The illustration is from the book A Brief History of Witchcraft: With Especial Reference to the Witches of Northamptonshire (1866)

The Witches of Luigi Mangione

 By John Kass | Sunday May 24, 2026

The media has an odd term for the sullen young women who have made a sexual fetish of pretty-boy killer Luigi Mangione.

They’re called Luigi Fangirls.

It evokes a frolic, young women skipping down the street, singing, holding hands. You know, “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.”

But I much prefer another name, a more direct name:

Witches.

I’m told that witches are supposedly fictional, a phobia created by men, by the patriarchy, to impose our evil will upon women who cling to stories like “The Handmaid’s Tale,” to justify generations of their cruelties upon boys, from wholesale abortion to “gender affirming” castrations of transgenders.

But they began to appear in our lives, as they had appeared in the past, when they publicly poured out their hysterical sexual fantasies and pathetic love for their heartthrob with those Italian eyebrows, the killer Luigi Mangione, the rich boy of privilege who stalked then shot Health Care executive Bryan Thompson in the back.

 


Mangione is the pretty privileged boy who murdered Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Health Care. Thompson was fatally shot outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel in December 2024. Mangione, who was apprehended days later in Pennsylvania, is currently facing both federal and state murder and weapons charges.

But what explains the hysteria of the witches?

It is a special kind of hysteria, this hysteria of women attracted by the demonic. This is the crucible where witches are made.

From the article “Women Who Love Serial Killers” consider the story of Rosalie Martinez, a public defender and mitigation specialist, and who was once married to an attorney. They had four daughters. After she met death row inmate Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. in 1995, she left her husband for him. Martinez and Bolin married that same year, over the phone.

He kidnapped and killed three young women. After she met death row inmate Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. in 1995, she left her husband for him. Martinez and Bolin married that same year, over the phone.

I’m surprised she didn’t insist upon a proper church wedding. Having trouble processing all this depravity? It’s really not all that hard. Just think of the left-wing man-hating hags on the daytime ABC television show “The View”  and realize that the shrews are helping raise America’s kids.

Bolin, a former truck driver, has been convicted 10 times for raping and killing three women in Florida. In each case, rulings have been overturned due to errors. This week, he was back in the courtroom for another retrial. Convicted again, he received a life sentence on top of two death sentences.

According to the article by Katherine Ramsland, Martinez believed that Bolin is not a killer, once stated that when she met him, he left her “breathless.” And she sensed his loneliness and isolation. She told a reporter, “It affected me because I felt the same way.” She decided to marry him, she said, to raise awareness of the injustice of his plight.

“Plenty of serial killers have attracted mates, especially those with a high media profile. Carol Ann Boone became Ted Bundy’s girlfriend while he went through his legal proceedings in Florida. She took every opportunity to describe how he was being unfairly railroaded. Boone maintained her stance, and during the penalty phase of his 1980 trial, she testified on his behalf. They exploited an old law and married in the courtroom just before he received a death sentence. Boone had a child with Bundy, but eventually realized he was guilty. She took her child and moved away.”

I think of that child raised to think of  glossy celebrity gossip magazines as literature, mindlessly chewing her gum while watching The View scrolling for hours on her phone wondering if she’ll ever meet her prince.

Women who have married serial killers have given several different reasons. Some believe they can change a man as cruel and powerful as a serial killer. Others “see” the little boy that the killer once was and seek to nurture him. A few hoped to share in the media spotlight or get a book or movie deal.

Then there’s the notion of the “perfect boyfriend.” She knows where he is at all times, and she knows he’s thinking about her. While she can claim that someone loves her, she does not have to endure the day-to-day issues involved in most relationships. There’s no laundry to do, no cooking for him, and no accountability to him. She can keep the fantasy charged up for a long time.

This psychological condition of being sexually or romantically attracted to criminals is known as  hybristophilia, sometimes  colloquially referred to as the “Bonnie and Clyde syndrome” But Bonnie wasn’t a victim, some Dewey-eyed ingénue who could’ve played a nun if models Fay Dunaway or Linda Evangelista were paid enough money and wore habits.

Bonnie was a stone killer, as murderous as any witch. As self-hateful as a smoker refusing to quit or the streetwalker on her sixth abortion.

Self-proclaimed “Mangionistas” Abril Rios, Ashley Rojas and Lena Weissbrot proudly showed off the passes they received from Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration, apparently for their online content documenting Mangione’s upcoming trial for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

But the credentialed “reporters” chillingly made no bones about supporting Mangione’s alleged vendetta to strike fear into the hearts of healthcare executives such as Thompson. “F—k Brian Thompson,” the witch Rojas said, city-issued press pass dangling from her neck. “That’s all I want to say. F—k Brian Thompson. F—k his mom.”

His mom?

When you think of how much the communists hate America, think of the witches.

Weissbrot, clad in a garish neon green, pink and purple striped ensemble, suggesting her taste remains in her mouth chimed in with this:

“His children are better off without him,” she told the Post. “They need to learn to not be like their dad. And enjoy the blood money, kids.”

The Mangionistas – who collectively run an Instagram account with that name – are among the most visible and fervent Mangione superfans, churning out a grab bag of far-left posts across social media and blogs.

But there are many others out there.

They’re witches. All of them. And may they burn in hell.

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