One of the leading explanations in Brandon Swanson's disappearance is that he accidentally entered the Yellow Medicine River after leaving his vehicle in rural Minnesota. Search teams spent years examining the river and surrounding farmland, but Brandon has never been found. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension continues to classify the case as an active missing person investigation.

In this episode of Unsolved and Missing, we explore the river theory, why it remains one of the strongest explanations, and the questions it still cannot answer.

Sometimes the landscape becomes the only witness.