MISSING RILEY STRAIN: AFTER SHOW

Riley Strain gets separated from his fraternity brothers at Luke Bryan's bar on Broadway in downtown Nashville. Telling his fraternity brothers he will meet them at the hotel, he heads out into the night, alone. Riley Strain never makes it to the hotel.

The conversation continued after the show, join us for family friend Chris Dingman's comments. 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Where is Riley joining us?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Chris Dingman a very dear family friend of the Strains.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
I want to share something with this group and we
can talk if you guys have questions. I know we're
playing chess right now. Nancy understands that too, more than anybody. Marathon.
I reached out to Marathon the Tuesday after Riley went
missing to put in context of how much this ball
has been dropped at that area, the fact that you

(00:36):
reached out also and said, hey, we've never even heard
of anything. I want to share something with you guys.
And Nancy, I love your passion and your mama bear.
But I've been in contact with Riley's and I'm calling
her his lady friend. She shared some stuff with me
last night which I'm sharing with the family. She and
Riley had a private conversation and Riley told her. He goes,

(00:59):
you know, you're my favorite person, and she goes really,
and he goes, no, no, wait a minute, you're my
second favorite person. And she goes, well, okay, well who's
your favorite and he goes, my mom, So.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
That's the kid we're looking for. What time was that?
What time was that?

Speaker 3 (01:19):
What we know and we have put together the last
thing that the phone did. We think that is the
last conversation, and she is the last person to have
any correspondence with him. She had asked him if he
was having a good time, and he had responded with
good lops lops, which was really confusing for her. She's young,
and she's like, wow, new slang. I don't so you

(01:41):
said her and her mom actually googled it.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's probably writing lots lots well.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
But the funny part with Riley if you ever communicated
with his phone, the kid was extremely punctual, even if
he had had a few beers in exclamation points emojis.
I mean, he was very punctual kid, a very intelligent kid.
So that correspondence really was odd that you know that
was said.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Could you tell me one more time what it said?
I want to make sure I understand.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
What it said, good l ops lots.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Did he ever dictate into his phone?

Speaker 2 (02:16):
No, so he would have typed that, and he was
on foot at night walking. I would think that meant
good lots lots of fun. I'm very intrigued by what
he was saying when he talked to her. He seemed
to have his wits about him. Chris, what do you
think about this homeless encampment? And you know, I heard

(02:40):
doctor Bethanie talking about how peace loving and sharing the
homeless community is. I'm not necessarily agreeing with that, but
what do the parents think about that we have?

Speaker 3 (02:53):
We actually have two volunteers that have literally been sleeping
in the homeless camps that were not homeless, to give
you an ideal of what we are going to and
the outpouring of people in it. As a dad, it
scares the crap out of me that they're there. We've
got their phone's paying, they're doing recordings. Yes, I think

(03:14):
there's extremely viable information there. This is information for everybody
in this group at the moment. The crazy thing is
is when the TikTok crew hit there, they were already
coming to Nashville to protest what the House had done
trying to ban TikTok. We had no ideal that there
was that huge of a group of TikTokers. They had
picked Nashville to come to Nashville to protest, signs and everything.

(03:39):
I was blessed to get in touch with three or
four of them and wow, here we are. Just you know,
I made the comment, we're bigger than Tiger King during Corona.
We do have people that are physically in the camps.
There are a few people of interest that the police
are aware of and they are looking for, but homeless
people ninety nine percent of them do not want to

(04:02):
be found. They don't want to be bothered.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
What did you just say? Police are looking for?

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Who people are looking The police are looking for a
few homeless people that we do have questions for. The
young lady from Nashville iterated that, you know, one of
the homeless interviews had yelled back up the hill to
the gentleman, you know, hey, what's going on? And he
goes nothing. It's a drunk guy. We have the name
of that gentleman and we are looking for him.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
What happened.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
Unfortunately, when everybody went to that specific area and we
have a very limited ground zero for information, a lot
of those homeless that was there that evening dispersed and
went to other homeless camps in Nashville because they didn't
want the press, didn't want to be talked to, didn't
want to be seen. We've been blessed with the homeless
people that we have been in contact with, though they

(04:49):
know where those camps are. They've given us names of
specific people that they knew was in that street or
that area or that exact camp. There's actually a I'm
not sure they're a married couple, but they are a
couple that was just down from there about ten feet.
The onlyady from Nashville shall know the couple I'm talking about.
Probably they're the ones that you know yelled back up.

(05:12):
But we have names. But right now we're just trying
to find which camp they went to and what direction
they went to.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
I understand that two groups of homeless encampment state that
they saw Riley.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yes, somebody had mentioned about across the river at the
Titan Stadium. That is actual Tent City. To give you
a demographic, what is where we were at and where
Riley was last seen at is And I don't want
to be disrespectful, it's more of the Beverly Hills of
the homeless community in that area. It is the more

(05:47):
organized groups, the organized people, the less offensive, et cetera.
That's not saying that there's not people their dad over
in Tent City. And this is literally from our people
that are staying in the camp at the moment.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Chris, let me understand something.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
You're saying that the homeless people on the other side
of the ridge are saying that they saw him.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
No, no, but the other people on the other side
of the bridge where the marathon holding facility is, uh,
that is a way more Wild West style homeless camp
that is where.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
So just just just to be clear on this. So
these cameras are trained out over the river to protect
against threats coming of people coming from the river into
the facility, and the same with the Titans stadium. So
we were looking at the cameras that actually look under
that bridge and Chris, you know, I know you said
you talked to Berthon. Did you talk to Samantha and Ohio,
the head of security, because she's the one who has

(06:38):
access to all the counter cameras that are on the bar,
that are on.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
The dock itself. If not, I may be her cell
phone number.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
I think perfect, perfect, do that. What where we're at is,
I'm still based in Springfield, but I've been media for
a long time and what we've done is we've created
Riley's war Room and we're doing exactly this the mornings,
only wake up at lunchtime and then we come home
in the evenings and we put together everything that we
found with our contacts. We actually have a burner phone

(07:09):
inside the homeless community right now. Guys, we're trying everything
we can, but the marathon deal was extremely frustrating for us.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Did you tell me that, Chris, Did you tell me
that you have two people that have embedded themselves in
the homeless community right now trying to find out information,
staying there overnight.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, which is just phenomenal, but it's extremely dangerous not
knowing the people they're with.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
If you know or think you know anything about the
disappearance of Raleigh Strain, please call six one five eighty
six y two eighty six hundred.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Goodbye, friend,