Every so often a crime capture’s the internet’s attention, and the murder of an American health insurance CEO in Manhattan last week has done just that. While the suspect – named as Luigi Mangione – has not yet revealed his motivation, The New York Times reported that he had a handwritten manifesto in his backpack which “criticized healthcare companies for putting profits above care.”
Yet while the crime may have been carried out to highlight the injustices in the American healthcare system, much of the attention is currently focused on Mangione himself. Internet sleuths have uncovered the 26-year-old’s digital footprint, which spans Reddit to Goodreads, and are obsessing over how a popular Ivy League graduate who friends describe as “thoughtful and deeply compassionate” became an assassin.
