More than five years after his violent death, a federal grand jury is at last investigating the murder of Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Luna, according to a letter from the Lancaster County PA district attorney’s office.
Luna vanished from his desk at the Baltimore federal courthouse shortly before midnight on December 3, 2003. His body was found face down in a Lancaster County PA stream the next morning, covered in stab wounds.
During the administration of former President George W. Bush, the U.S. Justice Department hinted that Luna committed a far-fetched suicide. Luna was said to have driven himself across four states in a wildly improbable midnight ride, supposedly stabbing himself dozens of times before throwing himself into an icy stream.
The press, the public, and Luna’s friends and family, were repeatedly told by FBI agents that the case was closed, and that the murder was a suicide, or a matter involving Luna’s personal life, and so was not subject to federal investigation. All along, the Lancaster County coroner’s office ruled the death a homicide.
The good news is that the Obama Justice Department appears to be taking Luna’s murder very seriously.
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