One year to the day since UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead on a Manhattan sidewalk — and the killer’s disappearing act left the nation rapt — Luigi Mangione sat in a courtroom watching the moment he became a household name.

Police evidence displayed at a Manhattan Supreme Court suppression hearing in the Maryland man’s state murder case included a bus ticket bearing the name Sam Dawson, traveling from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh with an ETA before midnight, hours after Thompson was killed on Dec. 4, 2024.

The ticket was discovered on Mangione, along with a Philadelphia train pass bought earlier in the day, by officers from the Altoona, Pa., police department when they arrested him five days after Thompson’s shooting, quietly eating his breakfast at a fast-food restau

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