Metro police said Thursday evening that a body recovered in a woodline near a parking lot at 14 James Robertson Pkwy was identified as Conor Anderson, ending the search for the 31-year-old man from Colorado who had been missing in Nashville. Police said there were no indications of foul play.
Anderson had been visiting Nashville for a work conference, and police said he had not been heard from since early Sunday morning. His recovery turns a missing-person case into a death investigation, but the reason he died is still unanswered until the Medical Examiner completes that review.
The case drew attention after body camera footage showed Anderson in an interaction with police on Sunday in East Nashville. Police said he flagged down officers, told them he had asked a man at a bar to show him around the neighborhood, and said he paid the man $20 and then another $20 before the man took the cash and walked off.
In the footage, Anderson also said he accidentally walked in front of the man and his friends' car, then called police to report the details of the car. He and the officers parted ways when he did not want to make a formal report. Authorities have said they do not know whether that encounter was connected to his disappearance.
That uncertainty is now the central gap in the case. The Sunday interaction appears to have been the last time Anderson was seen, but police have not linked it to his death, and the final answer rests with the Medical Examiner.
