Luigi Mangione: Guilty Until Proven Innocent

On Dec. 4, 2024, Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was murdered in Midtown Manhattan. Less than a week later, Luigi Mangione emerged as the only suspect. He faces several charges from New York State and Pennsylvania as well as multiple federal charges. Mangione has pleaded “not guilty” to these crimes.

DOOLITTLE | Watched Them All, Of Course: The True Crime Renaissance

I must have witnessed hundreds of murders before I turned ten. If you walked into my house at any one time during my childhood, chances were there was some true crime show — 48 Hours, Forensic Files, Unsolved Mysteries — playing on the tube. We never actively sought these programs out, they were just … there, on A&E or TLC, the kind of entertainment that you just point your eyeballs at for 30 minutes as you relax. For the longest time, I turned my nose up at these shows; they were base, tacky and even disrespectful, but I still watched. I mean, these people had died, and often their killer had never been caught.