On May 21, 2008, 22-year-old Robertson Chad Winters was on a raft with friends on the Willamette River in Eugene, Oregon, when the raft capsized in swift, cold water. Companions made it to safety but Winters was swept away by the current and was last seen disappearing from view. Search and rescue teams, including dive units, boats and aircraft, and volunteers from the Lane County Sheriff’s Office and other agencies searched downstream and along the banks, but were unable to locate him and the active search was eventually scaled back.

Winters is described as having dark brown, shoulder-length dreadlocks, hazel eyes, and several tattoos on his hands and chest. At the time he was wearing black bib overalls and a dark-colored shirt. He is presumed to have drowned and his body has never been recovered.

Did anyone on the river that day or in the days afterward see anything that could help explain what happened to Robertson Winters?