Police Off The Cuff

Nursing student Lauren Johansen murdered by boyfriend bailed out of jail. #Bail #LaurenJohansen #BricenRivers HARRISON COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - Thursday, Lauren Johansen’s mutilated body was discovered in the back seat of her car in Harrison County. The man charged with her murder, ex-boyfriend Bricen Rivers, was released on bond for a violent felony just days earlier. ALSO READ: Murder victim identified, suspect arrested following manhunt in Harrison County In December 2023, Rivers was arrested by Nashville Metro Police and charged with aggravated kidnapping. Lauren Johansen’s father, Lance Johansen, told WLOX News that Rivers brutally beat his daughter and held her hostage while the two were on vacation in Tennessee. He also said that he warned a Nashville judge that Rivers was too dangerous to be let out of jail. “I sat in the courtroom in Nashville and told the judge that if they let him out, he was going to kill her,” Lance Johansen said. “He had assaulted her — this was probably the fifth or sixth time wh