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Feb 2020
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Lavena Johnson

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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 lat ... Show More
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