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A second autopsy on Riley Strains has confirmed there was no water in his lungs, the family has revealed, increasing fears that he was dead when he entered the water.
The half-naked body of the 22-year-old student was hauled from the Cumberland River in Tennessee on Friday, 14 days after he vanished in Nashville on a night out.
An initial police autopsy found no signs of foul play, but no signs that he drowned either, after leaving Luke's Bridge Food and Drink at 9.30pm on March 22.
Now a second autopsy commissioned by his family has added to the mystery as investigators await toxicology results.
'You know, I just I just hope that this doesn't get swept underneath the rug because the family deserves more answers than we have,' family friend Chris Dingman told NewsNation's Elizabeth Vargas Reports.
Mom Michelle Strain Whiteid with her son Riley Strain before his disappearance on March 8
Riley, 22, was wearing this distinctive black and white shirt when he disappeared after being kicked out of a bar in downtown Nashville on a night out with friends
'I'm not a crime drama person, by no means. But usually water in the lungs means that, you know, they were alive when they went into the water.
'So more questions, we hope to get to get some answers with the toxicology.'
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.
'Once again, one more question,' Dingman said. 'But unfortunately, the only thing that was found with him, as the Police stated in the report was the watch and the shirt.
'Everything else was not with him when he was found.'
The University of Missouri student was in the city with Delta Chi fraternity members for their annual spring formal when he was kicked out of the bar just after 9.30pm.
Strain told his friends that he would meet them back at their hotel, but was nowhere to be seen when the group returned from their night out.
His friends tried contacting him, but received no response and they reported Strain as missing as they failed to locate him via his Snapchat location.
Strain, 22, was seen leaving Luke's 32 Bridge Food + Drink on Broadway on March 8, according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department
Nashville police released this haunting image of Strain walking along the sidewalk after he left the bar, as he asked a cop how he was before telling him that he was 'doing good'
Michelle Strain Whiteid, left, and her husband, Chris Whiteid, speak to the media during a press conference to update the public about the disappearance of Riley Strain
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