Deep dive into personal life of UnitedHealthcare CEO will play key role in investigation: Retired NYPD officer

Investigators in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson are busy. “Deep Dive” Into Her Personal Lifealong with his family and friends, a retired NYPD officer told Fox News Digital on Friday.

“In this case, I think what the police are really seeing, what the investigators are really seeing is the victim because most homicides are committed by someone who knows the victim,” said Ralph Clinto, one of the detectives. Retired Lt. Cmdr. John Jay, associate professor of NYPD and police science at the College of Criminal Justice, explained.

“It’s a pretty high percentage, like about 90%, I think. So, in addition to crime scene analysis, what happens forensically, what’s recovered are shell casings and live rounds and things like that. [there are] Every murder—not just this one—dives deep into the victim.”

If the victim didn’t know the suspect, they might know each other “if someone sent the attacker to kill someone,” he said.

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“So, typically, the way you investigate a murder, among other methods, is you start with the victim and you make a concentric circle, and usually the culprit is somewhere there. Not always. , but in general,” he explained.

Salento also noted that the shooting took place in the morning. Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting.

Thompson was killed Wednesday morning in front of the Hilton in midtown Manhattan.

“Now, it’s before the tree lights, but there’s a detail in the way the NYPD works that size starts the night before,” he said. “So, it’s a very bold move, where we can assume there are a lot more police officers on the road.

“So, we don’t know if this guy walked past the cops with the body cameras on. So, all that footage has to go through. It’s a huge, laborious and exhausting job. Everybody. That’s a tremendous amount of work to do.”

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Cilento also noted that a team of investigators is at Thompson’s home near Minneapolis.

“Remember, to get a lead on murder, you must interrogate the victim,” he said. “And you go back and forth in circles from there — his emails, communications with his wife, communications with his family members, communications with current employees and former employees. Did he threaten her in any way? Was she just denying the health care company something?

He added that while he was not surprised the suspect “was able to escape in such a short period of time, his days are numbered.”

He said investigators were putting “a lot of resources” into the investigation so they wouldn’t be caught early. And it’s impossible not to leave an electronic footprint, despite the suspect’s attempts to check into his Manhattan hostel with a fake ID and pay in cash before the shooting.

Salento calls out to the suspect using a Fake ID and payment A mere “speed bump” in an investigation with cash.

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“They’re running down every lead,” Cilento said. “So, there’s a team in Minneapolis, there’s a team dedicated just to recovering the video, which in itself is a painstaking and difficult task. And it’s not just recovering the video.

“Thousands, in total, thousands of hours of video to go through. And detectives are looking for video somewhere to get a glimpse of this guy. There are other detectives searching the NYPD body cameras on the off chance that He unmasked and walked past a policeman with his body camera on, and the only way to do that is to do it, and I can assure you, he’s being watched is.”