Found Deceased TN - Riley Strain, 22, missing from a bar, Nashville, 8 March 2024

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How likely is it that something happened to Riley in the homeless camp?
The local woman who serves the food to the homeless says she saw a homeless man wearing a shirt that looked like Riley’s. She submitted the tip to LE.
 
How likely is it that something happened to Riley in the homeless camp?
The local woman who serves the food to the homeless says she saw a homeless man wearing a shirt that looked like Riley’s. She submitted the tip to LE.
I could certainly see them wanting his ATM cards and phone. But what would be the point of hurting a big guy like that, unless he maybe really resisted?
 
My strategy has always been to ask for EMS. In many places the police are backlogged, and you're not going to get a timely response for something like that. EMS has always shown up for me in minutes.
That definitely makes sense, to treat it as a medical emergency rather than public intoxication.
 
He could have consumed many many drinks, and honestly he could have only had 2 or 3, we don't know. Alcohol affects everyone differently. When I was much younger, I could have had 10 shots before I felt or appeared drunk. These days I rarely consume anything containing alcohol, so if I have even 1 drink in a social setting, I can feel the effects, almost immediately. If, when and what he ate that day could also make a difference in how fast his body absorbed the alcohol as well.

I read, as has been posted here, that 200 Frat members rode chartered buses to Nashville. Was it filled with stuff to get ya high like Jello shooters? Is it likely he was intoxicated upon arriving at Bryan's?

(WKRN) — New information in the search for Riley Strain—the river and homeless encampments remain the primary focus, according to family friends. However, they aren’t ruling everything else out.
Homeless encampments, river remain primary focus in Riley Strain search, family friend says

Metro Nashville Police said no foul play is suspected and officers are treating this as a missing person case trying to bring Riley home to his family.

The Office of Emergency Management said boats will be back out on the water Saturday using sonar.

Chartered bus drive is a 6 hour trip to Nashville
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I read, as has been posted here, that 200 Frat members rode chartered buses to Nashville. Was it filled with stuff to get ya high like Jello shooters? Is it likely he was intoxicated upon arriving at Bryan's?

(WKRN) — New information in the search for Riley Strain—the river and homeless encampments remain the primary focus, according to family friends. However, they aren’t ruling everything else out.
Homeless encampments, river remain primary focus in Riley Strain search, family friend says

Metro Nashville Police said no foul play is suspected and officers are treating this as a missing person case trying to bring Riley home to his family.

The Office of Emergency Management said boats will be back out on the water Saturday using sonar.

Chartered bus drive is a 6 hour trip to Nashville
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He may very well have been intoxicated already when he got the one drink at the bar.
 
I apologize if this has been answered or discussed before and I missed it, but how quickly does your phone stop responding or sending signals if it falls into water?

I keep thinking about the water. A student went missing after a night out when my daughter was in college, and his body was found several weeks later in a river that flowed near the bar. That’s my first thought when I hear about someone wandering off after drinking.
 
MAR 15, 2024
[...]

Friday, March 8

[...]

Strain went to Luke’s 32 Bridge on Broadway Friday night, where records show he purchased and was served one alcoholic drink and two waters. Strain’s mother, Michelle Whiteid, said she FaceTimed with him just a few hours before he went missing.

At 9:35 p.m.: Strain was kicked out of the bar. In a statement, the TC Restaurant Group, which owns and operates the bar, said its security team “made a decision based on our conduct standards to escort him from the venue through our Broadway exit at the front of our building.”

He was followed down the stairs with one of his friends, according to the bar. However, his friend reportedly did not exit and returned upstairs.

Around 9:45 p.m.: Surveillance video from Downtown Smoke & Vape Shop on Church Street caught Riley stumbling and falling in a parking lot at 3rd Avenue and Church Street.

At 9:47 p.m.: Surveillance video caught Strain crossing 1st Avenue North to Gay Street.

Between 9:55 p.m. and 10 p.m.: Strain’s last phone ping was near James Robertson Parkway and Gay Street. Detectives said the last phone conversation Strain had with one of his friends was also during that same time period.

VIDEO: Retracing Riley Strain’s steps in downtown Nashville

According to police, the phone ping covered about a two-mile radius and didn’t give them a direction of travel or any more detailed information about where Strain might have gone.

Saturday, March 9

At 1:46 p.m.: Strain’s friend called 911 after saying he went to the Central Police Precinct and called the sheriff’s office to file a missing person’s report.

Strain’s family also received a call from his fraternity brothers, alerting them that they had not seen or heard from him since Friday night. Strain’s parents said they drove to Nashville from Springfield, Missouri, as soon as they got the call.

[...]
 
I read, as has been posted here, that 200 Frat members rode chartered buses to Nashville. Was it filled with stuff to get ya high like Jello shooters? Is it likely he was intoxicated upon arriving at Bryan's?

(WKRN) — New information in the search for Riley Strain—the river and homeless encampments remain the primary focus, according to family friends. However, they aren’t ruling everything else out.
Homeless encampments, river remain primary focus in Riley Strain search, family friend says

Metro Nashville Police said no foul play is suspected and officers are treating this as a missing person case trying to bring Riley home to his family.

The Office of Emergency Management said boats will be back out on the water Saturday using sonar.

Chartered bus drive is a 6 hour trip to Nashville
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What type of fraternity formal was it? Was it one with dates, a mixer, or stag? Or something else I'm not getting? (I heard the term "conference" used as well)
 
MAR 15, 2024
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...Strain’s cousin Jake Bradley said there’s more to him than this picture of a “college kid having fun.”

“Yeah, he likes to have fun with his buddies and all that,” Bradley said. “That’s not — if you saw him outside of that, his love and his care and his kindness were of a five-year-old boy that loved every toy he ever had, you know?”

According to Bradley, Strain FaceTimed his mother around 7:30 p.m. the night of his disappearance just to tell her, “Hey, mom I’m having a good time,” before she went to bed.

[...]

Strain’s close relationship with Bradley’s 2-year-old son is also a demonstration of what his family described as his “fun-loving personality.” Every time he saw the toddler, Bradley said Strain would bring him a gift.

“Riley made it a goal for my son to be his best friend,” Bradley said. “That doesn’t happen. That’s not the kind of kid that’s out partying with his friends and he disappears. He’s just not that kind of person.”

[...]
 
I apologize if this has been answered or discussed before and I missed it, but how quickly does your phone stop responding or sending signals if it falls into water?

I keep thinking about the water. A student went missing after a night out when my daughter was in college, and his body was found several weeks later in a river that flowed near the bar. That’s my first thought when I hear about someone wandering off after drinking.
Google says it'll stop responding between a few inches to a few feet. Either way, his would have likely been deeper than that if it did go in, which I think is overwhelmingly likely.
 
Can you all help me with this time discrepancy?

I have thought the friends reported at 1:46 am as this article shows. But was it really 1:46 pm?

I really don’t know how that report got out, maybe bad editing? But here it says 1:46 am.

MAR 15, 2024
[...]

Friday, March 8

[...]

Strain went to Luke’s 32 Bridge on Broadway Friday night, where records show he purchased and was served one alcoholic drink and two waters. Strain’s mother, Michelle Whiteid, said she FaceTimed with him just a few hours before he went missing.

At 9:35 p.m.: Strain was kicked out of the bar. In a statement, the TC Restaurant Group, which owns and operates the bar, said its security team “made a decision based on our conduct standards to escort him from the venue through our Broadway exit at the front of our building.”

He was followed down the stairs with one of his friends, according to the bar. However, his friend reportedly did not exit and returned upstairs.

Around 9:45 p.m.: Surveillance video from Downtown Smoke & Vape Shop on Church Street caught Riley stumbling and falling in a parking lot at 3rd Avenue and Church Street.

At 9:47 p.m.: Surveillance video caught Strain crossing 1st Avenue North to Gay Street.

Between 9:55 p.m. and 10 p.m.: Strain’s last phone ping was near James Robertson Parkway and Gay Street. Detectives said the last phone conversation Strain had with one of his friends was also during that same time period.

VIDEO: Retracing Riley Strain’s steps in downtown Nashville

According to police, the phone ping covered about a two-mile radius and didn’t give them a direction of travel or any more detailed information about where Strain might have gone.

Saturday, March 9

At 1:46 p.m.: Strain’s friend called 911 after saying he went to the Central Police Precinct and called the sheriff’s office to file a missing person’s report.

Strain’s family also received a call from his fraternity brothers, alerting them that they had not seen or heard from him since Friday night. Strain’s parents said they drove to Nashville from Springfield, Missouri, as soon as they got the call.

[...]
 
Can you all help me with this time discrepancy?

I have thought the friends reported at 1:46 am as this article shows. But was it really 1:46 pm?
Why do you ask? Is the time in dispute? To me, it indicates that his fraternity friends were decent people, because I’ve known of cases where nobody takes any action until a few days have passed.

It does sadly seem he probably fell into the river.
 
Can you all help me with this time discrepancy?

I have thought the friends reported at 1:46 am as this article shows. But was it really 1:46 pm?

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Friends of Riley Strain reported him missing nearly 16 hours after disappearance, 911 call shows

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Friends of Riley Strain reported him missing nearly 16 hours after disappearance, 911 call shows​

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Oh, I see. I actually thought they reported him missing that very night: I mistakenly saw 1:46 pm as 1:46 am. —eg he was kicked out of the bar at 9:35 pm and 4 hours later they called 911, which as I said in my above post seemed very quick to me, seeing as some friends and family I’ve known have waited 2-3 days to notice or care that someone is missing.
 
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I apologize if this has been answered or discussed before and I missed it, but how quickly does your phone stop responding or sending signals if it falls into water?

I keep thinking about the water. A student went missing after a night out when my daughter was in college, and his body was found several weeks later in a river that flowed near the bar. That’s my first thought when I hear about someone wandering off after drinking.
I feel you, unfortunately, we've seen A LOT of college males end up in the water. That is where my guess lays right now. I'm sad to even type that, but his body may take a few days, if not longer, to be able to be detected or "come up" for lack of a better term.
 
I feel you, unfortunately, we've seen A LOT of college males end up in the water. That is where my guess lays right now. I'm sad to even type that, but his body may take a few days, if not longer, to be able to be detected or "come up" for lack of a better term.
It’s sadly about the only explanation that makes sense.
 
This is one of other videos which show absolutely (not confirmed) no one ever attempting to help RS at any time. How heartbreaking. No call to 911 to get him-- help?

My heart breaks for his mom. Praying for RS's mom. There are no words, and it bothers me that she sees her son like this -- alone. Suffering ... I hope she is surrounded by much love and support.


this is weirdly 'normal' I suppose. If you live in a city, you see this all the time - obviously we know he wasn't always like this, but there are people who act like this all the time...so a passerby may very well think this is just a 'tweaker', 'drug addict', etc ---not even necessarily drunk (or drugged).

His poor family, I couldn't imagine seeing him like this :(
 
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