{"id":7031,"date":"2020-11-03T06:20:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T06:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=7031"},"modified":"2020-11-03T14:49:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T14:49:28","slug":"death-of-lavena-johnson-july-19-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/death-of-lavena-johnson-july-19-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of LaVena Johnson, July 19, 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>LaVena Lynn Johnson (July 27, 1985 \u2013 July 19, 2005) was an E3 in the United States Army. She was found dead in her tent. Her death was controversially ruled as a suicide but the evidence of rape and battery led many to believe the United States Department of Defense covered it up.<\/p>\n<p>Below, you will find the documents that have released thus far.<\/p>\n<h3>Document Archive<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents2.theblackvault.com\/documents\/army\/LaVenaJohnson-ReportOfCasualty.pdf\">Report of Casualty, 15 March 2006<\/a> [3 Pages, 1.7MB]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents2.theblackvault.com\/documents\/army\/LaVenaJohnson-USACIC1.pdf\">U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command Report, Released January 25, 2019<\/a>\u00a0[318 Pages, 103.9MB]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents2.theblackvault.com\/documents\/army\/OTJAG-LaVenaJohnson.pdf\">U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Documents, Released November 2, 2020<\/a> [16 Pages, 3.5MB]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background LaVena Lynn Johnson (July 27, 1985 \u2013 July 19, 2005) was an E3 in the United States Army. She was found dead in her tent. Her death was controversially ruled as a suicide but the evidence of rape and battery led many to believe the United States Department of Defense covered it up. Below,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[187,1275,1276],"class_list":{"0":"post-7031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-controversies","8":"tag-controversial","9":"tag-lavena-johnson","10":"tag-suicide"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/6-9-2020-8-23-23-AM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}