The judge denied Dickey’s bail request before the court adjourned, noting that Mangione must stay at SCI Huntingdon, the oldest prison in the state.
His arrest supports internet users’ hypotheses that the murder was motivated by retaliation, as the criminal’s manifesto claims.
Since law enforcement sources revealed that Mangione had a deep-seated anger against the medical establishment.
Due to the care of a sick family member, readers of Bored Panda and other internet users guessed that the murder was an act of retaliation for services that were refused.
Online obituaries state that Mangione’s granddad died in 2017, four years after his grandmother died in 2013.
During his high school years in 2014, the 26-year-old also had a short job at an assisted-living facility, which helped him become more sensitive to the financial and health issues faced by senior citizens.
