Accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione allegedly laid out his homicide plot in a handwritten pocket book — full with a “to-do list” of duties wanted to hold out the slaying, police sources advised The Submit.
Investigators are at present pages of notes the 26-year-old allegedly scrawled in a spiral pocket book earlier than he allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare’s CEO Brian Thompson final week, the sources mentioned.
In one of many notes, which was first reported by CNN, Mangione allegedly weighed what may very well be higher than “to kill the CEO at his own bean counting conference.”
He allegedly acknowledged, too, {that a} taking pictures can be extra focused — noting {that a} bomb “could kill innocents.”
Mangione is accused of fatally taking pictures Thompson because the 50-year-old CEO walked to a Manhattan lodge the place UnitedHealthcare’s mother or father firm, UnitedHealth Group, was holding its annual investor convention.
Along with the notes, cops are investigating a three-page manifesto-type doc that Mangione had on him when he was captured at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania on Monday following a five-day manhunt.
The alleged manifesto included raging remarks about “parasitic” medical insurance firms and expressed disdain for company greed and energy, based on legislation enforcement sources.
He allegedly additionally wrote that the US has the costliest healthcare system on the earth and that earnings of main firms proceed to rise whereas “our life expectancy” doesn’t.
The hand-written doc allegedly discovered with Mangione included a line by which he claimed to have acted alone.
“To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone,” the doc mentioned, based on sources.
The small print emerged as cops proceed to piece collectively a potential motive for the cold-blooded killing – together with whether or not Mangione was fueled by a vendetta in opposition to the medical business after affected by continual again ache.
Mangione is being held in a Pennsylvania lockup whereas preventing extradition to New York, the place he’s dealing with homicide fees in Manhattan over Thompson’s slaying.
With Submit wires