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BALTIMORE -- There are new efforts to unravel the truth about Jonathan Luna, the federal prosecutor from Baltimore whose body was found in a shallow creek in Lancaster County, Pa., three and a half years ago. There has been a flurry of media attention on the case in recent months, rekindling the debate about whether Luna was the victim of a violent crime or whether he killed himself.

Investigators Hold Out Possibility of Suicide in Federal Prosecutor's Death Mar 12, 2004 By Brian Witte/ Associated Press Writer BALTIMORE (AP) - Investigators are exploring the possibility that the stabbing death of a federal prosecutor in December was a random act of violence or even a suicide, a police official said Friday. Steven McDaniel, troop commander for the Pennsylvania State Police, said at a news conference that investigators are looking at every possible scenario in the death of Jonathan Luna, a 38-year-old assistant U.S. attorney. Luna's body was found face-down in a creek near Lancaster, Pa., on Dec. 4. The...

BALTIMORE -- Investigators are exploring the possibility that the stabbing death of a federal prosecutor in December was a random act of violence or even a suicide, a police official said Friday. Steven McDaniel, troop commander for the Pennsylvania State Police, said at a news conference that investigators are looking at every possible scenario in the death of Jonathan Luna, a 38-year-old assistant U.S. attorney. Luna's body was found face-down in a creek near Lancaster, Pa., on Dec. 4. The married father of two had been stabbed 36 times with what was believed to be a penknife and was left...

BALTIMORE -- When Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Luna's sedan cruised through a toll booth the night he was killed, his E-ZPass card automatically billed him. More importantly, it left an electronic record of his travels for police investigating the crime. Millions of drivers now use electronic toll systems to pay for tolls without digging out cash, and investigators are increasingly using the electronic record they create as a crime fighting tool. The New York Thruway System has received 128 subpoenas from investigators since 1998, and has turned over records in response to 61 of them, said Terry O'Brien, a spokesman...

<p>December 11, 2003 -- Investigators picked up their first scent of Bronx-born federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna's killer yesterday when a gas station attendant on the Pennsylvania Turnpike reported that the slain lawman bought gas for two cars less than three hours before he died. On his roundabout trip from downtown Baltimore to Lancaster County, Pa., early last Thursday morning, Luna, 38, stopped at a Sunoco at the King of Prussia service plaza.</p>

<p>An FBI-led task force yesterday meticulously tracked the last moments of slain federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna, including the late-night journey from his office in Baltimore to the creek bed in Pennsylvania where he was found dead.</p> <p>Law enforcement authorities said Mr. Luna's car, a silver-colored 2003 Honda Accord, left the U.S. Attorney's Office in Baltimore about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday and traveled toward Philadelphia, passing through at least three EZ toll booths.</p>

<p>December 9, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - The genitals of Bronx-born federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna were beaten savagely before he died and his body was discovered in an area where people go for sexual trysts - suggesting his death may be a "crime of passion" - cops said yesterday. Investigators now say they are focusing on whether the 38-year-old, Baltimore-based assistant U.S. attorney and father of two had a secret life outside of his job and family - and whether a relationship in that secret life suddenly spun out of control and turned violent.</p>

<p>December 8, 2003 -- COLUMBIA, Md. - Investigators probing slain federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna's grisly death are zeroing in on the details of his personal life - including possible sex solicitations via the 'Net, mystery trips to Pennsylvania and a credit card his wife didn't know about. Law-enforcement officials familiar with the probe into the slaying of the Bronx-born assistant U.S. attorney said yesterday they are focusing increasingly on the theory that his murder was the result of a personal relationship gone awry, rather than a random robbery or something connected to his work as a drug prosecutor in Maryland.</p>

Investigators looking into the murder of Jonathan Luna have turned up startling information that even his own wife didn't know about. When the body of Jonathan Luna was discovered, the initial response was that the murder may have been at the hands of the criminals that he was prosecuting, an act of retaliation. But now the investigation has taken a completely different turn and is focusing on Luna's personal life. According to TIME Magazine the FBI has found messages posted on adult messaging sites placed by a Jonathan Luna seeking female sex partners. The body of the assistant attorney was...

Reuters Jonathan P. Luna, who was last seen alive leaving a garage. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 — Jonathan P. Luna, a federal prosecutor in Baltimore whose body was found in rural Pennsylvania on Thursday, was stabbed 36 times and may have been tortured before he was thrown into a creek to drown, officials said on Friday. Mr. Luna's body was discovered near the town of Ephrata, south of Reading, Pa., on Thursday morning, hours before he was scheduled to appear in court in Baltimore, 70 miles away, in the case of a rap artist and his associate accused of running a...

A murdered Bronx-born federal prosecutor was tortured with dozens of stabbings before drowning in an icy creek, the coroner said yesterday. The body of Jonathan Luna was discovered Thursday in a Pennsylvania creek near his 1999 Honda Accord. The door and fender of the car were smeared with blood, and there was a large pool of blood on the passenger-side floor, according to an affidavit filed by a Pennsylvania State Police investigator. Lancaster County coroner Dr. Barry Walp said Luna, a Baltimore federal prosecutor who had just completed a deal to send a pair of heroin dealers to prison, was...

<p>A federal prosecutor who failed to show up in a Baltimore courtroom to seal a plea deal in a drug conspiracy case against a local rap performer was found yesterday fatally shot and stabbed in Pennsylvania.</p> <p>Pennsylvania State Police found the body of Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan P. Luna at 5:30 a.m. in a stream bed about six miles northeast of Lancaster, Pa. Mr. Luna, 38, had suffered gunshot wounds and multiple stab wounds to the neck. His car was found nearby.</p>

A Bronx-born prosecutor was found slaughtered in Pennsylvania yesterday just as he was about to get two rappers to plead guilty to running a violent drug ring. The body of Baltimore Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Luna, 38, who once worked as a Brooklyn prosecutor, was found facedown in a watery ditch near Lancaster, Pa. He had been stabbed repeatedly, cops said. The slaying was uncovered hours after Baltimore authorities began searching for Luna when he failed to appear at the trial of Baltimore rapper Deon [Papi Jenkinz] Smith, 32, and his one-time associate Walter Poindexter, 28. Smith and Poindexter ran...

<p>An assistant U.S. attorney in Baltimore, Maryland, Jonathan P. Luna had been trying the case of a local rap artist facing drug conspiracy charges and had been expected in court Thursday morning.</p> <p>Authorities have not announced a connection between Luna's death and the drug trial.</p>

<p>BALTIMORE — The body of a federal prosecutor was found Thursday afternoon in a ditch outside Lancaster, Pa., and authorities believe he was murdered, law enforcement officials told Fox News.</p> <p>Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan P. Luna (search) failed to show up for the fourth day of a trial of a rap artist on a drug conspiracy charge, an FBI (search) spokesman said.</p>

Prosecutor didn't show up for the 4th day of a trial involving rap artists dealing drugs from their studio.