
Insets left to right: Bricen Rivers (Metropolitan Nashville Police Department), Lauren Johansen (GoFundMe). Background: The cemetery where Johansen’s body was found (WSMV/YouTube).
Authorities probing the death of a woman whose mutilated body was found in her car in a Mississippi cemetery believe she might have been killed in another county by her ex-boyfriend, who was erroneously released from custody while he was awaiting trial on earlier charges alleging he beat her.
Lauren Johansen, 22, might have been killed in Forrest County, Mississippi, the county’s Sheriff Charlie Sims told local NBC and ABC affiliate WDAM. Bricen Rivers, 23, Johansen’s ex-boyfriend, faces charges in the killing.