A Profile of the C.E.O. Killing Suspect, and Tech Giants Give to Trump Fund

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2024-12-13

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  • from the new York Times, it's the Headlines.

  • I'm Tracy Mumford.

  • Today's Friday, December 13th.

  • Here's what we're covering.

  • The Times has been on the ground gathering details from California to New York, Hawaii to Maryland,

  • even Japan to try and piece together the path of Luigi Manjone, the suspect in the murder of United Healthcare's CEO.

  • The rough outline of Manjone's life has been widely shared.

  • Valedictorian at a prep school in Baltimore, computer science grad at Penn.

  • But my colleagues have been narrowing in on the last two years when things seemed to shift for him.

  • He quit his job at a tech company in early 2023, calling it mind numbingly boring.

  • He spent a lot of time trying to get relief from a back injury, posting about unbearable pain.

  • It was so bad, he told one friend, that it kept him from dating.

  • Eventually, he got back surgery.

  • That seemed to help.

  • By early this year, he was off trying to find peace on a trip through Asia with stops in Thailand and Japan.

  • In a voice message, he told a friend, I want some time to zen out.

  • Manjone recorded that on April 27th.

  • It was apparently one of the last communications he had with friends and family before he seemed to cut ties.

  • Where in the world are you?

  • One friend texted.