NEW YORK – Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing a health care insurance CEO, apparently forgot to follow through on a reminder he allegedly wrote to himself that may have made it harder for police to find him.
Several items found in the backpack belonging to Mangione during his arrest at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s last December included a handwritten to-do list that included a reminder to “pluck eyebrows.”
It may have been those signature bushy eyebrows that ultimately led to his capture, according to a pretrial hearing that entered its fifth day Tuesday to determine what evidence may be used for his state murder trial.
Mangione is accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, in an early morning attack in Midtown Manhattan on Dec. 4, 2024. He also faces a separate federal murder trial and has pleaded not guilty on all charges.
Last week, New York state prosecutors played a 911 call from an employee at the McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, who told an operator that a customer believed the man sitting down eating a breakfast sandwich and a hashbrown resembled photos of the shooting suspect.
