Word: modesto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mother, sister and family friend had been missing for a month by the time Gina Sund read her poem in front of the thousand or so people who gathered in Modesto, Calif., March 14 to pray for the trio's safe return. "Deep in my heart I know something my mind does not want to learn," said Gina, 13, of Eureka, Calif. "I try to stay strong because I know that's what you'd want your baby to be, but, Mommy, I don't want you to leave...
...First Lady's right-wing-conspiracy theory [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 9]: just because you're a little bit paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you. RUDOLPH SCHARSCHMIDT Modesto, Calif...
...real Cunanan, hidden behind layers of his own lies, has never been easy to find. Though he liked to tell people he was the son of a wealthy Philippine sugar-plantation owner, his father Modesto, born in the Philippines, was a U.S. Navy veteran who later became a stockbroker. The youngest of four children, Cunanan grew up in middle-class Rancho Bernardo, Calif., a San Diego suburb. At the elite Bishop's School in La Jolla, he was popular and a little outrageous. Openly gay as a teenager, he once showed up at a school function in a red patent...
...then seeking a legal separation, Andrew's father fled to the Philippines in 1988 because he was about to be arrested for "misappropriating" $106,000 from his stock-brokerage business. (San Diego police say they have no record of a charge against him.) Though for the next six years Modesto sent MaryAnn his $900-a-month Navy pension, she says he stopped in late 1995. Forced onto welfare and food stamps, she moved to Eureka, Ill., to be near another son, Christopher, and to settle in public housing. About a month ago, Cunanan's mother returned quietly to National City...
When his father took off, Cunanan dropped out of college and joined him briefly in the Philippines. In her court papers, his mother says he came back because he could not stand his father's living conditions. In the Philippine town of Plaridel, where Modesto lives now, he was questioned last week by Philippine police, who wanted to know if his son had tried to contact him lately. They say he insisted that his boy was not Versace's killer. "My son is not like that," the elder Cunanan told them. "He had a Catholic upbringing. He was an altar...