Publications like this made headlines last December after Luigi Mangione was arrested for the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson cbs, people, and newsweek Shouting loudly, his mother implicated him in the crime. fox news The story was headlined: “Luigi Mangione’s mother makes shocking admission to police.”
A week after Mangione’s arrest, NYPD Detective Joseph Kenny held a news conference and said Kathleen Mangione told law enforcement the crime “may have been something she saw him doing.”
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However, there is no evidence that Mangione’s mother ever made such a statement to law enforcement.
Mangione’s lead defense attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, made the comments last week on the final day of New York City’s suppression hearings. She asked the NYPD, San Francisco Police Department or the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to “correct this very prejudicial statement that was never made.” (Maggioni has pleaded not guilty to all state and federal charges against him.)
SFPD spoke with Mangione’s mother in November 2024 when she filed a missing person petition, but so far, SFPD has remained silent on those comments. But on Friday, rolling stones Speak with a San Francisco police officer to clarify their conversations with Mangione’s family.
San Francisco Police Chief Michael Holland was the first detective to identify Mangione as the primary suspect in the UnitedHealthcare shootings. Holland was looking through Mangione’s social media photos while investigating a disappearance filed by Mangione’s mother, Katherine, who lived in Maryland. She filed the report in San Francisco in November 2024 because she had lost contact with her son earlier in the year and believed his employer was based in the city. On December 5, when Holland was reviewing Mangione’s case file, he was surprised to find that the young man looked very similar to the incriminating photos circulated by the New York Police Department. (He is working with rolling stones last spring. )
during an interview rolling stones Holland said Friday that he and his colleagues didn’t speak to Mangione’s mother at all after he determined Mangione resembled the UHC shooter. Asked specifically if he knew Katherine said those things to police, Holland added, “That was never what we said.”
“After we linked our case to the New York case, we never spoke to the mother again,” Horan said. “I do believe the FBI spoke to the mother that weekend when they were trying to identify, so that may have been a conversation they had with her.”
Once Holland raised suspicions, the only person the SFPD spoke to was one of Mangione’s sisters, and they didn’t mention anything about the incriminating photos being circulated during their conversations, Horan said. “We were just curious if she would do it voluntarily because [the crime photos were] It was all over the news, but it never came up,” Horan said.
It’s unclear where NYPD Detective Kenney received this information, with Katherine reportedly saying she could see her son “doing something similar.” (The NYPD did not respond to a request for comment.)
At the 2024 press conference, Kenney also said, “Part of the review process was that they contacted Mangione’s mother in San Francisco late on the 7th. They had a conversation and she didn’t identify that it was her son in the photo, but she said it might be something she could see him doing.”
Kenney mentioned that law enforcement contacted Katherine in San Francisco late Saturday, December 7, 2024, but Mangione’s mother lived in Maryland, not California. He didn’t know yet whether the “they” he was referring to were the SFPD, FBI or NYPD.
Kenney added that the information they gathered would be passed on to detectives “the next morning,” Dec. 8, but Mangione was arrested before they could take action. However, Mangione was not arrested until Monday, December 9, 2024. Kenney also said there are NYPD officers in the FBI, but NYPD Detective David Leonardi testified last week that he had never heard of Luigi Mangione’s name until Altoona’s arrest, days after the FBI received the tip and began reviewing it.
Horan reiterated rolling stones He didn’t know the specific details of Kathleen Mangione’s conversation with the FBI that weekend in December 2024. That November, SFPD’s interaction with Katherine was purely about her search for her son. “She was just a concerned mother who really wanted to find her son,” Horan said in the spring. He said Katherine had called the San Francisco Police Department several times to get updates on the missing persons case.
Friedman Agnifilo told the court that Katherine told the San Francisco Police Department that her son posed no threat to himself or others, and Holland clarified that this was not a conversation that occurred after Thompson committed the crime. Instead, this is likely a conversation the SFPD had with Mangione’s mother on Nov. 18 when she first filed a missing persons report. Horan explained that asking someone if they pose a risk to themselves or others is standard operating procedure when filing a missing persons report.
After Mangione was arrested on Monday, December 9, Holland remembered talking again to Special Agent Gary Cobb, who provided the tip to FBI agents on Thursday, December 5. Cobb told him, “Good job,” Holland recalled. That’s when Cobb told Horan they spoke with Mangione’s family the weekend before he was taken into custody.
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