Jonathan Luna: Last Exit

Cold Case Murder Mysteries

True Crime

3.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

At 11:38pm on the night of December 3, 2003, Assistant US Attorney Jonathan Luna disappeared from his desk at the Baltimore federal courthouse, leaving behind his cell phone and glasses he needed for driving. Moments later, security footage captured his vehicle leaving the parking garage, at which point it embarked on a strange 5-hour journey that seemed to have no clear destination. By 5:30am, however, Jonathan Luna was dead. 15 years later, we still have no answers about what really happened that night inside his car. Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological exploration of this baffling case in an effort to uncover the truth about one question: suicide ... or murder?

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host Ryan Kraus
0:10.5	emerging from the darkness once again to take you inside the enigma known as the 2003 death of 38-year-old assistant U.S. attorney Jonathan Luna, who was found face down in a shallow stream underneath his car and with at least 36 puncture wounds on his body that were delivered by his own penknife.
0:31.0	It's a baffling case, one where nothing is certain except mystery and this question.
0:37.0	Suicide or murder.
0:41.0	We're going to examine the circumstances, including the legal issues preceding the event that many people believe precipitated this man's untimely death.
0:49.0	But first I want to run down the facts regarding what transpired on that fateful night of December 3rd, 2003, leading into the early morning hours of December 4th, when Jonathan Luna's body was found behind the Sensenigan Weaver Well Drilling Company.
1:05.0	Now, on that particular evening, December 3rd, Luna is at his office in the Baltimore
1:10.9	Maryland courthouse, attempting to craft a plea deal prior to the next
1:14.8	day's proceedings in a drug conspiracy trial involving two men he's supposed to prosecute.
1:20.9	Due to complications we'll discuss later, he's forced to offer each of them a deal instead
1:26.0	and subsequently finds himself stuck at the office struggling in an effort to put the logistics on paper.
1:32.0	Around 11 PM, Lunar Rock an effort to put the logistics on paper.
1:33.0	Around 11 p.m.
1:34.6	Luna receives a call from his wife and tells her he's left the office but that he has to go
1:39.8	back.
1:41.0	At 11.38 p.m. security footage at the courthouse garage shows his Honda Accord leaving.
1:47.0	There are no obvious signs of distress, yet Luna leaves his cell phone and glasses on his desk in his wake.
1:54.0	Indications are that he needed the glasses for driving.
1:58.0	From there, Luna gets on Interstate 95 and drives north,
2:02.0	eventually using his easy pass to pay the tolls at the first
2:06.1	three interchanges before deciding to use paper tickets instead.
2:10.9	At 1257 a.m. he stops to use an ATM at JFK Plaza near Newark, Delaware and withdraws $200 cash.
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