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WHERE IS RILEY STRAIN: BREAKING · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: At this hour, the mystery deepens in the search for
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  Speaker 1: missing Riley Strain.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you see, Grace, this is Crime Stories.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us here at Crime Stories
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  Speaker 1: and on Serious XM one eleven.
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  Speaker 2: How can you turn a deaf ear to this? Listen,
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  Speaker 2: play and talk to my boy for over.
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  Speaker 1: A week.
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  Speaker 3: And his art.
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  Speaker 4: Excited somebody that gives up a part of their life
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  Speaker 4: to help you find your life. It's amazing.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you for getting the word out and keeping the
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  Speaker 5: word out. And please keep don't stop sharing. Don't stop
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  Speaker 5: sharing until we bring rightly home. Please just continue.
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  Speaker 1: I've got such a bad feeling. Where is Riley? This
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  Speaker 1: kid scrubbed in sunshine? This is the boy every mom
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  Speaker 1: wants their boy to be like, Okay, the apple of
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  Speaker 1: his family's You were hearing his mother begging and pleading, crying,
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  Speaker 1: trying to speak through tears, asking us to help Tip
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  Speaker 1: line six one five eight six y two eighty six
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  Speaker 1: hundred repeat six five eight six two eighty six hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Now is the.
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  Speaker 1: Time for us to act in the search for Riley Strange.
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  Speaker 1: And I've got to tell you one hundred a thousand
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  Speaker 1: times mothers would come to me at trial and even
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  Speaker 1: now begging for help. But at trial you have to
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  Speaker 1: keep a clear head, unclouded with emotion, and look at
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  Speaker 1: the facts in order to help the family. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to hear the original nine to one one call.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, who is it that you're wanting to report is missing?
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  Speaker 6: It's we're here on a fraternity formal trip. It's it's
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  Speaker 6: one of my good buddies.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. What is his name?
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  Speaker 6: His name is Riley Straine, Riley r I L E
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  Speaker 6: Y Straane.
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  Speaker 5: S T R A I N.
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  Speaker 3: Okay? Is he white? Black? Hispanic Asian?
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  Speaker 6: He's white. He's white, twenty two year old, six five blonde.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: And what was he last man wearing outside of Luke
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  Speaker 6: Brian's bar last night at like ten and then the
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  Speaker 6: last time his location on his phone was by the
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  Speaker 6: Sheriff's office like eleven pm.
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  Speaker 3: Okay? What color clothing was he last man wearing.
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  Speaker 6: He's wearing jeans, boots and a half black shirt, half brown,
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  Speaker 6: light brown.
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  Speaker 1: You're hearing a good of Riley's trains calling nine one one.
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  Speaker 1: And how ironic is that one of his last pings,
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  Speaker 1: the location on the phone was at the Sheriff's office
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  Speaker 1: in front of near around the Sheriff's office, no network
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  Speaker 1: or phone service since nine fifty three p m.
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  Speaker 2: Where is Riley?
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  Speaker 1: Joining me in all star panel to make sense of
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  Speaker 1: what we know right now, I'm going to play you
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  Speaker 1: more of the nine to one one call because I
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  Speaker 1: have learned with working with so many many juries as
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  Speaker 1: a felony prosecutor. That takes you to the moment and
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  Speaker 1: you can learn so much about probative facts, facts that
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  Speaker 1: proves something that help you find the person. But first
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  Speaker 1: I want to go to a special guest joining us,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Dingman, a very dear family friend of the Strains,
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  Speaker 1: and you can find them on to go fund me
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  Speaker 1: at Riley's Strain. Chris, thank you for being with us.
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  Speaker 1: What is the frame of mind of the family right
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  Speaker 1: now in the search for their son.
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  Speaker 7: The family's completely devastated, you know, we're ten eleven days
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  Speaker 7: into this. Really rightly just disappeared in thin air, and
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  Speaker 7: we try to keep faith, We keep hope. The ironic
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  Speaker 7: part of not having clues means we have hope he's
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  Speaker 7: still there lost. Somebody may know where he is, but
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  Speaker 7: it is truly devastating on the family.
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  Speaker 1: And shortly, speaking of clues, we are going to be
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  Speaker 1: joined by the woman who may have found the single
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  Speaker 1: most important clue as of right now. Back to you,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Dingman, a very dear friend and spokesman for Riley's family.
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  Speaker 2: How did this whole thing unfold?
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  Speaker 1: When did Riley's parents discover he's missing? I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: every parent's worst nightmare, you know, Chris. I work every day,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes holding down two sometimes three jobs because I want
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  Speaker 1: to make a college fund for my children to get
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  Speaker 1: through high school. You know, give them tutors if they needed,
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  Speaker 1: get them to college, give them every opportunity that a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people, including myself, never had to make it
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  Speaker 1: easier for them. So Riley gets to college. He's doing great,
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  Speaker 1: He makes friends in his fraternity. I think it was
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  Speaker 1: Delta Kai. Everything's going fine. He goes on their formal,
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  Speaker 1: which all the college kids do, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: Mom gets a call He's gone.
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  Speaker 2: How does that happen?
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  Speaker 1: You put all your love, all your energy, all your money,
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  Speaker 1: everything into helping your children. You think going to college
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  Speaker 1: is the thing to do, and bam, he's gone.
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  Speaker 2: What happened?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: The family was actually notified at about ten thirty Saturday
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  Speaker 7: morning by his fraternity brothers wanting to know if they
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  Speaker 7: had heard from Riley, because as we all know now,
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  Speaker 7: he did not come back to his hotel room. The
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  Speaker 7: family instantly told the boy, please contacted the police, go
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  Speaker 7: down to the police station. They started packing a few
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  Speaker 7: clothes together, constantly reaching out for Riley, hopped in a
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  Speaker 7: car and started hitting that way. This process of reporting
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  Speaker 7: Riley missing started actually at ten thirty Saturday morning, and
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  Speaker 7: an official report that we have been shown didn't take
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  Speaker 7: place till one sometime in that area.
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  Speaker 6: That's how long it.
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  Speaker 7: Took for the boys to actually get somebody to follow
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  Speaker 7: an official report, with a lot of confusion on why
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  Speaker 7: that took that, but yeah, the family was actually notified
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  Speaker 7: about ten thirty Saturday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, guys, you're hearing Chris Dingman joining us a very
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  Speaker 1: dear friend of the Riley Strain family. Guys, I want
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  Speaker 1: to hear more of that nine one one call. They
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  Speaker 1: were hitting straight out to Dryden Quigley, WSMV four investigative
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  Speaker 1: reporter for the very latest.
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  Speaker 2: But let's hear the nine to one one call. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: and you.
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  Speaker 3: Said it last show outside the Sheriff's department like around
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  Speaker 3: that area by the river by the Sheriff's department over there. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: does he have any life sustaining medications or disabilities? No,
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  Speaker 3: you said he has a phone. So it's a cell phone, right, yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Did iPhone fifteen promax?
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  Speaker 3: What is the number?
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  Speaker 6: But it's hold on all. Are you ready?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead? You said the last four. We're forty one
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  Speaker 3: ninety eight.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Are you going to be waiting at the at
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  Speaker 3: the door of the precinct or are you going to
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  Speaker 3: be waiting in your car?
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  Speaker 6: I mean yeah, we're at the front door of the precinct.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I've got to call sent there at the Central
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  Speaker 3: Precinct six o one Korea Veterans Bullivoard and downtown right
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  Speaker 3: across the Music City Center. We'll get an ulcer out
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  Speaker 3: to you as soon as we can. Please tell us
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  Speaker 3: back if something changes before they arrive.
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  Speaker 1: So when you look back, when you look back on
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  Speaker 1: every thing that happens, in every case, you think would have,
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  Speaker 1: could have, should have.
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  Speaker 2: They should have done the report earlier.
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  Speaker 1: We should have this, we should have had bottom line,
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  Speaker 1: Riley Strain is missing his parents, asking us for their
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  Speaker 1: help again. Tip line six one five eight six two
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  Speaker 1: eighty six hundred. So, Chris Dingman, you're telling me that
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  Speaker 1: the mom and or dad get a message the following
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  Speaker 1: morning at ten ish a m. They ask the fraternity brother, quick, quick,
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  Speaker 1: go report him missing right now, and they head to
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  Speaker 1: the area.
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  Speaker 2: Is that correct? Yes?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, they were in Springfield, Missouri, where you know, Riley
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  Speaker 7: was born and raised, and that's where we are. And uh, Instantly,
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  Speaker 7: when a parent gets that message, you know, you're mortified.
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  Speaker 7: What's going on, you know, especially when you're six or
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  Speaker 7: seven hours away from your kid, you know. And they
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  Speaker 7: they helped in a vehicle through some clothes together, was
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  Speaker 7: constantly trying to reach out to Riley on their journey
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  Speaker 7: there with the unfortunately no response.
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  Speaker 1: Oh cool, you know what that's reminding me of, Chris Dingman.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in New York where we lived with the children
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  Speaker 1: at that time. They're about, oh gosh, eight nine years old,
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  Speaker 1: had just gotten them to bed and get a call.
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  Speaker 2: My dad is on life support.
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  Speaker 1: I get one sentence off to him, Daddy, I'm on
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  Speaker 1: the way, and within fifteen minutes we were out on
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  Speaker 1: the street in pajamas trying to hell a cab all right,
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  Speaker 1: and the whole way trying to get back home to
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  Speaker 1: make in Georgia just in fits tied up in knots.
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  Speaker 1: I can only imagine what Riley's parents were going through
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  Speaker 1: as they drove all the way to where he goes
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  Speaker 1: missing and speaking off straight out to Dryden Quigley, investigative
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  Speaker 1: reporter WSMV four, thank you for being with us. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, describe the area where we believe Riley went missing. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to go to the woman who has found
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  Speaker 1: what could be the single most important physical clue yet.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Dryden.
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  Speaker 9: So, the last place that he was spotted on the
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  Speaker 9: video camera is kind of up a street and it's
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  Speaker 9: going along the Cumberland River where there's a pretty steep
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  Speaker 9: drop off down there. Different areas have steeper than other parts,
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  Speaker 9: but you can last see him crossing this street and
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  Speaker 9: kind of heading up towards under these two bridges where
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  Speaker 9: he's last seen.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm very curious, is it true, Dryden Quigley
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  Speaker 1: WSMV four that Riley was headed toward a homeless encampment.
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  Speaker 9: So along that drop off between the Gay Street and
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  Speaker 9: Cumberland River, there's this bank and it is where a
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  Speaker 9: lot of people spend the night and sleep along there
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  Speaker 9: and then under the two bridges as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, what people? What people?
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 1: Boy scout campers? Who it's staying out there under bridges?
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  Speaker 10: People?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, who don't have it anywhere else to go. You know,
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  Speaker 9: there's a lot of trash down there too, and so
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  Speaker 9: that comes into play later when looking for Riley's possessions too.
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  Speaker 1: Is it true that drugs are used in that area
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  Speaker 1: by the homeless people?
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  Speaker 9: I can't say that for sure. I haven't seen it myself,
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  Speaker 9: but I would believe it's possible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So did he realize he's headed for an encampment
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  Speaker 1: of homeless people where drugs apparently are used openly, as
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  Speaker 1: we have seen now developing across the country.
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  Speaker 2: Time Stories with Nancy Grace.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, we've been playing the nine to one one call.
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  Speaker 1: We're telling you the very latest of what you know.
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  Speaker 1: But now I want you to hear from a volunteer
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  Speaker 1: searchy searcher, Brandy Baynan, who lives in Nashville and possibly
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  Speaker 1: has found the single most important physical clue yet. I'm
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  Speaker 1: so grateful Brandy could speak to us. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: listen to what she tells us regarding what she was
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  Speaker 1: looking for when she found the clue.
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  Speaker 11: We were looking for either his boots, shirt, he has
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  Speaker 11: a bright blue wallet, any of those indications. But we
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  Speaker 11: went down the and we went down to the embankment
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  Speaker 11: and walked along the river until we got to underneath
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  Speaker 11: the bridge, which is one of the last known vicinities
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  Speaker 11: that he was in, and we started just digging around,
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  Speaker 11: rummaging as much as we can, and about I want
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  Speaker 11: to say, we were there into that part for maybe
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  Speaker 11: twenty or thirty minutes, and there's about three ledges and
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  Speaker 11: the third bottom ledge, which it's very hard to explain,
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  Speaker 11: so I'm sorry if that is hard to imagine. And
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  Speaker 11: I saw a card right there and flipped it over
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  Speaker 11: to look at the backside because it was just like
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  Speaker 11: the bank on the front, and saw his name, and
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  Speaker 11: she goes, oh my god, we found his card and
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  Speaker 11: I was like, no, we didn't. And right there we
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  Speaker 11: were both instantly shocked. Our stomachs dropped, and then we
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  Speaker 11: were both like, we have to keep going, Like this
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  Speaker 11: means we have to keep going.
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine what went through everyone's minds when they
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  Speaker 1: realize they have found evidence. Liz, we actually have sound
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  Speaker 1: of that discovery.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody listen.
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  Speaker 12: I don't think they do right here, or at least
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  Speaker 12: for that guy's tendons, because you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: How cold what.
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  Speaker 1: You want?
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  Speaker 2: His credit card?
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  Speaker 3: We found his credit card.
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  Speaker 11: We gonna hang out, We gotta hang up the phone.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, guys, I'm just trying to take in
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  Speaker 1: that moment where they find the piece of evidence. And
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  Speaker 1: I want to make something very very clear, Chris Dingman,
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  Speaker 1: This young boy, Riley Strain, has no history at all
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  Speaker 1: ever of drug use, never has been thrown out of school,
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  Speaker 1: never has been in treatment, not even a disorderly conduct
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  Speaker 1: crossing the street, jaywalking, nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that true? Chris Dingman?
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  Speaker 7: One hundred percent? Yeah, Riley was this straightforward kid. You know,
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  Speaker 7: we've had a lot of people be you know, question
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  Speaker 7: us and go, I can't believe he's that good of
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  Speaker 7: a kid. And all you have to do is ever
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  Speaker 7: be just a little bit of his life, just a
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  Speaker 7: blimp meeting anywhere, and you instantly knew that the pictures
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  Speaker 7: that everybody's been sharing with him smiling, that truly was
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  Speaker 7: that kid. He was an awesome boy, and we want
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  Speaker 7: him back and he is an awesome boy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you just brought me to tears.
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  Speaker 1: Because it reminds me so much of my son John David.
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  Speaker 1: And people are always saying, how can one kid be
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  Speaker 1: so good natured and so joyful.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know what his.
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  Speaker 1: Nickname is here at the house, Awesome. His nickname is Awesome,
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  Speaker 1: And just thinking about him completely innocent. I mean doctor
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  Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall joining me, high profile psycho analyst joining us
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  Speaker 1: out of la and you can find her at doctor
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  Speaker 1: Bethany Marshall dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Bethany.
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  Speaker 1: When I talk about this homeless encampment and how drugs
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  Speaker 1: allegedly are being openly sold and used, this is not
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  Speaker 1: about Riley going down to get drugs.
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  Speaker 2: He has no history of that at all. Zero.
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  Speaker 1: He was out with his friends on the fraternity formal weekend.
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  Speaker 1: He get wanders off alone and this is where his
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  Speaker 1: bank card is found. It's like a lamb being led
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  Speaker 1: to the slaughter, doctor Bethany.
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  Speaker 8: Exactly, Nancy. It sounds to me like Riley was extremely disoriented.
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  Speaker 8: He thought he was going back to his hotel room.
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  Speaker 8: He no longer had his friends with him, and he
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  Speaker 8: was simply walking the wrong direction and he walked right
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  Speaker 8: into the jaws of danger.
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  Speaker 2: And now, I mean, what happens.
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  Speaker 8: In these homeless encampments is that they are communities. Nancy,
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  Speaker 8: and everybody in the homeless encampment tends to know each other.
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  Speaker 8: They watch out after each other, They sometimes exchange food,
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  Speaker 8: they look after each other's kids. They're like little tiny cities.
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  Speaker 1: What and that?
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  Speaker 2: Hey are you talking about woman? I mean, doctor Bethany.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a commune where they're raising organic food
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  Speaker 1: and singing kumbe bay ya every night there. God bless
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  Speaker 1: them for their misfortune. But there are drugs being openly sold,
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  Speaker 1: hard drugs, needle drugs.
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  Speaker 2: Bethy. I don't know what world you're coming from.
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  Speaker 1: But you send a kid straight out of high school
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  Speaker 1: down there. But that's the last thing I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: do is send John, David and Lucy under a bridge.
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely absolutely well. What I was going to say was
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  Speaker 8: that the fact that he was not a part of
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  Speaker 8: this group and he walked in made him extremely vulnerable.
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  Speaker 8: It was a very precarious situation, walking into a group
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  Speaker 8: of desperate people. And this is like a child, like
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  Speaker 8: a little lamb, being led to the slaughter. He did
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  Speaker 8: not know what he was getting into.
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  Speaker 2: Guys.
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  Speaker 1: I want to circle back to what we know again,
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  Speaker 1: a volunteer searcher who spends her own valuable private time
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  Speaker 1: helping in the search for Riley has found a very
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  Speaker 1: significant piece of physical evidence. It's Brandy Bane, and volunteer searcher,
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  Speaker 1: and I want you to hear what she has to
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  Speaker 1: say about why Brandy is searching for Riley.
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  Speaker 11: I personally started going out Tuesday night. I went on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
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  Speaker 11: I was do some TikTok lives with a friend while
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  Speaker 11: I was searching, because I was kind of going on
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  Speaker 11: my own, and Anna happened to see one of those
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  Speaker 11: TikTok lives and she messaged me and asked us she
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  Speaker 11: could come join the next day, and she did, and
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  Speaker 11: that gave me. That gave me the ability to be
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  Speaker 11: able to go all the way down to the embankment,
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  Speaker 11: because I couldn't just do it with myself. In case
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  Speaker 11: something were to happen, no one would know, or my
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  Speaker 11: friend on TikTok wouldn't really be able to help me.
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  Speaker 11: So Anna was brave enough to go down with that
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  Speaker 11: with me, and so we went searching and we happened
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  Speaker 11: to find something.
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  Speaker 1: There is no way in Chi double l No way
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  Speaker 1: in chi double l that Riley's trying to hear what
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  Speaker 1: she just said. That she didn't know if she was
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  Speaker 1: brave enough to go down down the slope into that area.
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  Speaker 1: She was afraid. And that is in broad daylight. And
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  Speaker 1: here walks in Riley into this area late late at night.
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  Speaker 1: What happened to him? Where is he? I need to
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  Speaker 1: get a clearer picture about exactly where the bank card
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  Speaker 1: was found.
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  Speaker 2: Let's listen to Brandy Baynen.
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  Speaker 11: It was an embankment. So there was like a there's
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  Speaker 11: a brick wall because there is a so we're underneath
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  Speaker 11: the bridge. So then if you're up on the sidewalk,
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  Speaker 11: there's a fence and there's a brick wall that comes
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  Speaker 11: down if you're under the embankment. Then and then that
• 19:32
  Speaker 11: brick wall kind of turns into some mud and rocks, trees,
• 19:35
  Speaker 11: and then that goes into another ledge similar ledge, which
• 19:39
  Speaker 11: goes into another one which then goes into rocks, which
• 19:43
  Speaker 11: then turns into the river. So it was in that
• 19:45
  Speaker 11: third little ledge of mud dirt, and then you have
• 19:50
  Speaker 11: to and right now in Nashville, it is full of
• 19:53
  Speaker 11: garbage there. So we were actually rummaging through trash, absolute trash,
• 20:00
  Speaker 11: everything that you can imagine, including things that were dangerous
• 20:03
  Speaker 11: to us, like we saw some needles and things like that.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Bethany, the peace loving people down under that bridge
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: and their hypodermic needles. It'd be a cold day in
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: hell before I would let my children go down there.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: And here's Riley's strain. I mean, he's basically straight out
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: of high school. I'm just trying to get an understanding
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: about what Brandy Bainen is saying, because from what she's describing,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: there is no way that that bank card of Riley's
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: trains could have fallen in that location. Let me understand, no,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: listen what Brandy Baynen says about the card's location.
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: I personally do not think that that card could have
• 20:43
  Speaker 11: landed there from just like stumbling and losing your card
• 20:49
  Speaker 11: out of your hand, because it would have had to
• 20:50
  Speaker 11: go down a few ludges. Now, it has been some
• 20:54
  Speaker 11: time that's passed since the eighth and then we did
• 20:59
  Speaker 11: have rain on the exact week after that Friday, so
• 21:05
  Speaker 11: I don't know what that would do at all, if
• 21:10
  Speaker 11: that would affect it at all. But when we found
• 21:13
  Speaker 11: the card, it wasn't actually covered up that much. There
• 21:16
  Speaker 11: was some leaves and she saw the blue in it.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Guys, we're trying to determine the significance of the location
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: of Riley Strain's bank card.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: And I have a reason for doing this.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I remember in one murder case and the guy was
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: a serial killer, but I could get him.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: On one case, it was.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Jane Doe, and I found one of her earrings in
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: a particular location, and the fact that it was there
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: proved volumes to me. I learned that that was a
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: tertiary crime scene, which led me then to the secondary
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: and the primary crime scene because of that one earring. Now,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: let's think what this bank card means.
• 22:05
  Speaker 12: I don't think they do right here, or at least
• 22:08
  Speaker 12: for that guy's tentons, because you're talking about how.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Cold what.
• 22:14
  Speaker 12: You want?
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: His credit card?
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: We find his credit card.
• 22:16
  Speaker 11: We gotta hang out, we gotta hang.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Up the phone.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Riley Strain was not going on a
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: leisurely stroll.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Amongst these rocks down by the river.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: That did not happen and back to Dryden quickly joining
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: US investigative reporter WSMV Fort Nashville. I understand that one
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: of the homeless gentlemen that was there claims that he
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: heard a quote commotion around the time we believe Riley
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Strain may have been there. What can you tell me
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: about that, Dryden?
• 22:51
  Speaker 9: So, I didn't speak with that homeless person myself, but
• 22:53
  Speaker 9: it has been reported that, yes, he was he during
• 22:58
  Speaker 9: around that time. He heard a commotion after he saw
• 23:01
  Speaker 9: Riley walk through there. That's all he said about it,
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: or was reported about it. But I didn't speak with
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: him myself.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Also emerging in the search for Riley's Strain is surveillance video.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: But first I want to ask Chris Dingman, Chris a
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: very dear family friend of the Strain and speaking for them, Chris,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: what is the reaction from the parents regarding the discovery
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: that Brayden made of the bank card.
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: I'm extremely happy you're asking me that. I actually had
• 23:33
  Speaker 7: friends of the family that was very close to the
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: young ladies when they found it. I got a phone
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: call Sunday afternoon. They were super excited. They go, we
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: found his card, and I said, can you go to them?
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: They were within about one hundred yards of each other,
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: and she said yeah, And I said, do me a favor.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: I said, I know the bank that Riley uses. Unfortunately,
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: and you've dealt with this a lot. There are a
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: lot of people that will do fake cards, fake ID
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: and throw them in crime scenes just to be cruel.
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: And I wanted to make sure before this went at least,
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: you know, went wild, that I notified the family. The
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: young ladies instantly took a picture of the card sent
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: to me. I knew at that moment that's Riley's card.
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: I contacted the family, said, hey, this is the pinpoint.
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: They've dropped me a pin one of the young ladies,
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: I asked her, I said, please.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Down nine one one.
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: I'm going to get a hold of the family. The
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: other person that contacted me, she was actually in a
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: close proximity of some police that were actually there with
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: canines and had been searching the area a little bit
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: farther away. I told her, I said, please go get
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: the police. Take them directly to those young ladies. We
• 24:50
  Speaker 7: need to secure that area. And the young girls, as
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: you've kind of heard in their voices, they were just
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: as static, they were nervous, they were scared. And I
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: told her, I said, I need you to do something
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: for me, please. I said, you're about to be bombarded
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: with one hundred plus people. You guys, we live on TikTok.
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: Everybody kind of has a ballpark. I do where you are.
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: I need that crime scene secured. Please, if people come
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: up there, tell them to stand back till the police
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: get here so we can do a formal investigation in
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: that exact area. One thing that struck out to me.
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: I don't know if you have physically seen the picture
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: of the card, and I'm glad the young lady brought
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: that up and we discussed this. That card is not dirty.
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: It's not filthy for a car that had been laying
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: on the ground for nine days, not in the water
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: or even remotely close to the water. In essence to
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: the storms that they had. There's constant moisture down there,
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: there's constant windflow down there, and there was no visible
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: signs of you know, the frisbee. The kids leave the
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: frisbee out in the yard. Two days later, you go out,
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: it's covered in dew and and little dirt particles. That's
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: seem to me to be very very strange. So I
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: would love to see your take on that.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: You know, I find that very interesting, the point that
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: you're bringing out that the card was not weathered at all.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Joining me is Steve Fisher, missing person's private investigator, search
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: and rescue specialist, owner of Search Investigations. Find that at
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Searchinvestigations dot Org. Steve Fisher, thank you for being with us.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: What does that tell you? I find it very primitive.
• 26:25
  Speaker 10: I think one thing that's important to realize is that
• 26:28
  Speaker 10: the river levels on the at ten pm night he
• 26:32
  Speaker 10: went missing.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: We're seven feet.
• 26:34
  Speaker 10: Higher than when the women found the card, So the
• 26:38
  Speaker 10: water level was significantly higher, which is why you see
• 26:41
  Speaker 10: the different color, the darker rocks.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: So it's a controlled river.
• 26:45
  Speaker 10: They had let a lot of you know, outflow out
• 26:48
  Speaker 10: of it, so that could have been submerged in simply
• 26:52
  Speaker 10: the water level coming down, and that would account for
• 26:55
  Speaker 10: why the card is so clean.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Hold on, Steve Fisher.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: What about the fact, as we just heard from Braden,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: that it was wedged and it didn't get there innocently.
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: From what I understood, I did watch the video of
• 27:08
  Speaker 10: when they uncovered it. I think it was under some
• 27:11
  Speaker 10: a little bit of debris, and you know, we'll never
• 27:16
  Speaker 10: know for certain, but in search and rescue, you know,
• 27:18
  Speaker 10: we're looking for a last known position and it's the
• 27:23
  Speaker 10: same spot that the cell phone last ping dat on
• 27:27
  Speaker 10: life three sixty. You know, originally told it was fifty
• 27:31
  Speaker 10: to one hundred feet on the south side of that bridge,
• 27:34
  Speaker 10: which is right where this card ended up. Also, so
• 27:38
  Speaker 10: I think, you know, there's a likelihood that it just
• 27:42
  Speaker 10: could be the waterflow is the reason that it was
• 27:44
  Speaker 10: found on the embankment.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Ben Powers is joining us high profile lawyer out of Nashville,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and you can find him at legalpowers dot com. Ben Powers,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for being with us. What can
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: you tell us about your knowledge of the case and
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: your insight into what's happening right now?
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: Well, so, right now, it sounds like the investigation has
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: locked in a really narrow timeline of how that evening went,
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: you know, from being removed from the bar, to the
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: various surveillance footage, to the ping from the cell phone,
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: all the way to the debit card down at the
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: river bank. The debit card at the river bank is
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: curious because it's not with his wallet, there's no other
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: possessions with him, and it was found amongst what we
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: might call trash. But since it is a homeless encampment,
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: that could be personal possessions of someone that lives down there.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: Maybe they were trying to discard the debit card, or
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: maybe there's no foul play at all. It's a little
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: too early to try to make a determination one where
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: the other as to that type of conclusion. But the
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: investigation has been very thorough. They've used canines, they've used sonar,
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: they've used helicopters, they've used drones, volunteers as the volunteers
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: that found the debit card, So it is a very thorough,
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: extensive investigation. It's just that this narrow time frame is
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: so curious because they have him on video going down
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: Gay Street, but they don't have him on video at
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: the courthouse, which is just at the other end of
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: the Gay Street where the video last saw him. And
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: they have an officer that was on scene investigating a
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: claim of vehicle burglary. He didn't hear or see anything
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: out of the ordinary.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: And they do have.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: One of the benefits of that homeless encampment is, as
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: are been stated, there's at least one witness that hurt
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: some commotion, but that's a relatively large community down there,
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: so I suspect that there's other witnesses that just haven't
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: come forward yet with what may have happened that evening.
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: Time.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Stories with Nancy Grace.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Luckily in this case, we also have gramy surveillance video
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: that is emerging.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: How you doing, sir, I'm good.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: How are you good? Guys?
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: This is the most recent video surveillance that we have
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: obtained to Dryden Quigley WSMV four.
• 30:38
  Speaker 9: So we're looking right now at Metro Police's bodyguard camera,
• 30:42
  Speaker 9: body warn camera. He's out there responding to I believe
• 30:46
  Speaker 9: it was a burglary call, and he runs into Riley.
• 30:50
  Speaker 9: He greet said, and he says hi. Now. Riley keeps
• 30:52
  Speaker 9: walking down that street and just a few feet away
• 30:55
  Speaker 9: you can actually see the bridge in the video. That's
• 30:57
  Speaker 9: where Riley's phone last pinged. Was there for another forty
• 31:01
  Speaker 9: five minutes, and he says he didn't hear anything out
• 31:04
  Speaker 9: of the ordinary. That bridge over there is the last
• 31:06
  Speaker 9: spot not Riley's phone went off. But it took until
• 31:10
  Speaker 9: today or yesterday to have this video come out.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Riley, he's coherent, everything's fine. He's speaking to the officer.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: The officer looks like he's doing a safety check in
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: a parking lot, just poking around late at night. He's
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: walking normally. He's not drunk, he's not on drugs. He's
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: wearing the clothes that was described that were described by
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: his friends.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Is he walking toward or away from the bridge? Dryden? Quickly?
• 31:36
  Speaker 9: He is walking towards it. He kind of turns around,
• 31:39
  Speaker 9: so it's hard to see bs. Riley's on his way
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: towards that first bridge.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, what would be on the other side of the
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: bridge Dryden?
• 31:46
  Speaker 9: So there are two bridges actually, but between them and
• 31:50
  Speaker 9: down the side there are usually people either sleeping under
• 31:53
  Speaker 9: the bridge or down the side again of the embankment,
• 31:56
  Speaker 9: very close to where his credit card was found.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: So you're telling me that the homeless encampment was down
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: the side of that bridge toward which he is headed.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Have there ever been ambushes there of people crossing the
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: bridge or approaching the bridge at night that we know of?
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: No, not that I know.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: To Chris Dingman, what if anything, do we know where
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: was he headed?
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: And I can help you out with a lot of
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: your questions. Unfortunately, unfortunately the way the videos released us
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: that day is kind of the way that you have
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: laid him out just then. What we do know is
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: the one video where Riley is running through the parking
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: lot and falls down. That is the first video of
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: those three, there was an altercation in that intersection. There
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: was an altercation with two gentlemen in that intersection. We
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: think Riley was walking up to it, saw the altercation,
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: and decided to go around the back of the food truck.
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: And that's why he was at a little bit of
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: you know, a faster gallop per se. The family we
• 33:04
  Speaker 7: have personally been to that food truck and look at
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: their footage.
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: That's how we know.
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: You know, initially people were thinking Riley was attacked in
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: that intersection. He was not. We think the reason Riley
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: started to run a little bit. We think the reason
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: Riley started to run a little bit is one of
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: the people in the altercation started running. We think one
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: of the people that was in altercation took off running
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: behind the food truck towards the fire truck. And that's
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: why Riley just microseconds, wow, I need to move.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: That's why he.
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: Started running behind the truck. The second video is where
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: he's walking along the wall. It's kind of a dark area.
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: You'll notice he keeps reaching up towards the back of
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: his body. The first video, unfortunately, when Riley goes down,
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: there's a concrete pole for that parking lot and Riley
• 33:53
  Speaker 7: went into it aggressively. He went shoulders and then hit
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: his head into that as he was going down. You'll
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: in that video he's there for you know, one, two, three,
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: four seconds before he gets himself and his bearings back up.
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: The video too that, you know, that's why we thank it.
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: At first we thought maybe he was trying to take
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: his phone to his ear, but after putting the pieces
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: together in order, Riley you know, was probably rubbing his
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: neck and shoulders from hitting the concrete barricade. The next video,
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: where he is crossing the street where the construction barricade is,
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: he walks right along the construction barricade. Whatever happened with
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: you know, him hitting his shoulders and neck as he's
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: coming through here, I think he kind of comes out
• 34:36
  Speaker 7: of the ether as we say, you know when you
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: when you have an abrupt movement against your body, because
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: his body motions go back towards more normal. The fourth
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: video and the last video that we have of anything
• 34:47
  Speaker 7: seeing Riley, will be the police video. So I just
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: wanted to help you guys with that and put it
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: in progression so people would understand the timeline, the wild
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: part and the young lady from Nashville with the media.
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: I think, I think this is all within about a
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: five minute window and very close proximity of each other
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: of these videos as they go by.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: From what I know right now Steve Fisher joining us
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: from Searchinvestigations dot Org, there has been no additional cell
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: phone activity or bank card credit card activity since Riley
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: went missing.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: What does that tell.
• 35:26
  Speaker 10: You, Well, I mean tell me that everything stopped right there.
• 35:29
  Speaker 10: And you know, as we're looking at the surveillance is
• 35:33
  Speaker 10: what literally every case comes down to. And one thing
• 35:35
  Speaker 10: I think is important in this and you know, like Chris,
• 35:38
  Speaker 10: the know is you know, right across the river is
• 35:42
  Speaker 10: thoroughly covered. You got the Tennessee Titans Stadium, and then
• 35:45
  Speaker 10: you've got a Marathon oil facility. And I've been dealing
• 35:49
  Speaker 10: with the Titans. They did not capture anything. However, the
• 35:52
  Speaker 10: Marathon facility, you know, has I talked to the head
• 35:55
  Speaker 10: of security there on Sunday. They have not been contacted
• 35:57
  Speaker 10: by law enforcement. Their barges are literally right across from
• 36:02
  Speaker 10: where that debit card was found, and they have a
• 36:06
  Speaker 10: lot of surveillance because they got to protect that facility
• 36:08
  Speaker 10: against people coming in from the water. So I was
• 36:12
  Speaker 10: in touch with with her. They were going to pull
• 36:14
  Speaker 10: all the footage on Monday morning. I let the detective know.
• 36:17
  Speaker 10: He didn't get back to me, but then communications stop,
• 36:21
  Speaker 10: so I think there was a halt put to that.
• 36:24
  Speaker 10: But I would just, you know, want Chris to know that.
• 36:26
  Speaker 10: I think there is significant surveillance available right across the river.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: So we need that barge video pronto. Yes, yes, I
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: was supposed to have it. I was supposed to get
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: that Monday.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany Marshall joining us a psychoanalyst out of LA
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Doctor Bethany Marshall dot com Doctor Bethany. So often citizen
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: investigations tips are discounted, but if it weren't for citizen sleuths,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: we would never have found Gabby Potito.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: That would never have happened.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: She was out in the middle of no we're literally
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: dispersed camping. In this case, A private citizen finds the
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: bank card, and I believe there are more people that
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: can tell us where is Riley.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: I believe that, So why is that not happening?
• 37:16
  Speaker 8: You know, Nancy, I was just thinking about Gabby Patito.
• 37:19
  Speaker 8: It was people who were influencers, who were crowdsourcing information.
• 37:25
  Speaker 8: In some ways, Nancy, they were more motivated to solve
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: the crime than the police. Where the police see so
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: much they can become jaded, overwhelmed. Maybe they're understaffed.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I can't speak to that.
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: But in terms of crowdsourcing information, people care about Riley Strain.
• 37:43
  Speaker 8: They see this blonde, good looking young man, educated from
• 37:47
  Speaker 8: a family who loves him, and they want to know
• 37:51
  Speaker 8: what happened. So I'm wondering, are the police plumbing this
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: very rich source. Are they're asking other people what happened?
• 37:59
  Speaker 8: Because this is where a lot of clues could be found.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Again, the tip line is six one five eight six
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: two eighty six hundred. If you know or think you
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: know anything about the disappearance of this young man literally
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: scrubbed in sunshine, please call six one five eighty six
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: two eighty six hundred. All of our efforts, thoughts and
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: prayers with Raleigh Strain and his family.
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  Speaker 2: Now goodbye, friend.