The Missouri ER doctor whose body was found in a lake more than a week after he went missing under mysterious circumstances had just gotten engaged to a nurse who was eight-months pregnant with his baby, according to a report.
Dr. John Forsyth, a 49-year-old newly divorced father of eight, was last seen alive on May 21, when security cameras in the parking lot of a public pool in Cassville showed him getting into someone’s vehicle.
Three days earlier, Forsyth had proposed to a nurse who worked with him — and whom his family had not met until after his disappearance. Most of his relatives were unaware of the engagement.
The ER doctor’s bride-to-be is eight-months pregnant with the couple’s first child, a source anonymously told Fox News Digital.
“I have never cried and prayed so much as the last two weeks,” Forsyth’s father, Robert, told the outlet while discussing his late son’s plans for the future with his fiancée.
“It’s just been wrenching. They were planning their wedding.”
The 76-year-old added that he learned of the proposal and pregnancy only after his son’s death.
Forsyth’s engagement came a short time after he finalized his divorce from his wife — a woman whom he had married twice between 1995 and 2022.
On May 10, a judge ordered Forsyth to pay his ex-wife $3,999 in child support a month, plus another $15,000 a month, which the doctor — who had created a cryptocurrency with his brother and was reportedly a millionaire — did not contest. By all accounts, the split was amicable.
Forsyth’s brother, Richard, complained to Fox News Digital that he and his family have been kept “in the dark” by the authorities about the investigation.
“The Missouri state police told us, ‘We know more than you think we do,’” he said. “We are mad we are being kept so in the dark.”
Authorities, who have been equally tightlipped with the press about the investigation, have not said whether they believe Forsyth was killed or died by suicide.
His brother and other family members have dismissed any suggestion that he took his own life, saying that he was devoted to the eight children he has with his ex-wife and seemed happier than he had been in a long time.
On the day he vanished, Forsyth had just finished a 12-hour shift at Mercy Hospital in Cassville.
He texted his fiancée that he would see her in “a little bit,” but then stopped responding to her messages, Cassville Police Detective Stuart Lombard previously told Fox News Digital.
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