Haunting theory about why Luigi Mangione kept turning around during court hearing
Alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione appeared to be looking for a familiar face during his arraignment, but he didn’t find one.
The 26-year-old Ivy League graduate repeatedly turned to look at the public gallery during his court appearance Monday in Pennsylvania, but none of his family members showed up.
Mangione also had no one in the courtroom Tuesday to support him in his second appearance in court.
The suspected killer of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thomson comes from a powerful Maryland family, but the close-knit clan, which includes state Rep. Nino Mangione, has remained largely silent about his arrest.
The family’s only brief public statement read: “Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest.
“We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson and ask people to pray for everyone involved.”
Mangione had withdrawn from his family and friends sometime last year, when severe back pain seemed to send him into an isolated mental health spiral.
Mangione graduated from U Penn during the pandemic and had a virtual graduation ceremony, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.
26-year-old killer Brian Thompson shouted at cameras as he entered the courtroom on Tuesday
Mangione is seen with his sister and parents in an undated photo. His mother said she had not had contact with him since July 1 after reporting him missing
After graduating with honors, he got a remote job as a data engineer at a digital car marketplace company called TrueCar, based in Santa Barbara, California.
In January 2022, Mangione moved to a luxury surfer collective in Honolulu, Hawaii. He told the people there that he wanted to restore his health.
Mangione suffered from a back condition called pondylolisthesis from birth, which causes the vertebra to slip out of place. The condition appears to have worsened after a surfing injury in 2023.
During his time with the collective, Mangione co-founded a book club. One of the materials they read was Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto.
A Reddit account believed to belong to Mangione wrote: ‘My back and hips were stuck after the accident’
The user added that ‘the intermittent numbness has become constant’ and I am terrified of the consequences.’
It appears that Mangione has not been in contact with his loved ones for the past year.
His mother Kathleen reported him missing in San Francisco last month and said she had not heard from him since July 1.
Mangione’s mother Kathleen reported him missing in San Francisco last month and said she had not heard from him since July 1
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead outside the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan
Mangione’s social media went black in June, the same month he completely stopped responding to his friends.
Mangione comes from a prominent Maryland family. His grandfather, Nick Mangione, who died in 2008, was a successful real estate developer. One of his best-known projects was Turf Valley Resort, a sprawling luxury retreat and conference center outside Baltimore that he purchased in 1978.
The Mangione family also purchased Hayfields Country Club north of Baltimore in 1986. On Monday, Baltimore County police officers blocked access to the property, which public records link to Luigi Mangione’s parents. Reporters and photographers gathered outside the entrance.
Nick Mangione, a father of 10, groomed his five sons — including Luigi Mangione’s father, Louis Mangione — to help manage the family business, according to a 2003 report in the Washington Post. Nick Mangione had 37 grandchildren, including Luigi, according to the grandfather’s obituary.
Luigi Mangione’s grandparents donated to charities through the Mangione Family Foundation, according to a statement from Loyola University commemorating the death of Nick Mangione’s wife in 2023. They donated to several charities, including Catholic organizations, colleges and the arts.
Investigators in New York and Pennsylvania are working to determine why Mangione may have deviated from this path and made the violent and radical decision to shoot UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a brazen attack on a Manhattan street.
The murder sparked widespread debate about corporate greed, dishonesty in the health insurance industry and even inspired a folk hero’s sentiment toward his killer.
Mangione was likely motivated by his anger at what he called “parasitic” health insurers and a disdain for corporate greed, according to a law enforcement bulletin obtained by AP.
Mangione was apparently influenced by ‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski – whose manifesto he praised on Goodreads as an ‘extreme political revolutionary’
He wrote that the US has the most expensive health care system in the world and that corporate profits continue to rise while “our life expectancy” does not, according to the bulletin, based on a review of the suspect’s handwritten notes and social media. to inform.
He appeared to view the targeted killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO as a symbolic takedown, claiming in his note that he is the “first to face this with such brutal honesty,” the bulletin said.
Mangione called Unabomber Ted Kaczynski a “political revolutionary” and may have found inspiration in the man who carried out a series of bombings while railing against modern society and technology, the document said.