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Mangione Reveals Psychiatric Defense Strategy | Crime Alert 06.18.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Silvanni. We begin in New York, where the
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  Speaker 2: legal battle over the assassination of a healthcare executive is shifting.
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  Speaker 2: Attorneys for Luigi Mangioni will present a psychiatric defense at
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  Speaker 2: his state murder trial this fall, arguing he killed United
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  Speaker 2: Healthcare chief executive Brian Thompson while suffering an extreme emotional disturbance.
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  Speaker 2: At a hearing Wednesday, Judge Gregory Carro stated he plans
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  Speaker 2: to unseal records regarding this defense, where a defendant admits
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  Speaker 2: to the conduct but argues they aren't fully liable due
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  Speaker 2: to a mental health episode. Experts say this defense is challenging,
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  Speaker 2: but represents Mangioni's best option given the strong evidence. Last month,
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  Speaker 2: Carl cleared prosecutors to present crucial evidence tying Mangoni to
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  Speaker 2: the crime scene and his potential motive. An earlier hearing
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  Speaker 2: had been sealed to prevent prejudice if the defense abandoned
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  Speaker 2: the strategy. However, on Wednesday, Assistant District Attorney Joel Siedeman
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  Speaker 2: accused the def defense of stonewalling by withholding details. Carl
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  Speaker 2: ordered the defense to turn over their psychiatric expert's name
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  Speaker 2: in the basis of their argument. By Thursday, the judge
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  Speaker 2: warned that further delays could preclude Mangioni from using the
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  Speaker 2: defense at his trial slated for September. Mangioni is pleaded
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  Speaker 2: not guilty to state murder and weapons charges in the
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  Speaker 2: December twenty twenty four fatal shooting of Thompson outside a
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  Speaker 2: midtown Manhattan hotel. On Wednesday, Carl also dropped a weapons
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  Speaker 2: count stemming from a loaded magazine found in Mangioni's backpack
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  Speaker 2: during his Pennsylvania arrest in May. The judge ruled that
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  Speaker 2: magazine inadmissible due to an improper police search at an
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  Speaker 2: Altoona McDonald's. Mangioni also faces federal stocking charges, to which
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  Speaker 2: he pleaded not guilty. Defenses are limited because Carl previously
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  Speaker 2: allowed prosecutors to introduce the alleged murder weapon in writings
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  Speaker 2: expressing animosity toward the healthcare industry in a desire to
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  Speaker 2: kill the CEO. Under New York law, if an extreme
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  Speaker 2: emotional disturbance defense succeeds by a preponderance of evidence, the
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  Speaker 2: charge drops from murder to manslaughter, reducing a potential life
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  Speaker 2: sentence to a maximum of twenty five years moving to Delaware.
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  Speaker 2: Authorities have identified the suspect in a violent hospital shooting.
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  Speaker 2: A Wilmington Police Department advisory names twenty three year old
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  Speaker 2: John Wallace Bay of Newcastle as the alleged gunman in
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday's attack. Wallace Bay faces charges of first degree murder,
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  Speaker 2: first degree attempted murder, carrying a concealed deadly weapon, in
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  Speaker 2: two counts of possession of a firearm during a felony.
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  Speaker 2: According to the official police update, the suspect was taken
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  Speaker 2: into custody in Philadelphia and its currently pending extradition to Delaware.
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  Speaker 2: The shooting left two nineteen year old men as victims.
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  Speaker 2: During a Tuesday press conference, Wilmington Police Department Chief Wilfredo
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  Speaker 2: Campos confirmed that one of those victims tragically succumbed to
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  Speaker 2: his injuries. The Wednesday advisory noted that the second victim
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  Speaker 2: remains hospitalized in critical but stable condition, while the identity
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  Speaker 2: of the deceased will be released at a later time
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  Speaker 2: as the active investigation continues. More crime and justice news
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  Speaker 2: after this. Finally, on Long Island, a multi decade serial
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  Speaker 2: killer nightmare has reached a dramatic, definitive legal conclusion. The
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  Speaker 2: man who confessed to killing eight women and discarding their
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  Speaker 2: skeletal remains along New York's Gilgo Beach spoke very few
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  Speaker 2: words at his formal sentencing on Wednesday. Sixty two year
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  Speaker 2: old Rex Humeerman pleaded guilty back in April to seven
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  Speaker 2: counts of murder in the tragic deaths of Sandra Castilla,
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  Speaker 2: Valerie Mack, Jessica Taylor, Maureene Brainerd Barnes, Melissa bartholemy Megan Waterman,
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  Speaker 2: and Amber Costello. The victims were all working in the
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  Speaker 2: sex trade at the times of their deaths, which occurred
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  Speaker 2: between nineteen ninety three and twenty ten. While Humeerman initially
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  Speaker 2: faced fewer charges, his formal courtroom elecution included a stunning
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  Speaker 2: explicit admission that he also killed an eighth woman, Karen Viergatta,
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  Speaker 2: at his arrest in twenty twenty three. The married father
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  Speaker 2: of two lived on Long Island and worked as a
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  Speaker 2: Manhattan architect. Initially linked by DNA to three murders, investigators
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  Speaker 2: tracked him down by linking him to a first generation
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  Speaker 2: Chevy Avalanche seen by a witness to Amber Costello's disappearance,
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  Speaker 2: leading to a trove of damning cell phone records. Suffolk
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  Speaker 2: County District Attorney Ray Tierney revealed that authorities successfully traced
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  Speaker 2: Humorman's Burner phone usage back to two thousand and seven,
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  Speaker 2: matching his precise physical locations with American Express billing records.
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  Speaker 2: At Wednesday's emotional sentencing, Judge Timothy Mazai ordered a completely
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  Speaker 2: emotionless Humorman to stand confronting the serial killer directly before
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  Speaker 2: delivering his final judgment.
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  Speaker 3: Mister human, as mister Channey said, I know that you're
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  Speaker 3: sorry that he got caught.
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  Speaker 4: I assume that you're sorry for what you've done to
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  Speaker 4: your wife and children. Are you a little bit sorry
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  Speaker 4: for what you did to these poor innocent women, eight
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  Speaker 4: women that you strangled to death, at least eight that
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  Speaker 4: we know of.
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  Speaker 1: Are you at least a little bit sorry for that? Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: you know what.
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  Speaker 3: You've been described as a very big man, but you're
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  Speaker 3: a disgusting and despicable small man if you're a man
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  Speaker 3: at all, and you're a coward.
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  Speaker 2: Following that intense courtroom exchange judgements, I ordered deputies to
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  Speaker 2: remove Humeerman from the court as the room erupted into
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  Speaker 2: applause and cheers. Hureman received three consecutive life sentences without
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  Speaker 2: parole for first degree murder, plus four consecutive sentences of
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  Speaker 2: twenty five years to life for second degree murder charges.
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  Speaker 2: Outside the courthouse, defense attorney Mike Brown addressed the media, stating,
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  Speaker 2: there are two parts directs, one responsible for these horrific
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  Speaker 2: acts and another who appeared normal during legal consultations. For
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  Speaker 2: the latest crime and justice breaking news, be sure to
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  Speaker 2: tune in tomorrow on your favorite podcast app with this
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  Speaker 2: crime alert. I'm Sidney Silvani.