Unitedhealthcare CEO murder suspect Luigi Mangione was suffering terrible back pain to the point where it was not possible for him to have sex with anyone or date, his former landlord said.
RJ Martin, who owns the “co-living” space in Hawaii that Mangione lived at for six months, said the murder suspect revealed to him that he was in constant pain over a pinched nerve and “misaligned spine,” The New York Times reported.
“He knew that dating and being physically intimate with his back condition wasn’t possible,” Martin told the outlet. “I remember him telling me that, and my heart just breaks.”
Martin met Mangione in 2022 when the University of Pennsylvania grad interviewed to be among the first dozen people to rent out Surfbeak’s first Honolulu living space for about $2,000 a month.
The Surfbeak boss described Mangione as a smart, accomplished and upbeat engineer, saying he didn’t even have to think twice before accepting his application.
“Our mission statement is that we’re a community of givers and that we leave things better than we found them,” Martin said. “We look for people who are looking to give back. And he fit the bill. He was an ideal member for us.”
It was during his six month stay in the Honolulu space that Mangione allegedly opened up to Martin, who became a friend, about his back issues.
“His spine was kind of misaligned,” Martin recalled. “He said his lower vertebrae were almost like a half-inch off, and I think it pinched a nerve.”
A former high school classmate told The New York Times that Mangione had lost touch with his family after undergoing back surgery.
Mangione had five books involving chronic back pain on his reading list on his Goodreads account.
Speculations have swirled that Mangione’s chronic back pain was connected to Thompson’s murder given his role overseeing America’s largest private insurer.
Mangione was arrested with a manifesto where he accused health insurance companies for putting corporate greed over the well-being of their clients.
