When the identity of the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killer was revealed, true crime sleuths on the Internet put forth a slew of bizarre theories about the cold-blooded killer.
On Monday, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione was arrested in connection with the gruesome targeted attack on healthcare mogul Brian Thompson, sending Internet sleuths into a frenzy and concocting a host of theories about the troubled killer.
An internet sleuth claims to have “figured something out” about the Ivy League student turned murderer as she suggests Mangione may have been playing his own version of Monopoly – a multiplayer economics-themed board game.
The sleuth, @lindsunhinged on TikTok, boldly claims that Mangione “wanted to go to jail” as part of his alleged Monopoly-related scheme.
However, the user, Lindsay Mitchell, appears to have based her claims on another theory plaguing the internet, namely the ‘286 Conspiracy Theory’.
As part of the viral conspiracy theory, online sleuths have noted that the number 286 appears to be a key element in the investigation, as evidenced by numerous elements of Mangione’s high-profile case.
For example, Internet sleuths have deduced that Mangione’s X account contains exactly 286 messages and contains a Pokémon named Breloom.
Digging deeper, other eagle-eyed sleuths have pointed out that Breloom has the Pokedex number #286.
On Monday, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione was arrested in connection with the gruesome targeted attack on healthcare mogul Brian Thompson, sending Internet detectives into a frenzy and concocting countless theories about the troubled killer.
Lindsay Mitchell, who goes by the name @lindsunhinged on TikTok, claims to have “made something up” about the Ivy League student turned murderer as she suggests Mangione may have played his own version of Monopoly – an economics-themed board game for multiple players
Mangione was also apprehended at a McDonald’s in Altoona, strangely 456 miles away from the murder scene outside the Hilton hotel in Manhattan.
If that’s not creepy enough, Proverbs 28:6 in the Bible says, “Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.”
Finally, the number 286 is a denial code used in healthcare in the US when the appeal deadlines for a claim have not been met.
Adding to the reaching theory, @lindsunhinged claims that Mangione may have deliberately planned in accordance with the usual Monopoly rules when she suggested that his escape to Central Park might have served as the iconic board game’s ‘free parking’ feature.
The free parking space on the board game acts as a form of lottery, as players who land on this space collect the amount of money allocated for it.
Mitchell compares Mangione’s successful escape to the “free parking lottery.”
In the nearly one-minute clip, posted Tuesday, Mitchell mentions a common Monopoly rule that suggests that if a player rolls three doubles, the player will immediately be sent to jail.
‘I thought, “Oh my God, you can roll doubles in Monopoly,” but what happens if you roll three times, three doubles? Two, eight, six, you go to jail,” she said.
“That means I don’t think he did this alone, he did this on purpose,” she claimed, adding, “He wanted to go to jail (to get caught).”
She claims Mangione must have “rolled three times” before he finally went to jail.
“There’s a lot more to come in this situation,” she added. “I’m so excited, I can’t wait.”
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, was fatally shot in the middle of New York City on Wednesday, December 4
However, Mitchell appears to have based her claims on another theory plaguing the internet, namely the ‘286 Conspiracy Theory’, which suggests that the number 286 is a key element in the investigation, as evidenced by numerous elements of Mangione’s lofty theory. profile case
Adding to the curious theory, on Friday, members of the New York Police Department, when they found the backpack Mangione was wearing when he shot and killed Thompson, discovered colored money used in the Monopoly board game.
Theorists have even gone so far as to claim that the 26-year-old suspected killer traveled to Pennsylvania as a nod to the board game’s Pennsylvania Railroad feature.
Mitchell is just one of a seemingly endless sea of online sleuths who have theorized about Mangione’s motive in the Dec. 4 murder.
Numerous self-appointed investigators have claimed that Mangione was framed by the FBI, while others suggest he may be a “fall man” in the high-profile case that has gripped the country.