A writer who corresponded extensively with suspected CEO shooter Luigi Mangione described him as “one of the nicest people,” despite the cold-blooded execution-style murder he is accused of committing last week.

Gurwinder Bhogal, a Substack writer based in the UK, had a two-hour long video call and exchanged twenty emails with computer programmer Mangione, 26, this spring, before he mysteriously went off grid for six months.

Bhogal said the man now accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson had mixed political views.

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The Ivy League grad accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson reportedly detailed his health woes, including debilitating back pain and “brain fog,” in a series of Reddit posts in the years leading up to last week’s high-profile assassination.

Luigi Mangione, 26, wrote online that his back pain started out as a minor problem, but got notably worse after he went surfing and then weeks later slipped on a piece of paper in 2022, the New York Times reported.

He reportedly said on Reddit that he had searing pain when he sat down, along with numbness in his bladder and groin, and twitching in his legs.

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Mega podcaster Joe Rogan suggested the public’s lack of sympathy over UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s assassination is because of the “dirty business” he was involved in.

Rogan, 57, was speaking with filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and producer Roger Avary on Tuesday’s episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience” when they briefly kicked off the show by discussing a photo of accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione.

“I don’t think this guy was a professional,” Rogan said in the episode recorded about a week before alleged assassin Mangione was captured at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., on Monday following a five-day manhunt.

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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was laid to rest at a funeral service in his Minnesota hometown on Monday -- the same day his alleged killer was nabbed after a five-day manhunt.

Thompson's grieving relatives held the private service at a Lutheran church in Maple Grove, Minn., the New York Times reported.

“Brian was an incredibly loving husband, son, brother and friend,” his family said in a statement.

“Most importantly, Brian was a devoted father to our two sons, and we will miss him for the rest of our lives. We appreciate the overwhelming outpouring of kind words and support we have received.”

Accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione allegedly laid out his murder plot in a handwritten notebook -- complete with a "to-do list" of tasks needed to carry out the slaying, according to a report.

Investigators are currently looking at a page of notes the 26-year-old allegedly scrawled in a spiral notebook before he allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare’s CEO Brian Thompson last week, a source told CNN.

In one note, Mangione allegedly weighed what could be better than "to kill the CEO at his own bean counting conference.”

He allegedly acknowledged, too, that a shooting would be more targeted -- noting that a bomb "could kill innocents," the source said.

Mangione is accused of fatally shooting Thompson as the 50-year-old CEO walked to a Manhattan hotel where UnitedHealthcare’s parent company, UnitedHealth Group, was holding its annual investor conference.

Luigi Mangione's lawyer says he hopes the accused CEO killer's outburst outside a Pennsylvania court will be his last.

“Hopefully, there won’t be any more of that,” his attorney, Thomas Dickey, told reporters after the 26-year-old's hearing at the Blair County Courthouse.

As cops escorted him into the court earlier Tuesday, the alleged gunman had shouted: “It’s completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and the lived experience!”

Asked about Mangione's emotional state, his lawyers said anyone in his position would display a range of feelings.

“If you put yourself in, if you or a loved one were in that position — it’s a natural, I think, thing to go through many emotional states,” Dickey said.

“As far as him not talking, I’m going to be his lawyer, I’m going to do the talking."

Callous tourists have been visiting the Midtown site where UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered — with some snapping photos and others shamelessly attempting to justify the cold-blooded slaying.

At least nine people — one from as far as Texas — stopped at the north entrance of the Hilton hotel on Sixth Avenue in the fog and rain on Tuesday, where Thompson, 50, was gunned down from behind in a targeted killing last Wednesday.

The morbid gawkers who flocked to the murder site varied in their motivations — some merely curious and others unabashedly craven in their delight, insisting that the murderer did a “good thing.”

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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made first comments about the murder.

"We condemn violence in the strongest terms," Jean-Pierre said, but declined to comment on the investigation. "Violence to combat any sort of corporate greed is unacceptable."

TOWSON, Md. — Luigi Mangione’s family is “beloved’’ Baltimore royalty, fueled by a real-estate empire and history of contributing millions of dollars to healthcare — the very industry that allegedly drove him to murder.

Luigi’s late grandfather, family patriarch Nick Mangione Sr., liked to talk about being the product of a classic immigrant success story.

“I didn’t have two nickels to rub together when my father died when I was 11, yet I still became a millionaire,” Nick once told the Baltimore Sun of his Italian immigrant dad and his own hard-scrabble upbringing.

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The NYPD and FBI offered up a joint $60,000 reward during the manhunt for UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's killer -- but it wasn't immediately clear who, if anyone, would get the cash now an arrest has been made.

Luigi Mangione, 26, was captured in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday after a McDonald's employee spotted him eating at the fast food restaurant and called 911.

According to FBI rules, a tipster can't nominate themselves to collect the reward -- meaning the employee would have to be put forward by an investigating agency.

They would then have to cut through a bunch of red tape in order to make a claim.

The rewards, too, are often only paid out if the arrest leads to a conviction.

Tom Dickey, Luigi Mangione's defense attorney, has "made a strong bond" with the accused UnitedHealthcare CEO, the defense lawyer told reporters Tuesday.

Dickey added he's pleased with the two's relationship and that he's “looking forward to moving forward and helping him out.”

The lawyer added Mangione pleaded not guilty to the charges he faces in Pennsylvania.

“I’m telling you as his lawyer, he didn’t have any … representation until I got involved this afternoon. And I’m telling you he’s pleading not guilty,” the lawyer said.

Luigi Mangione's hobby while studying at the University of Pennsylvania was 3D printing, his former pal told The Post.

"It's funny, I recall him being into 3D printing in sophomore year," said Matthew Levy, who lived next door to Mangione's dorm room in their freshman year.

"I mean, he was making much more innocent things then."

Cops have said Mangione allegedly used what appeared to be a 3D-printed ghost gun in UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's slaying in New York City last week.