I was just casually scrolling through Facebook when I saw this murder documentary about LaVena Johnson, it really triggers me so i want to share it with you guy. Let me know your thoughts after reading this!
LaVena Johnson was born on July 27, 1985, in Missouri. Well, basically the whole johnson family grew up in Missouri, US. In highschool, LaVena was actually an honor student and after highschool she joined the military for her college fees. Let's fast-forward to 2005, LaVena was stationed in Iraq and she was actually a private first class in United States Army, at this point she had been in Iraq for like 7 to 8 weeks. She would call home pretty often because she was stationed in the communication building so she was actually with the telephone all the time. Her parents said that she doesn't give the impression that she wasn't doing well so they thought that she was really doing fine, they weren't worried in short. But LaVena actually mentions that there's some disrespect happening.
Let's move on, on July 14, 2005, she called home or LaVena called home and just talk to her dad about her day, she said that she was locking up the communication building where she was stationed just like she always would but that night the soldiers were actually inside, she told them that they need to get out because she had to lock the communication building but the soldiers didn't listen. Well, basically the general saw them so the general approach LaVena and the soldiers and he ended up having to kick the soldiers out. the general didn't get upset with the soldiers instead he got upset with LaVena, the general's reason is that because she wasn't being stern enough. Her dad got really upset when he heard what LaVena said and he said that the General shouldn't be speaking like that to a Private first class.
Her that got worried, he said that she needs to have a battle buddy, you know the one that she can really rely on and the one that she could trust. But basically, she said that she could do it alone that she didn't wanna ask for help.
Maybe the reason that she doesn't want to speak up is that because recently LaVena was sexually assaulted and she was also being treated for an STD but her family or the Johnsons family didn't know that, well because LaVena didn't speak up obviously. There were no documents like nothing was showing at all that anything really happened.
Obviously, something was really going on, right? I mean she didn't feel safe or even ask for help. Three days following that last phone call with her father, she called home and she said that she might come home earlier than you know than they expected. she said that she would come home around Christmas and that they shouldn't decorate the Christmas tree because that was something she really enjoys and she wants to decorate it with them, with her family.
Sadly, that was the last time the family spoke to LaVena.
A couple of days after LaVena called, the johnson family got a knock on the door, they open it and they saw that it was a soldier. He said that he came to tell that LaVena had died.
LaVena wasn't actually in active combat so that's really confusing because how could she die if she wasn't active in combat. The Johnson family kept asking for details, the soldier who was at their home accidentally slipped and he said that LaVena took her own life. The following day, the family got a phone call which is like gonna better explain what really happened to LaVena. LaVena's mother and father felt really devastated like they are so heartbroken, the mothers show her emotion you know she cried and cried while LaVena's father didn't show his emotion, he just stays calm even though it's actually dying inside. He gets to the phone and asks what did really happened because he doesn't believe that his daughter took her own life.
On the phone, they explain that she had her normal day you know at the communication office working, doing her thing and stuff. She got off at 5 pm, she would lock up the building and from the communication building, she would walk to her physical training. She was actually found wearing her physical training clothes so they automatically assumed that she was on her way to physical training. The guy on the phone, they told him "she didn't show up in her physical training and somebody was looking for her but she was nowhere to be found." Later on, LaVena was found in the contractor's room, she was laying on her back in a pool of blood and her arms covering her face, and on her right side is a pile of burned papers, why is their a burned paper?
I don't know, maybe they were trying to burn her body or trying to hide some evidence.
On her right side, there was a green cot, if you're wondering what is a cot well basically it is a folding bed or a camp bed. Anyways, on the other side of the cot they found an M16 rifle and it looks like this
I know what your thinking, if she's trying to kill her self how come that the rifle was on the other side of the cot? it doesn't make sense right.? Before they sent back LaVena's body the armies did some autopsy and they said that it was suicide. They said that she took notes for her boyfriend that she's dating for about six months I think she then lit them on fire and she took the rifle and shot herself. When LaVena's body had come back home, the army recommended that they pick a closed casket because of how bad LaVena's body, well basically her parents didn't agree. LaVena's father notice that her face was in pristine condition, he also notices that there's a bunch of small cuts and bruises around LaVena's face and lip and the only sign that she died because of a gunshot wound was because she had a bullet wound on her head, or on the left side of her head to be exact. First of all, it was so small. Second, it was on the left side of her head and she's right-handed so how did she shot herself? the position doesn't make any sense right.?
LaVena's father knew what an M16 wound would look like, and he knew that the wound in her daughter's head was not from an M16 gun. I mean look at this
I mean, the M16's bullet is 3 inches long so how come that the bullet wound from LaVena's head is from an M16?
Right away LaVena's father knew that it's from a nine-millimeter gun but there was nothing about the nine-millimeter gun on the report.
But that's not all, there's more when they got her body and they opened the casket they immediately notice that the gloves that LaVena was wearing are glued to her hands. Her family knew that LaVena didn't commit suicide, I mean all of that was actually kinda sus. LaVena's father didn't let it slide, he called a private investigator to take over the case obviously. The family actually receives some documents and those documents contain some crime scene pictures or images but those images had so the lowest quality, all you can see is a shadow but even from that, they could tell that it doesn't really make sense. Another thing in the documents is that there was no gun powder on LaVena's hands. There was actually a witness report and they said that LaVena was rape and that she was also being treated for a Sexually transmitted disease or STD. In the documents that they receive there was actually a random page and it was a xerox copy of a CD-ROM, LaVena's family believe that it was a clue or a hint that somebody left in there, LaVena's father wants to see the real copy of that CD- ROM but the army said that they couldn't release it because there's a name on it and it's for privacy, LaVena's father said that he now he wants to see the CD-ROM even more, but the army didn't give it and they said that if you want It you have to get a lawyer, so the Johnson family ended up going to the congressman Lacy Clay.
Two years later, they finally get the CD-ROM, imagine, TWO YEARS LATER. The CD-ROME contains the original pictures of the crime scene, these photos were proof that she didn't commit suicide which her father already knew. In the images, you could see on LaVena's body that she has bruises and cut like she was hit by an object or something, even her elbow popped out of place and on her backside, it was covered by debris, mud, and dirt like she had been drag by someone. There was actually an image of her, where she was fully undressed, and if that's not bad for you I don't know what is. But that's not all, there was acid poured over her lower body like they were trying to get rid of evidence or DNA and stuff. The US army was like, na-uh, the case was closed and it said that it was a suicide, we are not reopening it. LaVena's family tried their best and they still trying but I don't know if they had closure on what did really happened to LaVena but I really hope that they did.
Honestly though, it was pretty obvious that it wasn't a suicide and that someone was like trying to cover up what really happened, and I am really disappointed in those people who did that to LaVena, if they were really the army, they don't deserve to be the army. People like that don't deserve to be in an army.
So that's all! this is pretty long and my fingers hurt lol but it's actually worth it, I think. I hope you guys enjoyed it and tell me your thoughts, bye!
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I don't know how they manage to do this kind of things.