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Glimmers of what that might be emerged late in the week. An FBI examination of Internet postings turned up messages on adult sites placed by a Jonathan Luna seeking female sex partners. Someone else may have posted them (a much younger person also called Jonathan Luna is a convicted sex offender). But TIME located two Internet personals that are dated 1997, conform to the prosecutor's age and marital status, and are signed with his three initials backward. Investigators have also found that Luna had debt problems, including credit cards that his wife had not known about.
Now they are considering the theory that Luna may have known his killer and that they had taken a casual drive before things went horribly wrong. Is that the only possibility? Hardly. A successful prosecutor always makes enemies. But the new information lends poignancy to an observation by Baltimore U.S. District Judge Andre Davis. Luna, he said, was the rare prosecutor who understood "that there's no such thing as good guys and bad guys but that there are good guys who do bad things. It's complicated, and he didn't try to uncomplicate it." His former colleagues are now trying to uncomplicate his death. --Reported by Simon Crittle and Joshua Kucera/Baltimore, John Flowers and Andrea Sachs/New York and Elaine Shannon/Washington