Missing woman’s body found ‘mutilated,’ wrapped in sheets at cemetery, officials say

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“I sat in the courtroom in Nashville and told the judge that if they let him out, he was going to kill her,” the slain student’s father, Lance Johansen, told WLOX. “He had assaulted her — this was probably the fifth or sixth time where they would get into a fight and he would beat her.”

Nursing student, 22, found beaten to death after dad’s chilling warning to judge

A 22-year-old college student from Mississippi was found beaten to death and wrapped in a sheet in the backseat of her car last week — days after her father warned a judge that if her boyfriend was…

nypost.com

 

[gremlin444]

I'm following reporter Karen Aguilar of Fox Nashville on Twitter/X--she seems to be taking the lead in investigating the mistakes:

Davidson County Clerk's Office admits mistake that led to a woman's death

The Chief Deputy at Davidson County Criminal Court Clerk's office admitted there was a mistake that allowed a suspect to cross county lines into Mississippi.

fox17.com

 

[Knox]

I'm following reporter Karen Aguilar of Fox Nashville on Twitter/X--she seems to be taking the lead in investigating the mistakes:

Davidson County Clerk's Office admits mistake that led to a woman's death

The Chief Deputy at Davidson County Criminal Court Clerk's office admitted there was a mistake that allowed a suspect to cross county lines into Mississippi.

fox17.com

She’s doing a great job reporting, grateful she’s exposing how this went so wrong. This monumental mistake resulted in a violent death. The details are very painful to read, I feel deeply for her family.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

“They’re distraught,” Sloss said of the employee who made the error and his supervisor. “There have been tears.”

Release paperwork dated June 24 specified none of those conditions.

That paperwork “should have contained any bond conditions,” Sloss said. “The employee did not do that.”

“Our release order from the courts was a standard ‘bond-out’ and did not specify GPS was a condition of release,” said Jon Adams, communications director at the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office. Rivers, Adams said, “was released to himself, and was responsible for contacting his bonding agent.”

https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article289975014.html

 

[Quim The Extraordinaire]

I’m so angry this happened. And that it’s only a recent occurrence, definitely not the first and likely not even the most recent.

Dr. Johansen, PLEASE keep raising hell and demanding accountability for your daughter’s life. I’m so sorry for your loss. Maybe your actions today will prevent future loss of life.

For a person as kind-hearted and caring as Lauren is said to have been — and family members that seem to share that outlook — perhaps that provides a sliver of comfort in this tragedy.

Rest in peace, Lauren. You matter.

 

[gremlin444]

Additional/slightly different information in this article from today in a conversation with Lauren's father:

How Mississippi man's release from Nashville jail ended in Lauren Johansen's death. ‘Someone in our office made a mistake’

A Mississippi father is blaming Nashville’s justice system for his daughter’s death earlier this month, days after her ex-boyfriend, Bricen John Rivers, was released from a Middle Tennessee jail.

www.clarionledger.com

"Although he received the voicemail notifying him of Rivers' release on June 28, Robert Johansen didn't have a chance to listen to it right away, he said, noting that the news came as a shock on July 1.

'I called Lauren immediately and she was still alive when I called her and told her ... she already heard,' he said. 'She was told he was getting an ankle monitor, and it turned into a real mess.'

Lauren was terrified when he talked to her about Rivers being released, Robert Johansen said. He and his family don't know what happened to Lauren Johansen or how she ended up in the trunk of a car on July 3.

Last they knew, she was in her home with her sister and a friend on July 1."
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All the other previous articles I've read made it sound like Lauren did not know Rivers was released, and that when the dad tried calling her on July 1 he couldn't get in touch with her--except for a text he got from her which was phrased oddly.