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MIAMI: After spending the day combing gay bars and hotels in South Beach for suspected serial killer Andrew Cunanan , the FBI is keeping mum about further developments in its investigation of the slaying of Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace. The agency targeted Cunanan after discovering a red Chevrolet pickup truck authorities believe he stole after allegedly killing a New Jersey cemetery caretaker in May. The vehicle was found Tuesday along a crowded beach front strip a few blocks away from the spot where Versace was shot twice in the head at point blank range. The FBI also reported that Cunanan...
...sequence, if officials are correct, began in San Diego's funky, gay-friendly Hillcrest neighborhood, with a 27-year-old who called himself Andrew DeSilva, but whose family knew him as Andrew Phillip Cunanan. Bespectacled and slightly paunchy, "DeSilva" liked to dance with his shirt off, treat large groups to dinner with cash and boast about his family's sugar plantation in the Philippines. He lived high, but no one seemed to know how he managed it. "Everyone knew Andrew," says one scene-maker. "He was a very outgoing, fun guy. There was a kind of patheticness about him, because...
Visit them he did, say police. Trail, whom Cunanan had known in California, was found on April 29 rolled in a rug in Madson's Minneapolis apartment, a bloody claw hammer nearby. Madson, a promising architect who had lectured at Harvard, turned up four days later on a lakeshore 50 miles away, several 40-cal. bullets in his head and back. On Trail's answering machine, the police found a message from Cunanan inviting Trail to Madson's apartment. In the apartment, not far from the hammer, police discovered a nylon gym bag containing the kind of distinctive...
...Andrew Cunanan has yet to be formally charged in any death but David Madson's, and the only publicly known evidence linking him to the last two deaths is the red Cherokee. Nonetheless, reporters located his mother, MaryAnn, in a central Illinois town and learned a little about his true identity. The Cunanans were once wealthy, as Andrew used to brag, but MaryAnn claims that in 1988 his father Modesto, a stockbroker, fled the country to avoid arrest on charges of misappropriating funds. MaryAnn Cunanan now gets food stamps. Before she stopped talking to the media, she told the Minneapolis...