{"id":36642,"date":"2025-03-21T13:22:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/hannibal-lecter-treatment-of-luigi-mangione-backfired-says-fundraising-organizer\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T13:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:22:18","slug":"hannibal-lecter-treatment-of-luigi-mangione-backfired-says-fundraising-organizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/hannibal-lecter-treatment-of-luigi-mangione-backfired-says-fundraising-organizer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hannibal Lecter\u2019 treatment of Luigi Mangione \u2018backfired\u2019, says fundraising organizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities\u2019 heavily armed \u2018perp walk\u2019 of alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter may have aided in raising more than $700,000<\/p>\n<p>The organizer of an online campaign that has raised more than $700,000 for Luigi Mangione\u2019s legal defense in connection with the fatal shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/brian-thompson-shooting\">Brian Thompson<\/a>, believes the accused killer\u2019s infamous, post-arrest \u201cperp walk\u201d may have \u201cbackfired\u201d on New York authorities and spurred some of the financial support effort.<\/p>\n<p>In remarks on an upcoming podcast exploring Mangione\u2019s case, Sam Beard says the campaign eclipsed its goal by more than double after the public saw authorities \u201ctreating him like Hannibal Lecter\u201d, referring to the fictional serial killer protagonist in The Silence of the Lambs film.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/21\/fundraising-unitedhealth-ceo-shooting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities\u2019 heavily armed \u2018perp walk\u2019 of alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO shooter may have aided in raising more than $700,000 The organizer of an online campaign that has raised more than $700,000 for Luigi Mangione\u2019s legal defense in connection with the fatal shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, believes the accused killer\u2019s infamous, post-arrest \u201cperp walk\u201d &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Hannibal Lecter\u2019 treatment of Luigi Mangione \u2018backfired\u2019, says fundraising organizer\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/21\/hannibal-lecter-treatment-of-luigi-mangione-backfired-says-fundraising-organizer\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Hannibal Lecter\u2019 treatment of Luigi Mangione \u2018backfired\u2019, says fundraising organizer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}