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Missing Michigan physician found dead in frozen pond

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Emily Cortez

Published Feb 01, 2026

A Michigan doctor who disappeared last week was tracked down dead in a frozen lake close to his home Tuesday evening.

Jumpers pulled the group of Bolek Payan from the frigid lake in Jackson Province around 12:30 p.m. after agents on Monday recovered security film from the specialist’s home showing him leave the home by walking Thursday evening, the Blackman-Leoni Municipality Division of Public Wellbeing said.

Police canines, robots and officials looked through the forest around Payan’s home before specialists cut openings in the ice covering the lake, the public security division said.

“Analysts trust Dr. Payan would have been expired, before when he was accounted for absent, because of the atmospheric conditions on the day that he left his home and the way that he was in the water,” the division said.

Family companion Nicole Keiser said Payan, who worked at Henry Passage Emergency clinic, dropped his canines off with her around 8 a.m. Thursday and was supposed to get them that evening.

Missing Michigan physician found dead in frozen pond A Michigan physician who went missing last week was found dead in a frozen pond near his home Tuesday afternoon.

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Keiser told WILX-television before Payan’s body was observed that it was “unusual” for him to commute home without getting the canines.

Payan’s specialty was psychiatry, as indicated by his profile on Henry Passage Wellbeing’s site. He moved on from Midwestern College Chicago School of Osteopathic Medication in Illinois in 2017, as per Henry Passage Wellbeing.

The region’s clinical inspector is supposed to lead an examination and toxicology test on Payan.