Dec. 17, 2025
The top 10 Crime and Justice Stories of the Year - #7 THE CEO KILLER - LUIGI MANGIONE AND THE ASSASSINATION THAT DIVIDED AMERICA
Reid Carter examines the case that turned a healthcare executive's murder into a national debate. December 4, 2024: Luigi Mangione allegedly shot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel - bullet casings inscribed "deny, delay, depose." Five-day manhunt ended at a Pennsylvania McDonald's. The Ivy League valedictorian from a wealthy Maryland family became a folk hero to millions frustrated with the healthcare system. September 2025: terrorism charges dismissed. April 2025: AG Pam Bondi ordered the death penalty. December 2025: suppression hearing reveals police debated whether they needed a warrant. One year later, America still can't decide if Luigi Mangione is a terrorist or a revolutionary.
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Callaroga Shark Media, Good morning, I'm read Carter. Wednesday, December seventeenth,
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twenty twenty five. December fourth, twenty twenty four, six forty
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six am, Midtown, Manhattan. A man in a black jacket
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and surgical mask approaches United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson from behind.
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Thompson is walking alone toward the Hilton Hotel Annual Investor
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Conference starting in an hour. Bang bang bang. Thompson stumbles falls.
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The shooter flees on an electric bicycle through Central Park,
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disappears into the city. Police find spent shell casings on
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the sidewalk. Three words etched into the brass deny delay depose,
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reference to the insurance industry's playbook for rejecting claims. Five
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day manhunt. Every news network covering the search. Surveillance photos
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were least distinctive eyebrows. A man who smiled at a
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hostile worker America's Most Wanted December ninth. McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
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A customer recognizes the suspect from the news calls nine
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to one one. Police arrive find Luigi Mangone eating breakfast
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backpack with a three D printed gun, fake ID. A
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notebook full of writings about parasites in the healthcare system.
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Luigi Nicholas Mangione twenty six years old, valedictorian of Baltimore's
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elite Gilman School, University of Pennsylvania, graduate with bachelor's and
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master's degrees in computer science, grandson of a wealthy real
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estate developer, a young man who had everything. Now he's
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facing the death penalty. And here's what makes this case
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number seven on our countdown. America couldn't decide whether to
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condemn him or celebrate him. Millions called him a hero,
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a revolutionary, a vigilante who did what the system wouldn't.
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His legal defense fund topped one point three million dollars
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in donations. Merchandise flooded online stores, street art appeared in
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Seattle a mural in his honor. Fellow inmates chanted free
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Luigi from their cells. Brian Thompson was fifty years old, husband,
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father of two sons, shot in the back on his
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way to work. I'm reed Carter today. The CEO killer,
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the assassination that became a national debate, the terrorism charges
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that got thrown out, the death penalty that's still on
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the table, and the suppression hearing happening right now that
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could determine whether Luigi Manjone face his trial with the
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most damning evidence against him. This is celebrity trials. Let
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me paint the picture of December fourth, twenty twenty four.
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Brian Thompson fifty years old, CEO of United Healthcare since
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twenty twenty one, Minnesota Nate University of Iowa graduate, worked
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his way up through the company for twenty years. Total
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compensation ten point two million dollars last year, Married to Paulette,
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father of two sons, living in Maple Grove, Minnesota, though
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recent reports indicated he and his wife had been living
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in separate homes. Thompson flew to New York for United
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Health Group's annual investor conference at the Hilton Hotel. Standard
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corporate event, shareholders, analysts, executives discussing earnings, projections and growth strategies.
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Six forty six am. Thompson walking alone on sixth Avenue.
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No security detail, just a man heading to work. The
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shooter had been waiting. Surveillance footage showed him arriving five
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minutes earlier, positioned outside the hotel entrance. Black hooded jacket, backpack,
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surgical mask covering half his face. Thompson approached, The shooter
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stepped forward, raised a pistol, fired multiple shots, at least
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one to the back, one to the right calf. Thompson
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collapsed on the sidewalk. The shooter fled on foot, then
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grabbed an electric bicycle, rode north through Central Park. Last
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scene heading out of the park, then vanished. Thompson was
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transported to Mount Sinai West Hospital, pronounced dead. The investigation
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began immediately. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenney called it
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a premeditated, pre planned, targeted attack. The shooter knew where
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Thompson would be, knew what time he'd arrive, waited for
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him specifically. But what caught everyone's attention were those shell casings. Deny,
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Delay depose words from a book called Delay, Deny, Defend
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about insurance company tactics for avoiding payouts. The shooter was
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making a statement. The man hunt became a national obsession.
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NYPD released surveillance photos the shooter pulling down his mask
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briefly in a hostel, smiling at the front desk worker.
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Those distinctive eyebrows, brown hair, young, clean cut tips poured in.
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The FBI joined the investigation. A ten thousand dollars reward offered,
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then increased. Everyone was looking for the man who'd executed
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a healthcare CEO in broad daylight. Five days December ninth, Altuna, Pennsylvania,
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two hundred eighty miles west of Manhattan. A McDonald's on
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East Plank Road, a customer eating breakfast noticed a man
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matching the photos, black jacket, surgical mask, tan beanie, distinctive eyebrows.
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She was really upset and frantic, the manager later told
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nine one one dispatchers. Trying to be non discreet while
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scoping him out, the manager called nine one one, I
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have a customer here that some other customers were suspicious
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of that he looks like the CEO shooter from New York.
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Altuna police responded. Officer Joseph Dettweiler arrived first. Later admitted
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he responded without lights or sirens because I didn't think
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it was going to be him. His lieutenant even joked
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if he caught the New York shooter, he'd buy him
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a hogie. Debt Weiler approached the man asked him to
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lower his mask. I knew it was him immediately. Debtwiler
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later testified the man presented a new Jersey driver's license
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bearing the name Mark Rosario, same fake id used to
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book a room at a Manhattan hostel days before the shooting.
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Officers asked more questions. The man was visibly shaken when
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asked if he'd recently visited New York City. Then the
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backpack search officers found a three D printed pistol, a suppressor,
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a loaded glock magazine with six nine millimeter rounds, a
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notebook filled with handwritten entries, a slip of paper with
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escape routes written down keep momentum, FBI, slower overnight break
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c a M continuity bus to pen station change hat,
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and a three page handwritten note references to Paris sites
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in the healthcare system, criticism of corporate profits over patient care,
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according to prosecutors, entries about wanting to whack a health
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insurance executive. Luigi Mangoni was taken into custody. The manhunt
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was over, but as Mangione was led into the Blair
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County Courthouse, he shouted to the cameras, this is completely
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out of touch. It's an insult to the intelligence of
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the American people and their lived experience. America started paying attention.
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Who was this man and why did his words resonate
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with so many people? Make it make sense. Luigi Nicholas
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Mangione was born May sixth, nineteen ninety eight, Baltimore, Maryland,
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into a family that had built an empire. His grandfather,
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Nicholas Mangioni, was a first generation Italian American who started
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with nothing bags of flour from a local church to survive,
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built a real estate empire, bought the Turf Valley Resort
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in Ellicott City in nineteen seventy eight, founded Lorian Health Services,
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an assisted living company. The family eventually owned country clubs,
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a conservative radio station, nursing homes across Maryland. The Mangiones
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are prominent. Their name is on the Aquatic Center at
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Loyola University, on the High Risk Obstetrics Unit at Greater
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Baltimore Medical Center. They've donated over a million dollars to
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local hospitals. Luigi's cousin, Nino Mangione, serves as a Republican
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in the Maryland House of Delegates. Luigi was the Golden
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Child attended Gilman School starting in sixth grade, one of
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Baltimore's most elite private schools. Tuition now over thirty seven
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thousand dollars a year. Cal Ripkin Junior's kids went there,
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the children of Maryland's wealthiest families. Luigi didn't just attend,
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he excelled, graduated as valedictorian in twenty sixteen. His graduateation
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speech praised his classmate's incredible courage to explore the unknown
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and try new things. A former classmate told reporters quite honestly,
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he had everything going for him. Then the University of
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Pennsylvania Ivy League, Luigi graduated cum laude in twenty twenty
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with a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and a master's
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degree in computer science. His coursework included artificial intelligence. He
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founded Penn's first game development club, interned at Foraxis Games,
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the studio behind Civilization six, served as a counselor for
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Stanford's AI summer program for gifted high school students. Smart, charming, connected, wealthy,
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every advantage imaginable. But something was wrong. Luigi suffered from
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chronic back pain, a condition called spondlalis thesis, where a
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bone slips out of alignment and presses on the vertebrae
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below Common among weightlifters and hymnists, it started interfering with
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his life during college. He also dealt with brain fog,
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suspected connection to lyme disease he contracted at age thirteen,
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difficulty concentrating, feeling drained, memory problems. He posted on Reddit
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about how brutal it was to have such a life
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halting issue, said people around him didn't understand his symptoms.
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After graduation, Luigi worked remotely as a data engineer for Truecar.
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Moved to Hawaii in January twenty twenty two lived at
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surf Break, a co living space for remote workers in Honolulu.
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His back pain worsened there. Surfing made it worse, Hiking
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made it worse. The founder of surf Break, R. J. Martin,
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said Luigi's pain kept him from enjoying life as a
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twenty something. He knew that dating and being physically intimate
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with his back condition wasn't possible. Martin told reporters, my
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heart just breaks. Luigi eventually got spinal surgery. By his
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own account on Reddit, it went well. Surgery was painful
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for the first couple days, but I was shocked that
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by day seven I was on literally zero pain meds,
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he wrote in August twenty twenty three. Way less of
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a big deal than I had anticipated, But something changed.
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In February twenty twenty four, Luigi told friends he was
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going backpacking for a while, traveled solo through Asia, Japan, Thailand.
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By June twenty twenty four, he stopped posting on social media.
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His family reached out to friends trying to find him.
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Nobody knew where he was. November eighteenth, twenty twenty four,
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his mother reported him missing to San Francisco police. The
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family hadn't heard from him since July. She believed he
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was still in San Francisco, still working for Truecar. Two
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weeks later, Brian Thompson was dead. Here's what investigators found
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in Luigi's online footprint. He'd been following right wing and
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libertarian influencers Joe Rogan fitness gurus promoting gym memberships over antidepressants,
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self improvement content with a masculinity focus, and he'd written
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a review on Goodreads praising the writings of Ted Kaczinski
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called him a political revolutionary, wrote that it's easy to
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thoughtlessly write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic
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in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems
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it identifies, from valedictorian to accused assassin, from privileged Ivy
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League graduate to man facing the death penalty. What happened
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to Luigi Mangoni in those months he disappeared? The notebook
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found in his backpack may hold answers, but whether the
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jury ever sees it depends on what happens in the courtroom.
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Right now, we'll be right back with the terrorism charges
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that got thrown out, the attorney general who ordered the
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death penalty before the indictment, and the suppression hearing that
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could determine Luigi Mangoni's fate. The charges against Luigi Mangone
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came fast and furious. December ninth, twenty twenty four. Pennsylvania
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charges carrying a gun without a license, forgery, false identification,
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possessing instruments of crime. Same day, Manhattan charges second degree murder,
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three counts of illegal weapons, possession, forgery. December seventeenth, twenty
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twenty four, Manhattan d A. Alvin Bragg indicted Mangione on
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eleven state charges, including the big ones, first degree murder
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in furtherance of terrorism, second degree murder as a crime
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of terrorism. The terrorism charges raised eyebrows. This wasn't a
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mass shooting, wasn't a bomb at a public event? One
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man shot one specific target. How is that terrorism? Bragg's
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argument Mangione intended to so terror. The shooting happened on
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a busy Manhattan sidewalk during morning rush hour at an
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investor conference attended by healthcare executives. The inscribed shell casing
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sent a message. The manifesto criticized the entire industry. He
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wasn't just killing Brian Thompson, he was intimidating everyone in healthcare.
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December nineteenth, twenty twenty four, federal charges dropped interstate stalking
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murder using a firearm equipped with a suppressor, and that's
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when things got serious. Federal murder charges are death penalty eligible.
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April first, twenty twenty five, Attorney General Pam Bondi made
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the announcement, Luigi Manjone's murder of Brian Thompson, an innocent
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man and father of two young children, was a premeditated,
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cold blooded assassination that shocked America. After careful consideration, I
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have directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty. Here's
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the problem. Bondi made that announcement before Manjoni was even
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formally in dted on federal charges, before a grand jury
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had voted, before trial she followed it with Instagram posts
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and TV appearances. Manjone's defense team pounced, called the death
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penalty decision based on politics, not merit, said Bondai statements
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tainted the grand jury process, said the highly choreographed perp
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walk where Mangione was paraded up a Manhattan pier by
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armed officers violated his rights. President Trump weighed in two
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told Fox News in September, he shot someone in the
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back as clear as you're looking at me or I'm
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looking at you, he shot. He looked like a pure assassin.
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The defense argued all of this created fatal prejudice, filed
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motions to dismiss charges, to bar the death penalty, to
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suppress evidence. Federal prosecutors responded in a one hundred and
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twenty one page filing in November pre trial publicity, even
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when intense, is not itself a constitutional defect. But September sixteenth,
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twenty twenty five, brought a major victory for the defense.
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Judge Gregory Carrow, presiding over the New York State case,
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dismissed both terrorism charges, first degree murder in furtherance of
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terrorism gone, second degree murder as a crime of terrorism gone.
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His reasoning there was no evidence presented of a desire
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to terrorize the public, inspire widespread fear, engage in a
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broader campaign of violence, or to conspire with organized terrorist groups.
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The judge acknowledged the crime was an ordinary street crime,
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but wrote that prosecutors appeared to conflate an ideological belief
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with the intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population.
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Mangioni's defense team pointed to his own writings. The notebook
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reportedly said bombs equals terrorism and referenced recklessly endangering countless employees.
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In other words, Mangioni himself rejected tactics that would harm
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innocent bystanders. He targeted one specific person. The terrorism dismissal
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triggered cheers outside the courthouse, crowds of supporters who'd been
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gathering at every hearing, signs reading free Luigi Chance echoing
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through the plaza. But here's what remains. Second degree murder
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in New York still carries twenty five years to life
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if convicted, and the federal case still carries the death penalty,
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