Posted on 03/29/2024 8:44:46 AM PDT by Morgana
A forensic expert has added his voice to growing concerns about Riley Strain's last moments after his body was pulled from the Cumberland River in Tennessee without pants.
The half-naked body of the 22-year-old student was hauled from the water on Friday, 14 days after he vanished in Nashville on a night out.
An initial police autopsy found no indication of foul play, but also no signs that he drowned after leaving Luke's Bridge Food and Drink at 9.30pm on March 22.
A second autopsy ordered by the family confirmed there was no water in his lungs, increasing fears that he was already dead when he entered the water. His pants, boots and wallet were also missing.
Now world-renowned forensic expert Dr. Bill Bass has weighed in, saying Strain's pants 'would not come off by themselves' but would have likely been removed before he entered the river where he was found.
'I would say somebody took them off,' Bass, who founded the University of Tennessee's famed Body Farm, told News Channel 5.
'If you do research on this, it would be very difficult because you've got to kill a person to do it, but it is difficult to get your pants off,' he explained.
'It's difficult when you are alive to get your pants off.
'It is unusual. Normally if you fall in the river, it's very difficult to get your pants off,' he added.
The family also want answers on why he was missing his trousers, boots, and billfold when his body was finally spotted under a rock eight miles downstream at 7.28am on Friday.
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Paging David Paulides
Didn’t he tell his friends he’d catch up to them later? A rather delicate-looking young man shouldn’t be wandering the streets alone while sober, let alone while drunk. He may have gotten more than he bargained for.
Or some criminal demonKKKrat street rat?
'It's difficult when you are alive to get your pants off.'
That all depends on who is trying to get my pants off of me.
Video shows Riley Strain was likely drunk at the time of his death and it is not uncommon for drunk people to strip off their clothes.
Unless there is evidence of murder I’d not jump to that conclusion.
So far as I am seeing he drank too much and sad things happened after that.
It’s possible. Hopefully they can recover enough DNA to try somebody, if he was sexually assaulted.
That’s what I was thinking. A hot enough girl could get a guys pants of in about 2 seconds.
Wasn’t there a spate of murders of partying young man near bodies of water where some kind of smiley face graffito appeared?
maybe a gay rapist killed him
How sad that his family will not be allowed to grieve in private. All this ugly business has been released for public consumption and getting more clicks.
It’s not that difficult for pants to slide off on their own, if they aren’t held by a tightened belt and the wearer is very slender. He probably fell in while drunk or lit up.
Nonsense. It “might” be true, BUT the action of the river, on the body/clothes against rocks and branches CAN NOT BE CALCULATED!
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