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Levina Johnson was just a few days shy of her 20th birthday when her body was found

lifeless in a tent on a US 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 in fact

a suicide as the army quickly claimed? Or was this a murder with a systematic cover-up

by the US military? More than a decade later, questions still linger.

This is Episode 8, the Levina Johnson story.

Hi Megan. Hi Amy. How are you today? I'm good. I'm interested in your case. I'm very excited.

Do you know the case of Levina Johnson? I know exactly what you just said about it and very

little else. So I'm super I'm always super excited when I don't know the facts of a case.

Alright so let's jump into it. First let's talk about who Levina was and what led her to this

tent in Iraq where she was found dead. So Levina was born July 27, 1985. She grew up in a suburb

of St. Louis and she was part of a very close-knit family. In fact she was the fourth of five

children born to her parents Linda and John. John actually had spent time in the army. He did serve

for three years and then he worked for the army for 25 years. He had a doctorate in psychology.

Levina was an honor roll student. She was very involved in her church and various community

service projects and she aspired to become a movie producer. Very bright young girl had a lot

going for her. So after high school she quickly decided that she wanted to follow in her father's

footsteps and serve her country. Her parents were not thrilled about this but they let Levina have

her independence. Not only did she want to follow and like I said in her father's footsteps,

she wanted to go to college for free. Her parents said that you know they had five kids but the

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