Authorities on the North Shore identified Daniel Arnett, a missing Beverly cardiologist, as the man found dead near the Tendercrop Farm cow pasture on Sunday. He was 44 and was last seen riding his bicycle around 10 a.m. Saturday on Scotland Road near Colby Farm.
The Essex County District Attorney’s Office said investigators do not suspect foul play. The office did not say how Arnett died, leaving the cause of death unresolved as the Rowley incident stays under investigation.
Scotland Road to Tendercrop Farm
Arnett had been reported missing before authorities identified him. The timeline places him on Scotland Road near Colby Farm on Saturday morning, then near the Tendercrop Farm cow pasture shortly after 2 p.m. Sunday, when emergency crews responded and his family and friends joined them.
That sequence is the clearest part of the case so far. It narrows the window between his last known sighting and the discovery without answering what happened during those hours.
Rowley Sunday
Prosecutors also said the body of another man was found in Rowley on Sunday afternoon, about noon, in Mill River near Red Gate Road. They said the two deaths are unrelated, and the district attorney’s office has not publicly identified the second man.
For Arnett’s family and friends, the identification closes one part of the search and opens another: how he died. Until that is addressed, the case remains centered on the unanswered circumstances between Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon.
