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July 21, 1997 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The FBI announced a toll-free telephone number for tips on Andrew Phillip Cunanan, the suspect in the killing of designer Gianni Versace and four other men. "Should you have any information regarding Andrew Phillip Cunanan, take no action yourself, but instead call 1-888-324-9800 or contact the nearest office" of the FBI, the bureau said. The FBI has offered $10,000 for information leading to Cunanan's capture.
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January 4, 1998 | From Times Wire Reports
A gym bag that Andrew Cunanan left behind at the outset of a killing spree contained steroids, which are known to cause violent behavior when abused, a newspaper reported. Five vials of injectable testosterone--often used illegally by athletes to build muscle--were found at the apartment of Jeff Trail, according to the Star Tribune in Minneapolis.
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NEWS
July 28, 1997 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The medical examiner's office in Miami released the body of Andrew Phillip Cunanan and a funeral home prepared the remains for shipment to his family in California. The remains will be taken to Glenn Abbey Memorial Park in Bonita. Authorities suspect Cunanan in a cross-country killing rampage that left five men dead--including fashion designer Gianni Versace. Cunanan killed himself Wednesday.
ENTERTAINMENT
September 19, 1997 | ROBERT W. WELKOS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The father of suspected cross-country killer Andrew Cunanan came to Los Angeles this week to begin making a documentary about his son's alleged one-man crime rampage, which authorities believe included the slaying of Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace and triggered one of the biggest manhunts in U.S. history.
NEWS
August 7, 1997 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Andrew Phillip Cunanan was nursing a stomach wound before his suicide and investigators believe he may have been wounded in one of the five murders he's suspected of committing. Police found bloody bandages, cotton swabs, gauze pads and penicillin pills in the Miami Beach houseboat where Cunanan ended his life with a gunshot to the head July 23. Cunanan, 27, was the prime suspect in the point-blank slaying of fashion designer Gianni Versace July 15 in Miami Beach, along with four other
NEWS
August 6, 1997 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A fingerprint found at the scene of Chicago real estate developer Lee Miglin's killing matches that of alleged serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan, police said. Police have suspected Cunanan since Miglin, 72, was found dead in May. A warrant for Cunanan's arrest was filed shortly before he committed suicide in Miami Beach, Fla., last month. But police were unable to match his fingerprints to the one at the scene until Tuesday, police spokesman Paul Jenkins said.
NEWS
August 3, 1997 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The FBI will reward houseboat caretaker Fernando Carreira with $10,000 for his role in leading police to alleged rampage killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan. Miami Beach police have not decided whether to give Carreira a $45,000 reward they offered for information. Carreira happened on the suspect as he went to check on a boat where Cunanan was hiding after the slaying of fashion designer Gianni Versace. When police searched the boat, they found Cunanan, who had killed himself.
NEWS
August 1, 1997 | Associated Press
Suspected serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan was not HIV positive when he killed himself aboard a Miami Beach houseboat, the Miami Herald reported in today's editions. Three law enforcement sources, who asked not to be identified, said tests performed on Cunanan's body at the Dade County Medical Examiner's Office showed he did not have AIDS. Cunanan, who killed himself July 23, was suspected in the July 15 slaying of fashion designer Gianni Versace.
NEWS
July 24, 1997 | TONY PERRY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Word about the death of Andrew Phillip Cunanan spread quickly Wednesday night through the gay neighborhood of Hillcrest, provoking feelings of relief and revulsion. "The terror is over, thank God," said Phil Artson, a tutor of languages. In the dance parlors, bookstores and restaurants where Cunanan once was a regular, young men discussed the news from Miami Beach in hushed but excited tones. A few motorists raised their fists and shouted joyously.
NEWS
July 25, 1997
According to authorities, these slaying are linked to Andrew Phillip Cunanan: APRIL 27 Cunanan left a message for Jeffrey Trail, 28, a gas company manager in Minneapolis, asking Trail to meet him at the apartment of architect David Madson. The three had met when Trail, a former Navy officer, was stationed in San Diego. * APRIL 29 The body of Trail, Cunanan's first alleged victim, was found in Madson's apartment, rolled up in a rug. He had been bludgeoned with a claw hammer, found nearby.
NEWS
August 13, 1997 | From Times Wire Reports
The fugitive owner of a houseboat in Miami Beach where fashion designer Gianni Versace's alleged killer, Andrew Cunanan, was found dead last month has been arrested on charges of fraud and tax evasion, prosecutors said. Torsten Reineck, wanted by German authorities since 1992, was taken into custody at Frankfurt's international airport when he landed Monday evening. It was not immediately known whether Reineck, 49, returned to Germany voluntarily or under an extradition-style police escort.
NEWS
August 7, 1997 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Andrew Phillip Cunanan was nursing a stomach wound before his suicide and investigators believe he may have been wounded in one of the five murders he's suspected of committing. Police found bloody bandages, cotton swabs, gauze pads and penicillin pills in the Miami Beach houseboat where Cunanan ended his life with a gunshot to the head July 23. Cunanan, 27, was the prime suspect in the point-blank slaying of fashion designer Gianni Versace July 15 in Miami Beach, along with four other
NEWS
August 6, 1997 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A fingerprint found at the scene of Chicago real estate developer Lee Miglin's killing matches that of alleged serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan, police said. Police have suspected Cunanan since Miglin, 72, was found dead in May. A warrant for Cunanan's arrest was filed shortly before he committed suicide in Miami Beach, Fla., last month. But police were unable to match his fingerprints to the one at the scene until Tuesday, police spokesman Paul Jenkins said.
NEWS
August 3, 1997 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The FBI will reward houseboat caretaker Fernando Carreira with $10,000 for his role in leading police to alleged rampage killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan. Miami Beach police have not decided whether to give Carreira a $45,000 reward they offered for information. Carreira happened on the suspect as he went to check on a boat where Cunanan was hiding after the slaying of fashion designer Gianni Versace. When police searched the boat, they found Cunanan, who had killed himself.
NEWS
August 1, 1997 | Associated Press
Suspected serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan was not HIV positive when he killed himself aboard a Miami Beach houseboat, the Miami Herald reported in today's editions. Three law enforcement sources, who asked not to be identified, said tests performed on Cunanan's body at the Dade County Medical Examiner's Office showed he did not have AIDS. Cunanan, who killed himself July 23, was suspected in the July 15 slaying of fashion designer Gianni Versace.
BUSINESS
July 30, 1997 | BRIAN LOWRY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Though the television industry has recently voiced an aversion to dramatizing sensational true-crime stories, the ABC network is planning a made-for-television movie about Andrew Cunanan, the alleged serial killer whose victims included fashion designer Gianni Versace. ABC has made a deal with Avenue Pictures--a company involved in producing such films as director Robert Altman's Oscar-nominated "The Player" and "Short Cuts"--to develop the script for a movie that will focus on Cunanan.
NEWS
July 22, 1997 | From Associated Press
Andrew Phillip Cunanan, according to one account, was a name-dropper who bragged of knowing Gianni Versace--one of five men he is suspected of slaying--as well as other celebrities. On Monday, the FBI said it is alerting some of those other figures that their lives might also be in danger. "We are trying to alert people that their name has come up," said FBI spokeswoman Coleen Rowley.
NEWS
July 29, 1997 | From Associated Press
With a woman screaming hysterically in the background, Gianni Versace's chef breathlessly told a 911 operator the fashion designer had been gunned down and wondered: "Who would have done something like that?" The 911 call, released Monday, captured chef Charles Podesta's frantic efforts to get help July 15 after staffers inside Versace's oceanfront mansion heard "three or four loud pops" and found the designer in a pool of blood.
NEWS
July 29, 1997 | From Associated Press
With a woman screaming hysterically in the background, Gianni Versace's chef breathlessly told a 911 operator the fashion designer had been gunned down and wondered: "Who would have done something like that?" The 911 call, released Monday, captured chef Charles Podesta's frantic efforts to get help July 15 after staffers inside Versace's oceanfront mansion heard "three or four loud pops" and found the designer in a pool of blood.
NEWS
July 28, 1997 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The medical examiner's office in Miami released the body of Andrew Phillip Cunanan and a funeral home prepared the remains for shipment to his family in California. The remains will be taken to Glenn Abbey Memorial Park in Bonita. Authorities suspect Cunanan in a cross-country killing rampage that left five men dead--including fashion designer Gianni Versace. Cunanan killed himself Wednesday.
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