His Night Out Sparked Killer Conspiracies: The Strange Case of Riley Strain [True Crime Documentary] 

This is so true. Friends, real friends would never let this happen.

Safety in numbers

Rule number one

Yeah, I gotta say, "Some brothers!" It would have taken someone 20 minutes to walk him back to the hotel and get back to the bar for more partying...

Your granddad is a smart man! Back in the day we'd take turns making sure the "drunk ones" got home safely. Yeah you might miss out on some good times, but this way everyone will continue to party together for many years to come.

Yeah good point. If the hotel was only half a mile away you would have thought someone would walk him back…it was only 9:30 after all, they’d have been back to the bar in no time.

Hindsight is 20/20, given he insisted to walk back on his own and Riley probably didn’t want to be a burden. Given the short distance and him insisting on going back alone, I would cut his frat brothers some slack. Not to mention, they seemed very concerned afterwards.

@@JustThoughtLoungeThose frats didn’t even help searching for him, they were too busy parting…

​@@taydestiny38definately not concerned. They partied hard after 😢

​@@taydestiny38 definitely no slack to be cut. They didn't even help search for him. They were more concerned with getting on with their trip not helping find their "brother".

They’re frat boys. What did anyone expect?

"get-go" isn't a word. Why are you so terrified of real words?

​@@broeheemed32 why are you so anal?

It's a real word so...

@@broeheemed32literally in the dictionary

I definitely agree. They could have done a little more that night. I wasn't there to see exactly what happened, so I tried not to put all the blame on them. They all were drinking & intoxicated. It's a very unfortunate & sad tragedy.

What a cope out to blame his fraternity brothers .. yes they could have done better but let’s not overlook the person who killed hm.. and yes, he was killed for his clothes and boots.. they said that he was never seen after walking by the encampment. You can downvote me but I truly believe that is where he was killed.

@@g.pp.712 Either that or or he was dying of hypothermia and took them off. When one is near death of hypothermia, they feel hot so they always take everything off. Nashville gets in the 40s at night. He was likely wet, too.

I'm seeing a ton of "brother's shoud've" comments on this thread. It's very sad that Riley passed. But we don't know what happened that night. Maybe Riley wanted to leave early and they asked if he was okay to walk home, and he said he was. We don't know. It's important to drink responsibly and have a safe exit planned in advance. I don't think blaming his fraternity - unless you were there - is helpful at this point.

You've obviously never had any friends. He's a grown man, a big man at that. Stop looking for someone to blame when he is the one to blame, not anyone else.

“If someone’s too drunk to be in a bar, they’re also too drunk to be left alone in the streets.” YES!

First let me say I agree with you. But my one comment is that usually a graduated fraternity member will have a bit of experience with alcohol, no ?

And I would add that he possibly had a head injury after running into that sign, so injury+alcohol=bad thinking & loss of body control.

I found it very interesting that after one drink and 2 waters he was now too intoxicated. It is disturbingly easy to have a drink laced in crowded environments. Then the head injury broke my heart. ❤

@@mariella2884he was at several bars and by the time he got to Luke’s he was feeling the effects pretty bad. Perhaps that’s why he had a beer and 2 waters there to try to ease up on the drinking.

Exactly!, not only should Women care about each other, Men should too

​@@JulieRushworth I hear you my sister but I think it has nothing to do with gender and all of us should look after each other when going out .

Always use the buddy system when alcohol is involved! And never leave your drinks unattended!!

He's a guy and why should his friends hold his hand

@@sfrank8687 Because he was clearly inebriated, either through alcohol, or through a drug. That was clear from the way he was walking. He should have had a friend accompany him back to the hotel.

Big time! What a selfish bunch of creeps. They are the antithesis of what the term fraternity is supposed to stand for.

What do you expect from a fraternity named 'Tappa Keg' ?

I can. This generation is very selfish

@@leslievasquez2645 Humanity has always been selfish. It's boomer talk to pretend this generation is any worse.

I agree. Alcohol tends to impede judgement.

That bothered so much as well. She couldn't have sounded so bored and disinterested in this piece of news if she had deliberately tried. Dispatchers are trained to be professional, but they are not trained to be uncaring.

In her defense, tiktokers were flooding the area, contaminating potential crime scenes or evidence and likely calling in stupid shit all the time to 911 to "help" with the search, so it's possible she thought he was one of them trying to get his minute of fame

“Uhhh you said you found a body ?”

I so agree...regardless of the situation....such tone is not acceptable

You must never have heard any 999 calls from the UK. Every one of them sounds bored to tears regardless of what the caller is telling them. I mean, they get the information in a quick, professional manner, as much detail as possible- which IS their job- but sound totally disinterested. You do realize the 911 operator isn't there to be your friend or therapist, right? No there to help ramp up the drama and make you "feel" better. The call isn't about you, sweetheart.

It's a problem on sailboats, all boats, also.

I agree. It seems like the family and world are for searching clues of homicide, but they just don't exist

curbs, bushes, port-a-potis

Especially when they are in an unfamiliar city.

If he stopped to pee and fell in, what happened to his pants, belt, wallet and cowboy boots?

They could have walked him back and went out again

When you go out together you should stay together. If one person is kicked out then two people should go with that person to ensure safety. No excuse for this to ever happen.

Here in Iceland (and we dont have many murders) nobody goes home alone that "drunk". The bars call a taxi or the police. Im so sorry for his family and friends ❤❤❤

I think the bartenders and security are in on it

Walking while drunk can very easily get you hit by a car, and thats not even nefarious… let alone mugged/targeted. I’m glad they said which Frat in the beginning… shame on all of them.

Exactly. What a shame for those 🤡🤡🤡! What a tragedy!

We guys should know better than to let one of us go back anywhere knowing he was drunk, but as a guy I know that if I am having fun, i would let him go, only later noticing the big mistake, hindsight is always 20/20. The smily face gang is famous everywhere, I wonder if they really are to blame.

They weren’t his brothers. What a disgusting group of selfish people Riley thought were his friends.

​@@tobiasventura6193letting him walk back alone is hindsight.. not searching for him in the following days is terrible.

​@@s.williamc. self gratification.

I have to tell you that some people are not your friends. Years ago I went with a date to do a pub crawl with his friends. One of the young ladies started to wander off on her own and she had much more to drink than I had so I went to bring her back to the group. This was in Ybor City by Tampa and it's an area known for crime. I brought her back to the group and only one of the young ladies in the group thanked me for doing that. These were not my friends but friends of my date. I have never seen any of them again.

Yeah, that's not a fraternity. I was in a house and we would have immediately cancelled all plans and begun searching for our brother, still to this day without question. What a terrible house.

SHAME on them.

Bunch of self centered and immature children

Honestly. If they were out searching and found something. They’re dna could be at the scene. Just the world we live in.

It was only group of 🤡🤡🤡🤡. 😖

Selfishly they didn’t want to stop their good time to help a “friend”.

But please make sure hes ok in that hotel room……STAY WITH HIM!! BE A REAL BROTHER!!! ❤

Especially if they were also drinking too.

@@heatheradam-cerri8969I couldn’t believe this had to happen to this poor young man! He had no real friends with those who he was with bc no matter what, no one should allow anyone leave alone like he was, stumbling and falling!! Praying for his poor mother and father; I know his mother’s heart must be hurting badly.

I swear NTHG that exciting was going on in that bar that two extra buddies could've walked him to the room n made sure he was good n head back to the bar MFs so afraid of missing out smthg🤦🤷

Patsy Ramsey said those exact words when Jon Benet passed away.

Entitled, selfish people.

Fraternity is just overgrown boys who joined for fun, girls n parties n their daddies was part of it they dnt care about brotherhood n looking out for each other especially on party nights .🤦

I am baffled that you don't blame Riley for his own drinking. Everyone should look out for each other but years ago when we all went to the bar, some people wandered off with the opposite sex, others danced, others went to the bathroom and even though we all tried to leave together there usually one in the group who stayed longer or left with a guy/girl they met. It is being accountable for what you drink, if anyone puts anything in your drink and personal responsibility. Sad the way it ended but no one to blame but Riley.

Exactly... 😖

I thought of this immediately. If he was really that drunk (or drugged) he may have thought, “I’ll go for a swim” and taken off his boots and pants to hop in the river.

Friends of today isn't the same as friends we were, 40 years ago!

What does living under a bridge have to do with being able to tell if someone is blacked out drunk?

@@theoniway2323 It means that your bar for what counts as "heavily intoxicated" is probably very high...

He said he'd never seen anyone stumble that hard. 🧢 I'm looking at him like a suspect now.

​@@theoniway2323because often people who are unhoused try to find some way to deal with the trauma of it as well as being so stigmatized against. It's crazy because used to nobody cared if cowboys slept on the trail or made a camp outside of the town. When people didn't have money for a house or rent they would sometimes build a something like a shanty town with some tin and whatever else they could come up with. So now with inflation we're just about back to those poverty wages for many people yet we, as a society, look down on people without shelter. People have always had options to at least build their own shelter such as teepees, wigwams, yurts, or mud-homes but now you're either on government or privately owned land or there's not enough water, food, and resources to really survive. Sorry for that tangent especially if it doesn't make sense. I'm high and this idea has been bothering me for a while. Why are we paying people like it's the 1800s or early 1900s and then shaming them for living as so many did during those times. I don't blame anybody for wanting a drink, I'm in a house with internet and running water and I want a drink. Alas I only have two dollars and some delta 8 so I'm just gonna burn a little and inhale. One love ❤

@@othertalk3313or maybe they had seen a lot of stuff passing by !!!not an easy environment!

And $

And stop partying? Lmao

Not for college kids?? Come on....

True but when you're young you just don't see it that way

And if you overindulge, have a backup plan!

What cruelty? Nobody forced him to get drunk out of his mind and wander around the city.

He was young.

@@reignman30Doesn’t mean he should have been hurt or killed. I bet you never been drunk.

The old perverts just wanted to see you young boys with pants off.

Girl Scouts, too! AND Lifeguard training!

From, the sight of him stumbling, I do not believe he would have been capable of removing his pants falling or rolling down into the river below. How is pants were not on is just as baffling, but they said that he had traveled 8 miles once found.

Bodies of people drowned in rivers are often found fully or partially naked. The force of the current, as well as all the rocks and snags they hit on the way down will pull and tear the clothes from their bodies. So it's not surprising he was missing clothing, especially considering he was found 8 miles downriver from where he supposedly fell in

Or he could have been mugged by those homeless people under the bridge and thrown into the river afterwards.

He wasn't hammered he was drugged

@@snickerdoodles787 The toxicology report showed no drugs in his system.

His blood alcohol level was determined by autopsy to be 0.22 bac… pretty drunk

@@ericdoe2318 Official cause of death report released today, 6/18/24: Drowning, ethanol intoxication

@@ericdoe2318 Like I posted: hammered

“Brothers” smh not even friends

Glad you survived; Sorry for the result. My sister and her female friend were assaulted while hitchhiking ages ago, as we did back then. They evaded him by kicking him in the nads and running off. Hope your perp was convicted. I had some close calls myself as a male hitch-hiking back in the 70's. Almost had to employ my swiss army knife more than once. While I don't think all mankind is evil, you certainly need to have situational awareness out there.

They should I agree, however in male friendships it’s pretty much every man for himself. They’ll help you in a fight but anything more than that you’re expected to be a big boy and sort things out yourself.

@@anthonythompson1680 and there lies the problem

@@JulieRushworth Exactly. That’s societies expectations on men

I don't know what you think frat boys are...

@@divifemtvregardless of what frat brothers are supposed to be if they were his friends like they claimed to be they would’ve tried harder to find him or make sure he was walked back to the hotel if he was to intoxicated to be in the bar, then he was too intoxicated to walk back to the hotel by himself

​@@divifemtvi guess we wanted them to be humans

Noah Presgrove, Oklahoma, was at a 4-day birthday party with his FRIENDS and turned up dead on the side of a road with only his shoes on! When your appointment with destiny comes, your FRIENDS will not keep it from happening. Unfortunately, we live in a society of finger pointers and people who refuse to take responsibility.

​@@RockingChairRebelno... if your friends are there to help you out, you may avoid your date with "Destiny".

@alex-qd6of On the contrary..."it is appointed unto man to die once and after that the Judgement". Heb 9:27 Just at a certain time, you were born, at a certain time, you will step into eternity. Nothing will stop your date with destiny.

@@RockingChairRebel You have made a blatant distortion of that verse, trying to read into it the idea of a divinely appointed time to die. You only have to read the verse in context to understand the true meaning of the verse which compares the death of a man/human only having to die once in a lifetime with Christ only having to sacrificially die once in order to bear the sins and judgement of the many persons throughout Time. The verse 27 which you cited ends in a comma, and then continues on to finish its thought in Verse 28. As with most things, CONTEXT is very important to arrive at the Truth.

@eirenmist2301 God has ordained the exact minute and day of every man's death. He knows exactly the method He will use to accomplish His purpose. Psalm 139:16, Job 14:1-6 "since his days are determined, the number of his months is with you; and his limits You have set so that he cannot pass. God is in total control of the universe and everything in it, and He works ALL things according to the counsel of His will. Ephesians 1:11 There's a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens; a time to be born and a time to die... Ecclesiastes 3 We each will die at the appointed time, just like we were born at the appointed time.

Riley sucks. All he had to do was order an Uber/Lyft AT THE BAR.

Awareness of your surroundings and asking for help is key to these cases!

I will always believe he was drugged.

Either drugged or he pregame before going to the bar. But I am leaning more towards roofed.

That seems very plausible.

He didn't have only one drink. They were at multiple bars for several hours, and while only the last beet he ordered has been confirmed, there's no reason to assume that he didn't have several drinks at each of the previous bars they were at.

@@subplot I don't drink, but I feel like a sign of not feeling good is ordering 3 drinks in an hour? Let alone the 21 minutes it took him to be expelled from the bar??? One beer is expected, but 2 waters? That's odd behavior and something I would say, points to not feeling good. And I've also heard that ghb doesn't stay in your system very long. (Maybe it was another drug I got mixed up with?) im assuming someone drugged him at the previous bar and then followed him.

Aptly put. I don't like the many hyped, click-baity true crime sites that sensationalize events and drive fear. They probably contribute little to investigation and don't really help the surviving families cope with their losses.

Many can barely read or write after government education.

Sounds like some BS she made up after the fact. The family couldn't own up to the fact that their loved one made some really stupid decisions that night and tried to blame everyone they could. The frat, the police, and the bars. When none of that worked, ohhhh maybe he was drugged.

​@@reignman30💯

Not really. A lot of drinks in those "celebrity" bars taste off because they use their own brands of liquor in a lot of the signature drinks. And those alcohols often have odd tastes. The fact that she said he told her it kind of tasted like BBQ made me instantly think he'd gotten some "signature" drink where the whisky was, in fact, infused with some smoky or spicy flavor. In many of those bars, if you want your old standbys, you should specify not just the drink but the alcohol that you want in it. Also, no one in the history of being drugged ever said later that their drink tasted of BBQ. And predators don't go after 6'4 guys who are visibly out partying with a large group of other guys. That would be stupid and a waste of drugs and time. They'd do what? Follow him around for hours just hoping that he got away from the 20 or so other guys for a bit? Does that sound at all realistic to you? Or would they go after the hundreds of visibly more vulnerable, weaker looking people who were already alone and probably already very intoxicated. The "drugged by a random stranger while being huge and out with his whole fraternity" is the most ridiculous theory currently out there. I mean, if common sense is involved.

​@@reignman30that's what I thought that she made that up.😢

Driving cars sometimes end wrong, yet driving continues to be a very normal thing.

Yeah. Casual alcoholism is very real. It’s gross

Google the name Noah Presgrove, 19 from Oklahoma, who was at a 4-day party with his FRIENDS and died!!!!

100%

Yeah, you don't walk like that after a beer and water.

As soon as I watched the cameras of him stumbling, that was my first thought.

I agree. There is noway one beer made him stumble all over the place.

He was drinking for several hours. That wasn’t his first stop.

yup. nor mafia's, nor all of the other brotherhoods cuz they ALL stink out loud especially against good people who have love on their compass, are above the sort of mentality his fraternity was...they stink out loud

Alcohol is a demon. Or, no pun intended, don't drown in whiskey river.

Why do you care? Sounds like natural selection did its work.

This could also explain the debit card… ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OwaPRhl77oA.htmlsi=QLaEBZtEC0GZ2tCL

It's a possibility

I am always intrigued as to why nobody sees this happening, and offers help. I am sure ppl saw him stumbling, maybe us males dont need help, maybe we dont ask for help. Blessings

Yea because if you’re drunk and fall like that you don’t just get up the way he did unless you were trying to get away from someone quick

​@@tobiasventura6193most people, even men, probably don't want to mess with a big, intoxicated man, who's a stranger to them. He might be either too difficult to manage, or even dangerous. It's unfortunate that nobody helped, in this case, but you just never know.

The guy was 140 pounds soaking wet, so I believe he could get intoxicated that quickly. Especially if he's not used to drinking.

@@alex-qd6of Very true, its a shame that nobody help this lad, Makes me think what to do If I am ever in similar circustamces, then again I dunno if being drugged like that allows your brain to seek help.

OMG are they still breathing?

While it is true that the majority of homeless people do not engage in criminal behavior, I agree it’s very important to keep in mind that the portion of the population with mental health issues are 100% unsupported.

People LOVE to speculate and jump to the worst-case scenario. It's maddening because it happens all the time.

However, hiding murder victims amongst legitimate accidental drownings is brilliant.

Yeah, there's a little too much enthusiasm, behind the smiley face hypothesis. It's just a little too satisfying.

@@alex-qd6of the enthusiasm is the other direction, if it gets brought up anywhere, shill commenters in droves come out of the woodwork to do their influence (gaslight).

😂😂 Now that’s a theory I would totally get behind. 🍕🍕

Are they still looking for him?

they were bar hopping for hours. he had one drink at the last bar but it definitely wasn't the only drink he had

People always try to sound sober when they encounter the police and imo he definitely sounds drunk but all he said was how you doing and kept it moving

If your drink Is drugged.

Free drinks given to him maybe

He got drunk and fell into the river. Case solved.

And the same as with the Fentanyl deaths, remember that you could die from taking the wrong drink or pill, hearbreakingly simple!

Interesting. What do they gain in the scam? What’s the motive?

@@FullFrontalFromage Same question.

Victims are young white men

Or drugged

@@happyheidi747 that’s what I mean by spiked 👍🏻

I was thinking Good lols

Or "good...lols" makes more sense.

​@@hucklesnook1848beat me to it. You're exactly right.

@@Hazy669- No, _’good lost’_ makes more sense but Yes, _’good lols’_ is most likely.

@@FromThe3021 that's splitting hairs in a direction that doesn't even matter

It's good to keep in mind that we aren't detectives. There are often explanations to crazy sounding circumstances and evidence.

Did they find his shoes/boots?

Lazy cops

Turbulent water can easily strip the clothes off a body. Drowning victims are often found naked. He was found 8 freaking miles away, so his boots and pants missing make a lot of sense. And I love how it was pointed out his wallet was missing, like duh, his pants were missing. He probably had to take a piss so he went down to the water. You get a little wobbly when your shit faced drunk trying to stand there taking a piss with nothing to lean against, like a urinal, so accidental drown makes complete sense. Especially when we saw him stumbling around and even fall down once.

Every case has this (type of thing), this comment section is full of gaslighting intimidating ppl to believe the coincidence narrative, blame the victim (men drink therefore fall in water). Should people (in general) be savvier about stuff? Likely so, but if they want to be naive (not talking about victims) and think only good things, then their loved ones could be caught unawares.

Do you believe he was roofied for the explicit purpose of murder? I’m not being argumentative…just trying to understand your opinion. Do you believe a homicidal stranger drugged Riley at the bar? For what reason? People are roofied for a “reason”… Rohypnol is known as “the date rape drug” bc it’s primarily used for SA. Of course people are drugged at bars for other reasons like robbery etc. Why murder though? Why would anyone want to utilize rohypnol to murder Riley?

Wait til it happens to YOUR son...

It’s funny? What a strange reaction. Also odd, that since the 90s people are supposed to accept ‘men going to bars can end up in water’. Yeah, right.

​@ImaRandomFemaleYou wrote a whole chapter but it doesn't change the FACT that the same attention and effort IS NOT given to every missing person.

Long live the Blame Game!!!!

​​@@KatherineLaura6564there's a different level of responsibility, when one is drunk and possibly drugged. His fellow frat rats should know when a friend is too intoxicated to manage full responsibility for their lives, and they should know, given their own experiences with intoxication, that their friend would need watching over. It's the unwritten rule of *drunk friends*.

All of the fraternities

@@KatherineLaura6564I sure hope any friends of yours or even just people you know of, know that if they ever find themselves in a situation that is beyond their control when you’re around shouldn’t count on you to help them out or even give a sh*t about what happens to them….just let them learn the hard way, right!WOW!!

What’s a fraternity good for, if not looking out for each other?? What happened to “all for one, and one for all?? If you can’t count on your friends, (and some of these guys were childhood friends of Riley’s) who can you count on?? Where I come from the word ‘friend’ means something!! And it definitely means you look out for each other. The least they could have done is call him a cab. Truly pathetic. And those friends’ will forever have his death on their conscience.

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That is a very judgemental statement. Do you know that some prescriptions and medical conditions make it so people don’t produce tears? You jumped to conclusions and showed no empathy with this comment.

@@MaggieMaeMatt say what you will. This is the comment section and you are going to see things you don't agree with. Are you going to tell EVERYONE that says something you don't agree with that they are being judgemental? If so you'll get tired very quickly. You won't change my outlook. I'm 50 years old and speak freely. I don't hold back from saying something because someone else may not agree with it. That's the ways of the new generation and I won't refrain from speaking my mind 🤘🏻🇬🇧

I feel like it’s unavoidable when you have a port town combined with a strong drinking culture

@@munchmongoose yet it’s only in the winter / cold months never the summer. And always a man. Never a woman.