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Alex Gibney, the Oscar-winning director behind documentaries like Taxi to the Darkish Aspect, Going Clear, and Totally Under Control, introduced that he's growing a venture across the capturing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and nationwide manhunt that resulted within the arrest of the alleged prime suspect, Luigi Mangione.

Gibney's Jigsaw Productions and Nameless Content material are teaming up for the venture, which is described as an investigation into "the crime's seemingly meticulous execution to the alleged killer's manifesto and his Ivy League background to the general public's unapologetic apathy in the direction of the sufferer, the investigative deep dive will ask how killers are created, what this killing says about our society and the values we place on who lives and who dies."

Thompson was named CEO of the healthcare providers and insurance coverage big in 2021. He was gunned down in Midtown Manhattan within the early hours of Dec. 4 by a masked assailant, who fled on bicycle. 5 days later, police in Altoona, Pennsylvania responded to studies of a McDonald's buyer allegedly matching the profile of the suspect at massive.

Luigi Nicholas Mangione, a 26 yr outdated initially hailing from Maryland, was taken into custody and arraigned on Dec. 9 on unrelated gun expenses. He’s presently being held at a State Correctional Establishment in Huntingdon, PA earlier than he faces second-degree homicide expenses in New York within the Thompson case.

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Info supplying attainable motives for Mangione have surfaced within the days because the revelation of the identification of the alleged killer. The College of Pennsylvania graduate was allegedly discovered with a ghost gun, or an unserialized and untraceable firearm that’s usually assembled by hand. Regulation enforcement additionally claims that Mangione was additionally in possession of a handwritten manifesto on the time of his apprehension, which reads partly, "I do apologize for any strife of traumas nevertheless it needed to be performed. Frankly, these parasites merely had it coming."

Although Mangione was not a UnitedHealthcare buyer, the insurer has the best declare denial price within the nation, rejecting 32% of all filed claims – double the business common of 16%.

Gibney in the meantime has asserted himself as one of many foremost chroniclers of American institutional corruption. Within the final 5 years, he has directed documentaries on Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian man tortured by the CIA at Guantanamo Bay (The Eternally Prisoner), and disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes (The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley).

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His 2007 documentary, Taxi to the Darkish Aspect, which additionally examined the U.S.'s torture program throughout the warfare in Afghanistan, received the Academy Award for Finest Documentary.

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Gibney produced a number of documentary collection and options this yr by way of his Jigsaw Productions, together with God Save Texas, which was co-directed by Richard Linklater, a have a look at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu known as The Bibi Recordsdata, and a docuseries on David Chase, creator of The Sopranos, which he additionally directed.

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