Track 90: LaVena Johnson

It's the Mystery for Me (A True Crime Podcast)

Priscilla and Norma

Crime, Society & Culture, Missing People, Unsolved, Murders, News, Black True Crime, Mystery, True Crime

4.5 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In 2005, LaVena Johnson, 19, was in the midst of an active tour in Iraq. Just two years prior, she had decided to follow in her father’s footsteps by enlisting in the U.S. army—a dream that became her own. Flash forward to July 2005, LaVena had only been deployed for six weeks in Iraq when things suddenly took a turn. What came next were a series of conflicting stories and details about her time in the U.S. army. So, will the truth be revealed? For a list of sources from today's e...

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0:00.0	Views and opinions expressed by the hosts are their own, and do not necessarily reflect those of their employers.
0:06.2	This podcast may not be suitable for children.
0:09.0	Adults may find details triggering and or offensive.
0:12.3	Listeners' discretion is advised.
0:14.9	Hello, everyone.
0:16.0	This is Priscilla.
0:17.2	And this is Norma.
0:18.3	And you're listening to.
0:19.7	It's a mystery for me to It's the mystery for me
0:21.2	It's the mystery for me. Hi everyone and welcome back to It's the Mystery for me.
1:00.6	It's 2024 and we're finally back with an episode.
1:05.1	Yait us.
1:06.3	Insert claps in the background.
1:08.6	Right.
1:09.8	We needed to take a little break or, I mean, it's really me who
1:14.1	needed to take the break. There's just a lot going on with adulting, with working. If you don't know,
1:20.1	I work a full-time job outside of here, and it just got really, really busy in the last few months because I went from being a third year
1:30.2	to a fourth year associate, which meant that I was in more of a manager position.
1:34.6	It just felt sometimes like I didn't have enough time in the day to even think.
1:39.0	It was just, it's a lot.
1:40.4	Adulting is not easy, but 2024 is about finding a work-life balance. And part of that was me
1:47.0	asking myself if I wanted to continue with the podcast. I started doing the podcast because
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