Riley Strain's family: We won't stop until we have answers, Full video | Banfield 

You keep fighting for Riley..... Mom and Dad!! Because something isen't right in his case. My son had someone put something in his drink at a concert/bar and he cannot even remember it! Thankfully the bar tender took away his wallet and phone to keep them safe because a couple of guys were messing with him! Thankfully my daughter got my son home safe.. So don't you give up getting answers, because someone somewhere has the answers you are looking for!!

Friends dont let friends leave vulnerable.

Need the tapes from all 4 bars

Why wouldn't one fraternity brother go with Riley? Don't they know what being a " brother" means? Totally entitled people! Fraternities mean nothing!

As a Mother I say keep fighting for Riley don’t stop until you all have the answers you need. Fight for your baby until you know the truth!!

I truly believe the frat brothers know something, I would not be bit surprised if one of them didn't put something in his drink

It makes me physically ill hearing the frat brothers all went out to their formal that same night.

Riley and his family need justice!!

I feel so bad for the family. They have been in enough pain, and LE and fraternity brothers have not made it any better for them . Mom needs answers to have some closure. I am so glad they are not giving up until they get answers. We will all stand with the family.

Complete strangers were searching while the frat “brothers” did nothing to help. Despicable 👎

He was drugged at one of the bars. Think about what was said about him acting strange and being made to leave the bar. Please fight till someone is responsible for his death. He was drugged!!!!!

Man this is heartbreaking to watch 💔 I can feel his Mama’s pain. This needs to be a lesson to all kids out there.. a fraternity is not a brotherhood.

Amazing info . The fact he was messaging mom while drinking in a bar says alot about who he was and his character. Praying for Rileys truth to come out 🙏🕊

IMO there is a shroud of evil slowly being pulled over Nashville. The fact is if Riley had been roofied, it's highly doubtful that he would have had the presence of mind to be able to remove his boots, belt and long pants that night. This was no accident. The fraternities are instructed to shut up when something bad happens to a brother.

Even if the brothers had nothing to do with Riley’s death, the fact that they kept on partying while Riley was missing is absolutely disgusting…what kind of so called friends is that. From the very beginning I said things weren’t adding up about this case & never once believed the police when they said no foul play. I hope the family keeps searching for answers, they deserve to know what happened that night, don’t let the police sweep it under the rug

Kudos to Riley's family for keeping this story in front of the public. They want and need answers and what they find could help to save someone else's life. Kudos to NewsNation for interviewing the family. Many posts in early March were about the true Nashville party scene. I said then and I will say it again, someone needs to offer reward money---Luke Bryan. Someone out there has anwers and with the pressure, guilt, and possibly the lure of money, someone will speak up. Or, maybe not if there is a citywide coverup. To honor Riley, please look for the petition for Riley's Act and sign it. A bar would have to call for a ride when an intoxicated customer is being kicked out. What an unprofessional response from the 911 operator. That may be the outcome for some of the situations when people have called 911. But to say that upfront to a new caller is horrible.

Those fraternity “brothers” sound shady

This is the classiest family. I feel so bad for them. And this reporter is phenomenol!!!

These fraternities need to all be shut down.They are terrible organizations. People are finally starting to see them for what they really are.

Frat boys were appalling!

Praying for this family to find out the truth and for justice. 🙏🏻

I believe this man was drugged and killed. Makes me sick!!! Please don't ever give up until you find the truth. Prayers for your entire family 🙏

Don’t these country superstars-Miranda Lambert, Luke Brian, Garth Brooks, Kid-Rock-have a better place to hang their name than a bar?? Something a little more honorable, perhaps?? A children’s hospital, a memory care facility, a music venue? So sleezy!

Same thing happening in Austin, TX! Look it up. Police are calling every incident an accident!

My mom told me a few years before she died that she was drugged and Ra**d on a date with a police officer when she was a 19 year old innocent young woman. She was a virgin. She told me she thought she was going to die and never reported it because she was scared because he was a cop and she didn't think anyone at the police department would back her up. 😢 my mom had a hard life

Thank GOD its still under investigation! RIP Riley 💚 🙏

The autopsy revealed no water was found in Riley's lungs. That means Riley died before he ended up in water. I'm so thankfuk Ashleigh and Brian are giving this the attention it deserves. Things are definitely not adding up. As a mom of college age daughter it is heartbreaking.

He was stumbling around a river drunk. I get grief but it clearly looks like an accident. The real problem is his careless frat brothers who let him down that night.

Why all these country stars promote drinking! They all own bars! Sad

Wonder who hurt their hand? How?

Look into those so called friends

I'm starting to think that possibly, one of the frat brothers slipped something in his drink as a joke. Then when they realized that it went sideways, they panicked and distanced themselves from this situation. Just awful.

Excellent interview! Heartbreaking story

Don't ever stop investigating Riley because something is not right. Perhaps his own fraternity brothers roofed him but who knows

They need the hotel cameras to see how the Bros were acting & the time once back at the hotel

Those frat "brothers" are cowards. Somebody knows something, yet no one is speaking up. Shameful.

Boy Toby Keith would have been out their searching if it was his bar or restaurant some sad people it Nashville unfortunately

She also said something like, Riley was aware that he didn’t have control of his body but didn’t understand why. I believe that he was intentionally drugged by his fraternity.

When she said “There’s something going on in that town” she’s right it’s human trafficking. Nashville is actually a hot spot for it. I did a trip in college volunteering with different organizations in Nashville and one was “End slavery TN” they have an entire org out there dedicated to preventing and spreading awareness about this. Nashville is such a hot spot for trafficking because it is “one of only four U.S. cities where six interstate legs converge within the city's boundaries: I-65 North and South, I-40 East and West, and I-24 East and West.” The way they explained it was if you’re ever picked up in Nashville you could be across 2-3 states before anyone realizes you’re gone and you could literally go in any direction from there. So it would be a guessing game which way they went. That being said I’m not sure if that is the case here. I think it’s very possible something was in his drink. But something is telling me the frat brothers know something. And if the goal was to traffic him, you can’t traffic a dead person. There was foul play in my opinion. But they are right about something being wrong in Nashville

Check the video of the one, five on scooters, they got off the scooter, walked toward Riley!!! Looks like they was carrying him!🚩🚩‼️‼️‼️

something isn’t right. these guys didn’t cancel the formal??? huh that gives me chills man.

I've been mad at the frat boys since day one. I pray for these parents. I pray they find the truth bc we don't have the truth.

The frat brothers know something having to do with Riley So the frat brothers like I said do not stop asking what happened to your son if they knew Riley why didn’t help.

The frat boys parents should be ashamed raising boys like this. Along w the Apple River boys. Parents need to look in the mirror. People aren’t raising respectful children. It’s disgusting

I don’t believe it was an accident. I can’t believe his frat brothers never looked for him. That’s what I’ve seen in interviews. Condolences to the family.

This really is another example of how indifferent and apathetic some of the younger "society" has become.

I believe they weren't his friends,

I have not been to Nashville since i was there when i was 16 ..i do NOT want to go back

Sounds like brat brothers with no integrity.

This was the 4th bar he was at. How many drinks did he have at the other bars? The toxicology tests should show how much alcohol he had and if any drugs were in his system.

I am so sorry to the parents and God Bless you all. RIP Riley.... I feel something is definitely off in Nashville, and I felt that from the minute I saw this on the news and watched all of this from day 1. I always felt something was also wrong with the Frat brothers from the beginning. How could they all not be kicked out of the bar, but Riley was and they know something. How could all those guys not be as messed up as Riley was? They all were drinking at all the bars and were out until 3am! Crazy! It's so sad!!! I am so sorry..... I don't know..... and why was Riley running at that one point and the fall he had in to that pole also had to have hurt him pretty bad.

They had a similar thing happening down in Austin, Tx. I think it was around seven men that had spiked drinks and then were found dead at their river after being robbed. They did find out it was a group of six based in Georgia that traveled throughout the country.

Yes family needs the truth

Why didn't they call the police at 3am? Because they were piss drunk and didn't realize the guy was missing.

Diabolical city.

Sounds like the frat boys might have done it 💔🙏🙏🙏

Riley looks just like his dad ❤. I’m happy to see both sets of parents supporting each other.

Bottom line is if you're out with friends and a friend is inebriated you do not ever let them go off alone because anything can happen they can be assaulted they could fall down get run over by a car get kidnapped anything could happen

Wouldn’t that show up in his autopsy if he had been drugged?

I’m so sorry for all of you and Riley, I hope in your pain you keep pressing on for answers ❤

My favorite 2 journalist s! For real❤❤

Going to share a LOT of my thoughts here, for anyone who is spending as much time on this case as I have been: It should be pretty easy to tell from the time signature of the text and when the charges happened at different bars which bar the "barbecue" drink might have happened at. Also, he said it was a rum and coke, so unless he drank rum and coke at every single bar for every single drink, that will narrow it down as well. ---- In addition to any and all bar footage, police need to seriously examine the footage from the Gay St. surveillance more thoroughly (I've seen weird things in it, other people have pointed out that around 11pm there's a group of people shuffling around as if they're carrying something big down the block). From what I've heard, the police have claimed that they don't see anything weird happening in the footage, which is NUTS. If you change the quality setting on RU-vid the extremely blurry footage becomes a lot clearer, and lots of things happening look pretty weird to me. For one thing, in the other widely circulated video of Riley crossing the intersection, there are two guys in white hoodies and white sneakers who seem to be anticipating Riley's approach on the street corner, and then they are commenting back and forth while they watch him, just waiting there at the intersection for a few seconds while everyone else crosses. Why? Only after they stand there for a while do they eventually cross the street, as if they intend on following Riley from a distance- but the rest of that footage is cut off from what was released to the public so I would be curious whether those dudes walked the whole length of Gay Steet behind Riley after that or if they turned off somewhere. Especially because, when you look at the Gay St. surveillance, you can see two different people in white hoodies and white sneakers within minutes of the time when Riley's phone went dead, and one of those people is seen running for some reason. Then later on in the night, you have the aforementioned weird scuffle involving a group of people, and then shuffling together of that group, who according to some people appear to be "carrying a body". Even if it has nothing to do with Riley, many other people have been pulled out of that river and it is worth examining what's going on for those people's families as well. The footage has been posted to RU-vid, by the way. ----- It's entirely possible that Riley could have encountered multiple people with nefarious intentions that night. He started out in a vulnerable position, might have been followed (maybe even by the person who spiked his drink), might have been robbed, might have collapsed from alcohol poisoning or from whatever else his drink could have been spiked with, and there's a potential that people who live in the encampment over there would have motive to "remove" someone's body from that location if they found someone deceased nearby, so as to avoid undue attention from law enforcement. Remember, not everyone who's in that unhoused position is going to be mentally stable necessarily and able to make rational decisions. ----- Something strikes me very strange about the report by one of the encampment members wherein he apparently stated that he heard Riley fall into a fence or something like that, and then called out, and then some people (who??) replied "It's okay, he's just drunk". 1. A person falling into a fence isn't very loud. A bush would be even quieter. This guy who says he had to yell and get a yell reply from other strangers was probably closer in proximity to whatever was happening than the impression that he has given in his statement. 2. Who were these people with Riley who called out saying he was drunk? Riley was walking alone. No one should have been near him unless they were either trying to help or trying to do something else. There is no confirmation as to whether those people were helping him or unaliving him. They clearly didn't call him a cab. They clearly didn't call emergency services for him. They clearly didn't walk him back to his hotel. So what were they doing in such close proximity to Riley while he was "falling into" other objects and making a "commotion" that someone else would take notice of? That really disturbs me. ----- I think the family is perfectly justified in being skeptical of the frat bros. I think it's entirely within the realm of possibility that one of them could have been the one to mess with Riley's drink, if that indeed happened. It could have been a practical joke or related to some hazing ritual or something, and they assumed it would just result in a funny night. Maybe they thought he was super tall and whatever the dose was wouldn't affect him much, but they didn't take into account how super thin he was. It's unfortunately also very on brand for fraternities to have events where they "challenge" a member to do something ridiculous and dangerous, like walk a certain distance while under the influence of something, or complete a ludicrous quest. It's shocking and disappointing that in a fraternity of 30+ members, there were not at least a couple who might be more conscientious and observant than to just not concern themselves with Riley's whereabouts for HOURS after he was observably that intoxicated and unreachable by phone. Why could Riley not get a ride to the hotel, with Uber and Lyft and everything else available nowadays, if he was feeling so disoriented? It would have been an easy solution, rather than walking around in public throwing up. What I'm saying is that no one would choose that instead of a quick ride to the hotel when they feel sick- it's awful to be stuck in a public place feeling ill. So, why wasn't he in a cab to the hotel? If he didn't think he'd need one and then got lost, he still could have done that later on, unless someone had interfered with his ability to do so in some way OR he was walking all the way to the location that he did for some other reason, like someone was giving him bad directions. Did someone take his phone from him earlier in the night than we think? A taxi ride to the hotel couldn't have even been that expensive. Why didn't his fraternity brothers stick him in a cab before going about their business? If the hotel was so close by, why couldn't someone walk with him there and then come right back to the bar? Why the heck did the person who walked out of the bar with Riley come right back in afterwards instead of spending at least a few minutes figuring out what kind of state he was in? Were none of the frat guys actually his friends? There's DEFINITELY more that's not being divulged from the frat, even if it only amounts to mundane details. Unless they had zero awareness of Riley in general because none of them were close with him whatsoever, all of the procrastination with the phone call to the police and also the lack of evident concern (them not trying to help search or anything) is really weird just from a normal human perspective. If someone I personally knew was missing after wandering away drunk, you better believe I would be out there wandering the streets for hours. The fact that there was so much commotion in the actual hotel that night is extremely suspect, all by itself. A really awful thought I had was that the group in the Gay St. footage around 11 pm could be ANYONE, including a group of Riley's frat brothers.

As some who was roofied at a company Christmas party by a co-worker, I’ve said all along that it appeared he had been drugged. My prayers go out to his family.

Yep sounds like frat “brothers”. If people only really paid attention to how many frats and sororities treated each other. No need for enemies many times with friends like that!

I hope they open the doors to get these mysteries solved . They found two other bodies while searching for him

Why was he kicked out of a bar? 1 beer and water? Who kicked him out? And who was he with in the bar?

When I seen the video of Riley stumbling me and my best friend said right off the back he was drugged

Tox report? Or just super drunk accident? He went to FOUR bars drinking at each. Vids from the bars??? Youd think they woulda checked those first.

Unbelievable how the college has done nothing this whole time.. pray 🙏❤all answers are found..this needs to stop

There is nothing about Riley Strains death that seems accidental to me. A Mom knows, the fact his Rum and Coke tasted like barbecue speaks a lot to why Riley was so intoxicated and Riley seemed disorientated. This often happens when your drink has been spiked. Even more so if you have consumed strong drinks before the spiking occurred. Anyone who has been spiked and survived can recall feeling different to how they would usually feel when intoxicated. The Strain family are right to dig deeper in finding out how Riley ended up dead. If it were my child I would be the exact same. This is not right and many of us viewers agree with his Mom, Stepdad and Dad. It is so terrible to lose your child like this. I feel for the Strain family and hope they get the closure they need and deserve. Parents do whatever it takes to protect your children no matter what age they are. This world isn't safe for them. Trust noone with your kids because the truth is only you love your kids like no other person could. If a friend, boyfriend, husband can do it to your child, NOONE CAN BE TRUSTED. So do your best to keep them from this dark world. I pray for the Strains and my heart goes out to them for what they are suffering❤❤❤

Stay strong Rileys family ❤

Parents, DO YOUR KIDS HAVE “FRIENDS”…What kinda “friends” are they…Are they TRUE FRIENDS? Your child may not need a lot of friends BUT we pray they have 1 TRUE FRIEND! BE AWARE OF WHO IS AROUND YOUR KIDS!

Blame anything except the alcohol. People do incredibly stupid things when they are drunk. Maybe they should have taught him that growing up.

What is the name of the fraternity? What are the names of the “boys?” lol Do they have names? Faces? Facebook photos? This makes no sense. Why aren’t any of his friends being interviewed by the media on tv? It’s like they are there but not there… like ghosts.

I definitely believe his frat brothers are to blame, for not walking Riley, 5 blocks to his hotel room. Then they could have went back and partied. But to leave him to fend for himself, in the state he was in and in a very unfamiliar place, was very wrong to do to Riley. I don't believe Riley was slipped anything, for what reason?? Riley is just a young guy, who probably doesn't drink a whole lot, aside from that night. He was definitely hammered and in need, of some assistance. I hope the parents read the comments. I would like to make sense of what happened. We see Riley heading along the street or the path, next to the river. I believe once Riley passed the officer, it made him a bit nervous. And when we get nervous it tends to give a sense of having to urinate. I believe Riley took a right into the brush, to relieve himself. Riley undoes his belt and pants and loses his balance and tumbles down into the river. Riley probably had his debit card in his shirt pocket, which fell out as he tumbled down the embankment, into the river. And over time, the current and water filling up his pants, which made his pants come down around his ankles. His pants become a parachute in the water, pulling off his boots. The reason his boxer didn't come off is because the waistband is too tight and no water gets in his boxers to pull them off. Same with his socks, they are too tight for water to get in there and pull them off. I bet if you can hire a few scuba divers to check his 8 mile path underwater, they will find his pants and his boots, together somewhere under there. It's heartbreaking what happened to Riley. Its so unfair, that he didnt have one buddy, who could have helped Riley out, when he needed it.

I thought drink was spiked. Rum and coke should never taste like barbecue.

Mama❤💚🙏🧸

Please don't give up. I believe something nefarious happened to your son. The cops were too quick to close the case.

They can hire a private detective like Sebastian Rogers father.

Hopefully the autopsy results will tell if his drink was drugged.

Do they think his drink was spiked? I drank a glass of wine once at a country club. A few minutes after, I was so out of it my 18 yr old daughter had to drive me. I was gone! It really scared me! I’d never had that happen before and was convinced my drink was spiked! Some people are just beyond evil and if they can prove they spiked his drink, they should be held accountable.

As a mother of a 23 year old son, my heart aches for his parents and step-parents. I can't imagine the pain and the uncertainty they are going through. 💔

The boys did something bad to Riley... I am just so wracking my brain over this from the beginning. Why would Riley be running away from the bar? Running? It doesn't make sense! None of it does.

Noone went with Riley because they didn't CARE!! Riley went along with them but..... he wasn't one of them!! Get it?? I've seen it done lots of time!! Everyone agrees to lose this dude, who they don't think is cool enough to hang with them!!! Sad but true!!

Why didn't any of his frat brothers leave with him?

Justice for Riley

As an exclusively Rum and Coke drinker myself when drinking alcoholic drinks, you will indeed sometimes get a yucky taste (or like BBQ or a taste not like a Coke) when the Coke container attached to the bartender's "gun" runs out. I wish Riley had described how the drink looked...it will have had a lighter, watered down look also from a regular Coke. All you do is tell the bartender and he or she will switch the empty Coke container for a full one. So, yeah, that DOES happen. If he was roofied instead, the toxicology report should tell them that. My sincere condolences and sympathies to Riley's family and friends. They must be devastated. God bless.

Fraternity brothers shamless

Atleast 2 police cars in the area wheres their cameras on cars

A reading from The Reckoning Co on RU-vid said that the frat brothers did this to humiliate him. The reading was done 2 days before Riley was found. It also included that he was trapped under something which we found out 2 days later to be correct.

The fraternity boys need to be questioned, very suspicious.

He WHAS followed I said it. THERE is enough evidence that this is fowl play. He WHAS robbed. He's clothes boots gone. Why is the cops still insisting on no fowl play

To the frat brothers reading this. AS A MOTHER, AND A DAUGHTER... SHAME ON YOU. BUT AS A PERSON OF THE LAW, THE BEST THING I KNOW IS IT WILL COME TO LIGHT. IT ALWAYS DOES. ALWAYS. IF YOU WEREN'T APART OF IT, AND DIDN'T DO ANYTHING COME FORTH. NOW. WHILE YOU CAN. OTHERWISE YOU WILL GET MORE TIME. KIDS THINK THEY CAN COVER UP A MURDER. YOU CANNOT.

Shame on those sad so called fraternity brothers, SHAME…they are no brothers at all. They will now be looked at with shame, as they should be!

The boys didn’t report him missing to police because they didn’t care! People today don’t care about other people! It’s sad!

I am with the parents I hope they sue that 911 person . First of all when he was walking he looked like he was not doing good maybe some one spiked his drink. I say. It happened at the bar the police need to keep investigating .

Has anyone think about others boys find dead in water & they been covered up to look like a drowning. They end up in water after leaving a clubs and or bars

May the drive to find the answers to what happened to Riley give the family the strength to keep up their own investigation by continuing to do these interviews. Under "normal" circumstances of losing a loved one, the first year of grieving is the hardest. I keep thinking of Mother's Day coming up. It is May 12th this year. Graduation is May 10th --12th. In March, Riley already had a job lined up for after graduation. I hope the university has a moment of silence for Riley. He should be walking across that stage. This story is heartbreaking. I can't fully imagine how Michele feels. Prayers and hugs for the family.

Kid called his mom to report how his rum/coke tasted like barbeque at a restaurant that serves barbeque. Drunk kid proceeds to walk down to the river, fumbles with his pants to take a piss, falls in a drowns. Let me know if you have any other questions.

May I ask why there is no report on his fraternity brothers since the beginning of this case? Even News Nation has nothing on it.