Found Deceased TN - Riley Strain, 22, missing after leaving bar, Nashville, 8 March 2024 #2

[MollyHarps]

The foot steps sounded very heavy/clumpy?
Um trying to find the right description and failing!
Thought I heard Riley say "I'm alright Sir, are you?"

moo

Could he have been suffering from shin splints or something? My friend suffered from them on quick walks and she would struggle to lift her feet up properly after a while so would essentially sound clompy on the floor.

Usually on these cases I’d be adamant it was just a tragic accident - but the area in which he fell in with the homeless people based just raises my suspicions slightly.

 

[Janitor101]

A quick thank you to those of you posting photos, videos and screenshots. They've been so helpful to me.

 

[skylaker]

Could he have been suffering from shin splints or something? My friend suffered from them on quick walks and she would struggle to lift her feet up properly after a while so would essentially sound clompy on the floor.

Usually on these cases I’d be adamant it was just a tragic accident - but the area in which he fell in with the homeless people based just raises my suspicions slightly.

He was wearing square toe boots which I imagine sound clompy/heavy. Which also may explain why if he was close to the ledge and lost his balance could have fallen as such shoes don't give you any sort of grip, especially if you're running around in them. This also can explain why his gait seems awkward and he looks like gumby walking around in video footage besides his height. Definitely not the right shoes to be running around in.

 

[SMK777]

He was wearing square toe boots which I imagine sound clompy/heavy. Which also may explain why if he was close to the ledge and lost his balance could have fallen as such shoes don't give you any sort of grip, especially if you're running around in them. This also can explain why his gait seems awkward and he looks like gumby walking around in video footage besides his height. Definitely not the right shoes to be running around in.

Sneakers would have been the ticket, but less glamorous for a night on the town. Feel so badly for him and his family.

 

[ifindedout]

Sneakers would have been the ticket, but less glamorous for a night on the town.

SBM
It was also after (or part of) a formal.

 

[arielilane]

RS last seen on surveillance camera walking North on Gay St between the Woodland Street Bridge and the James Robertson Pkwy. His phone last pinged between 9:55 pm and 10:00 pm near the James Robertson Pkwy and Gay St (about six/seven blocks from the bar). moo

 

[MommyDoll2]

My thoughts exactly. How did he go from that to barely being able to walk and falling?

Bizarre.

This was after the falling

 

[Cindizzi]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1769774970291224777

 

[SMK777]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1769774970291224777

Sad to hear his young male voice.

 

[Lyanna]

Could he have been suffering from shin splints or something? My friend suffered from them on quick walks and she would struggle to lift her feet up properly after a while so would essentially sound clompy on the floor.

Usually on these cases I’d be adamant it was just a tragic accident - but the area in which he fell in with the homeless people based just raises my suspicions slightly.

Agree it could have been a struggle for Riley to lift his feet up, possibly because of how intoxicated he was in earlier footage? Your senses aren't the same and body doesn't always do what you want it to do when that inebriated ime, you think you're quietly creeping round but really you sound like a baby elephant thundering all over the place.

I think it was a tragic accident but similar to you, I think there's some things that are a little "odd".

moo

 

[Arkay]

I feel for the police officer, too. From the bit we saw, the officer would have no reason to know that a tragedy was about to occur.
Riley appeared to be coherent enough to respond appropriately to the officer, and I presume he didn’t fall down in front of the cop. But this Officer Young will likely replay this in his mind a thousand times and feel guilty that he didn’t intervene, despite that there was nothing appearing out of the ordinary at that moment.

I’ve lived in NYC all my life and so to me, Nashville is a small city. But as Nashville is a tourist town, based on what I see here in NYC, there is no way for a police officer to stop in his or her tracks every time they pass a pedestrian who seems fine.

I’m 50/50 over whose footsteps we hear. It seems to me that it’s likely the officer because we hear it after they passed one another and because the officer is the one who is miked up. But they do sound like sloshing steps and the officer was on the way to investigate the car situation, so I don’t know.

JMO

 

[SMK777]

I feel for the police officer, too. From the bit we saw, the officer would have no reason to know that a tragedy was about to occur.
Riley appeared to be coherent enough to respond appropriately to the officer, and I presume he didn’t fall down in front of the cop. But this Officer Young will likely replay this in his mind a thousand times and feel guilty that he didn’t intervene, despite that there was nothing appearing out of the ordinary at that moment.

I’ve lived in NYC all my life and so to me, Nashville is a small city. But as Nashville is a tourist town, based on what I see here in NYC, there is no way for a police officer to stop in his or her tracks every time they pass a pedestrian who seems fine.

I’m 50/50 over whose footsteps we hear. It seems to me that it’s likely the officer because we hear it after they passed one another and because the officer is the one who is miked up. But they do sound like sloshing steps and the officer was on the way to investigate the car situation, so I don’t know.

JMO

Yes, I’m sure it haunts the officer that he saw no inkling of a tragedy in the making. It didn’t help that he was engaged in investigating a car burglary call, either, so that was distracting him as well.

 

[ckferg]

Seems it was the other way around. All of the videos we've seen up until this one with the officer occurred prior to today's released video.

It’s an instinctual response, didn’t really involve any thought or reflection. He perceived possibly getting in trouble and gave a basic flight response.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

The officer didn't even have to say anything to him yet still asked how he was. It was sad to see somehow.

 

[skylaker]

Based on this report it seems as if the Cumberland River streamflow and gage height was up a lot higher (almost 5 times as much) on the 8th-9th than it is now.

Cumberland River At Nashville Flow Report | Tennessee USGS 03431500

Streamflow levels and water data for Cumberland River At Nashville, TN. Access stream gauge data and latest weather forecast for Tennessee USGS Gauge: 03431500.

snoflo.org

March 9th streamflow: 47800cfs
March 9th gage height: 24.69ft
March 18th steamflow: 9890cfs
March 18th gage height: 17.90ft

If he did go into the river it's a lot lower now so his body is more likely to be found.

 

[SMK777]

If he did go into the river it's a lot lower now so his body is more likely to be found.

At least that’s a positive. Hoping he’ll be found soon so his parents can stop being suspended between hope and despair. I wouldn’t be in their shoes for all the money in the world.

 

[arielilane]

Riley Strain timeline: Family holds out hope for Mizzou student’s return​

• Riley Strain, 22, went missing on March 8 in Nashville
• Escorted out of Luke's 32 Bridge around 9:30 p.m. for being overserved
• Latest update: Strain’s bank card was found near the Cumberland River

Riley Strain timeline: Search and discovery of missing Mizzou student

A detailed look at the timeline of events following Riley Strain’s disappearance and death.

www.newsnationnow.com

Updated: MAR 18, 2024 / 03:41 PM CDT

 

[technicallymissing]

Re: using Riley's gait to determine level of intoxication... I know I've started skipping or just walking in a silly/exaggerated way when tipsy/drunk/high before lol. He also seems to level out into a more "normal" walk when he greets the police officer which is part of what made me think it might just have been a random drunk impulse to stomp around a little. MOO though of course

 

[investigatefred]

So the body found yesterday in the river was not a woman as had been said somewhere along the line, but is an unidentified hispanic male.

Police: Body found in river Sunday showed no sign of foul play trauma

TWRA officers located the body floating near the Martin Luther King bridge on Sunday around 1 p.m.

www.wsmv.com

 

[SMK777]

Riley Strain timeline: Family holds out hope for Mizzou student’s return​

• Riley Strain, 22, went missing on March 8 in Nashville
• Escorted out of Luke's 32 Bridge around 9:30 p.m. for being overserved
• Latest update: Strain’s bank card was found near the Cumberland River

Riley Strain timeline: Search and discovery of missing Mizzou student

A detailed look at the timeline of events following Riley Strain’s disappearance and death.

www.newsnationnow.com

Updated: MAR 18, 2024 / 03:41 PM CDT

Really wish there could be a miraculous happy outcome, where he had amnesia all this time. However, because of the massive media coverage and his distinctive height, there seems no chance of this kind of scenario having happened, unfortunately.