TN RILEY STRAIN: Missing from Nashville, TN - 8 March 2024 - Age 22 *Found Deceased*

Man, 22, reported missing after being kicked out of Luke Bryan's Nashville bar

A man is missing after he was kicked out of a popular bar on lower Broadway last Friday, Metro Police confirm.

fox17.com

College senior, 22, reported missing after walking off from Luke Bryan's Nashville bar
A family is frantically searching for their son, a University of Missouri student, who hasn't been seen since last Friday after leaving a Broadway bar. Metro Police report Riley Strain, 22, left Luke Bryan’s bar at 301 Broadway, intoxicated, after he was asked to leave.

Strain is a senior at the university, majoring in finance. As of Tuesday, he has been missing for four days.

Strain traveled with his fraternity brothers to Nashville for a convention. He told his friends he’d walk back to their hotel, the Tempo by Hilton, about five blocks away. The bar staff felt he had too much to drink, according to his family. Strain's stepfather Chris Whiteid said there was no hostility.

However, it appears Strain went in the opposite direction when he left, about 9:45 p.m. His cell phone last pinged around 10 to 10:30 p.m. near Public Square Park, close to Gay Street and the river.

Strain’s phone pinged on the Life360 and Snapchat apps, and from Verizon’s tower about 30 to 45 minutes after he left the bar. However, Strain’s phone has not been active since.

When Strain’s friends returned to the hotel later that night, they assumed he was in another room. However, the next morning, when they realized Strain had not returned, they called his parents and police.

Strain’s family drove immediately from Missouri when they were told he was missing. Metro police and Strain’s relatives combed nearby streets downtown, parking garages, hospitals, and along the river. However, there has been no reported sign of the young man, who is 6 feet 7 inches, and about 160 pounds, according to his stepfather.

Police release surveillance video of missing Mizzou student last seen in Nashville

Nashville police released surveillance video of a missing University of Missouri student on Tuesday.

abc7chicago.com

Police release surveillance video of missing Mizzou student last seen in Nashville​

Nashville police released surveillance video of a missing University of Missouri student on Tuesday.

The video was captured Friday night, when 22-year-old Riley Strain disappeared.

In the video, Strain, seen in a two-toned shirt, crosses the street (right to left across the screen), checking his phone. He stops and changes directions for a minute before proceeding down the street.


MEDIA - RILEY STRAIN: Missing from Nashville, TN - 8 March 2024 - Age 22

 

[RoundPeg]

Many banks are now putting your name on the back of the card for privacy reasons so when you stick your card in the slot, your name isn't on top being seen. Many skimmer machines also have cameras to catch your PIN being entered and the account number and your name. If the account number and your name is on the back, the camera doesn't catch that part as easily. Seems like the way to go to me.

I didn't know that. TY

 

[RoundPeg]

This person is in Nashville to join the search effort.

 

[Kimster]

Many banks are now putting your name on the back of the card for privacy reasons so when you stick your card in the slot, your name isn't on top being seen. Many skimmer machines also have cameras to catch your PIN being entered and the account number and your name. If the account number and your name is on the back, the camera doesn't catch that part as easily. Seems like the way to go to me.

I’ve noticed that my new cards have had my name on the back. I didn’t know why or that there was a reason.

 

[RoundPeg]

I’ve noticed that my new cards have had my name on the back. I didn’t know why or that there was a reason.

Funny thing is I got a new debit card last month. Name on front. I don't care one way or the other.

 

[RoundPeg]

 

[GrandmaBear]

Pretty sure this hasn't been linked. By the way it's a real news station, several are on YT to get this from.

Lol, I love the JT stuff. Obvious. And exactly like it.

 

[GrandmaBear]

So family has seen footage that Riley and his friend were going down the stairs to exit the bar when the friend turned around and went back up. Never heard that before.

This is a grief stricken mother.

Just watching. Saw the Cajun navy articles and such but not the PC itself until now just watching.

 

[Guess Who]

Funny thing is I got a new debit card last month. Name on front. I don't care one way or the other.

That would be your bank's decision. Mine have been on the back for a few years, but my bank can print new cards on site and all they have to do is print them on one side with your name. The cards are already premade much like gift card and then the bank activates them and prints your name on them. Much easier to do on the white side. They also don't bother with the embossing the number on them. It's part of the graphics.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I can't believe the number of idiots who flood tip lines with their theories instead of real tips. But then when one figures anyone who follows crime would know better and not call tip lines with their theories, you find out don't assume people are this or that or what you'd think or thought. You will always be disappointed or have to shake one's head.

So now they are going to go recanvas for video, go to further away homeless camps and do their own water search as the Cajun guys are doing. At least all are in this presser, LE with the other search team and the parents.

Talking rocks, rappelling and a lot more. For searching. Gloves and more.

 

[Guess Who]

So family has seen footage that Riley and his friend were going down the stairs to exit the bar when the friend turned around and went back up. Never heard that before.

This is a grief stricken mother.

Just watching. Saw the Cajun navy articles and such but not the PC itself until now just watching.

Riley very well might have waved his friend off saying he was just going back to the hotel. Their hotel was just a few blocks away so it would be easy to think that he was capable of getting himself back to their room. Nobody to blame here but Riley. The only way I could blame anybody is IF he consumed something without knowledge, which I highly doubt happened. Not that it couldn't have happened.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

This is the only thing that makes sense to me.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Missing Missouri student: Officials focusing Riley Strain search efforts on Cheatham Dam

The search for missing Missouri student Riley Strain intensified Wednesday morning as officials focused efforts at the Cheatham Lock and Dam near Ashland City.

www.wkrn.com

Missing Missouri student: Officials focusing search efforts on Cheatham Dam​

The search for missing Missouri student Riley Strain intensified Wednesday morning as officials confirmed they were focusing efforts at the Cheatham Lock and Dam near Ashland City.

The Cheatham County Sheriff’s Office said they will be in the area around noon and called the efforts a “basic shutdown” at the facility where the Cumberland River flows into Cheatham Lake. News 2 has a team of reporters covering the search and will have a crew at the dam.

 

[Guess Who]

This is the only thing that makes sense to me.

Yep and makes me even more convinced (like I needed convincing) that he went into the water.

 

[Guess Who]

Missing Missouri student: Officials focusing Riley Strain search efforts on Cheatham Dam

The search for missing Missouri student Riley Strain intensified Wednesday morning as officials focused efforts at the Cheatham Lock and Dam near Ashland City.

www.wkrn.com

Missing Missouri student: Officials focusing search efforts on Cheatham Dam​

The search for missing Missouri student Riley Strain intensified Wednesday morning as officials confirmed they were focusing efforts at the Cheatham Lock and Dam near Ashland City.

The Cheatham County Sheriff’s Office said they will be in the area around noon and called the efforts a “basic shutdown” at the facility where the Cumberland River flows into Cheatham Lake. News 2 has a team of reporters covering the search and will have a crew at the dam.

I've been wondering how far downstream they had been looking. We all know how they seem to make a too small perimeter often.

 

[RoundPeg]

That would be your bank's decision. Mine have been on the back for a few years, but my bank can print new cards on site and all they have to do is print them on one side with your name. The cards are already premade much like gift card and then the bank activates them and prints your name on them. Much easier to do on the white side. They also don't bother with the embossing the number on them. It's part of the graphics.

Mine prints mine on site as well. I guess they haven't changed their design.

 

[RoundPeg]

 

[GrandmaBear]

Riley very well might have waved his friend off saying he was just going back to the hotel. Their hotel was just a few blocks away so it would be easy to think that he was capable of getting himself back to their room. Nobody to blame here but Riley. The only way I could blame anybody is IF he consumed something without knowledge, which I highly doubt happened. Not that it couldn't have happened.

Yeah, to be clear, I didn't say that and don't think you are saying I did but to clarify, it isn't so much that I think the friend failed him or anything like that, what I wonder is why first reports were that the bar wouldn't let friends go with which is still being said out there. I was more thinking was the friend maybe called back over a bar tab or something? I'm not blaming anyone either. This was just new info and it is just clear that family and LE know more/have seen more. I didn't think of Riley waving him off but did think of how could it fit with it being said bar not allowing friends to leave and thinking he got called back maybe or insisted he return and pay. Of course we don't know what the video shows and I simply never knew there was such so that was new info.

I'm not sold on anything in this one. While the water seems possible and often is the answer, not always, some are NEVER found and many just assume that's what happened for years after, I am not sold on it. I find the debit card odd all alone. Not impossible but odd.

And they've found other people in the river since he went missing but not him. Not that that's impossible either, we all know that.

If it was that easy AWP and their creepy owner wouldn't have been finding cars and people years after some were allegedly already searched for.

I have no reason for it but I'm not sold in this one that he's dead. I certainly was leaning that way hard at first. And I'm still not sure of anything. I can't even imagine how that is for the parents who I assume feel all the possibilities a million fold several times a day.

No answers has to be awful and I only hope they end up with answers, whatever they may be.

 

[GrandmaBear]

This person is in Nashville to join the search effort.

I wish I was more a tech/phone type. First, I heard that his phone last pinged not near where he was last seen by like a mile before this so how would both be possible?

Also separately from that if both were powered on and had battery life and he went into water wouldn't the second or minute before that they'd be able to get an exact locate on him?

And does simultenous mean the very instant/same second or do they mean in the same minute or so? Do both devices flood and end at the same time? Thent there are the questions was phone in his back pocket or him carrying it and watch on his wrist I suppose.

I also don't know who Nerdy Addict is or why police would share such with him?

Seriously asking as I sure have not heard that elsewhere but haven't watched anything today or yesterday much on this case though.

Again wish I understood tech more because I can't put together how they can see battery life at last moment but not get pings for how long before and so forth. Is it an assumption because maybe they knew how much battery life with last known usage of either and are assuming nothing else could have drained such? Like searching for towers, use of apps and so on? I guess then it would be pinging or some such though or trackable.

I don't know, I only know this doesn't make easy sense to me at all. What happens if someone takes the battery out of both? Both go dead right? I'd assume that much and hope things haven't changed that much. No power, no device. Or would the device somehow internally retain some charge aside from the battery? I wouldn't think so.

Yeah, definitely not my field nor one I'd claim to understand well at all.

So I haven't caught up with all here yet but to all, didn't the have two big searches yesterday was it? WAs to be Cajun Navy and LE was to do one too? Water searches I mean. So no answers yet I take it as I've seen no headlines today anywhere.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I've been wondering how far downstream they had been looking. We all know how they seem to make a too small perimeter often.

I hate to say it or think it but with his height too, he could easily be hung up on or tangled in something as he drifted and that's if he is in the water. Anyone could have that happen of course, but it's a thought that unfortunately crosses my mind in this case.

I don't know. At first I would have agreed about the water but for some reason I'm holding out now and waiting. Ever since hearing of the terrain and different things and maybe because after that the parents don't buy it and so on and some other things just made me not as convinced. Natural for the parents to feel that way of course, they want hope. I'm just not as sold as I was at first. Not that I see enough evidence toward any other scenario either as I don't. I'm just in the middle on all of it I guess is what I'd say right now. No real strong pull in any direction.

There's of course a lot of stoires out there of people drugged in Nashville bars by others and of course talk of other victims in the water and more. A lot of rabbit holes that I haven't went down but one will see some mention them in other places here and there and I think a family member or friend said they've had how many people tell them of their own accounts of being drugged.

I can't quite leave the thought alone of only him asked to leave for one. I can't recall the cases and they were usually women but there's been a few through the years where a bartender and/or bouncer have separated a woman from her friends or boyfriend. I can't quite recall all but have some vauge memories and even know in one she ended up dead and recall a few other details.

I'm not saying that's what happened here but there's just no clear indication of why he and he alone had to leave or what caused it, he acted like or what he'd done. There's just no indication that he was worse than anyone and I've seen pictures of what looks like the thousands of people on all levels of that bar. Of course then I think there's video and no sign of anyone following him or anything although we mostly only see walkers not cars, etc.

I don't know. Not sure if I'm trying to have hope or just more likely I dont' see a real reason to go one way with some of the info that's emerged since. At first I did lean one way.

I won't be surprised if they find him in the water. I also though won't be surprised if they don't and never get answers which I sure hope isn't the case for the family's sake.

One last thing is that he had texts or contact supposedly with a few others, I forget where I heard it but believe it comes from the Cajun guy or the family but they aren't saying who. Not sure if it means anyting but is it possible he got out and wanted to do something else and then went in the direction he did for some reason to find someone, meet someone or ope to find someone. It's also said the big group split that night and some were at another bar and only some at this bar. Clearly he wasn't with anyone but I guess it doesn't mean he wasn't intending to meet someone. Again I don't know. Just throwing out some other things that have been said that may or may not mean anything.

If he's in the water then they need to find him. I actually thought of him having an injury death on the rocks, etc. but now someone is saying the watch and phone had to have diedi n the water at the same time so that's out if true. I think of that because this incline and rocks and such down to the river are quite something in the pics. It doesn't look like you're just walking intoxicated along a grassy shore and could fall in. At least not from what I've seen.

Sigh. Just hoping they get answers and find him.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I'm not always a News Nation fan but this is interesting and within the last 24 hours. Has this been linked? I hadn't seen it. I am likely behindi others and there's a LOT of conflicting info out there but this IS INTERESTING. Not Ashley so much, but the guest and the details...