Authorities say she echoed words connected to the murder when she allegedly said "delay, deny, depose, you people are next".

Summary

Briana Boston, 42, was charged with threatening a health insurance company after repeating words linked to the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

During a recorded call with Blue Cross Blue Shield about a denied claim, Boston said, “Delay, deny, depose, you people are next,” echoing phrases engraved on bullet casings at Thompson’s murder scene.

Authorities allege she exploited the CEO’s homicide to make the threat.

Boston, a mother of three with no prior criminal record, was arrested and held on $100,000 bail amidst warnings of potential copycat incidents targeting healthcare executives.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
      682·
      3 days ago

      I’d argue that the word are unarguably the killer’s. After all, they were written on the bullet cases that were used to kill the guy.

      Whether or not Luigi is the killer is still being decided by the courts. If they had said the words were Luigi’s, there would be an issue. But they didn’t say that; They said “CEO killer” instead, which simply attributes the words to whoever killed the dude.

      • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        Holy crap i didn’t even notice. I feel like swipe typing is getting worse or maybe I’m just getting worse at it then again e and w are right next to each other

        • Lemminary@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 days ago

          It’s definitely getting worse. SwiftKey used to be great at precocious predicting word’s words.

          Yep Too many exalted examples here. I’m leaving them all in.

          • oo1@lemmings.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            ‘Eggcorn’ is a linguistics term for a new word or phrase that is slightly different to an older one- substituting words that sound smilar- yet still makes sense and has a similar meaning to the older term, for example:

            • eggcorn, (acorn)
            • mute point (moot),
            • free rein (reign - I think reign is older version?),
            • towing the line (toe)

            Sometimes the eggcorns make more sense to modern speakers than the older term and it may eventually usurp them entirely. I don’t think many peple know what a ‘moot’ is anymore. If ‘mute’ makes more sense to more people it’s likely to grow in popularity.

            I don’t know why linguists chose ‘eggcorn’ as the eponym; I’m sure I’ve never actually heard anyone say “eggcorn” to mean “acorn” - apart from me since I learnt about this phenomenon.

    • Primer - Zip@lemmy.zipEnglish
      18·
      3 days ago

      Those are the killer’s words… whether Mangione is the killer is another story. not that I think this woman should be in jail either; it’s absolutely ridiculous that she is. The reporting is fairly objective though as far as I can tell.