The Standard on Friday obtained the missing-person report on Luigi Mangione, raising new questions about when law enforcement first suspected he might be the killer of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO.
Kathleen Mangione, the suspect’s mother, filed the report Nov. 18 and told the San Francisco Police Department she last spoke to her son in July. Police sources say they passed the report to the FBI last week.
Mangione told police her son worked at the now-closed company TrueCar in San Francisco, and she did not know what locations he “frequented.”
The Nov. 18 bulletin has a photo of a smiling Mangione.
Days before the Dec. 9 arrest of Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, San Francisco police informed the FBI they thought the as-yet-unidentified suspect in the Dec. 4 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson might be the man reported missing by Kathleen Mangione, according to sources with knowledge of the investigation.
“This was not a name that was called into us,” Jessica Tisch, New York City’s police commissioner, told
NBC on Tuesday.
On Dec. 6, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation, San Francisco police reached out to the FBI to tell them the suspected killer looked like a man who had been reported missing in November. That FBI contact was first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.
An SFPD spokesperson referred all inquiries about the case to the NYPD, which has not responded to a request for comment. The FBI has also yet to respond to a request for comment.
Mangione, 26, was arraigned Monday in Pennsylvania on gun charges. Several hours later, he was charged in Manhattan with murder, according to online court records.
New York police officials said Mangione was born and raised in Maryland, with ties to San Francisco, and lived until recently in Honolulu.
