Moment TikTok sleuths found Riley Strain's credit card on trash-strewn river bank as family slams Nashville cops and ask FBI to take over search

This is the moment a pair of TikTok sleuths unearthed the credit card of missing college student Riley Strain as Nashville cops are being slammed for their shoddy job with the search.

Strain, 22, was last seen on March 8 at Luke's 32 Bridge Food + Drink on Broadway, which is owned by country superstar Luke Bryan, according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department.

The 22-year-old student from Missouri has been missing for 11 days and Nashville cops have been slammed for doing a 'B-minus job' by family members. 

A pair of TikTok sleuths put Nashville's police department to shame by discovering a key piece of evidence on the riverbank near where Strain went missing. 

Anna Clendening and Brandy Baenen livestreamed their search on TikTok. The stream documented the chilling moment that a credit card belonging to Strain was discovered amongst the rubble of a trash-littered riverbank near Nashville's downtown.

Riley Strain, 22, went missing 11 days ago in Nashville after being last seen seemingly heavily intoxicated on March 8 at Luke's 32 Bridge Food + Drink on Broadway

A pair of TikTok sleuths put Nashville's police department to shame by discovering a key piece of evidence on the riverbank near where Strain went missing

The pair found the card as they searched the Cumberland River's steep embankment and the James Robertson Parkway bridge 

'S**T - I found a credit card,' one of the sleuths screamed. 

'You found his credit card?' another responded. 'We found his credit card. We gotta hang up the phone,' she said before quickly ending the livestream.

Clendening, a musician, and Baenen, an artist, are both true crime enthusiasts who are passionate about bringing Strain home. 

The pair had been searching along the Cumberland River's steep embankment and the James Robertson Parkway bridge, where Strain was last spotted on camera and close to where his cell phone last pinged his location. 

It is also an area close to a homeless encampment.

'My stomach dropped,' Clendening said, describing the moment she turned over the card to reveal Strain's name. 'My innate reaction was to be like, 'Let's keep looking.' 

'Riley's face- I'm seeing every time I close my eyes,' Baenen said. 'I haven't been able to sleep the last few days because I know his mom is not sleeping.'

'We want answers for them (Strain's parents) and we're going to look for them. If nobody else will, we will,' Clendening told WZTV Nashville. 

Strain's father confirmed that police haven't said anything about the bank card being discovered. 

'I think it just shines light on the B-minus job that the police force may be doing.'

Anna Clendening, a musician, and Brandy Baenen, an artist, are both true crime enthusiasts who are passionate about bringing Strain home. The livestreamed the moment they found Strain's card along the riverbank

The pair had been searching along the Cumberland River's steep embankment and the James Robertson Parkway bridge, where Strain was last spotted on camera and close to where his cell phone last pinged his location

The stream documented the chilling moment that a credit card belonging to Strain was discovered amongst the rubble of a trash-littered riverbank near Nashville's downtown

Strain, 22, is pictured here on March 8 - wearing a white T-shirt that a witness later claimed to have seen being worn by a homeless man several days after his disappearance 

Strain's relatives staunchly believe the missing college student is still alive - and they want the FBI to step in and take over the investigation from the Nashville cops

Since being slammed by family and members of the public, the Metro Nashville PD have released video of them searching the river themselves using helicopters. 

Officers have also defended their search efforts. 'When we start a missing person investigation, we're looking for a person. We're looking for a body. We're not looking for small pieces of evidence,' Sgt. Robert Nielsen said during a press conference.

'Can we miss somethings? Sure. But our primary goal is to find Mr. Strain and bring him home safely.

Strain's relatives have said they staunchly believe the missing college student is still alive - and they want the FBI to step in and take over the investigation from the Nashville cops. 

'With everything that's gone in the past few days - we've been reached out to and we've spoken today with the United Cajun Navy,' Riley's stepdad Chris Whiteid said.

'We feel that we need the extra resources to come in and help us as we try and get more organized for our family and see if we can't bring some more clues to light.'

Police previous shared footage on X showing Strain walking along the sidewalk past an officer, who appeared to be inspecting a car with a smashed window.  

Strain says, 'How are you?' to the officer, to which the cop responds, 'How you doing sir?'

'Good you?' Strain says. 'Good,' the officer said back. Metro Nashville PD said that it is evidence the student was away from Gay St, the last place he was seen alive.

It comes as the last person to potentially see Strain said he caused a 'commotion' at a Nashville homeless encampment where the student's bank card was later found.

'We heard a commotion. We looked back up. He almost fell over. The last bush right there caught him,' an unidentified man who lives in the camp told WZTV.

He was very, very, very intoxicated. I never seen anybody stumble that hard before,' the man said. 'I yelled get up. They said, 'He's just drunk. He's OK.''

The Delta Chi fraternity member from the University of Missouri had traveled to Tennessee on a group trip for their annual spring formal 

Nashville police released this haunting image of Strain walking along the sidewalk on the night he vanished, as he asked a cop how he was before telling him that he was 'doing good' 

His parents previously discussed how Nashville cops butchered the investigation into their son's disappearance, as more clues to Riley's whereabouts seem to have come from the public than officers. 

Strain's mother Michelle and Whiteid along with his father Ryan Gilbert earlier sat down with Ashleigh Banfield on NewsNation to discuss the ongoing search.

'We had not seen anything or heard from them throughout the week,' Strain's stepdad said - adding that they were getting frustrated with the police department's lack of communication.  

Banfield responded that she was 'steaming mad' that she had interviewed a key witness who had still not been interviewed by the police at the time of the NewsNation interview. 

Strain's parents have slammed Nashville cops for doing a 'B-minus job' in the investigation into their son's mysterious disappearance. Strain's mother Michelle and stepdad Chris Whiteid (middle) along with his father Ryan Gilbert (right) sat down with Ashleigh Banfield (left) on NewsNation

The witness was a volunteer who works with homeless people near Nashville's downtown, where Strain went missing. She made an important connection several days after Strain's disappearance. 

Sabrina Martin, who volunteers with nonprofit group Souls United said she saw someone wearing a distinctive shirt just like Riley was last seen in. 

She had been feeding the homeless with a group of volunteers and as they were passing plates and water an individual passed by on a bicycle wearing a dirty hoodie with a very clean white shirt with a black collar underneath. 

He dropped a bottle of water and when he leaned over to grab it, Martin noted how clean the shirt underneath was an even pointed it out to a fellow-volunteer. 

Martin also said it was unusual from a homeless person to be riding a bike.

She encountered the homeless man only a 10-minute-walk from the bar area where Strain went missing.

The volunteer described the homeless man as 6-foot 1-inch white man with a buzzcut and ungroomed facial hair. 'His face, his neck ands his hands were very dirty,' Martin described.  

Surveillance footage released by the Nashville police show him wobbling and appearing confused as he crossed a closed road near the water

A family friend revealed he's heard from a woman who texted with missing Riley Strain just minutes before he vanished. 

Chris Dingman, a family friend, spoke to NewsNation's Elizabeth Vargas Reports on Monday where he revealed the last communication anyone could find from Riley - which was a confusing text to a girl he was speaking with.

'She texted him to see how he was doing, if he was having fun. He sent kind of a scripted text back to her saying 'Good lops,'' Dingman said. 

Neither Dingman nor the girl appeared to understand what Strain meant by this, describing it as 'unclear slang' to NewsNation, with Dingman believing it to reflect Riley's alleged mental state. 

Dingman said that he and Strain's family are growing frustrated with the inability to find the 22-year-old despite having seen both bodycam footage released by the police on Monday and additional recordings the public hadn't seen.

'Every piece of the puzzle we've been receiving, it leads us down 100 more questions,' he said. 'We're no closer to finding Riley.'