Because 2D photos aren’t easy to connect to 3D visual memory for a large proportion of the population, for starters.
In addition, if you’re used to seeing someone in a particular context, it can be more difficult to identify them in a different context.
All the “How could all these people not have recognized him?” comments here are ignoring a bunch of what we know about perception and memory.
Here’s a couple of examples…
A friend’s daughter had back surgery a couple of years ago for scoliosis. Based on the xray photos of that which the friend showed me, the friend’s daughter has twice as much hardware in her as Mangione, but friend’s daughter isn’t killing people over it.
Another friend’s eldest, a few years ago, had scoliosis so bad (which back braces didn’t help much with) that he, too, needed back surgery to correct it. His back was so out of whack that after the surgery finished, he was 3" taller than before. And he has 3 TIMES as much hardware as Mangione does.
That person, also, is not going out shooting people because they’re mad at the healthcare system. Person #2 became an EMT.
I would bet you money that Mangione’s parents are just sick with despair over what their son has done, and how their son’s life is forever changed with the decision he made.
When asked during a news conference yesterday an authority admitted that they did not have a name until they captured the suspect.
Didn’t the parents report their son missing during this time?
It’s been reported that the parents did report their son missing. In San Francisco.
I’m not sure I’m going to comment anymore. I have no idea what else there is to say.
Ah, I stand corrected 
The police probably knew the suspect’s identity. They just didn’t know his location before the tip.
You’re correct in that Adams said that they had the name. Someone wasn’t telling the truth.
Don’t know if this is still the case, but it used to be in New York state that 1st degree murder charges were reserved for the murder of a police officer or prison guard.
I wonder if he had opioid issues related to pain management.
I agree, Adams said they had a name. I tend to believe the guy entrusted to lead the press conference after the capture over Eric Adams.
A friend’s college kid posted twice on social media yesterday, once to call Daniel Penny a “murderer”, and a second time to call Luigi Mangione “an American hero”. Definitely dumbfounding…
Or someone had told Adams something that led him to believe they had a name (or the game of telephone had led someone else to believe they had a name, and that person told Adams that), even though they didn’t.
Doesn’t have to be a “Someone wasn’t telling the truth” situation, it could simply be that someone was malinformed.
Yeah, I saw that pic. I’ve also seen the pics of the kids of my 2 friends I mentioned and my friends’ kids have more screws in their back than that. But it’s not a contest, of course.
If Mangione experienced complication post-surgery or if there was some sort of malpractice that occurred on the part of the surgeon, the best way to get that resolved would not be through murder.
I have not read this whole thread, but wanted to say that I hope he is on suicide watch. He seems pretty unstable.
Here’s a link to his “manifesto”. There were some fake ones, but this seems to be real. Not much there, but it was about health care. Exclusive: Luigi's Manifesto - Ken Klippenstein
Re: recognizing faces. I’m staying in a hotel a few time zones away from where the suspect was arrested, and I young man just walked past me on the garden path. Hope they got the real one as this young man looked so similar to the suspect’s photos!
