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Culture War Roundup for the week of December 8, 2025

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What you are missing is that the criminal mind is not ordered. At least not often. Also, some of the things you speculate about would be foolish IMO from a LE perspective.

Did Mangione want to get away with it? I dont know. His actions imply some dedication to that cause, and some failures. Key failures are not remaining masked and fully anonymous in a city space chock full of cameras while making his escape and keeping implements of the crime on him up to the point of being caught.

The first is probably because he didn't do enough research. The second is more likely he was trying to keep mementos of his achievement. The latter is a common thing. But even if you didn't, smattering bullets and gun parts into trashcans only works if you never get seen and reported. They can retrace your steps and see all the trashcans you walked near then search them, stop order trash trucks, etc. All your plan assumes his date of being found is much later than it was. Burying things in the woods is probably better, but dont rent a car to do it. Jeeze. For a crime like this, you have to be in super anonymous mode to have a chance. You executed a civilian on video in NYC. You need something like a plan to get to rural PA without ever uncovering your face and without ever leaving fingerprints or DNA on anything. Then you need to ditch everything off a boat you rent in florida 3 days later when you take the metra from harrisburg to miami (if that exists).

Or put rocks in the backpack with all the stuff in it and dump it in a random pond.

Even then I remember some cases where people fail to weight or tie it properly and it floats back up anyways. Few methods are totally safe.

Burying things in the woods is probably better, but dont rent a car to do it. Jeeze.

LOL, fair, after I wrote that I realized it wasn't a great idea so I spliced in the bike idea because you can do that with cash

For a crime like this, you have to be in super anonymous mode to have a chance.

I think even the smartest and most prepared person would struggle to pull this off, but you don't have to make it easy for them by holding onto the murder weapon

Great comment overall though, thanks for that

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