PICTURED: Mississippi student Lauren Johansen's gruesome injuries after she was 'brutally beaten' by 'stalker ex-boyfriend' Bricen Rivers - charged with her murder after judge lowered his bond

These are nan gruesome injuries inflicted connected nursing student Lauren Johansen by nan 'psychopath' ex who would spell connected to allegedly kidnap and execution her aft a judge lowered his bond.

The 22-year-old was pistol-whipped and beaten to a pulp by warped Bricen Rivers, 23, aft he flew into a suspicious rage during a nighttime retired successful Nashville past December.

She survived nan unit but photos taken afterwards - and published for nan first clip by DailyMail.com - uncover her petite assemblage riddled pinch bruises and her look truthful bloody and swollen she was hardly recognizable.

Lauren's wounds were cataloged by her expert dada Lance Johansen, 58, who wanted nan courts to spot what Rivers was tin of arsenic he awaited proceedings connected kidnapping and stalking charges.

Lance was truthful worried for his 'wonderful, kind' daughter's information that he attended nan preliminary proceeding to pass a Davidson County judge that Rivers would 'finish nan job' if he ever sewage retired of jail.

To his astonishment, Judge Cheryl Blackburn, a longtime Democrat jurist, later decided to little nan alleged attacker's enslaved from $250,000 to $150,000, paving nan measurement for his June 24 release.

Just 9 days aft he posted enslaved and walked free, Lauren was recovered beaten to decease successful Gulfport, Mississippi, and Rivers was arrested connected suspicion of murdering her.

'You tin spot what happened erstwhile he deed her 100 times backmost successful December truthful conscionable ideate what he did to her erstwhile cipher was astir to prevention her,' Lance told DailyMail.com, fighting tears.

The heartbroken dad-of-four, a respected orthopedic surgeon, added: 'I recognize group person authorities but you can't conscionable fto loose a chaotic animal.

'They knew he was a psychopath; they knew he was going to termination her if he sewage out. I warned them really this was going to play retired and they went up and did it anyway.'

Bubbly, celebrated Lauren grew up successful Gulfport wherever she started making love Rivers, nan prima subordinate connected his precocious schoolhouse shot team.

Their narration was plagued by convulsive episodes and by nan clip she headed disconnected to nan University of Southern Mississippi she was wished to telephone it quits.

Her family declare 'obsessed' Rivers stalked her connected and disconnected for years, breaking into her flat and starting fights pinch immoderate men she tried to date.

They were shocked to study precocious past twelvemonth that Lauren had reconciled pinch Rivers and gone connected picnic pinch him to Nashville, a determination Lance puts down to his girl suffering from 'battered female syndrome'.

The brace played Topgolf and attended a depository earlier Rivers flew into a drunken rage connected December 11 and accused Lauren of having activity pinch a bartender, according to a constabulary report.

Rivers snatched Lauren's telephone truthful she couldn't telephone for thief and drove to a parking batch wherever he allegedly clubbed her pinch a pistol and pulled retired chunks of her hair.

He held her captive wrong nan conveyance for an hr until his mom, Chelsa Rivers, overheard screaming successful nan inheritance connected a telephone to her boy and tipped disconnected cops to their location, according to tribunal filings.

Officers arrived to find 'traumatized' Lauren successful conscionable her bra and panties, screaming and banging connected nan model for thief and calling for her father.

She was 'severely beaten, her oculus was swollen unopen and she besides had a terrible laceration to her forehead,' according to cops.

A weapon was recovered connected nan level of nan couple's rental car which tin beryllium seen spattered pinch humor successful exclusive DailyMail.com images.

Lauren and Lance attended a preliminary proceeding connected December 18 wherever he testified that his eldest girl had been 'hit complete 100 times' and he feared for her life if Rivers ever sewage to her again.

The gun-obsessed bully languished successful jailhouse for 4 months earlier his lawyers revenge a mobility successful March asking Judge Blackburn to trim his bond.

She noted successful an April 3 bid location was a 'high likelihood of conviction' owed to constabulary assemblage camera footage and audio recordings from wrong nan car.

Nonetheless nan judge concluded that a 'bond of $150,000 is due successful this case' noting that 'it does not look that Mr. Rivers has immoderate anterior criminal history.'

DailyMail.com has located records and a mugshot indicating Rivers was arrested successful January 2021 successful Hancock County, Mississippi for DUI.

He was besides arrested successful October 2022 for car burglary successful adjacent Harrison County and again successful December 2022 for possession and trafficking of a controlled substance.

Stephen Hayslip, Director of Communications for nan Davidson County District Attorney's Office told DailyMail.com that it contested nan reduced enslaved but didn't emblem up immoderate anterior arrests.

He said this was because Assistant District Attorneys moving nan lawsuit were not alert of immoderate criminal convictions and that arrests that did not consequence successful convictions wouldn't beryllium considered grounds of anterior criminality.

Judge Blackburn graduated from nan Nashville School of Law successful 1979 and has been connected nan city's chair since 1996.

She was expected to discontinue successful 2021 aft suffering a changeable but stayed connected and won re-election a twelvemonth later.

The judge has not commented publically connected nan Rivers lawsuit and erstwhile DailyMail.com asked if she would beryllium consenting to do so, an adjunct snapped: 'It's a nary comment. The agency arsenic a full has nary comment.'

Authorities look further questions complete precisely really Rivers was monitored aft his family paid $15,000 to unafraid his merchandise via a institution named Brooke's Bonding.

Judge Blackburn's order, which was signed by nan defendant, said he was barred from leaving Davidson County and should beryllium 'placed connected physics monitoring'.

Freedom Monitoring Services, nan institution progressive successful keeping tabs connected Rivers, didn't look to cognize he was expected to enactment successful nan Nashville area, however, according to reporting by News Channel 5.

DailyMail.com understands that nan section accommodation lined up for Rivers fell done and he went backmost to Mississippi to unrecorded pinch family instead.

Lance wasn't notified that Rivers was astatine ample until June 28 and it wasn't until July 2 that a proceeding was hastily convened to fig retired what had happened. By past it was excessively late.

At 4:01am that time Lance sewage an alert saying Lauren was disconnected from Life360, a telephone app that he and his woman Tamela, 55, utilized to support tabs connected her and their 3 different kids, Kylar 16, and twins Katelyn and Christian, 14.

Katelyn, who was staying complete astatine her large sister's Hattiesburg home, awoke to find nan beforehand doorway open, her animals successful nan gait and nan information camera tossed into a bush.

A time later constabulary traced Lauren's Chevy to an isolated cemetery extracurricular Gulfport wherever they located her assemblage successful nan back, wrapped successful sheets and trash bags.

Rivers fled into nan woods but nan shaven-haired brute – who claims to beryllium a US Marine Corps seasoned connected societal media - was tracked down astatine 11:30pm aft an almost nine-hour manhunt.

'We realized early connected that nan taxable still had his compartment telephone connected him,' Harrison County Sheriff Matt Haley said.

'So undercover officers were capable to, done matter message, person Rivers judge that he was corresponding pinch a friend, and we were capable to lure him retired of nan woods.'

Rivers was booked into nan Harrison County jailhouse astatine 1am Thursday, wherever he remains connected a $1million bond, charged pinch murder.

'It each came to a caput because of this caller tribunal date,' Lance told DailyMail.com.

'He knew they were going to propulsion him backmost successful jailhouse for violating nan bid and he wouldn't get retired for nan adjacent 20 years. He had thing to suffer truthful he came for her.'

Lance helped nan coroner region his daughter's shattered assemblage from nan backmost of her car.

He doesn't person an charismatic people of decease yet but says, arsenic an knowledgeable physician, he doesn't request 1 to cognize she was savagely beaten, mutilated and made to suffer.

'My girl was a wonderful, benignant person. She had truthful overmuch compassion and emotion for others, location wasn't a mean bony successful her body,' he added.

'All I tin do to grant her representation is effort and extremity this happening to personification else's girl aliases granddaughter. Lauren would person hated that much than anything.'

Lauren's ceremonial will return spot Saturday. 

Mourners tin donate to nan family's GoFundMe page here.