Nashville cops find missing woman wandering near area where Riley Strain vanished
Nashville police found a New Jersey womanꦚ who’d disappeared for nearly seven hours wandering ��along the Cumberland River and looking disheveled on Thursday morning — not far from where frat boy Riley Strain disappeared earlier this year.
Authorities began searching for the 33-year-old woman at around🔯 4 a.m. after she’d gotten separated from her friend near Third Avenue and Broadway about two hours earlier, .
She was last seen on downtown ✃surveillance cameras near the Woodland Stree🍌t Bridge — which is where Strain was last seen before he vanished in March.
Cops quickly released recorded images of the 🍎woman as she walked toward the river.
Meanwhile, dozens of Metro polic🌃e and local firefighters used thermal imaging, GPS from cell phone pings, a helicopter and a😼 drone to help them in their search.
Authorities found the woman’s 🦩shoes and phone on an embankment — along with some blood, the station said.
A detective later spotted her climbing up the riverbank at abಞout 9 a.m. with cuts and scratches on her.
▨Although the woman was dirty and shoeless, she knew who she was and told police she had been in the river — but she didn’t know why, according to the station.
She’d also called her ꦉmother at some point, which worried he♛r mom enough that she called local cops to do a welfare check.
Authorities rushed her to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for trea🌳tment, the outlet said.
“I think it’s truly a miracle that she was fine, because she climbed herself right up,” Sgt. Bob Nielson of the Metr🔴o Nashville Police Department’s Cold Case♐ Unit said.
“We don’t even know how far she w꧋ent down into the river,” Nielson said. “She was blessed, quite honestly.”
Her disappearance was eerily similar to that of 22-year-old college kid Riley Strain, who was tossed out of a Nashville bar ⛄back 🌳in March just before he vanished into the night.
But his story didn’t end happily.
Two weeks later, authorities pulled his corpse from the Cumberland River, about 8 miles 🥂downstream from where he disappeared.
The medical e♌xaminer decla♐red his death accidental, and a result of drowning and intoxication.
