By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on December 29, 2022 An Editorial Opinion In my lifetime, I have seen horrendous acts of...

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

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on January 19, 2021 Happy New Year, everybody! Here are my top five projects for 2021: 1....

By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on January 6, 2021 Sixteen years after 19-year-old Army Private LaVena Johnson was...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on July 23, 2019 A friend called me three weeks ago with word he received from a source...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on July 20, 2019 State and federal agencies have used every resource at their disposal in...

Next to securing a full and complete pardon in 1976 for Clarence Norris (the last known surviving “Scottsboro Boy”), my work in solving Private Johnson’s murder has been the second most satisfying accomplishment in my 45-year legal career. When I read an article three years ago about Private Johnson’s tragic death, I immediately knew something was not right about the circumstances surrounding her death. To this day, no one has challenged the factual findings in my Private J

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.

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published (via Facebook) on January 31, 2016; Updated and Republished on February 24, 2018 Army...