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  Andrew Cunanan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andrew Phillip Cunanan (August 31, 1969 – July 23, 1997) was a spree killer who murdered five people, including Gianni Versace, in a cross-country journey during a three-month period in 1997, ending with Cunanan's suicide, at the age of 27.
In addition, Cunanan is reported to have held an IQ of 147.
Cunanan also graduated in the same class as Gary Jules, who is known for his remake of the Tears for Fears song Mad World for the Donnie Darko Soundtrack, and shared classes with Foot of the band Less.
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 Serial Killer Andrew Cunanan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Andrew Cunanan became famous overnight when he was named as the suspect in the Gianni Versace murder.
After a four- hour siege by a SWAT team, Andrew Cunanan, one of FBI's most wanted men in America, was found dead in the upstairs bedroom of a Miami Florida house boat eight days after the culimination of a killing spree that took that claimed the lives of five men, including Italian designer Gianni Versace.
Andrew Phillip Cunanan was born on August 31, 1969 his father, in the Philippines, denies his son's homosexuality, saying he was "an altar boy" with a good Catholic upbringing.
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 Revisiting Andrew Cunanan
Andrew walked away from the scene and was described by one witness as walking funny, "like Donald duck." He walked to the end of the block and turned the corner.
Andrew Cunanan’s early life was less than perfect, but a far cry from the complete dysfunction you would almost expect to see.
The problem with Andrew Cunanan is that he does not fit the textbook definition of either a serial killer or a spree killer, but rather he has elements of both.
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 Andrew Cunanan found dead in houseboat stormed by SWAT team
Barreto said Cunanan was identified by his thumbprint and the gun found inside the houseboat was similar to the one used in three of five killings in which Cunanan was a suspect.
A.40-caliber handgun, the same type of weapon Cunanan was believed to have used in his cross-country killing spree, was found near the body, according to television reports.
In Minnesota, Cunanan was charged in the death of a former lover, David Madson, and was suspected of killing Trail, a friend.
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 Andrew Cunanan
Cunanan is the first person from San Diego to be placed on the Ten Most Wanted list.
Cunanan is either suspected in or wanted for questioning in five different murders over the last few months.
Cunanan was apparently the victim of a self inflicted gunshot wound.
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 washingtonpost.com: Report: National News
Cunanan had become a phantom, haunting the country with his many faces.
MIAMI (AP) -- Before he killed himself, Andrew Cunanan was nursing a abdominal wound possibly inflicted during one of the five murders authorities believe he committed, the FBI said today.
Cunanan left a thumb print when he pawned the coin July 7 in Miami Beach during the nationwide manhunt for him.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/cunanan/cunanan.htm   (550 words)

  
 CNN - Who is Andrew Cunanan? - July 17, 1997
Andrew Cunanan, one of the FBI's most wanted men in America, has led authorities on a massive manhunt for his alleged role in a cross-country killing spree.
Cunanan, 27, is the sole suspect in the murders of five men, the latest being Italian designer Gianni Versace.
Cunanan also is charged on a federal count of killing William Reese, a caretaker of a New Jersey cemetery who was found shot once in the head.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9707/17/cunanan   (784 words)

  
 Andrew Cunanan Biography - Biography.com
Cunanan was raised by a religious mother and prestige-conscious father.
Though a disciplinarian, his father was not violent, and Cunanan did not experience the early childhood traumas that experts often tag as typical of violent criminals.
In his teens, Cunanan had prostituted himself, and he soon became obsessed with violent pornography, often taking part in the films himself.
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 Welcome to Cunananville..   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The 27-year-old Cunanan is a graduate of an exclusive San Diego prep school, yet his mother lives in public housing and his father was pushed to the fringes of society when he became a fugitive from the law for alleged financial crimes.
Cunanan reportedly explained his technique in winning over the millionaire to Jeffrey Trail, the 28-year-old Navy vet who befriended Cunanan in San Diego and later was killed--the first of four slayings police have linked to Cunanan.
Many who knew Cunanan said that they feared for their safety while he was at large and agreed to talk only on the condition their names not be used.
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 lThe Media and Andrew Cunanen
But when the mainstream media told the story, it portrayed Andrew Cunanan as the “gay serial killer.” By suggesting that his sexual orientation somehow informed the hideous crimes he was accused of committing, the media implied that anyone’s homosexuality can cause them to rampage across the country on a bloody crime spree.
Cunanan was, after all, the "gay serial killer" (occasionally he was "allegedly" one).
Those same officials changed their minds within two days-he was probably in casual men's clothing, they then said-but by that time the media were too fascinated with the prospect of a serial killer wandering around in a wig and a print sundress to stop talking about it.
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 Metroactive Books | Books On Andrew Cunanan
Indiana grew to like Cunanan, or at least empathize with him--the most disturbing thing about his portrait of the infamous spree killer is how familiar Andrew Cunanan seems, how nearly indistinguishable his rage for fame was from that of any smart kid who hates himself and understands what our culture loves.
Now, there's no reason why Orth, or anyone, shouldn't hate Andrew Cunanan, but her contempt precludes insight, since it supposes that he was so different from us upstanding citizens that there's no hope of understanding what went on in his head.
Andrew's pathologies all had far more to do with money and celebrity than with sex--in fact, one of the most startling things in Indiana's book is just how rarely Cunanan slept with anybody.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/05.13.99/cunanan-9919.html   (1823 words)

  
 CNN - FBI: Cunanan may have used boat as base - July 24, 1997
Map of Cunanan's trail through the U.S. Philip said authorities combed the area where the boat is located after the Versace killing, going from door-to-door in their exhaustive manhunt.
Cunanan's body was removed from the boat more than 14 hours after a police siege began Wednesday.
Cunanan also was wanted for the murders of his former lover Jeffrey Trail, 28, in late April; their mutual friend David Madson, 33, in May; Lee Miglin, 72, also in May; and William Reese, 45, also in May.
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 AEGiS-AP: HIV-Free Cunanan Raises Questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Rumors that Cunanan was HIV positive spurred the theory that the slayings were motivated by "AIDS rage" -- a compulsion to lash out and seek revenge because he thought he had been infected.
Cunanan's HIV test results are not being disclosed by the medical examiner's office because Florida law prohibits disclosure in most cases unless a court order is obtained.
The first two killings in Minnesota appeared to be interpersonal disputes, the motives for the third in Chicago is unclear and the fourth murder in New Jersey was a crime of convenience to steal a truck.
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 Andrew Cunanan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Cunanan, then nineteen and a freshman at the University of California at San Diego, dropped out of school to join his father but was soon back in the states, apparently appalled by the squalor in which Modesto was living.
Identifying Cunanan as a spree killer made it possible to predict, if not his next move, then at least his final one - for the essential fact about spree murder is that it is, ultimately, a form of suicide.
The diagnosis of Cunanan as a spree killer whose rampage was likely to climax with his own death - either by his own hand or in a shoot-out with authorities ("suicide by cop," in law enforcement parlance) was confirmed on Wednesday, July 25.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro -- Musical on serial killer spurs shock, anger, hope
Those who loved, feared or investigated Andrew Cunanan said yesterday that the idea of the spree killer as the subject of a musical production is mostly bizarre, a bit macabre – but also intriguing.
Cunanan, the San Diego native whose 1997 cross-country killing odyssey ended with the death of fashion designer Gianni Versace, will be featured in a musical theater piece to be developed next year for an eventual premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse.
Cunanan's violent spree had friends in the Hillcrest area fearing for their lives and the FBI involved in a nationwide manhunt.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/metro/20031225-9999_7m25cunanan.html   (857 words)

  
 CNN - 'Most Wanted Man in America' found dead on Miami Beach houseboat - July 24, 1997
Both CNN sources and police confirmed early Thursday that Cunanan's body was indeed found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the houseboat that had been besieged by heavily armed police teams since Wednesday afternoon.
Cunanan, a 27-year-old described by his mother as a gay gigolo, was the prime suspect in the July 15 killing of famed fashion designer Gianni Versace, as well as four other slayings.
Cunanan's body was found inside the houseboat after a four- hour siege Wednesday that began when the caretaker of the boat told police he had seen a stranger aboard and thought he heard a shot fired.
www.cnn.com /US/9707/24/cunanan.confirmed   (1176 words)

  
 Andrew Cunanan
Andrew Cunanan was overlooked in Miami Beach not because of a mystical ability to blend in or change his appearance, but because almost no one was looking for him, and, perhaps, because police weren't entirely on the ball in the way they conducted their investigation.
But it turned out that Cunanan was where common sense said he would be -- hiding like a rat, near the scene of the crime, cornered, because much of the nation was on the lookout for him.
When they finally explained that, well, yes, a body had been found, they still refused to confirm it was him, adding to the sense of unreality and mystery that adhered to the story.
www.transparencynow.com /cunanan.htm   (436 words)

  
 Sample text for Library of Congress control number 98054318
But before Andrew Cunanan killed Gianni Versace and gained worldwide notoriety, he had already traversed a gay parallel universe in America today--traveling from the seamy, drug-addled underbelly of the demimonde to the cultured and privileged world of the rich and the closeted.
As I reported Andrew Cunanan's story, it was up to me to try to unravel the lies and untangle the contradictions--he did not yield his secrets easily.
Andrew Cunanan's evil crimes turned out to be a positive catalyst for putting new practices into effect and for helping foster cooperation among police agencies as well as between the police and the gay community.
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 Cunanon Serial Murderer Houseboat News
Andrew Cunanon accused murderer of designer Gianni Versace and four other men, was found dead in a Miami Beach Houseboat late Wednesday 23 July 1997.
Cunanan, 27, was believed by police to be the man who slipped behind Versace last Tuesday morning, pumped two bullets into his head and then evaporated into the city.
Cunanan also has been charged or implicated in the deaths of two friends in Minneapolis, an elderly man in Chicago and a cemetery worker in New Jersey.
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 Andrew Cunanan: After Me, Disaster
Good looking, suave, erudite and glib, Andrew Cunanan possessed what it took to own the world as his own at a very early age.
Andrew’s early years were not domestically happy, but not bloated with the usual bad-life, sociopathic elements of other to-be killers.
Andrew chose one that might have had in it a warning, but, as usual, made his peers -- probably even himself -- laugh.
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 Entertainment
On July 15, 1997, Cunanan shot and killed Versace on the steps of his Miami mansion, then took his own life when the police closed in on his boathouse hideout.
Meanwhile, Cunanan's father Pete proves to be a bizarre character who insists, "Andrew was connected with the criminal underworld because of Versace." The man also maintains that his son was not gay.
Pete Cunanan, by the way, is trying to sell the movie rights to his son's life story, but denies that he is trying to cash in on the tragic events.
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 Famous Till the Next One
Cunanan in cuffs might have had a story to tell, a motive, some little something to make the whole thing almost (almost) comprehensible.
Cunanan in a box is gratifying in its own way, but not quite satisfying.
Cunanan had made that decision for too many other people, or so all the evidence suggests.
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 TIME.com: TAGGED FOR MURDER -- Jul 28, 1997 -- Page 1
Cunanan had told friends that David Madson, 33, a Minneapolis, Minn., architect, was "the love of my life." But Cunanan may have thought Madson, who had grown suspicious of him, was involved with one of Cunanan's best friends, Jeffrey Trail, 28, a former San Diego Navy officer.
Cunanan was presentable, sufficiently well informed about politics and the arts to make conversation, and given to conservative, preppy clothes, or sweatshirts and a baseball cap.
He is said to have given Cunanan a dark green Infiniti and a monthly allowance as high as $2,500, and to have taken him to Paris.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101970728-138062,00.html   (3287 words)

  
 Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Much of America's fascination with serial killers focuses on that arbitrary, frequently invisible snapping point, as well as the basic truth that the only thing ultimately separating a killer from a non-killer is the act itself.
Therefore, no matter what words or actions Indiana attributes to his subject, Cunanan was still a killer, and no amount of conjecture after the fact can alter his actions.
No matter how Cunanan led his life or why he killed his victims, what's done is done.
www.theonion.com /content/node/19408   (479 words)

  
 EurasianNation - online community for people of mixed Asian and European heritage
Andrew Cunanan is probably the most notorious Hapa in recent history.
As I was contemplating that, the Cunanan story broke and though of course I didn't identify with Andrew Cunanan, here was a gay Eurasian in the news.
In Cunanan's life before he became a serial killer, he would always represent himself as something other than what he was.
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 Andrew Cunanan, Serial Killer (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Andrew Cunanan, at the time wanted for questioning over five murders, shot and killed fashion designer Gianni Versace in front of Versace's Miami home.
Part of the mystique involved in the search for Cunanan was due to the fact that the FBI released so many pictures of him, at varying stages of his life.
Cunanan suicided July 23, 1997 on a houseboat in Miami.
www.celebritymorgue.com.cob-web.org:8888 /andrew-cunanan   (80 words)

  
 DANGER BETWEEN THE LINES MANUAL — SPREE KILLER — ANDREW CANANAN
ndrew Cunanan is a man who dreamed both of fame and shoulder rubbing with celebrities.
In 1997 Cunanan crossed the Country shooting four men to death, including his lover, as well world-renowned clothing designer Gianni Versace; who he stalked for days.
Ultimately, Cunanan was found on a yacht by the police.
www.trialrun.com /id4u/profiles/andrew_cunanan.html   (75 words)

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