Police: Body of Riley Strain recovered from Cumberland River early Friday

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Source: NBC Montana

Police: Body of Riley Strain recovered from Cumberland River early Friday

by Jordan Whittington, Sydney KellerFri, March 22nd 2024 at 7:50 AM
Updated Fri, March 22nd 2024 at 9:04 AM

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — Metro Police confirm the body of missing college student Riley Strain was recovered from the Cumberland River on Friday morning.

Strain's body was recovered in West Nashville, about 8 miles from downtown, police confirm. Metro Police Chief John Drake said the department received a call from an employee who works along the river around 7:30 a.m. Friday. ... The worker had been searching the river for any evidence of Strain when they noticed his body surface.

Medical examiners on the scene were able to confirm the body's identification by the shirt, which Strain was wearing when he disappeared, along with his watch.

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Read more: https://nbcmontana.com/news/nation-world/nashville-police-working-to-remove-body-from-cumberland-river-early-friday

[Prairie Gates]

1. This happens in Chicago from time to time too

A (young male) college student or young man is seen stumbling around after a night at the bars. They are missing, then found in the lake (Lake Michigan).

The implication from the news is always that the missing person was drunk/incapacitated and somehow ended up in the water and drowned.

Then the story disappears until the next time.

[Jacson6]

3. There is a conspiracy theory that a serial killer is going around college towns..

and throwing drunk college kids into lakes and rivers to drown them.

[Prairie Gates]

4. It relies on the weird phenomenon that college kids drown occasionally while drunk

The Greeks invented the Sirens for a similar phenomenon, I suppose. We all have our own monsters to explain bizarre tragedies.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

6. The Smiley Face killer.

Supposedly they make a smiley by the body

[mzmolly]

10. Such nonsense.

He's dead because he was unsteady on his feet and the river had shit barriers.

[Jimbo S]

7. La Crosse, WI

Multiple college students have ended up dead in the Mississippi River.

[StClone]

12. It maybe a lot of odd coicidences

Right-wing nut David Paulides has a background as a decent police detective. He has compiled many cases that have multiple coincidences where young drunk men disappear only to be found dead in a body of water. I have debated his take for years yet in many of the cases, evidence, eyewitnesses, and odd parallels abound and no smiley-face killer or accidental death could account for them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Apparently no evidence of foul play

https://ca.news.yahoo.com › body-riley-strain-found-river-144200507.html
Body of Riley Strain found in river, no evidence of foul play ...
TodayThe body of missing college student Riley Strain was recovered from the Cumberland River in West Nashville Friday morning following a two-week search, according to Nashville police. Strain, a 22-year-old senior at the University of Missouri, went missing on March 8 after a night out at several Nashville bars. Strain and his Delta Chi fraternity brothers were visiting

[mahina]

5. Wishing comfort for his family and friends

How terrible

[IbogaProject]

8. Male drowning victims often have their flys down.

Sorry for his family and friends. Might have been drunk and might have decided to try and pee in the river. Pro tip never go near water at night, you might misjudge where it is. Better to pee by the path or on a tree. Plus one is supposed to pee some distance from any body of water anyways.

[StClone]

11. Intesting connection

It can be hypothesized inebriated people urinate anywhere at any time and fall. Those who walk to a river edge and take a pee could fall right in and without their wits about them drown!

[mzmolly]

9. This story has been breaking my heart.

I'm so glad he was located, but sorry about the circumstances.

A beautiful young man from all accounts.

[Chi67]

13. Ugh

When I was in college, a similar thing happened to one of my fraternity brothers. It was winter. He left the party we were at early. He had stepped out onto what he thought was a frozen river. He fell and broke the ice and got stuck in the current under the frozen surface. It was awful.