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Jonathan Luna was a federal prosecutor, working on a plea agreement for the Smith-Poindexter case. On the night of December 3rd, 2003, his vehicle left the Baltimore courthouse at 11:38 PM. His body was discovered early the next morning, face-down in a creek with multiple stab wounds. Could this have something to do with his line of work? Perhaps this is a cover up. Some people believe he ended his own life, but others say this is an obvious homicide.
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RECAP of part 2: Warren Grace plead guilty to his crimes, as instructed and he was released on house arrest and allowed to be an FBI informant. He immediately broke every rule he was given and both his FBI handler, Agent Skinner and Jonathan Luna, were forced to cover for him over and over. The FBI was supplying him with money to purchase heroin from Walter Poindexter and Deon Smith at Stash House Records. Warren Grace was supposed to be wearing an ankle monitor, but he was slipping out of it and causing trouble around town. He was eventually caught and should have been sent back to prison, but the FBI got him out of this mess and had him officially released from his home confinement as well. The Smith and Poindexter trial began on December 1st, 2003, and Jonathan Luna was making several mistakes. He wasn’t acting like himself at all. He completely lost control of FBI informant Warren Grace during questioning and Judge Quarles suggested that he use incentives to get him back in line and court was adjourned for the day.
When they met back in court, Jonathan Luna was way off the mark again and the Judge was clearly upset and called him out for wasting his time. He threatened to talk to his boss about this, which certainly would be worst case scenario because Thomas DiBiagio had already made it clear that he wanted Jonathan Luna gone and he hired a lawyer to help keep his job. The judge wanted to see paperwork and he wanted everything documented. He wanted clear proof of things. He didn’t want Jonathan to stand up there and rattle off things from memory. The judge told Luna that he needed to check himself because the way he was doing things was completely unacceptable. It sounds like this isn’t the way Jonathan typically did things, so it makes me wonder if he was intentionally going off memory, rather than specific facts or documents to draw attention away from all the scandals in this case.
Court was adjourned again. It was Monday evening when Jonathan walked out of the courtroom, and he had less than 36 hours left to live. The next time they were in court, Jonathan began disclosing information that he had previously worked so hard to suppress. He asked FBI informant Warren Grace if he had ever violated the conditions of his plea agreement and he said yes. He asked him what he did to violate the conditions and Warren admitted, in front of the jury, that he took his ankle bracelet off so he could go to the gym, get food, ride around, or whatever else he needed to do. He wanted to disclose this to the jury, so it didn’t look like they had been hiding anything when it inevitably came out.
Jonathan also had him explain how he had been working with agents and purchasing heroin. Warren Grace said that his vehicle was searched every time by the agents and during one of the searches, the FBI found heroin in the celling flap in the front of his vehicle. He claimed that it was part of making it look like he was fully back on the streets, he had to keep up certain appearances. He had different guys that were in and out of his vehicle. He had to build up his street cred because there were already rumors that he was working with the police. He claimed that he later learned that a friend left the heroin in the vehicle. We went over this in part 1 of the story, the drugs were found in the vehicle on the very same day that the Dawson family was murdered, which means it was October 16th, 2002. When the judge asked Jonathan what date this incident occurred, he lied and said he couldn't recall, and he had Warren Grace say it was the summer of 2003 that the drugs were found.
This information had not been provided in the discovery and the defense attorneys were not pleased. Jonathan claimed that this information had been shown when the FBI showed Ken Ravenell (Deon Smith’s attorney) the heroin that was recovered from the vehicle, but he insisted that it never happened. Ravenell also discovered many discrepancies in the paperwork, and he drew the Judge's attention to this. He said he felt like a coverup was happening and he asked for a mistrial. The judge said he would sleep on it and get back to everyone with a decision in the morning. He was sick of having his time wasted, so he told everyone that if they showed up late to his courtroom, they would be fined $25.00
The next morning, at 9:30 AM, the courtroom was filled, but Jonathan Luna wasn’t there. He arrived several minutes late and he told the judge that he was at the hospital visiting his infant son. Judge Quarles fined him $25.00 I suppose he wasn’t only upset about him being late, several developments had also transpired overnight. Judge Quarles had arranged a meeting between defense attorneys and officials at Pretrial Services. At the meeting, Todd Stokes and Barbara Skidmore, of Pretrial Services, disclosed some information about the government’s handling of Warren Grace.
The Defense lawyers found out that the US attorney’s office, and the FBI, ignored all of the concerns from Pretrial Services and let Warren Grace run loose on the streets. Todd Stokes had initially followed the standard procedures when he sent a memo to the judge asking to return him to jail, but the FBI intervened. That’s when they made a comment that putting him back in jail would, “hurt the government’s case down the line.” That meant that the government was fully aware of what they were doing, and they knew it was wrong. There was proof in the documents that Jonathan Luna had been covering things up.
The Defense lawyers, Arcangelo Tuminelli (Too-min-ell-ee) who goes by Arcky (Ar-kee) and Ken Ravenell wanted a new trial. At this point, the judge could throw the whole case out all together and Smith and Poindexter could walk free due to all of the misconduct and conspiracies. It’s obviously a risk to the public to just have them out free, but it’s also a risk for the defendants as well. Defendants who ask for a mistrial, and have this granted, waive their rights to protection against double jeopardy. So, they could, and would, be tried again. Tuminelli officially withdrew Poindexter’s motion for a mistrial. In light of the scandal, he just wanted to have the case dismissed. He said that his schedule was very full in the coming months, so if they did a retrial, his client would have to sit in jail for another 6 to 9 months and that’s not a quick retrial. Besides, it was the government’s fault because they failed to disclose information. Ravenell also put in a request for his client to withdraw the motion for a mistrial but asked for the case to be thrown out.
Rather than a dismissal, the judge offered a brief recess to gather additional information. The defense lawyers requested that Warren Grace be isolated From Luna, Skinner and Moody since they seemed to have their hands in all of the scandals surrounding him. They requested that he be placed in the custody of US marshals. No more transporting him back and forth, no more deals. The defense lawyers had just learned about that secret conjugal visit that Warren Grace had with his lady, prior to testifying. Ultimately, Judge Quarles decided that he didn’t want to burden the marshals with this. Jonathan Luna chimed in at this point and decided to tell the judge that he had in fact given everything required to the Defense.
Instead of giving them a copy of the missing documents as required, he placed a whole box in front of them and said they could sift through it and compare with what they have, to see if anything had been left out. His shenanigans worked and court was back in session. The jurors were sent for a short recess and the judge informed FBI informant Warren Grace that defense lawyers would be interviewing him at some point during the trial and it would be an undecided place and an undecided time. He was not to have any further conversations with Agent Skinner, the other agents or officers, or Jonathan Luna.
Things were heating up in the courtroom on Jonathan Luna’s last day alive. Judge Quarles ordered an investigation into the FBI’s handling of Warren Grace, and he needed to announce a plea agreement that would put a stop to this. He knew what he needed to do, and he knew it wasn’t legal. They were getting ready to head into the weekend and it looked like it would be a long one. The Defense lawyers were getting snappier about the missing documents that Jonathan wasn’t providing them, and they planned to cross-examine Warren Grace that following Monday. Ken Ravenell asked the judge for a number that he could be reached at over the weekend so they could keep him updated on how things were progressing, but he said no, he didn’t intend to work over the weekend. The jurors were going to have Friday off and they would potentially get Monday as well, so they needed to get things figured out.
The defense wasn’t sure if they would be ready to go on Monday, so they wanted to contact a court clerk and have them call the jury members to delay things until Tuesday if need be, but the judge didn’t like this idea. The court clerk sent everyone to lunch and Jonathan Luna spent his last lunch hour, scrambling to cover up his conspiracy. Court reconvened from lunch at 2 PM and Jonathan Luna offered up a plea agreement to Smith and Poindexter. This deal would drastically cut their prison sentences. Smith would be facing about 10 years and Poindexter could be facing 15. Without the deal, they were both looking at as much as 60 years in prison.
It was a sweet deal. Sure, they had grounds for an appeal due to information about Warren Grace being withheld, but that doesn’t guarantee that Smith and Poindexter would win. This was something they had to take seriously. Poindexter also had the murder case hanging over him, it would be huge if they could remove time for both clients. Smith and Poindexter immediately accepted Jonathan’s plea offer, but there was a catch.
They wanted the plea agreement to resolve ALL outstanding issues. They wanted the government to drop charges against Walter Poindexter for the drug murder of Alvin Jones and Jonathan Luna knew he didn’t have the power to do that. He promised that he wouldn’t ask the judge to connect the murder to this case, but federal rules say that he must prosecute a drug-related murder charge.
Jonathan couldn’t have been in a tougher spot. He couldn’t give them what they wanted, but he NEEDED to give it to them because it was important for him to get this trial over with. If they made a deal, the trial would be over, and the jury would be sent home. There would be no examination of Warren Grace, and the conspiracy could be covered up.
Jonathan Luna announced to the judge that they had reached terms for a plea agreement that was acceptable to the defendants and the government. He said that he could lay the terms out verbally, but he felt that the government and counsel would prefer to reduce it to writing. Judge Quarles wasn’t buying it and he refused to send the jury home until it was all done. He told him to get it written down by 3:30 PM.
Arky Tuminelli chimed in to let the judge know that, “Mr. Luna has advised me that he will not at sentencing seek to have the court find that the murder was related to this case. I don’t know if he is going to be able to put that in a written agreement, for whatever reason.”
Ken Ravenell pointed out another issue. If Deon Smith was found to be an armed career offender, they might want to get out of the deal. If Deon Smith pleaded guilty for the agreement, he wanted to withdraw the plea if the judge issued him a long sentence, and this needed to be added to the agreement.
Judge Quarles announced that they would continue with the trial then. Jonathan Luna said no, he was going to take care of it. He had to find a way to get rid of evidence, so this didn’t look like a drug related murder or reek of a conspiracy. By the time court let out for the day, Jonathan had not completed the plea agreement and he had less than 12 hours left before his life was brutally ended. Jonathan Luna and defense attorneys Ken Ravenell and Arky Tuminelli left the courtroom and got in a heated argument over the plea agreement. It was so disruptive and loud that they were asked to go somewhere else.
At the meeting, Deon Smith agreed to plead guilty to one count of distribution of heroin and possession of a firearm for purposes of drug trafficking. Walter Poindexter agreed to plead guilty to three counts of heroin distribution. The conspiracy counts were going to be dropped against both. Arky Tuminelli demanded that as part of the deal, all charges for the murder of Alvin Jones would need to be dropped. Jonathan wasn’t sure how he could make this happen and at some point, that night, he went to an assistant US attorney to discuss the plea deal, but they do not have the power to approve or offer the deal, so it’s an interesting choice to talk to them.
The deal needs to be approved by higher ups and in many jurisdictions, that means the criminal chief approves the deals, but in other jurisdictions, it would be the US attorney. That means that his boss, Tom DiBiagio or his chief criminal prosecutor had to have been looped into the deal at some point that night. Jonathan Luna and Arky Tuminelli met with Assistant US attorney James Warick to get some advice and they were pretty vague about things, but finally, Warwick just flat out asked if there was any proof, or evidence that Alvin Jones’ murder was drug related. Could it be tied to the Stash House drug conspiracy?
If we’re being honest, the answer was definitely yes, but James Warwick also asked if Jonathan Luna had any proof that Walter Poindexter killed Alvin Jones in drug-related circumstances. There were reports submitted in the court documents, several witnesses, and interviews with Warren Grace that would all provide proof. Hell, the judge was even well aware of the drug-related murder, yet Jonathan looked at James Warwick and said he didn’t have any evidence. He told him that without evidence, it was possible to issue a plea agreement stating the murder would not be prosecuted. James Warwick even conferred with others in the US Attorneys office on this.
There you have it. If Jonathan Luna wanted to make this case disappear so there wasn’t an investigation into the mishandling of FBI informant Warren Grace, he would need to make sure some of the evidence went away so they could get this plea deal. Arky Tuminelli and Jonathan Luna needed the local prosecutor to agree to the deal. That night, they contacted head Baltimore homicide prosecutor, Assistant State Attorney Mark Cohen to ask him to sign off on the deal.
Mark Cohen agreed to drop the murder charges, but there was one condition. He wanted to get permission from Alvin Jones’ parents first. Jonathan went home for dinner that night and promised to head back to the office later to finalize the plea agreement in time for court the next morning.
He returned to the office around 8:48 PM. Attorney Tuminelli says his caller ID showed that Jonathan called him by cell at 9:06 PM. He said he had to go home again, but he would go back to the office to finish up. Jonathan told him that he had completed Deon Smith’s paperwork, but he still had to write Walter Poindexter’s, but he was unsure about the terms. He called Arky Tuminelli at home to discuss the details and he was going to fax the completed agreement to him sometime that night. They talked for about 5 to 10 minutes and Tuminelli never received that fax.
At 9:30 PM, Attorney Ken Ravenell says that Jonathan left him a voicemail saying he was working on the agreement, but he never received the fax that night either. It’s impossible to know exactly what Jonathan Luna was doing on his last night and there are a lot of questions surrounding the timeline. He told the defense lawyers he was going home, but he didn’t go right away. It seems that he stayed in his office for about two more hours. Perhaps he was working on that plea agreement? Or was he with someone else? We don’t have solid proof that he was alone that night.
Did he walk away from his desk on his own? Or did someone lure him out? One of the biggest mysteries is why he left his cell phone and glasses at his desk. To me, that sounds like he thought he was coming back or wouldn’t be gone from his desk long, or was brought out of the office by force.
The author of the book pointed out that there were security flaws in the building. There were about 175 employees working out of the federal building office. Nearly all drivers of delivery trucks, such as UPS, Fed EX, USPS, they all unload their trucks in the street and use a cart to deliver items into the building. The only one who doesn’t have to follow this procedure is the dry cleaning trucks that pick up the judge’s laundry. They are allowed to pull right up to the courthouse door. The security is described as relaxed for insiders. The security check, metal detector and sign-in sheet is only meant for strangers. Courthouse employees are often waved through the line and told to sign in later, so they can move people through quickly.
The author was told that several assistant US attorneys carry guns which they routinely check in when they enter the courthouse, but that’s of course, only if they’re asked to sign in that day. FBI agents who enter the courthouse do not need to sign in or out.
Per the Justice Department timeline, Jonathan Luna’s car was recorded leaving the courthouse’s parking garage at 11:38 PM. He walked out of his office, leaving an unfinished plea agreement that had to be ready by morning, and he left his phone and glasses behind. He drove his silver 2003 Honda Accord away from the parking garage. Was he meeting someone in the middle of the night? Was he in a hurry? Did he leave his phone so he wouldn’t be traced? It’s an interesting theory, but it wouldn’t explain the glasses. Did this have anything to do with the plea deal? That did seem to be the top priority that night.
He was worried about losing his job and even hired a lawyer to help him, so he obviously cared about staying employed. Deon Smith’s paperwork was completed and printed that night. Walter Poindexter’s paperwork contained typos, hand written-cross-outs, insertions and amendments that were directly lifted from a draft of Smith’s plea deal, and it was not completed. Jonathan Luna had already been fined $25 that morning in court for being late, so he certainly didn’t want to be late the next morning as well.
Is it possible that he didn’t finish Walter Poindexter’s plea agreement because he knew it was illegal? Is it possible that he didn’t want to go through with this anymore? Did he tell someone that night that he couldn’t do it? His friend Dan Rivera believes that he was intentionally and sneakily trying to expose the FBI and force the judge to do an investigation without making it look like he was doing that.
Jonathan had an EZ Pass in his vehicle, so he could quickly get through tollgates, bridges, or tunnels. After he left the parking garage that night, he used his EZ Pass, north on I-95, at the Fort McHenry Tunnel Toll Plaza, at 11:49 PM, which is about 10 minutes after he left the garage. He traveled along Kennedy Highway and arrived at another set of tollbooths, at Perryville, where I-95 crosses the Susquehanna (sus-qwa-hanna) River. He passed through the toll plaza at 12:28 AM and he passed through the state line toll booth at 12:46 AM, at Elkton, Maryland.
At 12:57, Jonathan Luna’s debit card was used at an ATM at the Kennedy Plaza rest stop. Two hundred dollars was withdrawn from his account. The video cameras in the lobby were not able to capture a usable image for this transaction. FBI agents in Delaware worked under the agent in charge of the Baltimore office. At the time of Jonatha’s disappearance, acting special agent in charge Jennifer Smith Love had been newly charged with overseeing FBI agents in Maryland and Delaware. What if he was meeting with an agent that night? According to the book, the rest stop that he stopped at, lies about halfway between Baltimore and Philadelphia. What if he was meeting someone halfway?
In the weeks leading up to the Smith-Poindexter trial, Jonathan had been driving to the Philadelphia federal detention facility to meet up with the witness, Warren Grace, so this wasn’t unfamiliar territory for him. Why withdraw $200 though? Does that mean he’s buying something? Or paying someone? Or was it someone else that pulled the money out?
Jonathan did not use the EZ Pass after this stop and the tolls were paid with cash. At least one turnpike ticket was taken and returned. He had already left his cell phone behind, maybe he really was worried about being traced and decided to use cash the rest of the time. But, if that was the case, that still doesn’t explain why he left his glasses behind, or why he would take out $200 which is of course, traceable.
On March 12th, 2004, the FBI released a timeline that lists the route they believe Jonathan took on the night of his death. At 2:37 AM, his car entered the New Jersey turnpike at exit 6A, on the east shore of the Delaware River, entering from Route 130, which runs along the eastern shore. This is located about one hour and forty minutes from the ATM where the money was withdrawn. This is not a direct route. Would there be a reason for that? Could that mean that the person driving his car would have been recognized by a local officer if they were seen?
New Jersey Route 130 is a back road that runs parallel to the very busy and heavily traveled New Jersey turnpike. It’s an industrial road that is known to locals, including local cops. This isn’t a road that outsiders would take. Jonathan Luna was a New Yorker and he would have no reason to know this road. The author of the book also points out that several federal law enforcement agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Agency, kept facilities near the Philadelphia airport, which is surrounded by stretches of warehouses and desolate roads. Why would Jonathan be there? Was he meeting with a federal agent, or an informant?
At 2:37, his car left Rt. 130 and entered the New Jersey turnpike, heading west, towards the Delaware River into Pennsylvania. After a 10-minute drive, his vehicle reached the Delaware River, just south of Trenton, and entered the Pennsylvania turnpike at 2:47 AM. At 3:20 AM, Jonathan’s debit card was used to buy gas at the Peter J. Camiel rest stop past King of Prussia (prushia), on the Pennsylvania turnpike. Somehow, the security cameras failed here too. Coincidence? Money had been withdrawn from the ATM earlier, so why did the card need to be used here?
Days after this incident, employees at the King of Prussia rest stop did talk to newspaper reporters and said that a man resembling Jonathan Luna came into the store and bought two drinks. A waitress at a restaurant off the Pennsylvania turnpike told reporters that he came into her restaurant early that morning. Jonathan’s car left the turnpike at Exit 286, at 4:04 AM. It’s about a 45 minute drive to the Rt. 222 exit from the King of Prussia turnpike plaza and the ticket given to the tollbooth collector was later found to have a small spot of Jonathan’s blood on it.
His car was abandoned about two miles from the turnpike exit, on state Route 897, which is a desolate area. Around 5:30 AM, Jonathan’s body was discovered near the turnpike exit, He was face down in a stream under the front of his idling car. He was fully dressed in his courtroom business suit, shirt and tie, overcoat and court shoes. He was wearing his magnetic courthouse ID badge on a necklace. The car had turned off Dry Tavern Road and went up the driveway belonging to the Sensenig and Weaver Well Drilling company.
Ron Weaver, one of the company owners, said that a streetlight had burned out on the back corner of the building parking lot. This area was normally lit, but on this night, it was dark. It was a cold morning, and the ground was covered in frost. Tire prints in the frost would show that Jonathan’s car was first parked behind the building in the dark, but that is not where his car or his body would later end up. The tracks show that his car left the back of the building and headed down the driveway toward the road, then it made a sharp left turn, leaving the driveway, and heading into the grass. The car drove a hundred or so feet across the lawn, before getting the front tires hung up on the embankment side of the creek. Blood was found smeared on the driver’s side door and front fender and Jonathan’s body was curled in the fetal position under his front bumper, face down, in the water.
An employee was just arriving to work that morning. Daniel Gehman arrived at 5 AM and made himself a cup of coffee. Around 5:30 AM, he went outside, into the back parking lot, to get the equipment ready for the day. He saw an odd red light glowing in the dark by the creek, so he pointed a drilling truck’s headlights in the direction of the glowing light, and he saw a vehicle on the edge of the narrow creek bed. Another employee was just arriving at this time and the two of them walked towards the car and saw blood smeared on the outside of it. The red light on the dashboard was glowing and a baby seat was in the back of the car, but it was empty. Daniel called 911 and the state troopers arrived around 5:45 AM and they believed this was a car accident.
This was a really strange spot to find a vehicle because the area was all farmland with wide open fields. They don’t get much traffic and it’s so remote that locals don’t even travel in those parts often. When the police noticed a body lying face down in the creek, in front of the car, they contacted Lancaster County Coroner Dr. Barry Walp and he arrived around 8 AM. He observed the scene, and it was not a car accident because there was a knife sticking out of Jonathan Luna’s neck. The silver Honda Accord was teetering on a creek’s 4-foot-high bank with its front wheels and engine compartment over the edge of a creek embankment on the Northern side of the company property. Blood was smeared on the driver’s side door and left front fender of the vehicle. There were numerous bills scattered throughout the interior of the vehicle and by bills, I mean money. The vehicle was running and there was no apparent damage to the interior or exterior of the vehicle, so it didn’t look like the car had been in an accident. Jonathan Luna was declared dead at the scene.
There was a large pool of blood on the right rear floor of the car and blood was smeared on the driver’s side door and left front fender. The blood had seeped through the front seat to the floor in the back. Cell phone equipment was inside the car and there was about $30 in bills lying around the inside of the car, but this was later reported as $200 according to the Washington Post. I do not believe the true amount has ever been released and my guess is they reported $200 because that’s how much was withdrawn from the ATM. Jonathan was wearing a North Carolina law school ring, decorated with scales of justice and his name was engraved on the side. I’m going to go through some of the wounds, but every single one of these is disputed. Both of his hands were badly lacerated, full of knife slashes. The deep cuts were between each of his fingers and there were cuts on the front and back of both hands. The cuts in between the fingers were so deep that the skin peeled away, and in some places, it was down to the bone.
He had been stabbed in the back several times and the wounds were in the middle of his back and near the shoulder blades. His neck was cut open on the right side and it went all the way around his throat. The slit to his throat was several inches deep in some spots. His scrotum had been slashed open. In total, he had 36 stab wounds, but many of the wounds were shallow. The autopsy report was sealed and this certainly didn’t help the rumor mill.
After Jonathan’s death, Baltimore Sun reporter Gail Gibson didn’t even skip a beat. He hadn’t even had his funeral yet, and this reporter jumped into action to write about money that had gone missing in 2002. This was one day after he had been found dead when the Baltimore Sun ran a story where Gail Gibson said that, “Authorities also were combing through Luna’s work files to determine whether the motive behind his killing could be found in any of the cases he was prosecuting. Late last year, Luna won convictions in a string of violent Baltimore County bank robberies in a curious trial that produced its own mystery: at the end of the trial, authorities discovered that more than $36,000 in cash disappeared somewhere between the courtroom and the government storage area used to hold evidence during trials. That case was never solved.”
Two days after his death, Time Magazine published a story called: Unnamed FBI sources. The article says, “FBI examination of internet postings found messages on adult sites placed by Jonathan Luna seeking female sex partners. Investigators found he had debt problems, including credit cards his wife did not know about.”
The article goes on to say that the FBI did an examination of internet postings where they found Jonathan Luna seeking female sex partners, but someone else could have posted them because there is another Jonathan Luna who is a convicted sex offender, but the FBI claims that it was signed with Jonathan’s three initials backwards. Why is the FBI releasing a story before they even have the facts? Are they intentionally trying to destroy his reputation? Are we honestly supposed to believe that a married attorney and prosecutor that is very well known in the public, would post his real name on a site to look for female partners? Sure, it’s possible, but it seems strange. The police did allegedly investigate this online dating profile and it was believed that this could have a possible connection to his death. The online post was 6 years prior to his death. Yes, he was married at that time, but we still don’t know if he posted this. This was in 2003 though. How do we still not know if this was his profile or not?
Another story was released soon after this that suggested that Jonathan’s genitals were mutilated as a form of emasculation. Now, this was no longer a death that would be prosecuted as a federal crime, because investigators were moving towards the theory of this being the result of a personal relationship, not a work-related crime.
When Jonathan’s computer was being searched, the public was told that he had encrypted parts of his hard drive. This made it sound like he had something to hide, but in reality, many government employees encrypt their computers. It was discovered that Jonathan had sent emails to friends where he said he was overwhelmed with debt from his student loans. He went to law school, I’m sure his bills were atrocious. This makes complete sense. He also mentioned that there were some problems in his marriage. To me, this doesn’t seem like the bombshell they thought it would be when the information was leaked. Jonathan was stressed about his marriage and student loans? Who isn’t?
The day after Jonathan’s death, FBI agents were telling the Baltimore press that his death was the result of a personal relationship that had gone bad, there was no connection to his job. The FBI told a different story to his family though. They told them that this could be a hate crime, so the family shouldn’t talk about it. Reggie Shuford, Jonathan’s friend from law school, was told by two FBI agents in May of 2004 that the results were inconclusive, but they were leaning towards suicide. They believed Jonathan ended his own life and they said it was in everyone’s best interest to start saying this was suicide.
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