Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead serious.

When it comes to the case against Luigi Mangione, it's pretty easy to think that there's not much left to figure out, right?

A CEO was gunned down on a Manhattan street. There's video. There's evidence stretching

all the way from New York to Pennsylvania. And then you get this suspect who says he's innocent,

even though it looks like an uphill battle for Mangione against the death penalty. But some new

information has just come in. I just learned it tonight from a source and it might

just mean this case could be even more of a slam dunk than we thought. Behind that polished smile,

behind the Ivy League degrees and the family fortune, Luigi Mangiione did something that's going to be hard

to argue, something that started a half a world away in Asia, did a motive for murdering a

health care CEO begin to percolate in Thailand.

As it turns out, the man he's accused of executing on the streets of New York, Brian Thompson,

was no stranger to Mangione, not for a long time.

In fact, Luigi seemed to be obsessing over Brian Thompson, along with other CEOs, that he believed

were quote-unquote greedy. And how do I know this? Witnesses told me that he told them so.

Witnesses have told me that that's exactly what Luigi Mangione told them

in Thailand. And these are new witnesses, new witnesses who have not yet even talked to the police

yet. American witnesses who spent quality time with Luigi Mangione together in Thailand.

Did that fixation that he openly talked about in a Bangkok pub lead to murder on the streets of

Manhattan nine months later?

Buckle up, because in this episode, I talked to one of those Americans who befriended Mangione in that

pub and listened as Luigi spewed his anti-capitalist philosophies against those so-called

greedy CEOs, his words, not mine, with Brian Thompson specifically named. The deeper we dig into

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