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.

 

[Guess Who]

Why? In the first place, I didn't see that he was "making a fuss". Where does that impression come from?

In an interview he's the one complaining about it.

 

[Regina]

In an interview he's the one complaining about it.

Well, I must not have seen that one. I've seen just one interview where there's mention of any question re identity and the reason it came up is because he was asked to address rumors but he didn't complain about them, just explained what he knew about them.

 

[GrandmaBear]

IDK. But the only being identified by facial recognition by the coroner, Not by any family members. And the report still not being completed does seem suspicious. IDKY there would be a conspiracy. But what is going on here?. The circumstances are very suspicious too.

I thought it was by an investigator but either way, I think it is a wrong and strange move considering they have an open investigation and a grieving family who needs to know you didn't find some stranger but found their missing loved one. And yeah report not complete, say what? This did just happen in May though now that I look and to be fair on that, it's only a few months back and they could be waiting on some results.

It is all very odd. Are they making it odd or is it odd? I mean the brother didn't help with his kidnapping story and such in the beginning. Though if he was told it and if true, then I guess it should be told to LE, not 100 percent sure I'd have shared that publicly... Made it more strange.

 

[GrandmaBear]

The brother still bothers me. Something about the way he words things.

The only other thing that makes this make sense is he was put in witness protection. I am NOT saying that is what happened, just that this is the only thing that makes this make sense to me.

He bugs me too. He has from the outset and I am sure I've said so back in the beginning.

I try after watching this recent interview to put it down to he just isn't a kind of person I'm used to or probably have ever been around such a type much if EVER. He talks like someone you'd find in areas of life that I am not surrounded by. Like a kind of whatever thinking college professor and it brings me back to what I was trying to say with the philanthropy constant talk. I don't have the words to explain it but yes, he talks different than anyone in my normal daily life.

Unless you mean his choice of words and evasiveness. I did find him evasive a few times but think it could be the knowledge of don't share this or that due to the investigation OR knowing what people have made of what he has said before.

Now as to witness protection. The thought keeps crossing my mind because it is the ONLY THING that fits here with what we know. I don't lean towards it nor am I saying I buy it BUT there are things here that lend to such a thought. The casket full of rocks comment for one recently seen does NOT HELP. Bitcoin alone can lead one there. LE NOT having anyone in the family or chosen by the family identify his body to even confirm it is HIM so no actual proof it was. No talk of it confirmed by DNA that it was him. No completed coroner's report. And no facts of a single person seen with him, near him, plans, a struggle, etc.

But I don't buy it and here's my problem with the witness protection thing. If you were trying to put someone in witness protection, you'd never be this stupid and you'd craft it better wouldn't you? It's like hints are GIVEN her to think witness protection and that's the last thing they'd want to do. And it wouldn't be locals it would be feds. IF there are enemies he'd need witness protection from, his brother mentioning a box of rocks just alerted them that maybe he is NOT dead. I don't know. This is whacky.

And now it has us going from where we at least knew he was dead to wondering if he is...

And would you place the area he was found so far with no way of seeing how he got there? These new remarks almost "scream" witness protection and again that is the last thing you'd do is not only make us think of such but the enemies too?

So many things...

I don't see it but I'd believe suicide first. And there is no reason to believe that.

 

[GrandmaBear]

They’re going to need a DNA test for inheritance purposes. If the doctor didn’t mention baby number 8 in a will, then it needs to be addressed by the court.

I could go either way with a brother. He has a unique personality, or he has more knowledge than he’s willing to share. Of course, he could have more knowledge than he’s willing to share with the public because LE said that he needed to keep things quiet.

The brother also mentioned that LE said they know more than what they’re willing to share with the family. Was that a ruse to get him to talk? If so, that’s concerning.

IF there is a will. If there isn't, in most states it would just go to all children if no spouse and he did not have a spouse. So if no will, no children would be named and you'd then have to prove you are one of his children yep.

Moms of known children would know if the case and number 8 would HOPEFULLY know if her child is his so I don't think it likely but there is possible motive here with the ex, the new fiance with his baby and the mother of number 8.

Which just popped the thought of why doesn't number 9 have to be proven??? She had this child AFTER he disappeared. Did they get a DNA test while child was in utero? That is basically never the case. Hmmmm. No way. He is not the legal father of number 9 either is he? He can't be. He may have accepted it was his but short of signing something PRIOR to birth stating that, no way.

All please respond to this, it just came out of nowhere as I was responding, number 9 can't be proven either right? Or did she rush for a test on the child's birth so it's already conclusive?

 

[GrandmaBear]

I find him to be extraordinarily articulate, and candid, and very serious. I really like him.

I don't know if I like him but he did seem candid and honest in that interview for the most part. He seemed to be upset over this and to care about his brother. I have already said his talk is different than I see in normal daily life but then I'm not some type they seem to be. I don't even understand Bitcoin for instance lol.

The thing is though I haven't forgotten him in the beginning. He set off alarm bells for me. Now someone in the beginning and throes of a crime and grief can explain a lot but it was more than that.

And since then he has had time to see the response of people to him and remarks AND it seems the response of LE to all his claims and talk.

So I'm not sold and I sure can't say I "really like him". I did feel for him at times in that interview however and could relate even though he is a bit different or they are.

I'm no Bitcoin millionaire, doctor, I've never been kidnapped in the sense of the word used here, I don't have nine children, to my knowledge I'm not a philanthropist, I don't fly routinely in the states and to other countries despite his brother also claiming early on the man had no time but he did but he didn't or I mean must have because he did things and clearly had time to do some of them. All he did was work. But then it was he had time and love for his children, went here, went there.

He definitely talked too much. I already mentioned recently again he said he was rich and was fine with the agreement they were going to do with the ex wife and child support, could pay it,wouldn't hurt him but then turned around and said he knew nothing of his finances.

There is plenty of reason to not be quite sold on the brother. Imo.

 

[Kimster]

IF there is a will. If there isn't, in most states it would just go to all children if no spouse and he did not have a spouse. So if no will, no children would be named and you'd then have to prove you are one of his children yep.

Moms of known children would know if the case and number 8 would HOPEFULLY know if her child is his so I don't think it likely but there is possible motive here with the ex, the new fiance with his baby and the mother of number 8.

Which just popped the thought of why doesn't number 9 have to be proven??? She had this child AFTER he disappeared. Did they get a DNA test while child was in utero? That is basically never the case. Hmmmm. No way. He is not the legal father of number 9 either is he? He can't be. He may have accepted it was his but short of signing something PRIOR to birth stating that, no way.

All please respond to this, it just came out of nowhere as I was responding, number 9 can't be proven either right? Or did she rush for a test on the child's birth so it's already conclusive?

I would think #9 needs a DNA test. He is not alive to say that it’s his child on the birth certificate.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Yeah, and you know, I think if there was a question re identify, it would've come up immediately following the discovery of the body.

From the family? I am going to say that I can see this. When in the midst of a tragedy and when many family members, it is all each can do to cope, get through it, bury, etc. and this was probably a crime on top of it and was definitely a missing person first. I will guarantee no sit down and one on one probably happened and I can see all family members maybe did not wonder, trusted LE and just figured another family member was called to ID. Families can also be somewhat torn apart even in a normal death and illness, etc. AND too busy and trying to cope even if not to think of such things.

They are also still just in trying to fathom what possibly could have happened and still don't have answers.

Not arguing and would like to agree as I'm not a hundred percent in love with the brother but I do have to say I can see this easily, that when some moments together or TIME to discuss or think about it, it then came up and they realized.

 

[GrandmaBear]

So why is the brother making a fuss about it now?

I didn't see it as a fuss by any means. i saw it coming up naturally in the interview. And since I really don't understand his type entirely, he may even have been being somewhat attempting to be sadly humerous about it. And maybe intending to say what the public would do with a remark like that or some such but interviews being what they are, they don't always get to fully explain.

He made no big deal of it but was simply telling how this actually came up. But who knows, maybe he intended to get that in there if he is a suspect he'd have a reason.

But he made no fuss, it was as the rest of the interview, just discussion.

 

[GrandmaBear]

In an interview he's the one complaining about it.

I have to agree with Regina here. He was not complaining nor making a fuss in any real way. He simply talked of it.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Well, I must not have seen that one. I've seen just one interview where there's mention of any question re identity and the reason it came up is because he was asked to address rumors but he didn't complain about them, just explained what he knew about them.

I saw it the same way.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I would think #9 needs a DNA test. He is not alive to say that it’s his child on the birth certificate.

I think the same.

I am going to guess the reason the brother did not mention that but only #8 is John maybe denied #8 was his but admitted #9 was to her, to family, to friends, I mean hew as going to marry her right and said to his bro she could be trusted. This kind of thing makes me also think #8 wasn't one he'd marry and POSSIBLY could be a fling while supposedly faithful to one of the other women (ex wife or fiance).

 

[Kimster]

I don't know if I like him but he did seem candid and honest in that interview for the most part. He seemed to be upset over this and to care about his brother. I have already said his talk is different than I see in normal daily life but then I'm not some type they seem to be. I don't even understand Bitcoin for instance lol.

The thing is though I haven't forgotten him in the beginning. He set off alarm bells for me. Now someone in the beginning and throes of a crime and grief can explain a lot but it was more than that.

And since then he has had time to see the response of people to him and remarks AND it seems the response of LE to all his claims and talk.

So I'm not sold and I sure can't say I "really like him". I did feel for him at times in that interview however and could relate even though he is a bit different or they are.

I'm no Bitcoin millionaire, doctor, I've never been kidnapped in the sense of the word used here, I don't have nine children, to my knowledge I'm not a philanthropist, I don't fly routinely in the states and to other countries despite his brother also claiming early on the man had no time but he did but he didn't or I mean must have because he did things and clearly had time to do some of them. All he did was work. But then it was he had time and love for his children, went here, went there.

He definitely talked too much. I already mentioned recently again he said he was rich and was fine with the agreement they were going to do with the ex wife and child support, could pay it,wouldn't hurt him but then turned around and said he knew nothing of his finances.

There is plenty of reason to not be quite sold on the brother. Imo.

My main reason for continuing to keep the brother on the table is the fact that law enforcement is all over him.

 

[GrandmaBear]

So family may just naturally feel #9's child is John's and so he only mentioned #8 which may have been disputed.

 

[GrandmaBear]

My main reason for continuing to keep the brother on the table is the fact that law enforcement is all over him.

That's my reason but I have an additional one and that is that he set off alarms for me from the start and I didn't find him believable and found him to be inserting himself into the case and saying things that if you cared about justice, you'd not just splash out all this stuff about it and John to the public.

That ALSO could be because right out of the gate, he wanted to steer or deflect things and not be looked at himself. He had the opposite effect of his intent on me.

There is another case that is unsolved that did that to me. And the ex husband was the one inserting "facts", wanting to solve it, was too involved considering she was an ex and more. It's a huge red flag.

In this case, aren't these very private people who encrypt their stuff and more and he just gets on news etc. and shares all?

He is not off my radar by a long shot. I'll admit the recent interview calmed me a bit about him and made me feel a bit differently but then he needs to do that is what comes to me after and he made an effort to do exactly that not just for the public but for LE. Yes clear him and find the real killer. Saying all the right things. He failed a polygraph but that's okay, they are just tools they use to get you to confess, etc. and he has done nothing so not a big deal.

He was in business with his brother and is also the one who claims his brother informally put him in charge if anything happened to him.

There is a lot of reason he is on my radar still.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Even this almost natural lead to witness protection. When one stops and thinks about it, EVERYTHING we talk of came from the brother. VERY LITTLE has come from LE. And that is a HUGE problem. It is the same in the other case I referred to above.

They well could be throwing sn*w out there, misdirection, thoughts of things not even CLOSE to what happened, other suspects and possibilities...

 

[Guess Who]

He bugs me too. He has from the outset and I am sure I've said so back in the beginning.

I try after watching this recent interview to put it down to he just isn't a kind of person I'm used to or probably have ever been around such a type much if EVER. He talks like someone you'd find in areas of life that I am not surrounded by. Like a kind of whatever thinking college professor and it brings me back to what I was trying to say with the philanthropy constant talk. I don't have the words to explain it but yes, he talks different than anyone in my normal daily life.

Unless you mean his choice of words and evasiveness. I did find him evasive a few times but think it could be the knowledge of don't share this or that due to the investigation OR knowing what people have made of what he has said before.

Now as to witness protection. The thought keeps crossing my mind because it is the ONLY THING that fits here with what we know. I don't lean towards it nor am I saying I buy it BUT there are things here that lend to such a thought. The casket full of rocks comment for one recently seen does NOT HELP. Bitcoin alone can lead one there. LE NOT having anyone in the family or chosen by the family identify his body to even confirm it is HIM so no actual proof it was. No talk of it confirmed by DNA that it was him. No completed coroner's report. And no facts of a single person seen with him, near him, plans, a struggle, etc.

But I don't buy it and here's my problem with the witness protection thing. If you were trying to put someone in witness protection, you'd never be this stupid and you'd craft it better wouldn't you? It's like hints are GIVEN her to think witness protection and that's the last thing they'd want to do. And it wouldn't be locals it would be feds. IF there are enemies he'd need witness protection from, his brother mentioning a box of rocks just alerted them that maybe he is NOT dead. I don't know. This is whacky.

And now it has us going from where we at least knew he was dead to wondering if he is...

And would you place the area he was found so far with no way of seeing how he got there? These new remarks almost "scream" witness protection and again that is the last thing you'd do is not only make us think of such but the enemies too?

So many things...

I don't see it but I'd believe suicide first. And there is no reason to believe that.

I don't know what it is about the brother, but "something" bothers me with him. I just know that they need to rule him out completely and hope they have.

 

[Guess Who]

IF there is a will. If there isn't, in most states it would just go to all children if no spouse and he did not have a spouse. So if no will, no children would be named and you'd then have to prove you are one of his children yep.

Moms of known children would know if the case and number 8 would HOPEFULLY know if her child is his so I don't think it likely but there is possible motive here with the ex, the new fiance with his baby and the mother of number 8.

Which just popped the thought of why doesn't number 9 have to be proven??? She had this child AFTER he disappeared. Did they get a DNA test while child was in utero? That is basically never the case. Hmmmm. No way. He is not the legal father of number 9 either is he? He can't be. He may have accepted it was his but short of signing something PRIOR to birth stating that, no way.

All please respond to this, it just came out of nowhere as I was responding, number 9 can't be proven either right? Or did she rush for a test on the child's birth so it's already conclusive?

Missouri HAS to go through probate, even with a will (to be able to contest it), if the estate is over a certain amount ($50k, I think?) for the things that might be just in his name. This usually takes near a year. If things are held jointly, they revert to the other owner in most cases.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I don't know what it is about the brother, but "something" bothers me with him. I just know that they need to rule him out completely and hope they have.

I can't disagree. I'm positive my posts from almost the beginning show the same. He doesn't "sit right" with me but I will admit the interview you posted left me with not so much the same feeling but that's also why I don't trust it. He has had time to hear and see suspicions, reactions, etc. and of course would come on to give a better look and have thought of how to do that.

He may have had as much motive or to gain as anyone. Or NEEDED to gain something, cover something, do something. What is known about him and his life, finances, etc.? I think it was touched on back when, maybe even by him, but I can't recall. Married with kids and supposedly financially stable? Or not. Job?

 

[Regina]

I thought it was by an investigator but either way, I think it is a wrong and strange move considering they have an open investigation and a grieving family who needs to know you didn't find some stranger but found their missing loved one. And yeah report not complete, say what? This did just happen in May though now that I look and to be fair on that, it's only a few months back and they could be waiting on some results.

To my knowledge, the autopsy report was completed in a timely manner, it just hasn't been released due to the on-going investigation.

It is all very odd. Are they making it odd or is it odd? I mean the brother didn't help with his kidnapping story and such in the beginning. Though if he was told it and if true, then I guess it should be told to LE, not 100 percent sure I'd have shared that publicly... Made it more strange.

I'm glad he shared it.
Now I don't believe there actually was a kidnapping and so I think if they haven't already, investigators should try to find out what was going on with the brother prior to the kidnapping story.