Ep 08: Lavena Johnson was just a few days shy of her 20th birthday when her body was found lifeless in a tent on a U.S. military base in Iraq. Her death was quickly ruled a suicide by army investigators, however it didn’t take long for questions to arise. 

Was this a case of suicide? Murder? 

A systematic cover-up by the U.S. military?

More than a decade later, questions still linger …

Sources Cited for this episode:

Democracy Now, Huffington Post, NPR, The Silent Truth, LavenaJohnson.com, St. Louis Public Radio

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Keywords: United States Army, Mysterious Death, Suicide, Cover-up, Iraq, Balad, Department of Defense, John and Linda Johnson 

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