The real enticing mysterious intrigue that separates this case from all others is how it starts, the simple logistics of a fully grown adult man simply vanishing after being around hundreds of other people. If you search through Google Maps, you can use the timeline function to go back to around the time that this happened and see how the area has transformed. (side note: It's interesting to see how rural and run-down some of the neighborhoods were if you walked directly away a few blocks from the main streets of what used to be the building the ugly tuna saloona was in back around when this took place.) I find myself quite overly competent when armchair sleuthing with my natural detective logical mindset from years of researching online all my life, every day, everything I can, as I am a laptop PC collector. If I'm torn away from my laptop, it's only because I am trying to survive the mutilation depravity of the mighty arbitrary system of currency on our little speck of dust planet in the infinite galactic Sahara. I did have some visions tonight; I am connected to the multiverse of infinity and saw Clint having sex with Brian, but Clint was the devil. I also saw a hand wrapped around metal, like a fence almost, more like a glove, which could indicate pushing, maybe through chained doors inside the building? I also felt and saw someone lying in pitch dark, felt like it was outside without any houses or lights around, like the country, but a hand could be seen that was dirty with what looked like dry, dusty dirt, which could indicate death to me.
Personally looking from a logical viewpoint, his phone pinged, which, contrary to the poster with updated info a few years ago seems to think that even though he recognized it as a possibility with his wording that Brian's phone pinged in a few different locations on morning of his disappearance, which does not mean he left the building in the first place because anyone could have had his phone, but most likely, logically thinking it was him with his phone still means he did in fact leave that building somehow. My logical detective mind says that it was not a new life he was seeking by making himself disappear, as his laptops were thoroughly investigated without any searches for anything to do with how one would just make themselves disappear. Not only that, he did not take any money out of his accounts, clothing, or anything at all to indicate he was attempting to do that; to me, that hypothesis is negative. Then the theories of foul play come, but there is no evidence we have to suggest that ever occurred either. The problem with foul play is it's just so far of a stretch to think one could disappear after being around hundreds of people, and not just that, get murdered without a trace. To me that is too much of a coincidence to all of a sudden happen to a famous medical student. There would be some evidence, or someone would know something, but there is nothing, for either.
Which then brings me to what I have always concluded is that he died naturally somehow, with the help of suicidal ideation, or, for lack of a better term, just not giving a crap what happened to himself right then and there, and his body was never found. He had lost his mother from a crippling, full-blown disease, and he couldn't do anything about it. Being a medical student might have been his subconscious way in life to deal with it, but when it happened, he was helpless, and his grades were failing. It was speculated, and probably true, that when Brian had his recent visit with his father, his father told Brian he was no longer supporting his failing attempt at school and that he would no longer be giving Brian money to pay for it. He was lost and wanted a way out; he even wanted to break up with his soon-to-be wife. What does that tell you? It tells me it's a man going through many horrible things. This case is baffling, like Andrew Gosden's case and DeOrr Kunz Jr.'s and many others.Odd supernatural occurrences can happen in life, like in Final Destination, things that you could never think possible, sets of circumstances one could never make up in their own minds in an eternity, and Brian's death could in fact be one of these, but it could also just be a natural death brought on by not caring what happened to himself because of all the horrible things he was going through at the time. Life can prey on those that are vulnerable, and Brian seemed to be just that at the time of his death. I never imagined anything to do with drowning in this case, but a lot of unsolved disappearance cases do have that aspect in them, and there is a large river near the area. I think Brian was off his guard, letting life that night lure him to his death somehow, either through suicidal ideation and just not giving a crap what happened to himself or outright doing it somehow. I also want to point out to the lead investigator his thinking that people that commit suicide want to be found, to me thats not at all true and I wonder why he would ever say that in the first place in this case. Have you ever heard of Aokigahara Forest, its a suicide forest people in japan go to to commit suicide. Its a secluded area where they wont be seen and many times lost forever without anyone knowing. People don't want other people to know they commit suicide because they want to be known by the people they new in life as strong individuals that did there best at life, not as weak people who gave up. Brian would be the same way, he was a strong man and intelligent man trying his hardest to save his parent. He was going through one of the toughest degrees a human being can achieve. Someone that is strong enough and intelligent enough to be successful like he was at medical school would not want to be know to the world as that guy that gave up, medical students are star scholars who are strong minded and want to be seen by the world as people who can overcome anything life has to offer.