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...every known friend or associate of Cunanan's, on the assumption he will try to contact one of them in an effort to get shelter and money. "There's a high likelihood he'll strike again," warns Bill Hagmaier, chief of the FBI's child-abuse and serial-killer unit. Meanwhile, after a private service in Miami on Wednesday attended by Versace's brother and sister, the designer's remains were cremated. Then his family took the ashes back to Italy on a private jet. And the worlds of Gianni Versace and Andrew Cunanan separated forever...
...present, the fire wall in Fastnet's unit, which according to O'Baoill was built to subdivide the space prior to his tenancy, is still cracked and bowed out. A gap which exists where the wall does not meet the ceiling is patched with plywood and insulation. According to O'Baoill, the wall did not seal with the underside of the ceiling even before a March 1996 fire left it structurally unsound...
...Donald Stern gets a copy of each report on a gun charge from the Boston police department. Stern in turn uses federal indictments to help take down Boston's most dangerous youths. All data are fed into the computers of the Youth Violence Task Force, an elite 65-person unit that tracks and targets gang activity. "We made threats directly to gang members and then delivered on it," says Police Commissioner Paul Evans. A case in point is the Intervale Posse, for years one of the most vicious gangs in the city. Despite repeated warnings from state and federal authorities...
...living creatures share a certain genetic heritage. But comparing a 378-unit sequence of DNA taken from mitochondria within a Neanderthal cell to modern DNA, Paabo's team found striking differences. Contemporary humans differ from one another by an average of eight variations in that sequence. The Neanderthal specimen differed in 27 places. By comparison, there are only 55 differences between modern humans and chimpanzees...
Police initiated their investigation after a series of thefts began several months ago at the Observatory. McNamara would not reveal how Dougherty was identified as a suspect, citing the pending charges. Dougherty could not be reached for comment.CrimsonGeoffrey A. FowlerSGT. RICHARD MADEROS, head of the Criminal Investigations Unit, stands with the recovered property...