Dateline: True Crime Weekly
Arrest in UnitedHealthcare CEO murder. Drama at a Georgia sentencing. And Josh Mankiewicz on "Deadly Mirage."
Thu, 12 Dec 2024
An Ivy League tech graduate is in custody for the fatal shooting of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare in Midtown Manhattan last week. At her sentencing, a Georgia grandmother convicted of murder points the finger at her own son. And Josh Mankiewicz stops by to talk about his latest podcast, "Deadly Mirage." Find out more about the cases covered each week here: www.datelinetruecrimeweekly.com
Who was Brian Thompson and what happened to him?
In Pennsylvania, he was found with a weapon that would— It was very similar to the one seen in the video of the shooter. So he is facing felony gun possession charges. He's also facing a charge of flying to police about his identity. And then in New York, it's the second-degree murder charge as well as a gun possession charge or a few others. He has not entered a plea yet.
And, you know, you have this extradition process. And you may remember with the Idaho murder story, Andrea, that Brian Kohlberger was also arrested, interestingly, in Pennsylvania. And he did not fight extradition. And he was turned around and sent to Idaho prison. pretty quickly.
And in this case, you've got something of a surprise that his defense attorney, newly acquired, stood up in court yesterday and said that they were going to fight this extradition, which could slow it down for weeks. But law experts say it is something of an inevitability that he's going to end up in New York City.
So you were at the extradition hearing on Tuesday in Pennsylvania. Yeah.
It's really fascinating because we had been inside the courthouse trying to get a good seat early. And we started getting some messages about how he entered the courthouse. Now, he was escorted by armed sheriff's deputies in his orange jumpsuit. Our cameras were there and caught him going in. And he was really agitated. He was yelling out.
He said something about, you know, the American people are being insulted, their intelligence is being insulted. By the time he got into the courtroom and we were sitting there, he was calm. He was relaxed, even smiled a couple of times. There was also really an interesting moment during this hearing, which was pretty brief. But at one point, he tried to speak.
Mangione tried to say something briefly. when he was not being addressed by the judge and his defense attorney whipped around and snapped, don't say a word. A little bit of tension between the defense attorney and his client.
From an investigative standpoint, what happens next?
They're still sorting through Hours and hours and hours, hundreds of hours of video. They are going through the forensics. We've just heard confirmation that they retrieved a print, some prints, they say, that are the same at the crime scene, that are the same as Luigi Mangione's. You know, there are some outstanding questions that I have, and primarily they have to do with the planning of this.
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