Trevor Lines was found safe and uninjured in Goodlettsville on June 13, ending a two-day search that had drawn in Metro Nashville Police and spread across Middle Tennessee. The 28-year-old Indiana man had been reported missing after leaving an East Nashville rental house early on June 11 and not returning.
Police were still asking the public that morning to look for Lines and his white Lexus RX350, which carried an Indiana Purdue University plate, INQC9104. By then, the search had already moved beyond one neighborhood and into a wider check of roads and databases, a reminder that missing-person cases can become a race against the clock when a vehicle is the only clear trail.
Lines and his friends had come to Tennessee with plans to attend the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, and they were staying in an East Nashville short-term rental before the trip. When friends left about 5 a.m. on June 11 to look for a missing phone, they returned about an hour later to find Lines and the Lexus gone. His phone, medication and bags were still inside, and his friends reported him missing that same day.
The car later became the key to the search. A license plate reader tracked it in Mt. Juliet around 7:30 a.m. on June 12, then in Goodlettsville at 4:30 p.m. that afternoon. Metro Nashville Police said it had alerted the THP and Coffee County authorities to be on the lookout for the Lexus and entered Lines into a national database as a missing person.
Kyle Smith, who posted updates while the search was underway, said the wristband and camping pass under Lines’ name were never scanned at the festival. He also said there had been a Chase alert on Lines’ phone at 10:50 a.m. and that the Manchester Police Dept said the plate had pinged heading north out of Nashville a few hours earlier. Smith thanked people who shared the alert and added, “Hopefully, that’s him heading home.”
The case ended with a good outcome, but the gap at its center remains simple and unresolved: what happened after Lines left the rental house before dawn and before his car turned up in Goodlettsville. For his friends and family, the answer that mattered most came first — he was found safe.
