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Luigi Mangione - Part Two: On Pain of Death | #432

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

When Luigi Mangione was charged as the UnitedHealthcare shooter – it changed everything. The public knew this was a political act, but Luigi was not the crackpot vigilante many had pictured. He had no clear personal link to UnitedHealthcare (or CEO Brian Thompson) – and he had everything to lose. To many, he became a certified, revolutionary, anti-capitalist heartthrob.

But there’s also a lot more to Mangione than the selfless martyr with chiselled abs. In our concluding part, we take a deeper look at Mangione’s life: his privileged upbringing, world travels, and the innermost thoughts shared in his notebook – which reveal how a charming, idealistic tech bro with the world at his feet, turned his thoughts to murder.

Watch this episode on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNXJAQTDEVU

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0:00.0

I'm Suruti. I'm Hannah. And welcome to Red Handed. As we covered last week, there are two things that made this case completely unlike anything we've covered before.

0:22.5

First, there were the words on the cartridge casings, deny, defend, depose.

0:29.3

That's when it really looked like Brian Thompson had been targeted as a symbol of monopolistic corporate greed.

0:38.0

The second moment that really set this case apart

0:41.2

was when the identity of the masked vigilante was revealed to the world.

0:46.2

We've covered the astounding public response to him,

0:49.6

memes upon memes upon murals upon musicals,

0:52.2

and how his identity and message were adapted to fit

0:55.7

just about any narrative going.

0:58.7

But who is the real, Luigi Manjoni?

1:02.8

How exactly did he go from promising well-off Techgrad to vigilante killer?

1:08.7

Let's look at the uncomfortable truth behind the portrait of a selfless revolutionary

1:14.6

with chisel dabs.

1:17.9

Somebody's threading his eyebrows in prison.

1:20.3

100%.

1:20.9

I just, I've never seen anything like it.

1:23.7

I'm just like, I haven't had my eyebrows done since my wedding.

1:26.8

Mm-hmm.

1:27.2

And I've also had to stop using like any things on them because I was like getting some reactions.

1:33.1

And this is it.

1:34.1

This is the most.

1:34.6

Yes, but you are an irritatingly hairless person.

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