Riley Strain: The body missing of U of Missouri student has been recovered.
Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories
Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories
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🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to police off the cuff, real crime stories. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD. |
| 0:20.4 | Folks, unfortunately today I have some bad news to bring you, and we've been covering |
| 0:25.4 | the case of Riley Strain. |
| 0:27.7 | And everyone was hoping and praying for a miracle, because there were a lot of indicators |
| 0:34.7 | that this was not going to end happily. |
| 0:39.2 | And tragically, this morning, they found his body in the Cumberland River. |
| 0:47.7 | According to Fox News from Nashville, the Metro Nashville Police Department reports that the body of Riley Strain, |
| 0:57.0 | Missouri College student, last seen two weeks ago, was recovered from a Nashville River Friday morning. |
| 1:04.1 | The discovery happened around 7.30 a.m. Friday during a search for Riley Strain along the Cumberland River in the West Nashville neighborhood. |
| 1:13.4 | Police responded to a report of a body found in the river according to the Nextdoor Nashville |
| 1:17.9 | affiliate WKRN. The Metro Nashville Police Department shared the following details on the search. The body of Riley Strain was recovered from the Cumberland |
| 1:29.1 | River in West Nashville, approximately eight miles from downtown. No foul play related trauma was observed. |
| 1:38.1 | An autopsy is pending. Strain was a student at the University of Missouri. He was raised in |
| 1:43.8 | Springfield, Missouri, and he disappeared while on a fraternity trip on March 8th in Nashville, Tennessee, around 9.30 p.m. that night. |
| 1:52.0 | He was escorted out of a Nashville bar. |
| 1:56.0 | Strain told his friends he was headed back to the hotel, but he never made it. |
| 2:06.7 | His phone was pinged at 10.15 p.m. in the opposite direction of the hotel. |
| 2:17.7 | According to WKRN, one of his friends called 911 the next morning after saying he went to the central police precinct and called the sheriff's office to file a missing person's report. Police followed up on several leads into his disappearance for viewing |
| 2:23.7 | surveillance videos from different parts of Nashville and searching around the Cumberland River |
| 2:29.4 | several times. You know, folks, this is so tragic because it's something that really, of course, |
| 2:37.1 | it happened. We can't undo what happened, but it didn't need to happen, you know. And in the way of, |
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