By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on March 20, 2023 Army Private LaVena Johnson was only 19-years-old at the time of her...

Special Investigative Report By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on March 21, 2021 New Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd...

On July 19, 2005, Army Private First Class LaVena Johnson died on a military base in Balad, Iraq amidst mysterious circumstances. All of the physical and forensic evidence available to military investigators suggested she was murdered. However, these investigators shamelessly chose to disregard this glaring evidence and classified her death as a suicide. The totality of evidence surrounding Private Johnson’s execution-style murder strongly suggests that her killer was General

The military personnel involved in the cover-up of Army Private LaVena Johnson's 2005 murder never thought anyone would care enough about a 19-year-old low-ranking black soldier on a military base in Iraq to break this criminal case wide open. They were terribly wrong.