Strain’s body was found in a river after going missing while on a fraternity trip to Nashville on March 8, 2024
- The family of Riley Strain, the Missouri college student whose body was found in a Tennessee river two weeks after he was kicked out of a bar and disappeared in 2024, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Delta Chi fraternity organization and its members
- The lawsuit was filed in Boone County, Mo., on March 21, 2025
- The family also accuses the fraternity of allowing excessive drinking on the buses transporting members to Nashville and the absence of “proper chaperones” and abandoning Strain
The family of Riley Strain , the Missouri college student whose body was found in a Tennessee river two weeks after he disappeared, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Delta Chi fraternity organization and its members.
The lawsuit was filed in Boone County, Mo., on March 21, 2025 — nearly one year after Strain was found dead — and accuses the Delta Chi fraternity of abandoning the 22-year-old student when he needed their help, according to court documents obtained PEOPLE.
In the spring of 2004, the complaint stated that Strain was “first approached about attending the yearly formal in Nashville,” but that the student, described as an “often-reserved young man” who didn’t usually “go with the typical fraternity flow” said that he wasn’t planning on attending…