Riley Strain, 22, was found dead in March, two weeks after he vanished during a night out with his friends in Nashville. His parents wept as they accepted his University of Missouri diploma on Saturday.
Riley, who went missing in downtown Nashville on March 8 after a night out with his fraternity brothers, was found dead nearly two weeks after he vanished in the Cumberland River.
A forensic expert has claimed Riley Strain s pants would not have come off themselves but would have likely been removed by another person before he entered the river where he was found.
The half-naked body of Riley Strain, 22, 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.