i didn t not going to kill nobody, period. i never see myself in a position where i have to do something like that. despite his denials, joe luna was facing a possible death sentence.
prosecutors believe joe luna spent most of his time inside his girlfriend s apartment since he knew there were warrants out for his arrest on the robbery cases. with nothing to do, he discovered there was an attic and crawl space above the apartment. so, he looked around and discovered there was another apartment just 16 feet away, michael andrade s apartment. prosecutors believe he opened the panel in michael s bedroom closet, and when he didn t hear any sound, dropped in. but michael was sleeping and the noise woke him up. there was a struggle. luna tore the bed sheets, bound
burned insulation on them. having that forensics evidence in your back pocket as an investigator is just something you can t overcome. when it s on your clothing, there s a real hard hurdle to overcome to say i didn t do it now. during her police interrogation, maria solis eventually admitted that luna had confessed. he s like, well, i just went into his apartment. and he s like, well, somebody was there when i got there. i m like, okay. he s like, well, they saw me. he s like, so, i had to do what i had to do. i m like, what are you talking about? what did you think in your mind that he did? that he had hurt somebody. that he had done what he did to this boy. i don t like to say the four-letter word. i need you to say the word. that he had taken this person s life. joe luna headed for trial
people, three of whom were families with children. he tied them up. he used weapons. he threatened them. he stole from them. brooke envick was a victim of one of those home invasions. it s just indescribable. i mean, you feel like your home is where you re safe. after the robbery, brooke found forensic evidence the perpetrator had left behind. we noticed that two cigarette butts were in the garage. we don t smoke and none of our friends who had been at the house recently smoke. dna from the saliva on the cigarette butts matched joe luna. police! just five days after michael andrade s murder, joe luna was arrested and charged with the crime. did you kill your neighbor?
she now admitted she had a roommate, 25-year-old joe luna. she met luna over the internet and seemed to me to be desperate to be in a relationship with a man and latched on to joe luna in what i believe was a very manipulative relationship. maria claimed she knew nothing about joe luna s criminal past, that he had served five years in prison for carjacking and aggravated assault on a police officer. and joe luna was wanted for a series of home invasions that bore a marked similarity to the michael andrade case. he would break in, cut bed sheets up, tie up the people who were at the house with those strips of bed sheets. he terrorized five separate