How does he operate?
Kills people.
The description of Andrew Phillip Cunanan
is simple and frightening, but who is this man,
now the focus of a nationwide manhunt,
wanted not only for the murder of Gianni Versace,
but also for his involvement
in a three-month long murder spree?
Cunanan is known to be a male prostitute,
who services affluent clientele.
Cunanan should be considered extremely dangerous
and armed at this time.
Cunanan, who also goes by Andrew DeSilva
has made the FBI's Most Wanted list
and now reports say that Cunanan
and Versace may have been acquainted.
Those that knew him are frightened,
because he seems now to have totally flipped out.
Andrew is really Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
because I would never have believed
that he would have been capable of doing what he did.
This acquaintance of Andrew Cunanan,
who asked us to conceal his identity
described him as articulate and flamboyant.
Authorities say Cunanan's crime spree began in Minneapolis,
where the Southern California native is the prime suspect
in the murder of Jeffrey Trail,
beaten to death with a claw hammer.
Four days later, police discovered the body
of Cunanan's former lover, David Madson not far away,
Cunanan has been charged with this murder.
He is a serial killer by the very virtue
of his numbers of victims,
over four, at this point now, five.
At the same time the complexities
that go into Cunanan's personality are such
that he is really what we call a spree killer.
Police say that spree next led to Chicago
and the torture/murder of real estate mogul, Lee Miglin.
Then on May 9th, Miglin's car was found
at the site of a New Jersey cemetery,
where caretaker, William Reese was found shot to death.
Tuesday morning, police tied Cunanan
in with Versace's murder,
when they found the red pickup truck
that belonged to the dead caretaker.
Stolen South Carolina license plates were on the truck,
it was owned by Franklin Watts' daughter.
Kind of feel like the tags were stolen
in a shopping day or school day or somewhere from home.
And inside the truck, police found clothes
and even headline articles about Cunanan himself.
He's just rampaging across the country.
Robert Bresler, former FBI agent
and an expert on the behavior of serial killers
theorizes on why Cunanan could have killed Versace.
Either he had a connection with Versace
and he could have had a connection,
based on the flamboyant personality that he portrayed
or Versace could merely be a symbolic victim,
symbolic of the success, the fame, the wealth.
The possible connection between fashion giant,
Gianni Versace and Andrew Cunanan came out Wednesday,
when Maureen Orth, a writer for Vanity Fair magazine
reported that the two had met backstage
at the San Francisco Opera some years ago.
Orth said that she did not believe
that the two were intimate.
At Twist, a gay nightclub in South Beach,
the manager remembers seeing Cunanan.
But he was a normal looking guy, so normal,
that's the scariest part of it all.
And that may be why the FBI
hasn't been able to catch the suspected killer.
Nicole Ramirez-Murray, a columnist
for the Gay & Lesbian Times in San Diego
knew Cunanan and followed his jet set lifestyle.
He was a gigolo, he was definitely an American gay gigolo
and he had a gentleman that took care of him.
He wanted attention,
I would say that he could light up the room with his smile.
Now Ramirez-Murray is in fear
like so many others.
I've been very concerned, as other people
have been concerned over his return to San Diego,
so I had an iron gate put on my door.
Versace thing is putting him in a new direction
and I think that direction is headlines,
that direction is I'm gonna go down
with the biggest headlines I can.
Just where Cunanan is now headed
is anyone's guess, so far he's outwitted authorities.
Andrew wanted people to pay attention to him
and now I think the whole country's
paying attention to Andrew.
With his death, Andrew Cunanan
gives birth to an unsolvable mystery,
did he kill five men and more importantly why?
Cunanan did not leave behind a suicide note,
so police are left with only pieces of the puzzle,
but what is becoming more clear
is how the suspected serial killer
spent the final days of his life.
Meanwhile police are now certain that Cunanan's suicide gun
was the same .40 caliber handgun
used to kill Gianni Versace and two other men.
Police found other evidence
at the scene of Cunanan's suicide,
a small safe was carried from the area.
Neighbors around the houseboat
continued to report contact with the suspected killer
in the days after Versace's murder.
Cunanan apparently walked openly around the area,
witnesses reported seeing him suntanning and shopping.
And I saw a guy sitting on this bench reading a book.
I went to my boat like this
and said hi and he didn't say anything.
Photographer, Guillermo Volpy
says someone broke into his sailboat
right near the houseboat where Cunanan was caught.
Volpe shot this home video inside his sailboat
just after the intruder, now believed to be Cunanan left.
I discovered that, you know,
all the thing that was in the floor is over there
and this bed, he used this bed to sleep
and I found two Wednesday newspaper,
one from Italy and the other one from Miami, Miami Herald.
When I saw the newspaper, you know, and everything,
I say wow, maybe it's Cunanan.
We went to the police station and tell the history,
but they didn't do anything.
The FBI has interviewed
the owner of the houseboat, Torsten Reineck,
but hasn't disclosed the results of that interview.
If we find that somebody has been harboring him,
we'll proceed against them federally, I'll tell you that.
And new reports claim
that within 48 hours of Versace's murder,
Cunanan contacted an associate
trying to get a fake passport.
Another report says Cunanan was deeply in debt,
owing more than $40,000
to credit card companies and creditors.
Cunanan's body remains in custody,
but it will soon be turned over to his family.
He will be buried near his mother's home in California,
taking to the grave many secrets,
that will never be answered.
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