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Podcast: Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast
Episode: PFC LaVena Johnson
Description: “Women serving in the U.S. military are more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire in Iraq.”On 19 July 2005, Private First Class LaVena Lynn Johnson was found dead in a contractor’s tent on an Army base in Balad, Iraq. The Army officially ruled her death a suicide, but when her father, Dr. John Johnson, saw LaVena’s body and spoke with the doctor who performed her autopsy, something didn’t quite add up. He started asking questions.What followed were years of administrative red tape and agonizing heartache for the Jo...