On a cold December morning in 2003, the body of a Black Federal prosecutor was found in a shallow stream in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Attorney Jonathan Luna had sustained over thirty stab wounds, including a gash on his neck that severed his carotid artery. Three months later, the FBI and “anonymous law enforcement” authorities told the press that what was originally reported as the murder of a rising star in the Justice Department was more likely the suicide of a deeply troubled man in dire straits both professionally and personally.

Jonathan Luna’s shocking death made headlines throughout the nation. It was covered extensively by CNN and TV stations in Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia, and Lancaster Pennsylvania, where the body was found. It was front page news on every major US paper. Numerous stories that followed, most originating in the Baltimore Sun, cast a shadow over Luna’s personal and professional life: a clandestine affair, financial trouble, postings for sex on the internet, and over $35,000 in missing evidence money from a high-profile criminal trial. The story was complicated by a puzzling “midnight ride” that began with Luna leaving the Baltimore federal courthouse, and ended with him almost a hundred miles away, dead in a remote village in Lancaster County.

There has never been a detailed, coherent examination of what happened to Luna that night, along with the events leading up to his death. No one at the Justice Department or the court system has spoken publicly about what they knew. Until now.

The Midnight Ride of Jonathan Luna uncovers shocking evidence of a terrible and scandalous miscarriage of justice that has been concealed for over twenty years. Key players including Luna’s colleagues, a federal judge, a former Pennsylvania police commissioner, and others address the camera for the first time. The events of Luna’s baffling “midnight ride” and the trial that preceded it are created with damning evidence of malfeasance on the part of government officials and law enforcement. And what a colleague calls the “shameful” mistreatment of a dedicated public servant.