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Maureen Orth
Started reading
March 25, 2018
My husband recognized the same gay male voice.
Feels targeted
“Anyone who has done crystal and been on a bad streak can look at this whole thing [and understand],” says Joe Sullivan, a former crystal-meth user
Btw, "this whole thing" is the murder of Versace
“When I came home to hear that Versace had been shot and they think it’s Cunanan, I thought, my God, he once lived in our neighborhood,” Conaway confided. “If it weren’t for Cunanan, we wouldn’t have seen Diana at Versace’s funeral, so someone from our neighborhood caused that. But then, when Cunanan’s body was found, I was so disappointed. What am I supposed to go back to? Campaign finance reform?
Doug Conaway, lauding Cunanan for getting Diana to Versace's funeral by killing him
THE LAST REMAINS OF Andrew Cunanan have been interred behind a marble slab in a sunny mausoleum at the Holy Cross Cemetery in San Diego, paid for with money his mother received for doing an interview on Paramount television’s Hard Copy.
They will not speak for publication unless they are paid, and thus would not participate in this book.
Elea and Christopher: Andrew's siblings
Another favorite of his was Robin Williams’s TV sitcom Mork and Mindy.
When Mrs. Wilson asked what she should serve for Peter’s Halloween birthday party in the eighth grade, Andrew floored her by suggesting cracked crab. “I was thinking pizza,” she said.
Why are you asking an eighth grader for enu ideas in the first place tho
Today Pete feels his life has turned around. He is living with his “Filipina wife—all the partner I could ever want.”
So he's a bigamist
Pete is a follower of Clare Prophet, leader of the Church Universal and Triumphant, a cult based in Montana and San Diego,
“We thought, it can’t be real—it’s so out there,” says his classmate Anne Murray.
Wouldn't that be awesome
(In March 1997, shortly before Andrew began his murder spree, Rancho Santa Fe gained its own notoriety as the site of the mass suicide of the cult members of Heaven’s Gate.)
Even more chilling was Andrew’s frequent use of violent expressions in his speech. Instead of repeating the common phrase “going ballistic,” Andrew would often substitute “going on a five-state killing spree.” He’d say, “If I found out I had AIDS, I’d be so mad I’d go on a five-state killing spree,” or “This is outrageous enough to make me go on a five-state killing spree.” Andrew’s frequent use of this phrase to be humorous was disquieting to Phil, who later told the FBI about it, after Andrew had actually committed murders in four states.
“Oh, I just saw Capriccio at the opera,” Andrew answered, adding, “I was with Gianni Versace.”
Antonio D’Amico,
Versace's boyfriend
Val Caniparoli,
Choreographer and friend of Versace
He told Eli that he had met Versace before.
“I know you,” he said to Andrew. “Lago di Como, no?” Versace was referring to the house he owned on Lake Como near the Swiss border. Reportedly he would often use the Lago di Como line when he wanted to strike up a conversation with someone.
Oh, that's not a great combo
Robbins Thompson,
They were wearing G-strings “with strategic holes placed in the G-strings, and they were dressed up as bunny rabbits with genitalia as their noses.”
Sloggett’s onetime video art director and former partner, Glen Offield, had the largest collection of Barbie dolls in the world.
“Bill and I have always lived a diverse lifestyle,” says Howard, who sports a tiny gold earring.
A leather bar has theme parties—“latex fisting night,” for example.
“What is it you do?” Dana asked Andrew. “I’m a professional romantic,” he blithely replied, and turned toward the canapes.
Robbie bought David an I Love Vail bumper sticker for his 1995 leased red Jeep Cherokee.
Who puts a bumper sticker on a leased car?
Andrew would come in at 2 A.M. on Saturday, after the bars closed, and would still be at the Mustang late the next day, eating out of the candy machine or getting an hour pass to go outside and buy something at the taco shop down the street. “Roseanne was on at five P.M. He’d sit and watch that.”
During this period, Andrew also put on a lot of weight, the result of taking Franz out for elaborate dinners three or four times a week. “It was noticeable, bordering on gross. He looked something like a straight man would get,” says Shane O’Brien. “Cottage cheesy all in one area—the gut … ugh.”
Cunanan Reconsidered: The hero we deserve?
When Andrew and Franz would go to Black’s Beach, Andrew would be the odd man out. “God, Franz, you have a nice body,” he would say. “There’d be all these people there with major bods, and Andrew would be eating a box of Oreos, smoking a cigar with a bag of Doritos, having a beer,” says Franz.
Apparently Andrew would masturbate while watching porn tapes.
“There’s more than proof in the pudding. There’s dipsy dooodly and you-you hoo.” Andrew was working close to home.
“He used the electric-shock stuff. It was always very weird. He said stuff like, ‘Oh, I’d like to electrocute him.’ And I was, like, ‘Whatever, you weirdo.’ ”
Late at night, Andrew’s roommate, Erik Greenman, would see him injecting himself with his drug of choice, crystal meth. In the morning, “he’d be coming down and feeling awful,” remembers Erik. Sardonically, he would tell him, “Never do crack, Erik. It’s a ghetto drug.” There was speculation that Andrew was also using heroin, but no needle tracks were found on his body.
MAUREEN ORTH EITHER HE'S SHOOTING UP CRYSTAL METH OR TGERE WERE NO TRACKS ON HIS BODY YOU CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS
a “great weekend with a lot of shopping and they went to dinner at Lisa Kudrow’s mother’s house.”
There, Jeff confided to the sister he felt closest to, Candy Parrott,
I'm sorry her name is what?
Later he would remember that Andrew had told him more than once how he hated Gianni Versace.
I wish Orth connected this back to when Cunanan was obsessed with Versace
He later told police he thought David “might be having sexual intercourse with his homosexual partner,”
A mountain climber who digs deep for his facts,
Oh Maureen
‘Your son is a homosexual who uses steroids,’
a homosexual-love-triangle murder triggered by “ ‘roid rage.”
headed, “A joke for today: From David who is an engineer and I’m OK.” The joke began, “An engineer, an architect and an artist are having an argument …” Jeff was a trained engineer, and Andrew billed himself an expert on art. Could this be a veiled message from David? They thought it might be, because David always kidded his parents about reading that page. They urged Wagner to call the paper and find out who contributed the item. “My jaw dropped when I read it,” Wagner says. “I thought, It has to be from David. I showed it to Tichich. Everyone said, ‘It’s gotta be David.’ ”
The knife was stuck right in the ham and it wasn’t even on a plate.
He stumbled onto an altar with more than a hundred unlit candles. “They have a chapel in their basement and I really didn’t understand what it was.”
Ironically, both Dahmer and Gacy were also gay, and Speck was bisexual—
Since he had never been arrested, and his only existing fingerprint was the right thumbprint on his California driver’s license,
What about Andrew's bedroom and bathroom? That guy didn't clean those rooms, 'member?
had been contaminated, so police had to compare hundreds of prints.
Oh
“What irritated me first when their big manhunt was on,” says Jerry Davis, “was the pictures they were showing. Because the Andrew I knew was a fat, ugly guy.… I thought he was gross. And that picture they showed on TV—I thought he was nice-looking. That’s what I kept trying to tell those guys.”
“He’s a guy who could blend into a number of different communities—Italian, Greek, Hispanic,” says Todd Rivard.
Ashkenazic, Inuit, Ainu
the day the FBI entered his case, Andrew presumably was at the movies in Chelsea, watching Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar. The next night he saw Brad Pitt in The Devil’s Own.
On top of everything else he has terrible taste in movies
Chicago had had such a hard time getting any fingerprints of Andrew’s that they were now searching for his dental records in order to compare them with the bites taken out of the ham found in Lee Miglin’s den.
“I made a comment to Jean,” Michelle says, “ ‘I bet they’re gay.’
“The pants were overlooked,” admits Tichich. “And the tag on the luggage was embarrassing also. But the shaving kit is something that I don’t think we should take criticism for, because how do you tell whose shaving kit it is?” I ask why they didn’t test both. “You can’t take everything in the apartment and bring it back here,” Tichich declares. “You just can’t do that.”
