Lauren Johansen was found dead in the back of her own car at a Mississippi cemetery in May. Her boyfriend, Bricen Rivers, was arrested and charged with her murder. Rivers had recently been released on bond in Tennessee after a domestic violence arrest while the couple were on vacation. The two companies who helped Rivers make bail are now coming under fire. Law&Crime’s Jesse Weber spoke with the victim’s father, Dr. Lance Johansen, about his loss, the suspect, and the warning he says officials ignored.
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The family of the dead daughter should have sued the judge, the bond company and the Poral board of directors who supported the release of this murderer.
This is bad. They failed her.
Started to feel bad for this man until he tried to make a dig at the president. Uses his daughter’s tragedy as a platform for politics.
The father needs to speak out on how many times, as he said, over the years he this guy beat his daughter and she took him back.
He needs to speak about how he and the rest of the family, and her friends, accepted him back each time.
The father, mother, other family members and her friends who knew of the abusive relationship, and HER are equally responsible for her death.
I am willing to bet he called her after his latest release, from Nashville, and she willingly met with him!
She wanted a bad boy, got one, then paid the price!
SHE HAD SEVERE STOCKHOLM, I DIGRESS
He shows up at the bail bond with lauren… kinda her fault to go back to him. I cant we these abused victims going right back to the abuser and expect any sympathy
The crazy part is somewhere, in America some woman are going through this right now
Why was she with him when he went to the place to get his monitor changed? Did he kidnap her?
So much negligence on so many people’s parts. The system failed her and her family. Every person who made any decision in regards to the process of him leaving jail should be held accountable. And the fact that he was given bond AGAIN is insanity. Stop giving bail to criminals with evil crimes!
Yep, her family should sue this circus. They are responsible for this murder. What a joke. The $1 million bond after the fact is an insult.
Thank you for covering this.
A weak judge. That’s how it happened.
Wow this is wow unbelievable
Im at work trying to keep it together. I am so very sorry for this tragedy and will keep you in my thoughts
the just pushed the first Domino
This breaks my heart. It should've never happened. How could the system fail so badly?
This young women's blood it ultimately on the hands of the judge. She should be in jail and previous cases examined for incompetence. The bond companies and parents have a part of this as well. They should all serve time. If there was a ever an example to be made of incompetence on the part of the judge, the bond companies, Freedom monitoring and his parents, this is it! So heartbreaking and should have never happened.
This is horrible but none of those people are going to apologize to Lauren’s family because that would mean they are accepting responsibility and we all know no one in the judicial system is going to do that.
RIHP Lauren😢 Praying for Lauren’s family to find peace and comfort while pursuing justice for their beloved daughter and sister ❤❤
This is horrible but none of those people are going to apologize to Lauren’s family because that would mean they are accepting responsibility and we all know no one in the judicial system is going to do that.
RIHP Lauren😢 Praying for Lauren’s family to find peace and comfort while pursuing justice for their beloved daughter and sister ❤❤
This judge needs to be held accountable
My heart goes out to Laurens Family… I am soooo sorry for your los…sending much strength from germany
What a tragedy for a beautiful young woman who had her whole life ahead of her. The system is broken, and the judge who let him go is as guilty of murder. Without his permission to let the demon go, he wouldn't have had the chance to murder. Therefore, the judge needs to lock them up too.
Why does it seem like our officials are creating more mess then they ever solve?
No one blames her for going back. She had an opportunity to get away from the guy and she went back
she went with him again …. dont try to blame other
Crazy thing is. Blackburn is one of the strickest judges here in Nashville. I personally dealt with her with my own case and she's very no nonsense. But Nashville has some of the most laxed laws and they don't like to hold people in jail especially with how over crowded the jail is here
Wow that clerk really dropped the ball to say the least. There needs to be some kind of double verification method implemented before letting someone out of jail, so human error doesn't result in precious life lost. And ideally someone like this wouldn't receive bond at all…. how the heck is he still getting a bond opportunity yet again.
Omg your kidding me !!!!! He used uer address WOW 😡 OMG
Judge & clerk need to go too
So pretty sure the judge is the problem. When judges are held to account for the decisions, then the system will change. It wont until then. Theres absolutely no accountability
The court clerk that didn't put the bond conditions – that person screwed up big time. I've seen it happen first hand, and it happens far too often. I get that they have a lot of cases, but they need to figure that out because this beautiful young lady was taken far too soon, in a beyond disgusting manner, because the clerk didn't put down the information that was crucial. The judge deserves jail time, also. Lots of screw ups, and now this family has lost the light of their world.
Wait so you’re saying she met back up with him after he got out lol? This is NO ONES fault but her own. SHES the reason she’s dead.
why did she let him jump in the car with her? this makes no sense,…sounds like she hooked up with him as soon as he got out
To be honest this is just the common femicide story in our day…what are we doing to stop or prevent this instead of just reporting on it?
Everyone keeps saying the system failed her, no, the judge and the clerk failed her. Mostly the judge, why would he want to lower this crazy persons bail?
The judge and the clerk are responsible. Especially the judge, why make it easier for a psycho to get out??
I’m sorry but no one drove him to kill her. They were wrong I’m not arresting him as soon as he broke his bond agreement, or showed up with her. He killed her because he chose to.
Judges should be accountable! And this is not the only who is not capable of doing this job and presiding over cases!
The system needs to be fixed, errors like this should not be happening and it's about time that victims come first.
2:29 why his face was blurr??
So tragic.
You should not be released for violence attacks. it was a failure to tag him she is a woman and that is how the system is.
blood is on that judge’s hands, hope she’s proud of herself, what trash system we have, and everyone in the system are a heartless joke.
Bail should not be allowed for this type of crime and many others! 🤬🤬🤬 no regard for victims and nothing but regard for perpetrators!
Smh let’s teach our daughter about all of these so don’t fall for people like him 😢
DID SHE HAVE A SEVERE CASE OF STOCKHOLM WTF