Harrowing 911 call reveals moment worker discovered Riley Strain’s body in Nashville river
A 911 call has revealed the moment a worker discovered the body of missing Missouri student Riley Strain.
Strain was found in the Cumberland River last Friday, eight miles downriver from where he was last seen, after he disappeared on 8 March after he was asked to leave a bar in downtown Nashville.
“I believe it to be Riley,” a man tells the dispatcher on 22 March, adding that his company works on the river where he “just found a dead body.”
“What’s it look like,” the dispatcher asked in the audio, which was obtained by WSMV.
”It’s definitely a person here. Black shirt, kind of white, muddy-looking on the front. It’s face down in the water… Caucasian,” the unidentified worker said.
“It look like a male?” the dispatcher replied.
“Yes ma’am,” he replied. “He’s fully submerged besides his back sticking out of the water,” the 911 caller said, adding his exact location.
“I actually had to move a log off of the head to confirm it was a body,” he adds.
The dispatcher said they would send someone down to take a look and the call ended.
Strain’s body was finally recovered after a two-week-long mission, actively searching for the missing 22-year-old by authorities, volunteers, friends and family.
Police used sonar-equipped boats to search the waters of the Cumberland River, while helicopters and drones were dispatched to scan nearby river banks.
Strain went missing after he and his fraternity brothers were visiting Nashville for a spring formal trip on 8 March.
He was kicked out of country star Luke Bryan’s 32 Bridge Food + Drink, being asked to leave around 9.45pm.
He told his friends he would return to their hotel, but instead started to walk towards the direction of the Cumberland River.
