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Dear Somebody: Luigi Mangione and the Art of the Prison Letter The accused UnitedHealthcare shooter is penning witty, riddle-filled correspondence from his Brooklyn cell — and that puts him in very specific company. There is a particular kind of prisoner who cannot resist the urge to reach out. Not the kind who scrawls desperate notes to a public defender , but the kind who composes — crafts, even — letters to famous strangers , as though the bars are merely a stylistic inconvenience. Luigi Mangione , the 27-year-old University of Pennsylvania graduate accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024, appears to be precisely that kind of prisoner. This past week, conservative podcaster Patrick Bet-David revealed that he has been exchanging letters with Mangione from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where the defendant is currently awaiting trial, scheduled for September 2026. Bet-David seemed genuinely surprised to find the le...