CONSPIRACY: Jonathan Luna
When federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna was found face-down in a creek with multiple stab wounds, homicide seemed like the obvious answer. Over time, though, public officials started to pose a different theory: that he took his own life. But for those who knew Jonathan, that wasn’t an option – and the more they learned about the circumstances surrounding his death, the more they started to wonder if it was being covered up by those in charge.
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Jonathan’s approximated route after leaving the Courthouse on December 3rd, 2003.
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Episode Source Material
- LNP (Lancaster, PA): U.S. prosecutor found slain in stream near Brecknock Township business, by Carrie Caldwell and Larry Alexander.
- LNP (Lancaster, PA): Police search here all night for clues after federal prosecutor’s body found.
- CNN: Sources: Slain prosecutor was tortured.
- LNP (Lancaster, PA): Prosecutor suffered a grisly death: Stabbed 36 times with small knife, drowned, by Brett Lovelace.
- The Times-Tribune (Scranton, PA): Coroner: Killer ‘brutalized’ prosecutor, by Brian Witte.
- LNP (Lancaster, PA): Officials are expected to decide who will head investigation into slaying of federal prosecutor, by Brett Lovelace.
- LNP (Lancaster, PA): Sources: Prosecutor’s killing was ‘personal,’ had nothing to do with Maryland drug case, by Chris Foehlinger.
- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD): Slain prosecutor’s relationships with women examined, by Gail Gibson.
- LNP (Lancaster, PA): Did Luna rendezvous with his attackers?, by Tom Murse.
- LNP (Lancaster, PA): Prosecutor’s personal life examined, by Brett Lovelace.
- The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.): Luna’s Three-State Car Trip A Mystery to Investigators, by Susan Levine, Fredrick Kunkle, and Allan Lengel.
- LNP (Lancaster, PA): Very quietly, investigation continues in Luna killing, by Gil Smart And Jon Rutter.
- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD): Probe in killing of prosecutor Luna stalls, by Gail Gibson and Lynn Anderson.
- Lancaster New Era (Lancaster, PA): Knife found at site of prosecutor’s death.
- LNP (Lancaster, PA): Officials here say Luna case no suicide, by Brett Lovelace.
- The New York Times: 3 Theories Cited in Death of Federal Prosecutor, by James Dao.
- Lancaster New Era (Lancaster, PA): Police leave open possibility Luna killed himself, by Staff and Wire Reports.
- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD): Luna reportedly feared losing job, hired lawyer, by Stephanie Hanes.
- The Morning Call (Allentown, PA): FBI says it found no evidence slain prosecutor met with anyone, by Brian Witte.
- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA): Still no motive, no suspect 1 year later, by Jeff Shields and Oliver Prichard.
- LNP (Lancaster, PA): Luna reportedly was facing lie-detector test at time of death, Prosecutor was to be questioned about $36,000 in missing evidence, Washington Post reports., by Tom Murse.
- LNP (Lancaster, PA): The curious case of Jonathan Luna, by Helen Colwell Adams.
- LNP (Lancaster, PA): Book update tells of wounds to back, hands of assistant U.S. attorney found dead in 2003, by Helen Colwell Adams.
- LNP (Lancaster, PA): Who killed Jonathan Luna? A decade later, federal prosecutor’s slaying remains unsolved, by Gil Smart.
- The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.): A decade later, prosecutor Luna’s death still a mystery, by Cheryl W. Thompson.
- Fox 43 (York, PA): Private investigator in Jonathan Luna murder reveals new information on 16 year cold case, by Jossie Carbonare.
- WGAL News 8 (Lancaster, PA): York County private detective aims to solve mystery surrounding 2003 death of Jonathan Luna, by Anne Shannon.
- LNP (Lancaster, PA): FBI, Pa. state police are investigating 17-year-old murder mystery of Jonathan Luna, trooper says, by Gillian McGoldrick.
- LNP (Lancaster, PA): Lancaster County judge rules Luna autopsy records in 2003 unsolved death will stay sealed, by Dan Nephin.
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