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ex-boyfriend arrested her father desperate. >> i sat there with the judge and i told her that this man hit her over 100 times. i pointed to him. >> he warned the judge, the police, the prosecutor, anyone who would listen. >> i just finished telling them that if y'all let him out, he's going to kill her. >> but he was let out, and now lauren johansen is dead. a family's fight for justice. then the verdict is in for the man accused of the gruesome murder of ucla grad student brianna kupfer. her killing was recorded. we have the latest. and in our next true crime index, a wild police chase and a shootout in cedar hill, texas. your daily source for true crime starts right now. welcome to true crime news. we begin with a story that made national headlines the heartbreaking case of lauren johansen, that will make you outraged. the 22 year old desperately tried to get

away from her abusive ex-boyfriend. her father begged and pleaded a judge to keep him in jail. you're not going to believe this. despite her father's fight, the abusive ex-boyfriend was let out and now she is dead. today i sit down with lauren's father, lance, for his first national tv interview. it is a true crime news exclusive. a warning some of these photos are disturbing. >> i just finished telling them that if y'all let him out, he's going to kill her. >> the desperate words of a loving father pleading to anyone who would listen. >> they caught this man red handed, about to kill her. and what more proof do you need? >> demanding that someone do something to protect his beautiful daughter and keep a monster. hell bent on harming her behind bars. >> it's fitting that she took it. really messed her up. >> but his words would fall on the courts. deaf ears and the ex-boyfriend accused of doing

this. and this is released from jail without warning. >> springer 9-2 8-4 on the run and with a mission to do it all over again. >> the justice system that freed him failed over and over to protect her. >> i was wondering, where's my sister? what's wrong? >> and her family's biggest fear turns out to be an unthinkable reality. >> he took a whole lot away from us. >> i just remember when they finally zipped her up in a body bag. it was the last hug i gave her would go by. >> would you say that everyone who failed lauren and failed your family to some degree, has blood on their hands? >> oh, there's no doubt about i. >> mississippi surgeon lance johansen and his wife, tammela will never forget the day their eldest daughter, lauren, was born.

>> i got to the hospital about 15 minutes before lauren was born. i told her doctor, i said, thanks for watching her for me, but i'm delivering the baby, so get out of the way. >> their new bundle of joy arrived straight into lance's hands, changing their family forever. >> she always was just so right there for everybody. >> as the family expanded, lauren became a loving and caring big sister. she was like a mother, a sister, and a best friend to me. then the stunning, straight-a student caught the eye of a star football player from a different high school, bryson rivers. they went to prom together. >> that was the first time that they had a date. i think. >> it almost sounds like this is the beginning of a lovely romance. >> i think that this would be the stereotypical thing you would think from someone in high school. but the first time i met him, i didn't like him. he got her hooked on drugs when she was in high school, and she went from a straight a student to not

making good grades. we had to work really hard to get her off of drugs. >> the hard work paid off. lauren got back on track after dumping bryson. he was arrested for drug possession and dui. she started to focus on a career in nursing. but starting over was not as easy as she had hoped. >> so now she's at school? >> yes, he's stalking her, harassing her. >> and he would call her and say, i'm going to kill your dog if you don't let me in. crazy things like this. >> crazy. but her parents say lauren would hide much of what was happening. until one day when little sister katie was visiting. >> i was in her kitchen. she was in her bedroom, and i saw bryson at the top of her stairs, looking in through her balcony windows, and she saw him too. and i was like, lauren, you cannot lie like i know you saw that. and she was like, yeah, we need to get out of here. >> her father was worried, but

nothing would prepare him for a trip. lauren took with a group of friends to nashville. >> she told me that there was two groups of friends that went there, and that he was with the other group, and she didn't know he was with the group. >> bryson was with lauren and became jealous after she talked to another guy in a bar. then doctor johansen's phone rings. >> maybe 130 in the morning. bryson's father said that bryson was trying to kill lauren, but how does he know that bryson is trying to kill your daughter? they were in the car and he was talking to his mother while he was beating on lauren. >> shocked, doctor johansen used a location app to find her immediately giving cops the coordinates in nashville. >> the officer that got her out of the car said that he was on top of her beating her. there was blood everywhere. she was screaming and yelling. >> bryson's control and stalking had now turned into pure violence. next, in fear for lauren's life, her father immediately heads to nashville. what happens next triggers a

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lauren johansen was partying with a group of friends in a bar in nashville when her jealous ex-boyfriend bryson rivers, spots her talking to a guy. he became enraged, and it wasn't the first time, and it wouldn't be the last. and the images that you are about to see explain why her father begged people in power to keep rivers behind bars. a warning some of these photos are very disturbing. lauren johansen desperately fighting off her ex-boyfriend to save her life. >> they said they got to the car and she was screaming and yelling. >> when nashville cops finally locate lauren's car, they find her with ex-boyfriend bryson rivers. >> he was going to kilher that night. >> responding officers see a severely beaten lauren running away from the car. she's extremely emotional and asking for her father, who was driving seven hours to nashville.

>> if they hadn't got there, she would have been dead. >> beaten for over an hour. her eye was swollen shut. a pistol used to hit her was covered in blood. the heartbroken father took these photos of his daughter in the hospital. >> i love my daughter so much. i'd have done anything to help her. >> bryson rivers was immediately charged with three felonies for kidnaping and beating lauren. he was locked up on a $250,000 bond. finally, lauren was in the safety of her mississippi home with family, and now doctor johansen had another nagging feeling. in court, he begged the judge not to let bryson out of jail on bond at all. >> i sat there with the judge and i told her that this man hit her over 100 times, that if y'all let him out, he's going to kill her. >> at that moment, did you think that they had heard you about

what a danger it would be to release this man? >> when i left there, i felt confident that they were going to keep him there. >> but what happens next is a series of events that are beyond comprehension. judge cheryl blackburn lowered bryson's bond to $150,000. with strict conditions. he was required to have gps monitoring only allowed to be released between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m, forbidden from having any contact with lauren or any witnesses, and he was not to leave davidson county in tennessee. there was just one problem. so when he was released from jail? yes. no one notified you? no one notified me. and one by one, that problem would soon grow to many. everything the judge put in her orders was apparently ignored. bryson was released five minutes after the imposed time at 4:05 p.m.

because of that, the monitoring company in the order was closed, while another company was able to install an ankle monitor. the new company did so without having the judge's orders so shockingly, bryson had listed the johansen family home in van cleave, mississippi, as his address. remember, he was ordered to stay put in nashville and away from lauren. >> the judge makes this terrible decision, but all the people from the top to the bottom, nobody in this system was able to even enforce what the judge did. >> bryson immediately made his way to mississippi, nearly 500 miles away. five days after his release, the courts notice his ankle monitor was malfunctioning. bryson was ordered to return to tennessee for a new one. when he arrives, surveillance cameras show he's driving lauren's suv. earlier that morning in mississippi. a

friend wakes up lauren's sister and he was like, hey, where's lauren? >> and i said, what? i was like, what do you mean? and he was like, lauren's not here. >> then a voicemail left for doctor johansen, a gut wrenching message from the district attorney's office in nashville. >> bryson rivers was released from custody, and he has not been heard from. so i want to make sure that lauren is safe and that you all take proper precautions. >> the battery in bryson's ankle monitor died. it's bad enough that he's released, but they don't even know where he is, right? >> i mean, it's just disgusting. >> a manhunt is ordered to find bryson, and soon lauren's car is tracked to a cemetery about an hour from biloxi. the search teams capture bryson, who was hiding in the woods about a mile away. but at the cemetery, a horrifying discovery. lauren's

badly beaten body is found in the back of her suv. >> i was like, this can't be love. this can't be literally like, this isn't her. she's stronger than this. >> i just remember when they finally zipped her up in the body bag was the last hug i gave her. we go. bye. >> i'm just trying to picture how a man who holds his baby when she's born. yeah, can hold his baby when she's murdered. >> it was really tough. >> lauren johansen was laid to rest on july 13th. her family still reeling over the loss of their beautiful lauren. it's been a real hard to know that i wake up every day and she's not there. >> and the extreme failures that helped contribute to her murder.

>> she thought she was free and whatever these people did in nashville to let her out ruined her life. and our life. >> doctor johansen was told by the coroner that lauren had been dead for more than a day, and police believe that he was driving around with her in the car, destroying evidence. bryson rivers is back behind bars and this time, no bond. he has been charged with her murder and true crime news will be bringing you the latest. meanwhile, doctor johansen says he will not rest until everyone who failed lauren is held accountable. tomorrow on true crime news. more from my exclusive interview with lauren johansen's father. his fight to change the system he feels failed his daughter. when we come back, a verdict in the brutal murder of a ucla student working alon in a furniture store and he r is at plexaderm

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life happens out there . life happens out there. >> and now the story of brianna coop. first, she was a ucla grad student working in a boutique furniture store here in los angeles when she was savagely murdered. a random act of violence that sent the entire community into shock and mourning. now a jury has rendered a verdict on the man charged with her death. >> we, the jury in the above entitled action, find the defendant, shawn leedahl smith, guilty of the crime of first degree murder after less than 24 hours of deliberation. >> justice landed swiftly for beautiful brianna kupfer. >> justice will never be served because our daughters are not alive, compassionate, creative. >> the life of the party. 24 year old ucla grad student

brianna kupfer, was violently and randomly murdered while working alone at croft house, a luxury l.a. furniture store, when sean laval smith walked in, brianna had a bad feeling texting a colleague. can you call me? there's someone in here that is giving me weird vibes by the time brianna's coworkers saw the message, it was too late. >> brianna cooper was stabbed to death 46 times by that man, the attack sending a chill through the courtroom and all of los angeles. >> i grew up with her since i was like nine months old until eighth grade, and she was one of my best friends in middle school and, yeah, it's just really sad. >> seen here, strolling away on the store's camera just minutes after the murder. it wasn't long before smith was id'd a career criminal, homeless and considered armed and dangerous.

>> this individual responsible for this vicious, senseless and brutal crime. it walks amongst us a reward climb to $250,000. >> he was nabbed when someone called 911. >> i see a gentleman who looks very similar to a in the cutler stabbing in la, i'm in pasadena currently. >> police moved quickly, handcuffing smith, who stood passively. los angeles breathed a sigh of relief, but in court, jurors heard the horrifying details with her last breathing words. >> she's just telling him, i can help you. i can help you, i can help you. and he's telling her it's over. it's over, it's over. >> making this crime even more monstrous, smith recorded the whole thing. >> the defendant recorded himself talking about his most

vile and disgusting and grotesque thoughts about women. >> smith left behind the recorder and the murder weapon with his own dna. the trial will now move into the next phase, which is set to begin october 2nd. smith faces a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. if the judge determines he was sane at the time of the murder. and we received this statement from brianna's family. brianna was a wonderful and beautiful soul that felt deeply, loved, strongly and had an incredible zest for life and learning. this tragedy has been devastating not only for us, but for the many, many friends that she loved and inspired as a family. we are thoroughly grateful for the love and support from our friends, our community, and the myriad of others that have reached out to us. may that love c tinue

>> on the next true crime news, a mom home alone gets a sinister surprise. >> they said that the alarm had gone off and they asked if they should send the police. >> your mother's not answering the alarm company is called. so you just get in the car and you head over to your mother's. >> i knew that something was not right. >> gunned down in her own bathroom. >> now, moments later. emergency. >> her fight to survive. and the chilling twist her attacker never saw coming on the next true crime news. now our true crime index stories. the true crime news team is following across america a wild police chase and a shootout in cedar hill, texas. police trying to stop a suspect wanted for a string of felonies, including assault with a deadly weapon. as the suspect takes off, he opens his door, firing at pursuing officers. the officers returned

fire, with one of them shooting through his own windshield. the perp eventually caught. no officers were injured. police respond to a domestic dispute. the 31 year old female suspect refused to comply with officers commands. >> come out of the car or you are under arrest and takes off, almost hitting one of them. >> when cops finally pin her, she rams the cruisers in a desperate bid to get away. she eventually gives up. that's it for today's true crime news. i'm anna garcia. join us next time and remember, crime doesn't s (dramatic music) - [elizabeth] today on "icrime," this nfl player makes a legal fumble. - [officer gonzalez] and you have a firearm right here? - [elizabeth] a sucker punch 40,000 feet in the air. - [passenger] what are you doing? - [elizabeth] and this. (dramatic music) - [detainee] you're looking for somebody else. [officer] he's got my gun! - [woman] oh! - [woman] i'm sending it to the police, you idiot.