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Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

A Judge's Decision: The Death of Lauren Johansen

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Bricen Rivers nearly beat his girlfriend to death in their car in Nashville while on a romantic weekend getaway. Jailed with bond set high enough so he couldn't get out, his victim, Lauren Johansen, is recovering in Mississippi when a judge lowers Rivers bond, and lets him out to finish what he started. On this episode of Body Bags, Joseph Scott Morgen will explain the horrible injuries Lauren sustained in the first beating in Nashville, while Dave Mack breaks down the backstory on the relationship that was so toxic, Lauren Johansen winds up dead in the back of her own car in the middle of a cemetery.

Transcript Highlights

00:00:04.19 Introduction - Being a parent, Father .
00:04:26.07 Discussion of abusive relationship
00:09:20.25 Talking about parenting a child in abusive relationship
00:13:39.86 Discussion of Nashville trip, how much effort it would take
00:18:40.36 Talk seeing trauma in hospital
00:23:22.52 Discussion or rocks as a weapon, pistol whipping
00:28:29.50 Discussion of wound to Lauren's head at hairline
00:32:02.27 Talk about man abusing woman, judge lowering bond
00:36:15.69 Discussion of Lauren being kidnapped from home
00:40:38.20 Discussion of wounds Lauren suffered before death
00:43:48.59 Talk about Lauren wasn't recovered from December 11 beating
00:46:41.34 Conclusion Lauren's father helped recover her body

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0:00.0

Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.

0:04.0

Every now and then I try to reenter myself

0:10.0

as a dad, because you know when when your kids get older and they get out of the house

0:21.0

many times Many times you forget those moments that are so very precious when that little life was delivered into this world and swaddled by perhaps a labor

0:41.4

and delivery nurse.

0:43.6

And you're terrified.

0:44.4

It doesn't matter how many kids you have.

0:45.8

You're terrified every single time.

0:48.3

And they hand that child to you, this little life that has come into the world.

0:57.6

And you know you've been in great anticipation all this time.

1:01.1

You've gone through the pregnancy with, in my case with my precious wife,

1:07.5

and you don't really know what's on the horizon, but when they hand that little life over to you and you hold them to

1:16.7

your chest and they're trying to make that little cry you know they haven't quite got

1:22.2

their voice even for crying at that point time, their mouth opens.

1:26.9

And you look down and you see the fragility of what you're holding, and you know that it is your responsibility to bring them up in a world that

1:40.0

as an adult you already know is just rife with danger at every turn.

1:49.4

It's something I try to return to regularly and try to remember at this point in my life.

1:57.0

Today I want to talk about as a father, another father, who probably had the same experience. This man's a physician now.

2:16.7

Of his little girl that he probably held for that brief moment as she tried to form that first cry in that labor and

2:31.2

delivery room.

2:36.0

We're going to talk about the murder,

2:42.0

the savage murder of Lauren Johanson Hatt Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

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