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...relief," police Chief Richard Barreto proclaimed today. "The reign of terror brought upon us by Andrew Cunanan is over." But as the saga wound down today, neither the Miami police nor the federal authorities were bearing any resemblance to Sgt. Joe Friday. The nationwide manhunt--which was briefly a womanhunt--turned up sightings in every state of the union except Alaska only to end 40 blocks from where it began. And TIME's Miami Bureau Chief Tammerlin Drummond reports that despite reported sightings of Cunanan in the vicinity of the houseboat as early as last weekend, police, in repeated sweeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida Keystones | 7/24/1997 | See Source »

That weekend in 1970 would be the last time anyone in her family would see her -- until last Tuesday. In the intervening years, she would be the object . of the largest womanhunt in FBI history, one that kept her on the 10-most- wanted list for 14 years. But in the past decade, she was largely forgotten. She fell off the list. She even disappeared from the records at Brandeis. Says Catherine Fallon of the alumni office: "She is not in our data base. It's like she never was here." Her reappearance and surrender in Boston last week produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of the Fugitive | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

Began a great womanhunt by men who steeled themselves against the Borgiesque fascination of Lydia Southard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Fascination | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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