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CONSPIRACY: Jonathan Luna

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True Crime

4.7352.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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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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0:00.0

Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers.

0:04.0

And the story I have for you today is about a successful man found dead miles away from

0:08.7

his home in the middle of the night. The investigation seemed cut and dry at first.

0:13.5

That is until rumors sparked by the very agencies investigating his death turned the whole

0:19.6

case on its head. This is the story of Jonathan Luna.

0:49.6

It's between 5 and 6 a.m. on Thursday, December 4, 2003, and two employees of a well-drilling

1:03.6

company in Denver, Pennsylvania are getting ready to start their day when they notice a red

1:07.6

light shining through the darkness down the road. The area they're in isn't super well lit,

1:12.7

so it stands out like a beacon. It's actually so unusual that they decide to walk over and

1:18.1

check it out. As they're approaching, they see that it's coming from the dashboard of a silver

1:23.7

Honda Accord that's like teetering on the edge of this four-foot embankment that slopes down into

1:30.2

a creek. The car is still running, and even though it's dark, it doesn't appear to be damaged,

1:35.8

at least at first. So they assume that maybe like a drunk driver, just like spun out of control

1:41.1

or whatever. And it's kind of a logical assumption because the area they're in is somewhat remote,

1:46.2

and the road has like all these twists and turns, so if you don't know it well, and again,

1:51.2

it's dark and you're impaired, you easily could lose control and run off the road. Again,

1:56.1

especially if you're intoxicated. So thinking that a person might still be inside and might need

2:01.9

help, they keep approaching the car. But there is no one in the front seat. Just blood.

2:08.4

That's when they call the police and two state troopers respond. The troopers are kind of like

2:14.0

scoping out the car, trying to determine what happened here, where the driver could be.

2:18.3

And that's when they happen to look over the edge of that embankment. And there,

2:23.0

face down in a stream is the body of a man. The man is fully clothed,

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