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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.
Despite being described as White by the FBI, Cunanan's father, Modesto, is from the Philippines.
Cunanan's murder spree was the subject of a Cliff Notes Theater sketch on the Drew and Mike and radio show from Detroit, Michigan in 2004.
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 Andrew Cunanan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Cunanan next drove to (Largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan) Chicago and killed prominent real-estate developer Lee Miglin, 72, on May 4.
At the time of the crimes, there was much public and press speculation that Cunanan's motives were tied to a diagnosis of (Infection by the human immunideficiency virus) HIV infection; however, an autopsy found him to be HIV-negative.
Cunanan's father, Modesto, is an immigrant from the (A republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946) Philippines.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/andrew_cunanan.htm   (349 words)

  
 Andrew Cunanan
Cunanan is either suspected in or wanted for questioning in five different murders over the last few months.
Andrew Phillip Cunanan should be considered armed and dangerous.
Cunanan was apparently the victim of a self inflicted gunshot wound.
www.primenews.com /cunanan.html   (433 words)

  
 The Morgue Archives - January-July, 1997
Andrew Phillip Cunanan - According to an unidentified Dade County Medical Examiner, Andy was sporting a shaved head and a beard when he was found dead, thus disproving the FBI's claims that he was dressing in drag.
Andrew Phillip Cunanan - A body resembling suspected serial killer Andrew Cunanan was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the face in a houseboat 2 1/2 miles from the spot where Gianni Versace was murdered.
Andrew Phillip Cunanan - The green 1994 Lexus belonging to the slain millionaire Lee Miglin was found in a New Jersey cemetery along with the body of a caretaker who had been shot in the head.
www.mayhem.net /Crime/morg9707.html   (19265 words)

  
 Serial Killer Andrew Cunanan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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.
www.karisable.com /skazcunaan.htm   (1572 words)

  
 CNN - The enigma of Andrew Cunanan - July 25, 1997
Andrew Cunanan, one of the FBI's most wanted men in America, became the suject of a massive manhunt for his alleged role in a cross-country killing spree.
News that Cunanan was suspected in a killing spree came as a shock to his friends, who attended an extravagant going-away bash Cunanan threw for himself in April before leaving San Diego.
Cunanan also was 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 /US/9707/24/cunanan.profile   (669 words)

  
 Andrew Cunanan: After Me, Disaster
The handsome Modesto Cunanan, whom Mary Anne Shilacci had met and had fallen for, looking so elegant in his Navy whites and sporting what she liked to call an Errol Flynn mustache, had not turned out to be the doting partner he had been before marriage.
Andrew’s boyhood was neither melodramatic nor comprised of the stuff nightmares are made of.
As Andrew’s comic books staled and his novels lost their inspiration, he took it upon himself to become, as it were, his own hero, more impenetrable than Superman.
www.crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/mass/cunanan/steps_2.html   (1612 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: National News
Police said Andrew Phillip Cunanan, the alleged killer identified as the only suspect in Versace's shooting, is so brazen he might have attended the memorial service.
Hernandez said Cunanan, who used a French passport and a U.S. driver's license for identification, was charged $35.73 a night for the first four nights and then rented weekly for $195 plus tax, paying in cash.
Cunanan is wanted as a suspect in five killings — Versace, that of Cunanan's one-time male lover and another male friend in Minnesota, a businessman in Chicago whose family denies any previous connection to Cunanan, and a cemetery worker in New Jersey who may have been killed just for his pickup.
washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/versace/stories/mourn.htm   (978 words)

  
 Types Of Killers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The final act in Cunanan's life began after he tells everybody that he is permanently moving to San Francisco, but instead travels to Minneapolis, where he meets David Madson (the friend of a friend) and the two hit it off.
Cunanan then travels to Chicago, where he sleeps in Madson's jeep, mainly because he's almost out of money and his credit limit is shot.
Andrew is transformed into a super-killer by the media, based on the seemingly randomness of his crimes, and the many disguises and aliases the man had.
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 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.
Authorities and experts on serial killers speculate that if he's the killer, Cunanan's ego is inflated and that he's basking in the limelight generated by the murders.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9707/17/cunanan   (784 words)

  
 Series of Articles on Alleged Mass Murderer Andrew Phillip Cunanan
Cunanan is a white, gay, male from San Diego.
Cunanan was dismissed as the prime suspect in this slaying several days after this initial report.
Experts say that suspected serial/spree killer Andrew Cunanan's ego is becoming inflated as he eludes investigators again.
www.emergency.com /cunankil.htm   (1141 words)

  
 CNN - Serial killer suspect is wanted in Versace slaying - July 15, 1997
Cunanan, described by Barreto as a "known male prostitute who services upscale clientele," is wanted in four killings across the country, from Minnesota to Chicago to New Jersey and now in Florida.
The 27-year-old Cunanan is suspected in the slayings of four men from Minneapolis to New Jersey, and he was known to move in gay circles.
Cunanan faces charges in the slaying of David Madson, a Minneapolis architect whose body was found May 3.
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 CNN - Woman: Caretaker took food to houseboat where Cunanan died - July 29, 1997
MIAMI BEACH, Florida (CNN) -- As houseboat caretaker Fernando Carreira accepted a $10,000 reward for a 911 call that led police to Andrew Cunanan, investigators were told he took food to the houseboat two days before the suspected murderer took his life.
Cunanan, suspected of killing fashion mogul Gianni Versace and four other men in a cross-country murder spree, killed himself Wednesday aboard the Miami Beach houseboat Carreira cared for.
Cunanan's body was released to a funeral home Saturday, according to the Dade County Medical Examiner's office.
us.cnn.com /US/9707/29/cunanan   (800 words)

  
 Andrew Cunanan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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.
carpenoctem.tv /killers/cun.html   (4055 words)

  
 CNN - Cunanan: more questions than answers - July 25, 1997
According to KGTV in San Diego, Cunanan owed hundreds of dollars to the Palomar Medical Center, where he had gone in 1995 to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases.
Carreira said he believed Cunanan had not been in the boathouse for more than three or four days before he was cornered.
Cunanan was thousands of dollars behind in credit card payments and was $46,000 in debt by May, KGTV reported.
edition.cnn.com /US/9707/25/cunanan   (965 words)

  
 CNN - Cunanan died in another fugitive's houseboat - July 24, 1997
Cunanan, a 27-year-old San Diego native, was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list and had eluded a nationwide manhunt for nearly three months.
Map of Cunanan's trail through the U.S. In addition to the Versace killing, 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.
Cunanan had eluded an intensive nationwide search that generated hundreds of claimed sightings all over the country.
premium.cnn.com /US/9707/24/cunanan.dead   (1026 words)

  
 SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal
Andrew Cunanan is pissed about something, and I don't think it was haute couture that prompted him to shoot, bludgeon, stab and slash his way across the country.
After the Versace killing, a cultured homosexual gentleman of my acquaintance groaned, "Why does he (Cunanan) have to be gay?" The fact that most of the victims were gay didn't seem to enter into it.
Obviously you can't apply Emily Post's rules of etiquette to psychopaths, but Cunanan is the most obnoxious kind of spree killer to have driven down the Florida freeway: prissy, pouty and preppy.
www.salon.com /july97/news/news970722.html   (788 words)

  
 Andrew Cunanan - TheBestLinks.com - Andrew Phillip Cunanan, April 27, Miami, Murder, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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Andrew Cunanan was a spree killer who murdered five people, including Gianni Versace, during a three-month period in 1997.
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 CNN - 'Most Wanted Man in America' found on Miami Beach houseboat - July 24, 1997
Cunanan's body was found inside the houseboat after a four-hour siege that began when the caretaker of the boat told police he had seen a stranger aboard and thought he heard a shot fired.
Lending further credence to the identification was a report that a.40-caliber handgun, the same kind of gun Cunanan was believed to have used in a cross-country killing spree, was found near the body.
Cunanan was sought in the killings of Versace -- shot twice in the head on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion -- and of four other men.
www-cgi.cnn.com /US/9707/24/cunanan.id   (1194 words)

  
 CNN - Body found on Miami Beach houseboat believed to be Cunanan - July 24, 1997
Lending further credence to the identification was a report from ABC News that a.40-caliber handgun, the same kind of gun Cunanan was believed to have used in a cross-country killing spree, was found near the body.
Cunanan is suspected of killing Italian designer Gianni Versace and four other men, and used a.40-caliber handgun in three of the slayings.
Further fueling speculation that it might be Cunanan was a report on local television that the houseboat belonged to a German man who owns a gay health club in Las Vegas.
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 CNN - FBI sets up phone line to collect tips - July 20, 1997
Cunanan, who is gay, reportedly has had a pattern of relying on wealthy gay men for financial support in the past.
In addition to Versace's death, Cunanan is also being sought for four other slayings in a spree that began in late April.
The Newsweek report said there are indications that Cunanan could have known Versace's morning routine, which included a daily stroll that took him four blocks away to the News Cafe where the designer bought magazines.
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 Directory - Society: Crime: Murder: Mass Murder: Mass Murderers: Spree Killers: Cunanan, Andrew Phillip
Articles on Andrew Phillip Cunanan  · cached · Three articles excerpted from ENN Emergency Services Report.
Andrew Cunanan, The Obsession  · News, links, pictures and more about the suspected gay spree killer, Andrew Phillip Cunanan.
Andrew Cunanan  · iweb · cached · Biography of the man who killed designer Versace.
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 CNN - Caretaker collects $45,000 for stumbling on Cunanan - August 12, 1997
MIAMI BEACH, Florida (AP) -- The houseboat caretaker who stumbled on Andrew Cunanan and apparently prompted the suspected serial killer's suicide collected $45,000 from authorities Tuesday in the biggest windfall in his campaign to collect reward money.
Hours later, police discovered the body of Cunanan, who was suspected in the murders of five men, including the shooting of fashion designer Gianni Versace in front of his Miami Beach mansion.
So far, Carreira has collected $55,000 from the various official and citizen groups that offered rewards for Cunanan's capture, including Tuesday's booty from police and other local agencies, and a $10,000 reward from a gay anti-violence group in New York.
edition.cnn.com /US/9708/12/versace.reward   (413 words)

  
 The Memphis Flyer: Book - April 29 - May 5, 1999
Orth's is by far the better-worked reportorial account, but, for five cents more, Indiana's may be just what Cunanan was asking for and hoping to hell he wouldn't get: a very smart, very unimpressed gay observer who could key into Cunanan's game and deliver on the last, discouraging word.
Exhibit C: On Cunanan's shifting circle of fly-by-night acquaintances: "[M]ost though not all of Andrew's brilliance was akin to the bizarre skills of an idiot savant, but Andrew also had the shrewd habit of picking friends from among the nominally bright, mentally torpid ranks of the indifferently educated middle class...."
And Exhibit G: On the humiliatingly déclassé decor of the Miami houseboat where Cunanan took refuge after killing Versace and where he was to end his own life: "The first thing Andrew had to contend with was the incredible bad taste of all the houseboat furnishings, quite beyond anything...
www.memphisflyer.com /backissues/issue532/book532.htm   (431 words)

  
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Now that Andrew Cunanan is out of the way, gays can go back to their old narcissistic, self-absorbed ways, all in the name of “pride.”
Old friends in his former stomping ground of San Diego were able to proceed with their annual gay pride festivities this weekend without a hitch—no pesky sniper fire, no ominous sightings of the smirking spree-killer, no murderous “visits” to old acquaintances.
Cunanan was ultimately responsible for his own pathology.
www.mondowendell.com /reitz.htm   (1469 words)

  
 The Confession of Andrew Cunanan. Startling Confession sent to religious group. Andrew Cunanan explains why God ordered ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
He states it was because it is written in the bible, that it is a sacred day to sacrifice to IAM, the ancient GOD of the Jews who gave the commandments to Moise.
Cunanan also explains why he killed Lee Miglin the Chicago developer who was well known for trying to build the world's tallest building in Chicago.
Cunanan said that was a symbol of the Tower of Babel.
www.theeunderground.com /Features/jesse.shtml   (1234 words)

  
 Suspected killer mobilizes gay sites | CNET News.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
PlanetOut, for instance, is offering bulletin boards to discuss Cunanan and his impact on the gay community and also is offering Netizens an email tip line.
While Cunanan's picture has been plastered in gay communities throughout the country such as San Francisco's Castro district, Rielly said he's hoping that the online messages reach gays who might not see those nonvirtual signs.
While Cunanan is known to target gay men, law enforcement officials warn that he is a dangerous man and that everyone, not just gays, should be on the lookout for him.
news.com.com /2100-1023-201487.html?legacy=cnet   (749 words)

  
 1997 - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
One hostage dies of a heart attack, two soldiers are killed from rebel fire and all 14 Tupac Amaru rebels are slain
April 27 - Andrew Cunanan murders Jerffrey Trail, beginning a murder spree that will last until July and terminate with the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace.
April 28 - The Red River of the North returns to its banks in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
open-encyclopedia.com /1997   (2928 words)

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