Reply #22: Here's another suspicious death of a service member in Iraq

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More details in the mysterious death of LaVena Johnson

UPDATE: Pfc. Johnson's death ruled a suicide by the Army. More here.

Norm Parish of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the primary reporter on the unexplained death in Iraq of Pfc. LaVena Johnson, has an additional piece in today's paper: LaVena's father suggests that his daughter's body shows evidence of a physical assault.

The father of Army Pfc. LaVena L. Johnson says his daughter had a disfigured lip, loose teeth and a wound on the left side of her head when he reviewed her body this week.

John Johnson said those discoveries are key reasons why he fears that foul play may have been involved in his 19-year-old daughter's death July 19 near Balad, Iraq.

http://www.waveflux.net/archives/001770.php

Now ruled suicide. I'm surprised they didn't say she was shot trying to escape.