A former top FBI profiler is breaking down Luigi Mangione’s arrest today -- the prime person of interest in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson ... and he's also pointing out all the "sloppy" blunders made along the way by the person who did the shooting -- Mangione has not been charged in the case.
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00:00I worked in New York City in the FBI for seven years, late 80s through mid 90s, work with
00:06some great detectives.
00:07They have great investigators there.
00:09The FBI itself, the worker bees, they know what they're doing.
00:14So when they joined forces, I knew it was only a matter of time, but when it went past
00:18three days and even four days, I'm thinking, okay, I don't believe our shooter is a criminal
00:24mastermind of some sort.
00:26He wouldn't be using that weapon, not that style of weapon to shoot and kill someone.
00:31And it seemed almost sort of sophomoric or juvenile to write little messages on bullets.
00:36I mean, people write them on missiles and war zones, things like that.
00:40I know that may be where he got his idea, but I broke it down within the first few hours
00:46of it happening.
00:47This was either personal, it was professional, or it was ideological.
00:52What do you make of the fact that he still had, if this person of interest turns out
00:57to be the shooter, still had, in addition to having the manifesto, but still had the
01:03gun with him?
01:05Honestly, as I was listening to all the details over the weekend, I assumed that gun had been
01:11stashed, thrown somewhere in Central Park.
01:13Right.
01:14In the water.
01:15A little needle in the haystack or in one of the lakes there, but what do you make of
01:19the fact that he still had it with him?
01:21Yeah, and I said early on, this killer was mission oriented.
01:24He wanted to accomplish this task.
01:27Now being mission oriented at the same time doesn't mean you're necessarily criminally
01:31sophisticated.
01:33And this guy was more lucky than anything in terms of his egress from Midtown Manhattan
01:39and eventually out of the city to Altoona.
01:44I heard he may have been to Atlanta and back.
01:46I'm not sure where that part fits in.
01:48But yeah, he may be a bright guy.
01:51Apparently he's Ivy League educated.
01:53But when it came to committing a crime like this, he made some sloppy mistakes.
01:58We're still waiting to see if the DNA comes back from the bottle or the phone, anything
02:02else they found were the shell casings.
02:05But obviously with showing his face like that, and quite frankly, in the McDonald's today,
02:10you can't eat through a mask, even the best of the COVID mask.
02:13You still had to pull it down and to put the food in your mouth.
02:17Someone sitting across from him saw his full face and said, hey, I recognize him from somewhere.
02:22And sure enough, they called the police.
02:24And fortunately, this guy's in custody and he isn't proven guilty.
02:27Let's put that out there, everyone.
02:29But he seems like a damn good suspect.
02:31If he's still carrying that gun, it takes away from his level of sophistication.
02:36There was no reason for him to keep that at this point.
02:38To me, it immediately said, well, either he's just sloppy or he wanted.
02:43And I know you say people don't want to go to jail, but to carry the manifesto, maybe
02:48he at least was expecting that they're going to find me eventually.
02:53And when they do, I want to make sure either I can get in a shootout and die as a martyr
03:01and have this manifesto.
03:04That's the first thing I thought when I that he still had those two things with him.
03:08He was expecting to be caught.
03:10That weapon is not one designed to be in a shootout against someone.
03:13That's for sneaking up behind someone in a very cowardly way, racking it back each time.
03:18I think even a live around came out at one point.
03:21And he but he managed, of course, to succeed in his goal of killing his target.
03:27But yeah, why he was still carrying it just sloppy, stupid.
03:31Again, he maybe went past the first.
03:32Who knows?
03:33He could have actually hit it for a day or two.
03:36Maybe he was gutsy enough to come back and get it.
03:38So, hey, they didn't get me already.
03:39I'm out of here.
03:40You might have studied other cases.
03:42If you're not a homicide isn't solved in 12 hours or 24, you have a much better chance
03:47of getting away with it.
03:48But not with the entire NYPD and then the FBI combined looking for this guy and other
03:54PDs all around the nation.
03:55It was only a matter of time.