Tag Archives: Murder

Dark Secrets, Lavena Johnson’s Story Gets Some Coverage in Australia

Lavena John­son. I haven’t writ­ten of her case in some time because, des­pite all the con­gres­sio­nal hea­rings late last year on the issue of sexual assault in the mili­tary, her case has never been spe­ci­fi­cally addres­sed, and the case has yet to be reo­pe­ned. A new pre­si­dent was elec­ted, and so on and so forth.

Don’t Punish Me With Brutality

A dis­tur­bing pre­ce­dent con­cer­ning mur­der of the foreign born  —  there was no indi­ca­tion that those who beat Luis Rami­rez to death knew he was an undo­cu­men­ted immi­grant  —  has been set in Schuyl­kill County, Pennsyl­va­nia. Tee­na­gers Not Guilty in Fatal Bea­ting
A Mexi­can man named Luis Rami­rez was bea­ten to death by three young white men

Chandra Levy

April 30th 2001, before 9/11, nothing much to cover news wise, when 24 year old Chan­dra Levy a Washing­ton Intern disap­pea­red. There was a recent series on this, Who Killed Chan­dra Levy, in the Washing­ton Post, which spar­ked off memo­ries of this inci­dent. It occu­rred at the end of my sopho­more year in high school.

LaVena Johnson — redux

The the Sub­com­mit­tee on Natio­nal Secu­rity and Foreign Affairs did not hear the LaVena John­son case today at their Over­sight Hea­ring on Sexual Assault in the Mili­tary.
The transc­ripts of the mee­ting can be found at the sight.
The House Arms Ser­vi­ces com­mit­tee is revie­wing the case, but the Army con­si­ders the case clo­sed at this time.