New bodycam footage showed the moment Luigi Mangione was questioned inside a Pennsylvania McDonald's and strip-searched after killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan.
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Mangione → show → Manhattan
In one video, officers ask Mangione to lower the face mask he was wearing to hide his identity.
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he → ask → identity
'That's 100 percent him,' one officer eagerly said as they stepped outside to speak out of Mangione's earshot.
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they → say → earshot
'I told you, man,' another responded off camera.
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another → tell → camera
Later, an officer searched Mangione's belongings and smiled widely as she pulled out a gun cartridge, seemingly confirming they found their suspect.
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they → search → suspect
The trove of videos comes from Mangione's December 9, 2024, arrest in Altoona, five days after Thompson, a 50-year-old Minnesota executive, was gunned down as he walked to a midtown Manhattan hotel for his company's annual investor conference.
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he → come → conference
A Manhattan judge unsealed the recordings on Friday after CNN petitioned for their release.
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CNN → unseal → release
Parts of the videos were shown during a December court hearing as Mangione's lawyers unsuccessfully sought to get key evidence thrown out, including his initial statements to police and items seized at the time of his arrest.
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evidence → show → arrest
Luigi Magione, 28, pleaded guilty to to federal stalking charges in August and faces life in prison when he's sentenced in December
New bodycam footage showed Mangione being searched by police in Pennsylvania
Mangione pleaded guilty in August to federal stalking charges and faces life in prison when he's sentenced in December.
He also faces murder charges in New York state court, though those proceedings have been postponed indefinitely as his lawyers seek to have the case thrown out.
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case → plead → court
The videos released on Friday began with officers descending on the McDonald's in central Pennsylvania, nearly 300 miles from Manhattan.
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officers → release → Manhattan
They find Mangione, the Ivy League-educated scion of a wealthy Maryland family, seated at a table wearing a ski hat, surgical face mask and winter coat.
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Mangione → find → hat
The officers say they're responding to a call about a suspicious person and ask for his name and identification.
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they → say → name
Why are you nervous?' an officer asks at one point.
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officer → ask → point
They order him to put his hands on his head and ask him if he's been in New York recently.
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he → order → York
They confront him about a phony New Jersey driver's license he offered up bearing the name Mark Rosario.
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he → confront → name
'You're under official police investigation right now,' one officer warned.
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officer → warn → investigation
'You give a false name to us again, you're gonna be arrested for false ID.
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When Mangione finally came clean, they asked why he had lied.
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The young man was seen in handcuffs inside a police station
'That's 100 percent him,' one officer eagerly said when they found Magione inside the McDonald's
'I clearly shouldn't have,' he responded as he was asked to write his real name and spell it aloud.
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he → see → it
Other videos show officers patting Mangione down, reading him his rights, placing him in cuffs and taking him to the police station.
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officers → show → station
As an officer searched him more thoroughly at the station, another officer went through his backpack.
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officer → search → backpack
The officer found the 9mm handgun authorities would later confirm was used in the killing, as well as a silencer and another ammo magazine.
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authorities → find → killing
They also recovered the journal that prosecutors would later say revealed Mangione's intent to 'whack' a health insurance executive, as well as his other handwritten notes.
'He has a checklist for today,' another officer said, ticking off the seized items to someone on the phone.
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officer → recover → phone
'Tomorrow he's supposed to do an intel check-in and get a survival kit.'
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he → suppose → kit
In August, the 28-year-old admitted why he killed the healthcare CEO.
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he → admit → CEO
The killer claimed 'severe' back pain drove him to pose as an investor with over $50 billion and shoot the CEO dead.
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pain → claim → CEO
Footage also showed him arrest inside a Pennsylvania McDonald's after he gave them a fake ID
Mangione said in court in August that he killed Brian Thompson after years of severe backpain
'I shot Mr Thompson in Manhattan and he died,' Mangione testified in August
As he spoke in Manhattan Federal Court, Mangione laid bare his plan to target Thompson.
He told the court: 'After years of enduring severe pain from a broken back, navigating the obstacles of the health insurance system and witnessing similar experiences of countless others, I learned that UnitedHealthcare would be holding its annual investor conference in New York City on December 4, 2024, although the specific location was not publicly disclosed.
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location → show → December
I then searched the event online.
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I → search → event
I observed that the annual conference of America's largest health care organization and the stated mission to make health – excuse me – with the stated mission to make the health system work better for everyone, would be attended by company executives, the board of directors, and hundreds of investors, not doctors, nurses, and patients.
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system → observe → investors
Mangione went on to reveal how he got Thompson's location and acquired the murder weapon.
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he → go → weapon
He said: 'In November of 2024, I traveled from outside of New York State to Manhattan.
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I → say → Manhattan
I then emailed UnitedHealthcare leadership posing as an investor at a firm managing over $50 billion in assets and requesting information about the conference.
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I → email → conference
Unlike my previous interactions with insurers, I received an immediate response within an hour.
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I → receive → hour
Before traveling to New York, I used a 3D printer to make part of a gun, and I equipped the gun with the silencer and magazine.
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I → travel → silencer
My travel to New York and email to UnitedHealthcare was with the intent to shoot Brian Thompson.
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travel → shoot → Thompson
Mangione concluded: 'On the morning of December 4, 2024, I shot Mr Thompson in Manhattan and he died.
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he → conclude → Manhattan
When I did so, I understood that my actions would place him in fear of death or serious bodily injury.
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actions → do → death
I knew what I was doing was illegal.'
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doing → know → what
The federal stalking charges he admitted to carry a maximum sentence of life in prison.
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he → admit → prison
His sentencing hearing has been scheduled for December 18.
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