Hello everyone and welcome to police off the cuff, real crime stories.

I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, the 27-year veteran of the NYPD.

Folks, we have a really sad case coming out of Mississippi.

Actually, Harrison County, Mississippi.

Nursing student Lauren Johansson murdered by her boyfriend, who was released from jail.

If there was more errors in a case that I've seen in my police career, I've never seen it this horrific.

A case obviously of boyfriend, girlfriend violence, you could call it domestic violence,

but totally, totally predictable.

Yet the criminal justice system has failed this young nursing student.

22 years old had like everything to live for, was a winner, was someone that was going to

really affect this world in a positive way. In Harrison County, Mississippi, on Thursday, Lauren Johansson's body was

discovered in the backseat of a car in Harrison County. The man charged with her murder,

ex-boyfriend Bryson Rivers, was released on bond for a violent felony just days earlier.

And it gets worse.

It gets worse.

In December 2023, Rivers was arrested by Nashville Metro Police in charge with aggravated kidnapping.

Lauren Johansson's father, Lance Johansson, told W-L-O-X news that Rivers

brutally beat his daughter and held her hostage while the two were on vacation in Tennessee.

He also said he warned the Nashville judge that Rivers was too dangerous to be led out of jail.

He said, I sat in the courtroom in Nashville and told the judge that if they let him out,

he was going to kill her.

This is according to Lance Johansen, the father of Lauren.

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