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The UnitedHealthcare Gunman Understands the Surveillance State


When cameras are everywhere, a killer can adjust accordingly.

We know so much already: Videos of the murder have spread widely on social media; police have described physical evidence, including bullet casings and a dropped phone and water bottle that might have been the assassin’s, and released pictures of a “person of interest” from his stay at a Manhattan hostel. Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, hid in the Montana woods as he killed three people and injured more than 20 in a nationwide mail-bombing campaign from 1978 to 1995 in an effort to highlight the dangers of modern technology. A bullet shell and an ejected live round found at the scene reportedly had words such as depose and delay written on them—apparent references to strategies that health insurers use in denying coverage.

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