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Manhunt: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder - A Special Edition of 20/20
When police identify him, they say he's Luigi Mangione, 26 years old, from Maryland.
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Manhunt: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder - A Special Edition of 20/20
I suppose you could say in some ways the Mangione family was the American dream.
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Manhunt: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder - A Special Edition of 20/20
Luigi Mangione left quite a trail for the public and investigators to follow. There's a trip to Japan. There's a time living in Hawaii.
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Manhunt: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder - A Special Edition of 20/20
We've talked to friends who have said that he complained about enduring a back injury that was often quite painful.
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Manhunt: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder - A Special Edition of 20/20
Brian Thompson, who's the chief executive of United Healthcare, crosses Sixth Avenue. He came to the Hilton Hotel where he was going to present about an hour later at an investor conference. And as soon as the suspect sees Thompson, that's when he begins to spring into action.
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Manhunt: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder - A Special Edition of 20/20
Mangione has been extradited to New York. I can't think of another criminal defendant in recent memory that received a personal welcome from the mayor of the city of New York.
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Manhunt: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder - A Special Edition of 20/20
There's clearly anger and people have seemingly suggested killing other CEOs in the wake of Brian Thompson's killing.
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Manhunt: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder - A Special Edition of 20/20
Hopefully this case does not signal that America is headed down a path where grievances are solved at the barrel of a gun.
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Manhunt: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder - A Special Edition of 20/20
People seemed to notice that it wasn't a typical assassin's gun. Police said they thought at first it may be a veterinarian's weapon. It appeared to have a silencer or a long barrel that would effectively act as a silencer.
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Manhunt: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder - A Special Edition of 20/20
The case almost instantly became one of public fascination. Who would do this and why? People started talking, was this a professional killer? Was this a hit job, a hired assassin?
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Manhunt: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder - A Special Edition of 20/20
Police didn't think this was a professional job, but they did acknowledge it seemed to be pretty well planned. The killer had to know where Brian Thompson was going to be, that he was going to this investor conference, knew where he was staying,
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Manhunt: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder - A Special Edition of 20/20
Traffic is terrible in the morning rush hour in Midtown, so if the killer wanted to escape by car, he would have gone nowhere.
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Manhunt: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder - A Special Edition of 20/20
And at first, police believe he hopped a bus and headed out of town. They don't see him getting on a bus. They don't see him at all, and the trail kind of goes cold.
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Manhunt: Luigi Mangione and the CEO Murder - A Special Edition of 20/20
The most important thing investigators wanted to recover was the gun, the murder weapon.