know, you don't want to show up, you know, for a fire in a suit and tie, which i've done a couple of times because i forgot. yeah. so. but you look good. well, look, before we go, we want to say to you, send us your like it or not questions or just record yourself asking a question. tell us where you're from. you can see yourself on our next showw ww i'm anna garcia right now on true crime news. luigi mangione speaks out the suspected killer's first public remarks since being arrested. he's accused of assassinating the ceo of united health care as he walked down the street. >> and insult the intelligence of the american people. >> and has developed a cult following. his supporters sending in hundreds of thousands of dollars for his defense. >> i don't think there's any question that his looks help him. >> but who is luigi mangione? dan abrams is determined to find

out. plus, a california campsite becomes a crime scene. >> i wish that i could go back and say, don't go camping. >> what happened in the woods that left one man burned beyond recognition and another savagely stabbed, clinging to life. >> i woke up, i think it was like my house. >> as cops searched for a killer in the wild, the case takes an even more chilling turn. thanks for joining us. by now, everyone is familiar with the name luigi mangione. the ivy league graduate accused of gunning down the united health care ceo, who became a social media sensation. he's facing life in prison. but to his fans, he's a hero who should be set free. and now, for the first time since his arrest, luigi is addressing the public. this, as a new documentary, sets out to answer the question who is luigi mangione? >> the ceo of united health care shot and killed. >> the story exploded.

>> a shocking caught on tape assassination. a brazen suspect. >> police arrested luigi mangione. >> and the bizarre cult following of devoted fans who have donated more than $425,000 to the alleged killers defense. >> they are holding signs up, young women are writing him letters and throwing him kisses. >> i don't think there's any question that his looks help him. >> and the alleged brazen killer now speaking directly to his followers through a new website set up by his new york legal defense team, saying in part, i'm overwhelmed by and grateful for everyone who has written me to share their stories and express their support. >> you can see that it was not a professional hit. >> who is luigi mangione? is the new documentary making a deep dive into how a brilliant young man from a wealthy family landed behind bars, accused of gunning down united health care ceo brian thompson on a manhattan street. >> this was about putting pieces of the puzzle together to figure

out who is luigi mangione. >> executive producer dan abrams says they did it through interviews with experts and friends. >> luigi reached out to me via email. he seemed to have just sort of gone dark. >> and luigi's own chilling writings. >> violence against those who lead us to destruction is justified and self-defense. >> in his writings, he is trying to explain, to analyze a situation in a way that most people would disagree with. >> he started reading the writings of the unabomber. >> his writings are the beginning of the rationalization of what presumably was to come. >> and prosecutors say what followed was a cold blooded killing that shocked luigi's family and friends and destroyed the family of brian thompson, the ceo, husband and father. >> he was brilliant. >> we're all so proud of him. >> in creating a documentary on

who is luigi mangione. one of the challenges is to make sure brian thompson is not forgotten. >> he was very talented, very bright individual. >> one of the things we talked about in this documentary is how you have two valedictorians here whose paths, apparently or seemingly crossed. >> their path crossing after luigi had distanced himself from those closest to him, which led to his worried mother contacting police. >> his mother even apparently filed a missing persons report because she couldn't find him. in the weeks before the incident. >> for just over five days, our nypd investigators combed through thousands of hours of video, followed up on hundreds of tips, and processed every bit of forensic evidence dna, fingerprints, ip addresses, and so much more to tighten the net. we deployed drones, k-9 units, and scuba divers. >> luigi mangione's last image

is captured first in a taxi, then showing his face while checking into a youth hostel. he's captured after being recognized by a group of regular customers inside this mcdonald's in altoona, pennsylvania. five days after thompson is killed. >> he made a comment, but that looks like the shooter from new york. >> the incident landed luigi in the same brooklyn, new york, jail where diddy is being held. >> people who kill people are at the top of the pecking order. it's a closed social society. >> larry levine is a former federal inmate consultant and author of the new book, prison politics 101 mastering the rules of survival. he says luigi's bizarre folk hero status can help protect him behind bars. >> people love him. people support him. it's not really now about the guy that he killed. it's about that he stood up against a corrupt system that's overcharging people for health care and letting people die. so he has a lot of respect for that. >> but that may not be the case

when luigi faces a jury in a courtroom during a trial. >> if you find one juror, that's all you need in new york. who finds him not guilty? well, there's a mistrial. okay, then. all right, we're going to retry him. >> i think the defense is going to challenge the evidence. they're going to say that they should have looked at other possible suspects. but knowing that the best defense is the hope that you have sympathetic jurors or even one. >> luigi is back in court this week accused of the heinous crime those close to him still find hard to believe. >> it's incomprehensible that the person i knew and was friends with could assassinate somebody. >> right after it happened. my phone was just nonstop. he didn't seem like the kind of guy that would do something like that. >> the search for answers continues in who is luigi mangione now on investigation discovery and streaming on max tonight.

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sorta in a relationship? no. >> we've never we've never had any type of physical relationship like that. it's always just been me hanging out with my best friend. >> but sheldon tells detectives trevor was bisexual. >> i never thought that he was attracted to me. he never said anything about that to me. >> then sheldon drops a bombshell, claiming trevor attempted to rape him while he was trying to go to sleep and attacked him with a knife. >> kicked him and stood up, and he realized that the knife wasn't sharp and he just stood and pulled out another knife. >> sheldon says, fearing for his life, they wrestled for the knife. >> i realized that he was bleeding also. i know i stabbed him in his arm, probably at least two times. he just left. >> and walked away. >> yes. >> you don't know where he's at? >> no one's seen him in hours. as far as i know, he's probably still somewhere around the campsite. right there for a couple hours. they bleed to death a couple times i blacked

out and i woke up. i was still about five. i thought i was in hell. >> at first, it appeared trevor may be on a murderous rampage at buck's lake. >> for all anyone knew, trevor was still running around the woods. >> but as detectives soon learn more about the charred body in the campfire pit, they're shocked when the autopsy results reveal it's trevor stabbed in his back and chest before being incinerated. >> it could have been either of the stab wounds, either the one to the front or the one to the back. >> suddenly, sheldon goes from victim to main person of interest in trevor's murder. >> he was basically our number one suspect. >> cops suspect sheldon's own knife wounds are self-inflicted. >> what was odd from the beginning, in looking at the wounds is that most of them were superficial. >> detectives hit sheldon hard. >> did you stab yourself in the neck? no. >> and there are slash marks on

sheldon's wrists, which he admits were indeed self-inflicted. >> why did youut your wrist, though? when you woke up. >> it was sad for my best friend. just left me there to die. stabbed me in the neck. i was screaming and nobody came to help me. >> investigators don't buy it. or sheldon's claim that trevor attacked him. >> once it became apparent to sheldon that he had killed his friend and he was reaching for what story might work, and i think he went back and forth between, i'm going to try and get away with murder, versus i'm going to try and kill myself. >> based on the evidence, it was clear to us that the only person that used a weapon was sheldon. he stabbed himself in the neck. he cut his own wrists. he also stabbed his friend. each step of the investigation led us to a conclusion that while sheldon may have come across as a very nice young man on that evening, he was nothing short of evil. >> maybe you were upset at him for trying to advance on you

sexually, and you got upset at him and stabbed him. >> that's not what happened. >> we were able to find the location where sheldon had buried not only the murder weapon, but some other items of evidence. >> cfronted with the overwhelming evidence, sheldon finally admits that he did indeed kill his best friend, but claims it was not only in self-defense, but also because trevor pleaded with him to do it as he lay bleeding to death. >> so he asked you to put him out of his misery? >> yeah. >> you were being compassionate at that point. is that what was going on? >> yes. >> where did you stab him? >> i don't know. i closed my eyes and just started screaming. so i stop hearing him move. >> then sheldon admits to building a bonfire and throwing trevor's body on it. >> to try to cover evidence. >> i started a fire. i was sitting next to him trying to play. what just happened? what i did, and i started firing. >> sheldon stewart is found guilty of murder in the first

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