A psychiatrist’s body is found by divers in an icy pond near his Michigan home – days after he disappeared from the hospital
- dr Bolek Payan went missing on December 22 after failing to pick up his dogs
- Divers recovered the body from a pond near his home in Jackson County, Michigan
- Detectives cut into an icy pond after retrieving footage of Dr. Payan had seen leaving his house
A doctor who went missing last week was found dead in a frozen pond near his Michigan home.
Divers found the body of Dr. Bolek Payan was recovered from the Jackson County pond Tuesday afternoon after investigators viewed footage from his home video camera system showing him exiting the property on foot Dec. 22.
The Public Safety Department said police dogs, drones and officers swept the woods around his home before cutting into the ice covering the pond.
“The property has been vetted using K-9 dogs, drones and on foot,” Blackman-Leoni’s Public Safety Department said in a statement.
Divers found the body of Dr. Bolek Payan recovered from pond in Jackson County
dr Payan worked as a psychiatrist at Henry Ford Hospital in Michigan (pictured)
The news of the recovery of the body of Dr. Paynan was shared on Facebook
“After nothing could be found on land, holes were cut in the ice of a pond on the property yesterday and divers found Dr. Payan’s body under the ice.
“Detectives believe that Dr. Payan passed away before he was reported missing due to weather conditions on the day he left his home and the fact that he was in the water.
“We would like to thank the Jackson County Dive Team, Michigan Search and Rescue, J-DART, neighbors and the public for their support of this incident. Our thoughts are with Dr. Payan’s family and friends.’
According to a family friend, Nicole Keiser, Dr. Payan, who worked as a psychiatrist at Henry Ford Hospital, delivered his dogs to her around 8 a.m. Thursday and was scheduled to pick them up later that evening.
She added that it was “uncharacteristic” for him to drive home without picking up his dogs.
“Bolek dropped his dogs off at 8am. He told us that he will pick her up at 6:30 a.m., he has already fed her and that he will feed her again if he picks her up at 6:30 a.m. that evening,” she told WILX News.
“For his truck to be here without coming to the house to pick up the dogs would be out of character. Something happened and I don’t know what.”
The Jackson County Medical Examiner’s Office is expected to perform an autopsy and toxicology testing.