Metro police said Thursday evening they had identified a body recovered in a woodline near a parking lot at 14 James Robertson Pkwy as Conor Anderson, the 31-year-old Colorado man who had been missing in Nashville since early Sunday morning.
The identification ended the search for Anderson, who was visiting Nashville for a work conference. Police said there were no indications of foul play, but the exact cause of death had not yet been determined, leaving the Medical Examiner to define what happened next in the case.
For Anderson's family, the update turned a missing-person case into the hardest possible answer. Marsh said it was aware that Conor was missing and was working to support his family, while police had been trying to piece together his last known movements after he had not been heard from since early Sunday morning.
Those movements had included a Saturday check-in at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel in North Nashville and a concert at Nissan Stadium later that night, followed by body camera footage that showed Anderson interacting with police on Sunday. In that exchange, he said he had asked a man in a bar to show him around the neighborhood, paid him $20 and then another $20, before the man walked off. He also told officers he accidentally walked in front of the man's and his friends' car and called police to report the details before the two sides parted ways when he did not want to make a formal report.
That account remains the case's unresolved fault line. Authorities said they did not know whether the incident described on body camera footage was related to Anderson's disappearance, and the recovery of his body answered one question while leaving the crucial one open: what caused his death. The Medical Examiner's finding will determine whether the investigation closes as an accident, a medical emergency or something else entirely.
