Crime watch shows are one of my guilty pleasures. I watched a show on Lauren Agee's death and it infuriarated me that the police investigating her death, could be so stupid. In the past when there was more awareness about a case, cases were re-opened and even solved. Lets hope that happens with Laurens case.
Lauren was a beautiful and very outgoing 21 year old girl. On the weekend of July 25th to the 27th of 2015, she was attending Wakefest. Wakefest is a three day wakeboard competition and festival about two hours outside Nashville. Duriing the say, people drink and watch the wakeboard competition and at night they drink even more. It was supposed to be a fun weekend, but sadly she wouldn't make it. Lauren never lied to her mother about where she was going or who she was going with. Lauren said she was going to go with Hannah Palmer. Soon after Hannah and Lauren got to Wakefest, two men, Christopher Stout and Hannahs new boyfriend, Aaron Lily joined them.
According to a friend of Lauren's named Kassi, Lauren made it crystal clear that she wasn't romantically interested in Christopher. Kassi said she even acted like she was having to put up with him. And I dont blame her Christopher and Aaron both have a long history of violence and assault. Chris Yarchuck was working security for the event and said that he briefly talked to Lauren and her friends. Yarchuck said that Lauren was very outgoing while her friends were quiet and reserved. Yarchuck said he got nervous feeling as it was 2:30 in the morning and lauren and her friends were canoeing to a steep cliffside, as they planned to sleep there.
This cliffside is extremely steep and filled with trees, rocks, bushes, snakes, and ledges. It has a 90 feet drop on one side and a 45 feet drop on the other. There's only two ways to get off this cliff. Using a thin rope for assistance and going through a treacherous maze or hurling yourself off and hoping you miss the jagged rocks below the surface. Sleeping arrangements were hammocks strung with thin ropes between two trees. Two people for each hammock. Aaron and Hannah slept in one. Chris and Lauren in the other. Below, is the last picture of Lauren alive.
Hours later, two fisherman find Lauren's body hidden away in a cove. The two fisherman alerted authorities so at this point, only four people know there's a body back there. Before it is publicly announced that there's a body back there, something bizarre happens. One of the fisherman was quoted saying, "Aaron was in a canoe paddling over there and he says to me, 'That could be one of our friends over there,' and I think it's odd because we haven't publicly announced anything about a person in the water."
The last three people to see Lauren alive are briefly questioned and released. Authorities say she fell in the night and drowned in the water. Lauren's body shows something different happened. Her body was never swabbed for DNA, a rape kit was never done, her blood-alcohol level was twice the legal limit, there was no water in her lungs so she was dead before she got in the water, and she was floating face down in the lake. People who drown sink.
Cause of death was blunt-force trauma with possible drowning. Again, she didn't have water in her lungs. In addition to that, she has bruising on her thighs like someone was sitting on her, trauma to her head and her shoulders, a broken nose, hemorraghing in her throat (her eyes weren't bloodshot so she wasn't strangled), and broken fingers. While these are all consistent with someone falling, they are also consistent with someone fighting. The weirdest thing found on Lauren was an imprint on her abdomen of a 45 degree triangle. Anyone who has gone canoeing, knows that's the bow of a canoe. So someone took her body off of that cliffside and planted it in the cove.
Not only that, but the last three people to see her alive didn't grieve her death. Christopher Stout put on her instagram that it was, "the best weekend ever." Plus these people didn't go to her funeral. On top of that, their stories kept changing.
In an effort to get them to talk, Lauren's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit. Unfortunately, Chris, Hannah, and Aaron plead the fifth. In addition to that, someone has been posting downright nasty things about Lauren and false information about her death online, the IP address is the same street that Hannah and Aaron live on.
Chris, Aaron, and Hannah have never even been considered suspects in her death. Something definitely happened on the cliff and I hope her family gets the answers they deserve. The only way that will happen is that if it's re-opened and I dont see thst happening anytime soon.
My theory: there's no way that Lauren tripped and fell in the water. Even if she did injure herself, she would've been caught on some obstruction like a tree or a ledge since the cliffside had tons of those. And if Lauren did fall in the night than the right thing to do was to get help not hide the body. Christoper Stout tried to make a move on her earlier but she made it clear she wasn't interested. My theory is that he tried to make a move on her again, but this time it got violent. Chris has a history of assault, so it's definitely likely that he got violent when he didn't get what he wanted. Now, Lauren was on her period because she had a tampon in, so maybe Chris wanted her to give him oral sex? That would explain hemorrhaging on the throat and bruises on her thighs. Once things got out of hand and Lauren died, Hannah and Aaron helped cover it up.
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