On a cold December morning in 2003, the body of a young Black federal prosecutor was discovered in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He had suffered over thirty stab wounds, including a brutal slash that severed his carotid artery.

     At the time of his death, Jonathan Luna was prosecuting a major murder and drug case in Baltimore. The strange circumstances of the 38-year-old assistant D.A.’s demise made headlines in every major US newspaper, plus network and cable news.

     But then came the follow-up news stories, most originating in the Baltimore Sun. Instead of examining Jonathan Luna’s murder, a hundred miles from his Baltimore courthouse, reporters and “anonymous” law enforcement sources all began to cast a cloud of doubt on Luna’s personal life. They focused on rumors of a clandestine affair, specious financial troubles, and Internet sex posts. None of this made sense to his longtime friends and colleagues.

     None of them could explain the strange “midnight ride” Jonathan took in the hours before his death. He left his courthouse office, a plea bargain on his desk beside his driving glasses and cell phone. His car drove across 4 states on a circuitous route on highways and backroads that ended in rural Pennsylvania. He was found face down in a stream, stabbed to death, a hundred miles from his desk.

     Three months later, reports by these “anonymous” officials from law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, stated that Luna’s death was a “probable suicide.”

     Only author Bill Keisling, in his investigative book, The Midnight Ride of Jonathan Luna, has done a detailed examination of Jonathan Luna’s life and death in twenty years. And despite promises by the Justice Department, no federal authority has spoken publicly about what they know.