YouTube has revealed the truth about a cryptic video that Luigi Mangione allegedly posted shortly after his arrest on Monday.
Mangione, 26, charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was apprehended at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, during a six-day manhunt.
The one-minute, 24-second clip, titled “The Truth,” was shared to an account with Mangione’s photo as a profile and included a countdown that read, “If you see this, I’m already arrested.”
Once the clock reaches zero, the screen goes black and the word ‘Coming soon…’ appears at the bottom right and ‘December 11’ flashes on the screen, followed by ‘Everything is planned, please be patient’. Goodbye for now.”
The video has sparked hysteria online, with people thinking that Mangione had planned the video or that he had an accomplice.
YouTube’s Sarah Colvin-Rowley told DailyMail.com: ‘We terminated the channel in question for violating our impersonation policy, which prohibits content intended to impersonate someone else on YouTube. ‘
The 1:24 clip titled “The Truth” was shared to an account with Mangione’s photo as a profile and included a countdown that read, “If you see this, I’m already arrested.”
Mangione, 26, charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was apprehended at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania during a six-day manhunt
“The channel’s metadata has been updated in response to widespread reporting of Luigi Mangione’s arrest, including updates to the channel’s name and handle.”
She further explained that YouTube has terminated three other Mangione channels based on its guidelines, which state that “creators are expected to act appropriately and not harm the YouTube community, users, employees, or the ecosystem.”
The account, @PepMangione, was reportedly created in January 2024 and has been inactive for almost a year.
The handle also matched Mangione’s other social media accounts, leading the public to believe that something sinister was going on.
The video was reposted to TikTok, where one user said, “This guy is a Master of Science in Engineering. Something big is coming.’
“I think he’s been thinking about this, so he probably already has people helping him by recreating accounts for him, possibly to ensure his message gets out to the public,” another TikToker shared.
Mangione, 26, appeared in court Tuesday and fought extradition to New York, where he faces manslaughter charges after Thompson was killed.
The former Ivy League student was found with a 3D printed gun and black silencer, as well as a manifesto condemning the US healthcare system when he was apprehended.
In the manifesto, Mangione is said to have written about the enormous size of UnitedHealthcare and how much profit it makes, and he is said to have condemned health insurers more broadly for putting profit above care.
Once the clock reaches zero, the screen goes black and the word ‘Coming soon…’ appears at the bottom right and ‘December 11’ flashes on the screen, followed by ‘Everything is planned, please be patient’. Goodbye for now
Details about his writing come against the backdrop of the UPenn graduate’s own experience with the medical field as he struggled after a spinal cord injury. His extensive online presence also revealed that he had read several books on back pain.
‘To spare you a lengthy investigation, I clearly state that I have not collaborated with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some basic social engineering, basic CAD, (and) a lot of patience,” he allegedly wrote in the manifesto, according to the Daily beast.
He continued to say he had “respect” for federal investigators and apologized for causing any “trauma” but appeared to defend his alleged actions.
“To be honest, these parasites already expected it,” the manifesto wrote.
It claimed the US had the “most expensive health care system in the world” but blasted the system for only putting America 42nd in life expectancy.
Mangione, 26, appeared in court Tuesday and fought extradition to New York, where he faces manslaughter charges after Thompson was killed. He was arrested at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania (photo)
One theory is that the former valedictorian killed Thompson as an “act of war” after the company “breached” its contract with his mother, who suffered years of excruciating pain and expense after being diagnosed with severe neuropathy.
Mangione had written in another document, obtained by the true crime podcast Hidden True Crime, that his mother “reached her $6,000 deductible on her UnitedHealthcare plan in October.
Then the doctor went on vacation and my mother wasn’t able to resume testing until January when her deductible was reset.”
“At the time I thought there was nothing I could do,” Mangione reportedly wrote. “The high co-pays make consistent treatment impossible, new treatments were denied because they were not medically necessary, the old treatments didn’t work and left us paying thousands of dollars.”
‘With every delay my anger increased. Every denial made me want to throw the doctor through the glass wall of their hospital waiting room, but it wasn’t them.
“It wasn’t the doctors, the receptionists, administrators, pharmacists, imaging technicians or anyone else we ever met. What it was was UnitedHealthcare.”
In Mangione’s alleged summary, UnitedHealthcare, “you think that because (their conduct) is legal, no one can punish them.”
Mangione is expected to plead not guilty to both his murder charges in New York and gun possession charges in Pennsylvania.