Arkansas officials say a Missouri doctor whose body was found in a lake died by suicide

Arkansas authorities accidental the decease of a Missouri doc who was recovered 11 months agone successful a northwest Arkansas water has been ruled a suicide

The decease of a Missouri doc who was recovered 11 months agone successful a northwest Arkansas water has been ruled a suicide, Arkansas authorities said Thursday.

Dr. John Forsyth died of a gunshot coiled to the head, the Benton County, Arkansas, sheriff's section said successful a statement. An autopsy by the main aesculapian examiner astatine the Arkansas State Crime Lab concluded that it was a suicide.

The sheriff’s bureau said that its detectives located respective surveillance videos of Forsyth riding a bicycle to the water and the bicycle was located adjacent wherever Forsyth’s assemblage was found.

Forsyth, 49, didn't amusement up for his May 21, 2023, displacement astatine Mercy Hospital successful Cassville, Missouri, wherever helium had parked his RV. That prompted a search, and determination was nary motion of him until a kayaker noticed his assemblage successful Arkansas connected May 30, astatine a spot connected Beaver Lake astir 20 miles (32 kilometers) distant from his past known location.

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The enigma surrounding his decease gave his lawsuit nationalist attention. Social media person speculated that his decease whitethorn person been connected to the cryptocurrency institution that helium co-founded with his brother.

“Detectives person not been capable to find immoderate accusation oregon grounds that would pb america to quality the aesculapian examiner's findings,” the sheriff's connection said. “If nonsubjective and applicable carnal grounds becomes available, those leads volition beryllium investigated connected a case-by-case basis.”