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Pluck eyebrows. Buy less conspicuous shoes. Take a bus or a train west toward Cincinnati and St. Louis. Move around late at night. Stay away from surveillance cameras.<\/p>\n
A to-do list and travel plans found during Luigi Mangione\u2019s arrest and revealed in court this week shed new light on the steps he may have taken \u2014 or planned to take \u2014 to avoid capture after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson\u2019s killing last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cKeep momentum, FBI slower overnight,\u201d said one note. \u201cChange hat, shoes, pluck eyebrows,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n
The notes, including a hand-drawn map and tactics for surviving on the lam, were shown on Monday at a pretrial hearing as Mangione\u2019s bid to prevent prosecutors from using evidence seized during his Dec. 9, 2024, arrest at a McDonald\u2019s in Altoona, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
Excerpts of body-worn camera footage of the arrest, previously unseen by the press or the public, were released on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Police said they discovered the notes in Mangione\u2019s backpack, along with a\u00a09 mm handgun\u00a0that prosecutors said matches the one used to kill Thompson five days earlier; a loaded gun magazine and silencer; and a notebook in similar handwriting which he purportedly described his intent to \u201cwack\u201d a health insurance executive.<\/p>\n
Mangione\u2019s lawyers haven\u2019t disputed the authenticity of the notes or the provenance of the gun, pocket knife, fake ID, driver\u2019s license, passport, credit cards, AirPods, protein bar, travel toothpaste, flash drives and other items seized from him and his backpack.<\/p>\n
But they argue that anything found in the bag should be barred because police didn\u2019t have a search warrant and lacked the grounds to justify a warrantless search. Prosecutors contend the search was legal \u2014 officers said they were checking for a bomb \u2014 and that police eventually obtained a warrant.<\/p>\n
The notes, along with other evidence highlighted at the pretrial hearing, underscore that Mangione\u2019s stop in Altoona, a city of about 44,000 people about 230 miles (370 kilometers) west of Manhattan, was only meant to be temporary.<\/p>\n
One note said to check for \u201cred eyes\u201d from Pittsburgh to Columbus, Ohio or part way to Cincinnati (\u201cget off early,\u201d it reads). The map drawn below shows lines linking those cities, as well as other possible destinations, including Detroit, Indianapolis and St. Louis.<\/p>\n
Thompson, 50, was killed as he walked to a Manhattan hotel for his company\u2019s investor conference on Dec. 4, 2024. Surveillance video showed a masked gunman shooting him from behind and then fleeing the area. Over the next hours and days, police released photos of a suspect \u2014 first showing him in a mask and hooded coat and then his face and thick eyebrows.<\/p>\n
Mangione, 27, has pleaded not guilty to state and federal murder charges. The pretrial hearing, which resumes for a sixth day on Thursday, applies only to the state case. His lawyers are making a similar push to exclude the evidence from his federal case, where prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.<\/p>\n
Among the notes revealed this week was one with a heading \u201c12\/5\u201d and a starred entry that said: \u201cbuy black shoes (white stripes too distinctive).\u201d<\/p>\n
Another, also written in to-do list style, suggested spending more than three hours away from surveillance cameras and using different modes of transportation to \u201cBreak CAM continuity\u201d and avoid tracking. Below that, it said: \u201ccheck reports for current situation,\u201d a possible reference to news reports about the search for Thompson\u2019s killer.<\/p>\n
According to prosecutors, Mangione fled to Newark, New Jersey, immediately after the shooting and took a train to Philadelphia. Among the evidence shown at the pretrial hearing was a Philadelphia transit pass purchased at 1:06 p.m. \u2014 a little more than six hours after the shooting \u2014 and a ticket for a Greyhound bus, booked under the name Sam Dawson, leaving Philadelphia at 6:30 p.m. and arriving in Pittsburgh at 11:55 p.m.<\/p>\n
A note with the heading \u201c12\/8\u201d lists a number of tasks, including an apparent trip to Best Buy to purchase a digital camera and accessories, \u201chot meal + water bottles,\u201d and \u201ctrash bag(s).\u201d Under \u201c12\/9,\u201d the day of Mangione\u2019s arrest, the note lists tasks including \u201cSheetz,\u201d an Altoona-based convenience store chain, \u201cmasks\u201d and \u201cAAA bats.\u201d Under \u201cFuture TO DO,\u201d it listed \u201cintel checkin\u201d and \u201csurvival kit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mangione had a Sheetz hoagie in his backpack when he was arrested, along with a loaf of Italian bread from a local deli, according to police officers testifying Monday and Tuesday. It had been raining, and the bag and items inside it were wet, the officers said. They were heard on body-worn camera footage played in court theorizing that Mangione had gotten soaked walking from the city\u2019s bus station.<\/p>\n
Police responded to the McDonald\u2019s after a manager called 911 to relay concerns from customers who thought that Mangione, eating breakfast in a back corner, resembled the man wanted for killing Thompson. On the call, played in court, the manager could be heard saying that because Mangione was wearing a medical mask, she could only see his eyebrows and that she searched online for a photo of the suspect for comparison.<\/p>\n
Altoona Police Officer Stephen Fox testified on Tuesday that Mangione, the Ivy League-educated scion of a wealthy Maryland family, expressed concern for the 911 caller\u2019s wellbeing. Fox said Mangione asked if police had planned on releasing her name, which they didn\u2019t. The officer recalled him saying: \u201cIt would be bad for her\u201d and \u201cthere would be a lot of people that would be upset.\u201d<\/p>\n
At another point, Fox said, a shackled Mangione stumbled while trying to keep up with the brisk-moving officer. Fox said he apologized and said, \u201cI forgot you were shackled.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said Mangione responded: \u201cIt\u2019s OK, I\u2019m going to have to get used to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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