Missouri ER doctor Richard Forsyth, who vanished after proposing to fiancée, found dead

A Missouri ER doctor and father of eight who vanished last week after texting his new fiancée he’d see her in “a little bit” was found dead Tuesday, his brother said.

Dr. John Forsyth, 49, was reported missing May 21 after he didn’t report for his 7 p.m. shift at Mercy Hospital in Cassville, a town of about 3,000 deep in the Ozarks.

His brother Richard Forsyth said authorities located his body Tuesday in northwest Arkansas.

“We’re in shock. I suspect foul play,” said Richard, who is expecting more details from a detective on Wednesday.

“He wouldn’t miss a shift even if his eyeballs were hanging out of their sockets. He’s punctual in the extreme,” Richard told Fox News Digital. “It was an immediate red flag.”

Forsyth has worked at the same hospital for 15 years and has never missed a day of work or been late, Richard added.

The last person known to hear from Forsyth, who created a cryptocurrency with his brother, may have been his fiancée, Cassville Police Det. Stuart Lombard told Fox News Digital. 

They were texting at around 7 a.m., and he told her his shift was over, and he’d see her “a little bit later.” Then he suddenly stopped responding, Lombard said.

Video surveillance captured the doctor walking to his luxury RV, where he stayed in the hospital parking lot during his shifts.

Police located Forsyth’s Infiniti about 700 feet from the Cassville Aquatic Center entrance at a yard waste site.

Richard Forsyth said John Forsyth’s passport, wallet and two phones, along with his RV and car keys, were still inside the Infiniti.

Forsyth had also left the RV unlocked with his laptop and two additional cellphones behind when he left, which Richard called “very uncharacteristic.”  

Lombard said police, with the assistance of the Missouri State Highway Patrol and other agencies, had conducted a canine and ground search of the 90-acre park around the recreation facility but turned up nothing. 

Richard said his brother got engaged three days before he disappeared and days after finalizing his divorce from his first wife.

An uncontested divorce settlement was issued May 11 that awarded his ex-wife about $19,000 a month in alimony and child support, Richard added.