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A A Michigan doctor who went missing last week was found dead in a frozen pond near his home Tuesday afternoon.
divers Bolek Payan’s body was pulled from the frozen pond in Jackson County around 12:30 p.m. after investigators recovered it Monday.
Security footage from the doctor’s home showed him leaving the residence on foot Thursday afternoon, the Blackman-Leoni Township Department of Public Safety said.
Police dogs, drones and officers searched the woods around Payan’s house before authorities punched holes in the ice covering the pond, the public security department said.
“Detectives believe that Dr. Payan would have passed away, prior to being reported missing, due to weather conditions the day he left his residence and the fact that he was in the water,” the department said.
Payan worked at Henry Ford Hospital in Jackson County, Michigan.
Family friend Nicole Keizer said Payan, who worked at Henry Ford Hospital, left her dogs with her around 8 a.m. Thursday and was expected to pick them up later that night.
Keizer told WILX-TV before Payan’s body was found that it was “out of character” for him to drive home without bringing the dogs.
Payan’s specialty was psychiatry, according to his biography on the Henry Ford Health website. She graduated from Midwestern University Chicago School of Osteopathic Medicine in Illinois in 2017, according to Henry Ford Health.
The county medical examiner is expected to perform an autopsy and toxicology test on Payan.