Jonathan P. Luna (October 21, 1965 - December 4, 2003) was an American lawyer who was found dead in a mysterious state in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania when he served as Assistant US Attorney in Baltimore, Maryland. Luna was stabbed 36 times with her own folding knife and then drowned in the river next to her car in the Lancaster County countryside. Investigations have proven to be inconclusive, and there is a debate about whether Luna's death is murder or suicide.
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Personal life
Luna was born on October 21, 1965, and grew up in the Patterson residential project near Yankee Stadium in South Bronx, New York City. His father was a Filipino, and his mother was an African-American from South America. Luna received her bachelor's degree from Fordham University. He then studied at North Carolina Law School, where he is a roommate with Reggie Shuford. He works at Arnold & amp; Porter in Washington, D.C. from 1993 to 1994 and the Federal Trade Commission from 1994 to 1997. Luna served as a prosecutor in the Brooklyn district of New York City before moving to Baltimore, Maryland to become an Assistant US Attorney. Luna married Angela Hopkins, an obstetrician, on August 29, 1993, and they had two children.
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Death
At 11:38 pm on the night he died, Luna left the Baltimore court building and went northeast on I-95. He uses his E-ZPass on I-95 to Delaware but not in New Jersey and Pennsylvania Turnpikes. After three trips, he turned to buy a toll ticket. At 12:57 pm, $ 200 is withdrawn from Luna's bank account from ATM at JFK Plaza service center near Newark, Delaware. At 02:47 he crossed the Delaware River toll bridge to the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and at 03:20 his debit card bought gas at the Sunoco King of Prussia service plaza.
At 4:04, his car pulled out of the highway at the Reading-Lancaster intersection. The toll ticket has his blood spot on it indicating that he has been injured. Her car was parked at the back of Sensenig & amp; Weaver Well Drilling Company at 1439 Dry Tavern Road, Denver, Pennsylvania (Brecknock Township) before being driven to the river.
At 5:00 am, the first employee of Sensenig & amp; Weaver arrived, and half an hour later at 5:30, the car was noticed, with the lights off and the front end to the river. Blood smeared over the driver's door and left front of the car. Luna is facing down in the river under a car engine. He was wearing a black suit and coat with a court ID on his neck. A lump of blood was found on the back floor of the chair. Although stabbed 36 times with his own folding knife around the chest and neck plus head injury, the death was due to drowning.
No suspects or murder motives are specified. The federal authorities (FBI) leaned to call it suicide and came to the conclusion he was alone since he left his office until his body was found, but the Lancaster County local authorities, including two consecutive coroners, ruled him homicide. Additional evidence collected during the investigation captured the second blood group and partial prints, as well as some rough footage from near the time of purchase of a gas station made with Luna's credit card in the Sunoco service plaza. The investigation is ongoing, and there is an unclaimed federal prize of $ 100,000 for information that leads to confidence.
Theory
Suicide
It was initially reported that Luna did not have the expected substantial defense wound in her hands and that many superficial wounds are called "hesitant" wounds in suicide victims. These claims were rejected by the coroner's office, stating that his hands were "shredded" and that he had significant cuts to the throat and scrotum. Some of the motives suggested for suicide are that Luna will take a polygraph test of $ 36,000 missing from the bank robbery case she has sued. Luna has a credit card unknown to his wife, Angela. His name is on an internet dating site and he has $ 25,000 credit card debt. There is also the unintentional theory of suicide that Luna fabricated kidnappings and attacks and she acted too far.
Murder
The Lancaster County coroner's office, which performed the autopsy, has made it clear that they decided Luna's death as a murder because of the nature and type of injury. Luna left her sunglasses, which she had to drive, and her cell phone on her desk. He had called a defense lawyer the night before to say he would send a fax through the documents that night but they never came. The pool of blood in the back seat will show Luna is behind and someone else is driving.
Checkout
In early February 2007, a private detective and a lawyer, both hired by the Luna family, petitioned a mandamus warrant to force the Lancaster County coroner to examine Luna's death, after a previous request was rejected.
See also
- Casefile True Crime Podcasts - Case 9
- Death of 2003
- Unsolved death list
- Thomas C. Wales
References
External links
- Casefile True Crime Podcast - Case 09: Jonathan Luna - March 5, 2016
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