Tuesday, 10 December 2024

 Yet again suspicious identification confusion around New York health boss killing!




High profile killings in America and elsewhere, always arouse my interest (and suspicions!) especially if they contain familiar elements relating to dates, timing, names, places and other strange or anomalous features.

The arrested suspect Luigi Mangione, is referred to by the Mail as the 'Hot Assassin' over a handsome, smiling bare-chested photograph. This is in sharp contrast to the police photograph circulated below. 

He was located relatively quickly in only four days (6th to 10th December) over 300 miles away from Manhattan, where the shooting took place, in Altoona, Pennsylvania, interestingly in a McDonalds. I have previously drawn attention to how often that brand is linked to high profile tragic events.

It is said he "was acting suspiciously" but there is scant information on how he got there from New York, why that location was chosen, or what actually led to his identification and arrest.

The 'before and after' photographs appear to show the same person but a very different demeanour. Compare and contrast the following two images that contain similar stylistic elements. Was this intentional for artistic effect?



The Times has drawn attention to a disturbing aspect to the case here https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/luigi-magione-suspect-internet-obsessed-n7fmsqmtr inasmuch it claims the Internet has become obsessed with him and with 'hot assassins' generally. A Google search of the term certainly brings up a plethora of cartoon and other imagery.  Has popular media turned killers into heroes?

On the date of the murder (6.12.2024) Vogue carried an article by Emma Specter entitled "Why Do We Love a ‘Hot’ Felon—and What Does It Say About Us?"  She was certainly 'hot off the blocks' with it - composed, printed and published the very same day!

What is more surprising is the fact that the article contains details what we might normally expect to be only in the possession of the police. A bullet casing marked with words "deny, defend, depose", referring to the claimed philosophy of certain health insurers. 

Other facts regarding his movements before and after, including reference to how he 'flirted with his female hotel receptionist'. How was she able to obtain these intimate details the very same day, before the assailant was even positively identified?

And then there is that date!  Six, twelve, twenty-four! Certainly something of a coincidence if nothing else. If said Mangione ('Man alone?) was indeed the shooter, nothing is revealed as to how the victim was chosen and more importantly how Mangione knew where he was, where he would be, how he identified him, how a plastic gun down-loaded from the internet, complete with silencer, was able to deliver fatal 9mm shots?

This would obviously require intelligence and planning of a high order, as we are led to believe this was a targeted killing and not just an indescriminate one, yet again we note an absence of planning in respect to the getaway.  True assassins ensure they have thought and planned for that equally well. Usually only patsies get caught. Professional assassins make sure they don't, but conversely amateurs don't find their targets so easily.

The Guardian reports, "The suspect in the shooting death of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, screamed: “This is completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people” on Tuesday before he fought being extradited from Pennsylvania to face murder charges in New York."  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/10/unitedhealthcare-shooting-suspect-court-screams

Whatever could this mean? My mind unavoidably darts back to Lee Harvey Oswald's last words before he was shot dead, surrounded by policemen. Perhaps there is no equivalence between the two or maybe there is? Only a few know.  A young man, probably completely innocent of the crime for which he was convicted, sits incommunicado in an American Federal prison with a death threat still hanging over him. And lets not even mention Guantánamo Bay.

The Vogue article referred to above, illustrate it with an image of Zak Efron playing the part of Ted Bundy the notorious serial killer.  It is not accidental. So violence and beauty are merged. Evil is glamourised. Perhaps it was always so? This murder certainly contains the necessary ingredients. Whether everything is as reported or asked to believe, is another matter.

A leading detective was once reported as saying, "In crime there is no such thing as coincidence." I agree with him. The instances of events not being as they were projected by the authorities are legion and I have discussed many of them in this Blog as have others. That is why there is always part of me that is sceptical. We should always ask ourselves why out of the innumerable crimes of violence, only some gain immediate attention and coverage, such as was the case with this one? Was the event planned and designed to be such?

One reason for high-profile crimes lies in their value to distract from other events either domestic or foreign. So in that context it certainly helps to take the heat off Biden scandalously protecting his son from prosecution both past and future. It just so happens it also perfectly aligns with dramatic events in Syria - an obvious US/Israeli operation as previously announced back in 2003 by Wesley Clarke, albeit somewhat delayed. 

I have heard via the BBC that Israel has carried out over 200 bombing raids in Syria since the collapse of Assad's government and read elsewhere that Israeli tanks are now positioned in the vicinity of Damascus!

What a coincidence?





 






Following from AOL https://www.aol.co.uk/news/man-apprehended-connection-york-assassination-183227965.html

Luigi Mangione has been arrested in New York







Police in New York have charged a man with murder after the assassination of healthcare chief executive Brian Thompson.

Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League graduate, was arrested in a branch of McDonald’s on Monday following a five-day manhunt.

Wearing a dark sweatshirt and flanked by local police and NYPD detectives, Mr Mangione arrived at a Pennsylvania court where he was arraigned on a string of gun offences. Manhattan officials later filed charges including an official allegation of murder.

Police said Mr Mangione had been carrying a 3D-printed, homemade “ghost” pistol and silencer that matched images of the weapon used to shoot Mr Thompson, a handwritten manifesto filled with grievances against “corporate America”, and multiple fake ID cards.

The three-page letter found in Mr Mangione’s bag reportedly contained the words: “These parasites had it coming…I do apologise for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.”

Mr Mangione’s cover photograph on his X page, formerly Twitter, appears to show an X-ray of a posterior spinal fusion in the lower lumbar region.



Following from Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14177517/luigi-mangione-injury-sex-brian-thompson.html


The alleged killer is referred to by the Mail as



















Another 'Martin'.

RJ Martin lived with Mangione for six months in 2022 and was stunned at news of the murder he is accused of carrying out 


LIVE: Defense Attorney Thomas M. Dickey, representing suspec… 
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LIVE: Defense Attorney Thomas M. Dickey, representing suspect charged in UnitedHealth executive killing, speaks to media
Defense Attorney Thomas M. Dickey, who's representing the suspect in the case of murdered UnitedHealth executive Brian Thomson, speaks to the media from Altoona, Pennsylvania.
New York prosecutors filed a murder charge against the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thomson, a brazen shooting that set off a manhunt that culminated in his capture in Pennsylvania earlier on Monday.
The suspect, Luigi Mangione, 26, was also denied bail for the second time, a day after he was taken into custody at a fast food restaurant after a sprawling five-day manhunt.
Keep up with the latest news from around the world: https://www.reuters.com/


From:  https://www.aol.co.uk/news/luigi-mangione-notebook-reveals-chilling-094508952.html

Luigi Mangione seen being taken into the Blair County Courthouse on Tuesday (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Luigi Mangione allegedly laid out his plot to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a spiral notebook, including a chilling “to-do list” and plans considering using a bomb in the Manhattan attack.

The notebook was found alongside a 262-page manifesto, a ghost gun, silencer and false ID cards in the shooting suspect’s possession at the time of his arrest at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Monday, according to CNN.

Inside the notebook was a to-do list outlining tasks to be completed to carry out the killing, as well as notes that justified those plans, a source told the network.

In one of the notes, Mangione allegedly mused about different methods of murder, including the possibility of bombing Manhattan.

But, the note shows the 26-year-old suspect decided against using explosives over concerns this “could kill innocents”, the source said.

(Ed. This sounds a trifle contrived and far-fetched. Is there any indication Mangione had the wherewithal/expertise to manufacture or handle explosives?)

The source added that the notebook shows the suspect decided to carry out a more targeted attack, musing what could be better than “to kill the CEO at his own bean-counting conference.”



New York Police Department Chief Detective Joe Kenny said the suspect mentioned going to the conference site in the notebook, CNN reported.

In another passage, Mangione allegedly wrote about Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, the source said.

Prior to the shooting, Mangione had given Kaczynski’s manifesto a positive review on Goodread and urged members at his book club to read his memoir.

Along with the spiral notebook, the three-page, 262-word handwritten manifesto has been described by police as a “claim of responsibility” for the shooting.

Kenny said its content hints at a motive, indicating “ill will towards


Always interesting to see the angle the BBC takes on such events!!!

 Here: 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8nk75vg81o

 "The dark fandom behind healthcare CEO murder suspect"


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