dr. John Forsyth as a suicide.

According to KY3 in Springfield, Mo., the investigation with the Benton County Sheriff’s Office is still open.

Forsyth was last seen at 7 a.m. on Sunday, May 21, 2023, before failing to show up to work at Mercy Hospital in Cassville, Mo. His vehicle was later located at the Cassville Aquatic Center.

Several law enforcement agencies searched about a 9-mile radius around the park. Police at the time did not believe foul play was suspected.

Thank you for the update.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Investigators release report regarding the death of Cassville, Mo., Dr. John Forsyth

Investigators say a kayaker found the body of Dr. John Forysth on May 30 in the water near the bank of Beaver Lake across from the Lost Bridge South area near Rogers, Ark.

www.ky3.com

Investigators say Forsyth rode a bicycle from the park to the Lost Bridge area of Beaver Lake. Surveillance cameras captured him on the bike, making the ride. Detectives found the bicycle near his body.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Missouri doctor’s death found to be a suicide; surveillance videos helped with investigation | Arkansas Democrat Gazette

BENTONVILLE -- A Missouri doctor died as result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to Benton County sheriff's office Lt. Shannon Jenkins.

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Missouri doctor’s death found to be a suicide; surveillance videos helped with investigation​

A Missouri doctor died as result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to Benton County sheriff's office Lt. Shannon Jenkins.

Jenkins confirmed Thursday that Dr. John Forsyth's death was the result of suicide.

Additionally, detectives with the sheriff's office were able to locate several surveillance videos of Forsyth riding a bicycle to the area of Lost Bridge at Beaver Lake and that bicycle was located near the area where Forsyth's body was found, according to Jenkins.


Detectives have not found any information or evidence that would lead them to dispute the medical examiner's findings, Jenkins said.

She said detectives are finalizing investigative tasks before the official closing of this case. She said the case is still considered open and all other information will not be released.

 

[Guess Who]

Investigators release report regarding the death of Cassville, Mo., Dr. John Forsyth

Investigators say a kayaker found the body of Dr. John Forysth on May 30 in the water near the bank of Beaver Lake across from the Lost Bridge South area near Rogers, Ark.

www.ky3.com

Investigators say Forsyth rode a bicycle from the park to the Lost Bridge area of Beaver Lake. Surveillance cameras captured him on the bike, making the ride. Detectives found the bicycle near his body.

That sure would have answered a LOT of questions at the beginning. Sheesh.

Whew! That's one hella ride on a bike! Not just the distance but it's very hilly and twisty turney roads.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I wondered whether he biked or ran but as far as biking they had never mentioned a bike for one. I guess they thought that was just to big to release? Not sure why.

However, even though this explains how it could be suicide with no one else involved, there still remain questions. Did they find the gun or look for it? NUMBER ONE question! Was it HIS bike andk did he bike and would bike hills as mentioned and long distances? Was it HIS gun?

I'm not opposed to it being suicide, I considered it a very real possibility but could not see how he could have got there and done such with where his car was left and they certainly did not tell us (until now). There seemed a lot of things in his life that while the brother made sound not that big and that John could afford like very high alimony and child support and more and a gif and pregnancy and another child born or coming (forget which time frame wise) and another ex gf as well with a kid wasn't there? He recently got engaged but did he really want to? I don't know and that whole kidnapping story was weird and they had a lot of unhappy people over the Bitcoin thing. He made remarks to his brother about what he wanted if something happened to him as if something was going to and so on. That sounded more suicidal than someone being after him... IF TRUE.

Kind of odd that they say nothing else will be released as it is an open investigation but in the next breath say they are closing it out and finishing some tasks--well I assume then ALL will be open for all to see? Or not?

Did they do any tox or other tests on his body?

Anyhow, I CAN and did believe this could possibly be a suicide but it doesn't mean this is enough yet to prove it to me. It may well be but there are simply further questions and answers needed.

 

[Guess Who]

I wondered whether he biked or ran but as far as biking they had never mentioned a bike for one. I guess they thought that was just to big to release? Not sure why.

However, even though this explains how it could be suicide with no one else involved, there still remain questions. Did they find the gun or look for it? NUMBER ONE question! Was it HIS bike andk did he bike and would bike hills as mentioned and long distances? Was it HIS gun?

I'm not opposed to it being suicide, I considered it a very real possibility but could not see how he could have got there and done such with where his car was left and they certainly did not tell us (until now). There seemed a lot of things in his life that while the brother made sound not that big and that John could afford like very high alimony and child support and more and a gif and pregnancy and another child born or coming (forget which time frame wise) and another ex gf as well with a kid wasn't there? He recently got engaged but did he really want to? I don't know and that whole kidnapping story was weird and they had a lot of unhappy people over the Bitcoin thing. He made remarks to his brother about what he wanted if something happened to him as if something was going to and so on. That sounded more suicidal than someone being after him... IF TRUE.

Kind of odd that they say nothing else will be released as it is an open investigation but in the next breath say they are closing it out and finishing some tasks--well I assume then ALL will be open for all to see? Or not?

Did they do any tox or other tests on his body?

Anyhow, I CAN and did believe this could possibly be a suicide but it doesn't mean this is enough yet to prove it to me. It may well be but there are simply further questions and answers needed.

I was only not sure of suicide because of the missing info of how he got there. This info would have totally changed my mind into being pretty convinced.

The bike might have been an electric bike or he would have to be an avid bike rider to ride from Cassville to the lake. There also would have been plenty of people seeing him since it was the week before memorial Day and people preparing for the holiday. A very busy lake holiday.

 

[Guess Who]

I'm now wondering if the kidnapping story was an aborted suicide attempt.

Are we now going to find out that he was the reason for the bit coin theft?

 

[GrandmaBear]

I was only not sure of suicide because of the missing info of how he got there. This info would have totally changed my mind into being pretty convinced.

The bike might have been an electric bike or he would have to be an avid bike rider to ride from Cassville to the lake. There also would have been plenty of people seeing him since it was the week before memorial Day and people preparing for the holiday. A very busy lake holiday.

Pretty much the same here and I did think of biking or running BUT they kept all that from us and then with our description of how tough the terrain would be and distance, I'm going to stay open on this one.

I don't have as I said any problem believing suicide in this one. There was as much that pointed to that as foul play except how he got there from where his car was parked which they knew but never shared. It SEEMS anyhow.

I CAN easily go with it WHEN more answers come. I want to know about the gun, caliber, what he owned, if they found the gun, whether registered to him, etc., whether known to have such a type same with bullet, caliber and so on...

I honestly am not leaning other than suicide necessarily, they just need to fill more in. Suicide does work imo with this man. I'd also like to know more about where, how deep and so on. A bit unusual a man goes out in the water and shoots self. I can't think of another suicide like that. I don't doubt there have been somewhere sometime but I can't think of one I know of. WAs he dressed? How? In what he was last seen in or no?

But this just came to me and here is a VERY BIG QUESTION. If he planned to kill himself that day/that morning/on leaving home, etc. why would you need to do an arduous bike ride to your killing spot when he could have simply drove there? If you were trying to stage something, he dind't hide the bike... Why park his car as he did and take a bike? Seriously. No one apparently was around when he was there on bike and wouldn't have been if he arrived in car either to stop him or see him do such...? This part makes NO SENSE. What, he wanted one last bike ride and had a dream of one last time in water before he took his life? That's a bit farfetched I think. No one said that I'm just saying other than that, why not just drive to your suiciding spot?

 

[Guess Who]

Pretty much the same here and I did think of biking or running BUT they kept all that from us and then with our description of how tough the terrain would be and distance, I'm going to stay open on this one.

I don't have as I said any problem believing suicide in this one. There was as much that pointed to that as foul play except how he got there from where his car was parked which they knew but never shared. It SEEMS anyhow.

I CAN easily go with it WHEN more answers come. I want to know about the gun, caliber, what he owned, if they found the gun, whether registered to him, etc., whether known to have such a type same with bullet, caliber and so on...

I honestly am not leaning other than suicide necessarily, they just need to fill more in. Suicide does work imo with this man. I'd also like to know more about where, how deep and so on. A bit unusual a man goes out in the water and shoots self. I can't think of another suicide like that. I don't doubt there have been somewhere sometime but I can't think of one I know of. WAs he dressed? How? In what he was last seen in or no?

But this just came to me and here is a VERY BIG QUESTION. If he planned to kill himself that day/that morning/on leaving home, etc. why would you need to do an arduous bike ride to your killing spot when he could have simply drove there? If you were trying to stage something, he dind't hide the bike... Why park his car as he did and take a bike? Seriously. No one apparently was around when he was there on bike and wouldn't have been if he arrived in car either to stop him or see him do such...? This part makes NO SENSE. What, he wanted one last bike ride and had a dream of one last time in water before he took his life? That's a bit farfetched I think. No one said that I'm just saying other than that, why not just drive to your suiciding spot?

Yeah, that bike ride makes it even more confusing. That area is in the Ozark mountains. Or i should say "mountains" because they aren't like what most of us would think of mountains but very, very big hills, more like foothills, BUT even to the closest part of the lake it's 30+ miles. 30+ miles of up and down those hills plus traffic. Even further if he would have taken the less twisty turney roads. It also seems that we would have heard rumblings of people seeing him. People were getting boats and properties ready for the unofficial start of summer weekend. People would have noticed some dude riding a bike in that.

What a head scratcher!

 

[Guess Who]

Also, did he have a bike rack on his car? Was he dressed for a bike ride? If not, where did he get the bike and why park his car there? That would only make sense to me if he had a rack for it. That would also mean that they would see him coming in the park with a bike and then no bike on his car when they found it. Wouldn't that mean they should have been asking the public about a bike when they had him listed as missing and asking for info?

 

[GrandmaBear]

Yeah, that bike ride makes it even more confusing. That area is in the Ozark mountains. Or i should say "mountains" because they aren't like what most of us would think of mountains but very, very big hills, more like foothills, BUT even to the closest part of the lake it's 30+ miles. 30+ miles of up and down those hills plus traffic. Even further if he would have taken the less twisty turney roads. It also seems that we would have heard rumblings of people seeing him. People were getting boats and properties ready for the unofficial start of summer weekend. People would have noticed some dude riding a bike in that.

What a head scratcher!

This has been a head scratcher throughout, we have been doing such all along, now there is an answer and it remains so and just as bad or even worse instead of giving us a feeling of oh yeah, that makes sense and it being resolved. Now we have the same but different questions on a finding that still doesn't make sense and still causes head scratching! Agree.

It is that far and that windy and hilly? Wow. Well there are mountain bikers, WAS he ONE?

They've done this to the public or any of us that have followed (not sure how many out there even know of this case) and now when they finally give more, they give nothing other than it was suicide and there was a bike. That's IT and those things still make it a head scratcher as you say because they give no more or enough.

Like I said, why wouldn't he just drive his car all the way to the suicide site? Did he want to take some last bike ride as his LAST THING he did in life, was it a joy before killing self, like having your last Big Mac, your last tumble in bed with someone, etc. for lack of better examples. Somehow I doubt it.

Maybe he MEANT to puzzle everyone? But I'm not sure he was the one with his deeds that puzzled or is puzzling us. Authorties are the ones giving nothing BUT perhaps that is because they cant make sense of this sh*t either????

I know I, and I don't think you, have any problem believing this could have been suicide BUT the lack of info and the remaining head scratching on almost all makes it impossible for me to go with it and say oh yeah, it all makes sense now or most of it, and to go with it. Not yet anyhow.

 

[Kimster]

 

[Regina]

The info of a bike found nearby sounds familiar but I don't know if it's because I'd read it somewhere or imagined it.
Anyway, I've read about cases of staged suicides and it looks to me like that's what happened here.

 

[GrandmaBear]

The info of a bike found nearby sounds familiar but I don't know if it's because I'd read it somewhere or imagined it.
Anyway, I've read about cases of staged suicides and it looks to me like that's what happened here.

I know what you mean about the bike and that feeling of not new but I don't think we ever knew of any such thing but probably discussed how he could have got there and If discussed anywhere else on other sites you maybe saw or chats, it would likely sound familiar. I can't recall but can only bet we discussed here whether he could have biked, hitchhiked, walked, met someone and he went there with them, etc. I would suspect between distance and from what @Guess Who says now, she probaby said then if we discussed, that the girls and distance it would have seemed unlikely plus LE gave no CLUE such was the case. I can't recall so this is all guesses on my party as to we probably did talk of and why it may sound familiar with the bike? I don't recall hearing ever of a bike found nearby as I think we would have latched onto that and discussed it. As it was, we had no hint of how he could have gotten that far from his car.

As far as staged suicides, do you mean a murderer staged it to LOOK like a suicide or do you mean John staged it to appear to his loved ones he did NOT commit suicide?

 

[Regina]

I know what you mean about the bike and that feeling of not new but I don't think we ever knew of any such thing but probably discussed how he could have got there and If discussed anywhere else on other sites you maybe saw or chats, it would likely sound familiar. I can't recall but can only bet we discussed here whether he could have biked, hitchhiked, walked, met someone and he went there with them, etc. I would suspect between distance and from what @Guess Who says now, she probaby said then if we discussed, that the girls and distance it would have seemed unlikely plus LE gave no CLUE such was the case. I can't recall so this is all guesses on my party as to we probably did talk of and why it may sound familiar with the bike? I don't recall hearing ever of a bike found nearby as I think we would have latched onto that and discussed it. As it was, we had no hint of how he could have gotten that far from his car.

As far as staged suicides, do you mean a murderer staged it to LOOK like a suicide or do you mean John staged it to appear to his loved ones he did NOT commit suicide?

Well if I read it, it would have been from a news article and very early on but since it's hard for me to believe that wouldn't recall it, I think I probably just imagined it, lol! I will say that for me, how he got there was never an issue- I just thought it was possible he did and left it at that, which actually could be why I'd forget that info....

Sorry I wasn't clear. By staged suicide, I mean suicide staged to look like something else.

 

[Guess Who]

Well if I read it, it would have been from a news article and very early on but since it's hard for me to believe that wouldn't recall it, I think I probably just imagined it, lol! I will say that for me, how he got there was never an issue- I just thought it was possible he did and left it at that, which actually could be why I'd forget that info....

Sorry I wasn't clear. By staged suicide, I mean suicide staged to look like something else.

yes and the more I think about it, I'm thinking that the kidnapping story was possibly a failed suicide attempt and his cover story for it.