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Someone, can't remember who...so if it's you (not necessarily you OP, a general you) put your hand up, in a different Luigi thread a month or so ago had a pet theory that I think probably holds a reasonable amount of water.
The theory is that that CEO was knocked off by a paid hitman, possibly contracted by his spouse, and Luigi happened to be picked up as a scapegoat because the NYPD, or the arresting officer, was complicit/paid off a tidy sum.
With this coming up, it's even less of an unlikely scenario.
This would be a better theory if Luigi had a serious alibi. Also, if he wasn't tied up with the Silicon Valley Longtermist movement, which has already produced a number of more low-profile killings.
I wouldn't discount the pet theory, because it does sound like the kind of shit mega-millionaires get up to. But the NYPD picking up this guy specifically, where and when they did, with no credible counternarrative as to where he was at the time of the killing, makes me strongly suspect they have the right guy. But - like with the OJ Brown-Simpson murder - they've got such a clown car of detectives and a grandstanding mayor and self-insert celebrity journalists and prosecutors promoting the case as spectacle that they're going to completely fuck this thing at trial.
If he wins the criminal case but loses a far more professionally executed civil "wrongful death" case a few years later, I would not be surprised in the slightest.
Why would the hitman engrave the bullets? If they're picking a plausible scapegoat with severe medical issues, then why one that's young rich and handsome?
to make it look like an ideological hit job.
But then why one that's young rich and handsome?
But why male models?
The police chose the actual suspect. not whoever planned the hit
because mcdonald’s called and said “there’s a homeless guy here that looks like the assassin”.
if you distribute a wanted picture like that, i’m sure there will be tons of false identification…
more importantly, in a court of law, illegal searches matter… whether or not @explodicle@sh.itjust.works thinks he’s probably guilty or not.
Oh I think he's definitely not guilty. I'm just not sure if he did it.
sounds like reasonable doubt to me
Man, I never said the theory was....dare I say.... bulletproof? 🤓
Buuuuuut....if all the evidence was planted? Look, the "manifesto", the engraved bullets, the whole thing is a cop's wet dream. I'm willing to believe Luigi is in fact the triggerman, willing to believe that he's unhinged enough to have toted all that about with him. You gotta think though....the NYPD were frothing, Altoona PD are under staffed, under paid. Not outside the realm of possibility it's a frame job.
Just a tinfoil hat theory that I thought was...fun? Not really the best word for it, but fits well enough.