Suspect Luigi Mangione & CEO Brian Thompson COLLISION COURSE TO MURDER

A NEW DOCUMENTARY TELLS THE LIFE STORIES OF TWO MEN WHOSE SOLE ENCOUNTER WITH EACH OTHER ALLEGEDLY ENDED IN TRAGEDY

- By LIAM QUINN

Americans awoke to shocking news from New York City on Dec. 4, 2024. In a brazen predawn crime captured on surveillance video, Brian Thompson, 50, CEO of the giant UnitedHealthcare insurance company, was shot execution-style outside the Hilton Midtown in Manhattan by a mysterious hooded figure who escaped, setting off a manhunt in the crowded streets of the nation’s largest city. Intrigue mounted when police recovered bullet casings at the scene labeled "delay," "deny" and “depose”—words used by critics to describe an insurance industry strategy designed to reject claims—and investigators released widely broadcast images of their suspect, a young man with striking features and a flirtatious smile.