Closing the case on Cunanan: could steroids have played a role in the killing spree?Investigators have wondered aloud about Andrew Cunanan's obsession with fashion designer Gianni Versace, whom the late "kept boy" allegedly fatally shot last July. Documents released in December by police in Miami Beach Miami Beach, city (1990 pop. 92,639), Dade co., SE Fla., on an island between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean; inc. 1915. It is connected to Miami by four causeways. , Fla., where Versace was murdered, shed some light on Versace's sex life but little on Cunanan's motives. The five-month police probe found that Versace and his lover, Antonio D'Amico Antonio D'Amico (born 1959 in southern Italy, raised in Milan) has been a model and an Italian fashion designer. [1] His life so far has been marked by his relationship with the world famous designer Gianni Versace. , regularly hired male prostitutes for group sex. One prostitute told investigators that he visited Versace's Miami Beach mansion several times for threesomes with the couple. "D'Amico claimed that such liaisons were always mutually engaged in and they were otherwise faithful to each other," the police report stated. Before he embarked on his alleged killing spree, Cunanan bragged to friends that he had met Versace. But according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the police report, "D'Amico insisted that he had never before seen the shooter in Versace's presence." A Versace employee admitted that he hired hookers for Versace and D'Amico but insisted that Cunanan was not among them because "he wasn't their type." These are just two of the revelations contained in police reports. According to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune For the Wyoming newspaper, see . The Star Tribune (also Star trib or Strib, as it is often referred to) is the largest newspaper in the U.S. , police believe Cunanan's rage at his first victim, Jeffrey Trail, may have been triggered by drugs. Five vials of injectable in·ject·a·ble adj. Capable of being injected. Used of a drug. n. A drug or medicine that can be injected. testosterone were found inside Cunanan's gym bag, left at the murder scene. The hormone, sometimes used illegally by bodybuilders, has been implicated im·pli·cate tr.v. im·pli·cat·ed, im·pli·cat·ing, im·pli·cates 1. To involve or connect intimately or incriminatingly: evidence that implicates others in the plot. 2. in aggressive and violent behavior. Minneapolis investigators believe Cunanan had no other motive in the initial killings of his estranged es·trange tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es 1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations. friend Trail and David Madson, with whom Cunanan had once been sexually involved. Contrary to speculation, Cunanan was not HIV-positive, and there is no evidence of a love triangle A love triangle is a romantic relationship involving three people (known as a triad). While it can refer to two people independently romantically linked with a third, it usually implies that each of the three people has some kind of relationship to the other two. involving Cunanan, Trail, and Madson. Meanwhile, Chicago police report that they have been unable to find a previous link between Cunanan and wealthy businessman Lee Miglin Lee Miglin (1925-May 4, 1997) was a wealthy Chicago real estate developer who made millions in the building boom of the 1980s. Miglin was the third victim of Andrew Cunanan's 1997 murder spree. , who was allegedly Cunanan's third victim. Miglin was apparently chosen only because he was wealthy. While in Miami Beach, Cunanan pawned a gold coin that belonged to Miglin for $190. In the weeks before Versace's killing, the Miami Beach police reports indicate, Cunanan apparently roamed the resort city with little fear of capture. He enjoyed several gay dance clubs, where he bragged openly of his exploits, and went to theaters, where he watched the films Liar Liar and The Devil's Own. |
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