When a federal prosecuting attorney working in Baltimore is found dead hours away in the heart of idyllic Amish country, questions abound.

Local police and the FBI disagree over whether his death is a homicide or a supremely strange suicide in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive. I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day, and true crime

storyteller by night. I'm your co-host, Scott. Jonathan Luna was last seen alive on the night of

December 3rd, 2003 at his office in Baltimore, Maryland. As a federal prosecuting attorney, Jonathan

often worked long hours

piecing together cases and polishing them for court. It was a demanding job, but also a rewarding

one that Jonathan was ardently passionate about. It was all worth it whenever his hard work

culminated in the successful prosecution of serious, often dangerous criminals.

And in Baltimore, there's plenty of work for him to do.

Yeah, high crime rates, a lot of work for sure.

And, for example, among other criminals, Jonathan prosecuted some of the lowest forms of

life, child sexual predators and producers of child pornography.

According to the Baltimore Sun, in 2003, just months prior to his death, his

successful prosecution of one of these cases was recognized by his office as one of the most

significant prosecutions of 2003. That's impressive. Yeah, and unfortunately, Jonathan's vital

work may have contributed to his untimely and bizarre death at the age of just 38, a death that left his

young family stripped of his presence as a husband and loving father. But to truly put the intense

strangeness of his death into context, we need to go back in time to where it all started.

The Bronx, New York in the 1960s. Jonathan was raised in the Bronx by two hardworking parents.

His mother, Rosella, who'd been raised in the deep south, and his father, Paul, who also

hailed from far away, all away from the Philippines.

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