Metro police identified the body recovered Thursday evening near a parking lot at 14 James Robertson Pkwy as Conor Anderson. Anderson, a 31-year-old from Colorado, had been missing since early Sunday morning after visiting Nashville for a work conference.
The recovery shifted the case from a missing-person search to a death investigation. The Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death while police said there were no indications of foul play.
Millennium Maxwell House Hotel in North
Police said Anderson’s visit to Nashville started on Saturday, when he checked into the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel in North Nashville. Family said he went to a concert at Nissan Stadium that night before the timeline narrowed to the early hours of Sunday.
NewsChannel 5 obtained body camera footage showing Anderson with police on Sunday in East Nashville. According to that footage, he told officers, “I asked a man in the bar to show me around the neighborhood.” He also said, “he paid him $20, and later another $20,” and that “he accidentally walked in front of the man and his friends' car.”
East Nashville footage
Anderson called police to report the details of the car, then parted ways with officers when he did not want to make a formal report. Police did not say whether the incident described in the footage was tied to what happened next, but the video gives the last known contact point in the search.
The Missing Persons Unit had been working around the clock to find him. Marsh said it was aware Anderson was missing, was working to support his family, and asked anyone who could help to call police. With the body identified, the remaining issue is the medical one: what caused his death.
