MD MD - Jonathan Luna, 38, Baltimore, 4 December 2003

[Sweetluv]

If Luna would have told LE he was kidnapped and forced to go to an ATM machine, wouldnt it be odd he only took out 200 dollars?
And wouldn't they question as to why his attacker allowed him to walk into a gas station to pay for gas?
On the flip side, if there WAS an attacker, the same questions would apply.

 

[J. J. in Phila]

I hv always leaned towards staging a kidnapping and self inflicting wounds..but poking yourself 36 times and self injuring your genitals seems overboard, ..no (?)
Also, why stage for over 6 hours?
If he didnt hv his phone , what was his plan...to say he broke free from his attacker and go inside a 24 hour mini mart or wave down a car?
He left his glasses behind in his office, do we know if he needed them to drive in the dark?

The injuries could have all been inflicted after JPL entered the parking lot. We can't know if that is the case or not.

If this was staged, he was in walking distance of the Turnpike exit and Acme supermarket's main distribution hub about a mile and a quarter away walking; it is right beside the toll booths, so he would have seen it. There were also houses and farms, though I am not sure what the reaction would be to a Black man, covered in blood, banging of the door of a farmhouse in Amish country at 4:45 AM would be.

The genital injury was a bruise and most of the wounds were superficial.

 

[J. J. in Phila]

If Luna would have told LE he was kidnapped and forced to go to an ATM machine, wouldnt it be odd he only took out 200 dollars?
And wouldn't they question as to why his attacker allowed him to walk into a gas station to pay for gas?
On the flip side, if there WAS an attacker, the same questions would apply.

He could have claimed that it happened after that.

 

[J. J. in Phila]

If Luna would have told LE he was kidnapped and forced to go to an ATM machine, wouldnt it be odd he only took out 200 dollars?
And wouldn't they question as to why his attacker allowed him to walk into a gas station to pay for gas?
On the flip side, if there WAS an attacker, the same questions would apply.

I think the question might have been at what point would he have claimed to have been abducted.

JPL headed away from the Federal Building, in the opposite direction from his house when he got on I-95. He could have claimed that someone grabbed him at the Federal Building or he was driving on surface streets.