When a Missouri honor student decides to follow in her father’s footsteps by joining the Army after highschool, she’s soon deployed to Iraq, where her life ends under unthinkable circumstances. After receiving contradictory information regarding his daughter’s death, her father—a doctor of behavioral psychology—attempts to piece together what really happened in this episode of Last Seen Alive.
LaVena Johnson was 19-years-old when she was last seen alive in Balud, Iraq on July 19th, 2005.Pictured Army investigators’ sketch of the death scene.LaVena was enthusiastically anticipating celebrating the winter holidays with her family in Missouri when she died under mysterious circumstances in July of 2005.Pictured: LaVena’s Army-issued M16.Pictured: the contractor’s tent were LaVena was found deceased.Although she was an honor student, LaVena chose to follow in her father’s footsteps by joining the Army immediately after high school. Pictured: LaVena (left) and her father, Dr Johnson (right).Pictured: the contractors’ tent inside of which LaVena was found deceased.Army Report of Casualty 1/2: LaVena Johnson.Army Report of Casualty 2/2: LaVena Johnson.Pictured: LaVEna’s
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