A body was discovered floating down the Cumberland River yesterday afternoon, Nashville authorities have confirmed. Crews were dispatched after the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency reported the sighting near Martin Luther King Bridge, as stated in a report from WBIR. The body was recovered at the Cleeces Ferry Boat Ramp, a report by FOX 17 indicated. Upon retrieval, it was noted the body was dressed in a maroon-colored shirt.

While initial suspicions might have turned to Riley Strain, a missing University of Missouri student, these were quickly dismissed. Strain's family has confirmed it was not Riley, as reported by WBIR. In addition to ruling out Strain, officials at the scene said the body did not appear to be 15-year-old Sebastian Rogers, who is also missing.

The Office of Emergency Management, with Metro Nashville Police Department officers, has taken charge of the recovery and examination of the body. This discovery eerily mirrors a cold case from 26 years prior when the body of a woman, now known as the "Cumberland River Jane Doe," was retrieved from the same river. As WKRN recounted, despite having been found with distinctive items, including a Tweety Bird shirt and a gold Zodiac necklace, her identity still remains a mystery to this day.

The Metro Nashville Police Department has continued to actively pursue the Jane Doe case, with a breakthrough seeming to always be just out of reach. The witness accounts seemed to almost give the mystery a face, recalling a woman in the very apparel that cloaked the unidentified victim. Yet, like the maroon garment now shrouding this latest unknown soul, clarity slipped through investigators' grasp, to only reveal the enigma of another life lost to the Cumberland's depths.