Sun coverage: The death of Jonathan Luna
Jonathan P. Luna
November 30, 2008
5 years later, prosecutor's death still a mystery
In the early-morning darkness of Dec. 4, 2003, a drilling company employee spotted something red glowing a short distance from his rural Pennsylvania office and swung his car around to investigate.
August 18, 2004
Luna reportedly feared losing job, hired lawyer
Shortly before his body was found in a Pennsylvania field, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan P. Luna was worried about being fired and had asked an experienced former federal prosecutor to represent him in job-related legal matters, sources familiar with Luna and the prosecutor's office said.
February 13, 2004
Search uncovers Luna's penknife
Authorities probing the mysterious death of Baltimore federal prosecutor Jonathan P. Luna now think the young lawyer likely suffered from stab wounds inflicted with his own pocketknife and are re-examining financial records that may shed more light on the final months of Luna's life.
January 23, 2004
Official declines to elaborate on Luna investigation
Maryland U.S. Attorney Thomas M. DiBiagio praised the way attorneys and other employees in his office have dealt with the killing of colleague Jonathan P. Luna but refused at a news conference yesterday to comment further on the nearly 2-month-old investigation.
January 9, 2004
Probe in killing of prosecutor Luna stalls
From its grim beginning in a rural Pennsylvania field five weeks ago, the mystery of who killed Baltimore federal prosecutor Jonathan P. Luna has only deepened as initially promising leads have soured and potential evidence troves have failed to identify a suspect.
December 17, 2003
Blood found on slain prosecutor's Pa. toll ticket
Authorities have found blood on the Pennsylvania Turnpike toll ticket that was turned in at rural Ephrata, Pa., when federal prosecutor Jonathan P. Luna's car exited the highway on the night he was killed, according to two law enforcement sources.
December 12, 2003
Blood of second person in car
Authorities investigating the slaying of federal prosecutor Jonathan P. Luna found blood from a second person, possibly Luna's attacker, inside his car, a law enforcement official said yesterday as authorities compiled a more detailed picture of the lawyer's last hours.
December 11, 2003
Luna parents wait, hope for word on son's killer
All Paul and Rosezella Luna can do now is wait.
December 10, 2003
Missing money noted in probe
As investigators try to solve the slaying of a Baltimore federal prosecutor, they are taking a second look at another mystery: the disappearance of about $36,000 in cash introduced as evidence in a bank robbery trial the lawyer prosecuted last year.
December 9, 2003
Slain prosecutor's relationships with women examined
Authorities working to solve the mysterious slaying of a Baltimore federal prosecutor are examining his personal relationships with women and possible financial and work-related problems, a law enforcement official said yesterday.
December 8, 2003
Decision in slaying probe set for today
Authorities probing the slaying of a Baltimore federal prosecutor are expected to decide the future course of the investigation today and could announce that it will be pursued as a local murder case in the Pennsylvania county where his body was found, not as a federal crime.
December 7, 2003
Police widen slaying probe
Investigators piecing together the mystery of why a Baltimore federal prosecutor was left stabbed and drowned in a rural Pennsylvania creek sought information yesterday about the lawyer's friends and have questioned hotel operators near the crime scene about possible suspicious activity on the night he disappeared.
December 6, 2003
Personal motive suspected in killing of U.S. prosecutor
Investigators probing the death of a federal prosecutor from Baltimore whose battered body was found repeatedly stabbed and dumped in a Pennsylvania creek suspect the killing was the result of a personal relationship that turned violent and was not linked to his work, a law enforcement official said yesterday.
December 6, 2003
U.S. prosecutor's slaying shocks Pa. community
BRECKNOCK TOWNSHIP, Pa. - The unsolved mystery of yesterday afternoon involved nothing more sinister than a mangled mailbox, and it didn't take long for local authorities to finger the chief suspect: a county snowplow.
December 5, 2003
Prosecutor of drug case found killed
A federal prosecutor who disappeared as he was preparing to conclude a drug case against a would-be Baltimore rap artist and another man was found beaten, stabbed and shot in rural Pennsylvania yesterday, and top federal officials vowed to track down his killer.
E-mail
Twitter
Facebook
Home Delivery
