 Rivers was in custody at the Davidson County Jail for beating and kidnapping Johansen back in December of last year. In a conversation with a Nashville news outlet, a county official admitted that they signed off on a document that allowed Rivers to leave jail without ensuring he had the proper ankle monitor. An employee with the county clerk's office overlooked a significant part of Rivers' release that allowed him to return to Mississippi to allegedly kill the victim when he was supposed to stay in Tennessee.