Pluck eyebrows. Buy less conspicuous shoes. Take a bus or a train west toward Cincinnati and St. Louis. Move around late at night. Stay away from surveillance cameras.

A to-do list and travel plans found during Luigi Mangione's arrest and revealed in court this week shed new light on the steps he may have taken — or planned to take — to avoid capture after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's killing last year.

"Keep momentum, FBI slower overnight," said one note. "Change hat, shoes, pluck eyebrows," said another.

The notes, including a hand-drawn map and tactics for surviving on the lam, were shown on Monday at a pretrial hearing as Mangione's bid to prevent prosecutors from using evidence seized during his Dec. 9, 2024, arrest at a McDonald's in Altoona, Penn.

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