Riley Strain’s Family Thinks He’s Still Alive, Wants Federal Resources

Riley Strain‘s household is 100% assured that their cherished one continues to be alive someplace — and so they’re annoyed with cops’ search efforts … demanding further boots on the bottom.

We talked to the Strain household spokesperson, Chris Dingman, Tuesday and he informed us straight up … Riley’s dad and mom, merely do not consider their son is useless — this regardless of many of the public beginning to assume that is the case at this level.

Even although it has been nicely over every week since Riley first vanished in Nashville after bar hopping together with his buddies — Dingman says the household is hopeful … however greater than that, they’re irked that a lot of Nashville PD’s investigating has been centered totally on the river close by.

There’s just a few explanation why Dingman says the Strains really feel this manner — for one, he says the river simply is not that deep, and it does not seem to have been roaring on the night time he disappeared. So, of their eyes, him falling in and being swept away does not appear believable.

Dingman additionally tells us that from the household’s POV, cops have not turned over each attainable stone in attempting to trace him down — claiming there are companies alongside the river financial institution with surveillance video that weren’t approached till very not too long ago … so, gradual going at finest.

While the Strains respect the police’s assist and diligence to date — we’re informed they assume it is time to name within the cavalry and get further help in serving to discover Riley sooner reasonably than later.

Nashville PD has already stated they’re ready to name within the feds if it proves vital. Dingman says the Strains assume that point has come … and that the sweep for Riley must develop nicely past simply the river search that is been occurring these previous few days.

Of course, Riley’s financial institution card was discovered there — which might be why it is a point of interest within the effort — however Dingman says his mother and pop need different potentialities regarded into.

He does not have an actual thought of the place he could also be or what occurred to him, however based mostly on eyewitness accounts that proceed to crop up day after day … it appears like individuals may’ve probably been with him over the past identified moments of him being out and about.

The different odd factor that is not fairly monitoring for the Strains is that when Riley was strolling by the police officer — he got here throughout as coherent and regular, however different surveillance movies captured him trying inebriated and out of it. So the household does not know what’s what right here.

The one factor they do know … they need solutions, and shortly. The Strains have been in Nashville for a number of days now — and the longer Riley is lacking, the extra anxious they get.