23-07-2025
Palm Beach doctor filmed complaining about he and wife's four-way open relationship a year before horrific murder
Newly released bodycam footage captured the moment a Florida doctor accused of his wife's murder had complained about their four-way relationship with another couple a year before her death.
Dr Richard Seith, a well-known ophthalmologist in Stuart, Florida, was seen in the footage from July 2024 being stopped by deputies responding to reports of shots fired at a home.
The home belonged to a couple, who have not been identified, that Seith and his ex-wife Cynthia Sciarrone-Seith had been in an 'intimate relationship' with, investigators said.
Deputies arrived at the home to find a bullet shattered a window and another pierced a child's bedroom wall, and the couple said Seith drove a distinctive orange Jeep.
A deputy spotted Seith driving nearby and was heard in the bodycam saying he was 'exactly who I am looking for.'
Seith denied firing the bullets but admitted he was cruising outside the couple's home, looking for his wife.
'I look to see if she's here. We're still married, and I don't approve of it,' he told the deputy in the bodycam footage.
A year later on July 15, 2025, cops say that Seith fatally shot his wife outside her condo on Lake Worth, Florida, and he is currently being held in custody without bail.
In the new footage released this week, Seith was seen in the interaction with a deputy a year ago speaking coldly about his wife being with the couple.
Prosecutors say the exchange is evidence of red flags in his relationship with Cynthia some time before he allegedly murdered her, per CBS12.
The deputy asked Seith if he had a weapon in the car, questioning: 'I need you to be honest with me now, have you shot any rounds near that house you just drove by?'
Seith said that he did but denied having shot it at the couple's home.
Despite the bullet holes in the couple's home, deputies were unable to link the bullets to Seith's gun and they let him go from the traffic stop.
'Unfortunately, our deputies didn't have enough to arrest Mr. Seith, and had to give him his gun back,' Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek said during a news conference on Tuesday.
'After the interaction with our deputy, he did not continue to drive by—and of course, you now know what took place.'
Budensiek added that the woman in the home filed for a restraining order the next day, but a judge denied her petition twice, again citing a lack of evidence.
Seith remains behind bars after he was arrested earlier this month for allegedly shooting Cynthia, a flight attendant for Spirit Airlines, outside her home.
Cynthia was found shot in the head moments after parking her car outside her home on July 15 when she returned from a late-night shift.
Cops quickly obtained search warrants for Seith's home and eye clinic, which turned up evidence of guns, ammunition, a silencer, and a kit that turns a handgun into a short-barreled rifle, according to KY3.
Cops also found a GPS tracker that Seith had allegedly bought months earlier that prosecutors say he placed on her car to track her movements.
Detectives said that records showed Seith then cancelled his subscription to the GPS tracker just three hours after Cynthia was shot dead.
Seith claimed that he had not seen his ex-wife since December 2024 and was not in Florida at the time, however detectives said that their investigation found he was stalking her.
This included a witness saying she had seen Seith in the area on the night of Cynthia's death.
According to prosecutors, the couple had a contentious divorce that was finalized in May, just two months before Cynthia was shot dead.
They said that Seith had been ordered to pay her $250,000 plus pay off the mortgage on her Lake Worth condo where she was killed.
The final payment on the mortgage was due at the end of July, weeks after she was shot.
Seith remains in jail without bond, and has pleaded not guilty to her murder.
