Andrew Cunanan Essay

Andrew Cunanan was born in August 31, 1969 in San Diego, California. Andrew’s father is from the Filipino islands while his mother is from Italian decedent. His father was stationed in the Navy when his parents met. His father was a member of the Fleet Marines that served in Vietnam and he stayed in the Navy working for the hospital corps. Andrew had three siblings there name are Christopher, Elena and Regina. Before Andrew was born his parents were in verge of getting a divorce. Andrew Cunanan parents believe Andrew’s birth was going to save their marriage. Andrew birth was not easy, after his birth hardships still continued. Andrew’s mother was hospitalized for three months from postpartum depression and was unable to care of her baby.

His father had to set up and take care of him during this tough time.
Andrew parents had a dysfunctional marriage. His father believed that his wife was unfaithful to him. Also assuming she cheated on him with a man that came from the Philippines just like him. Which lead him to think that his daughter Elena was not his child. He assumed Elena father was a Philippine man she cheated on him with. Andrew’s mother accused his father of physical abuse her.
When Andrew was three years old his father retired from the Navy. He started back to school to obtain a degree in business administration and a master’s degree in business administration. When his grandfather passes away, his mother inherited money from his demolition business. At age four, his parents were determined to buy a home in Bonita. The family move to a three bedroom California ranch, in a middle class neighborhood with good schools nearby.
Andrew was a handsome child with valuable high-spiritedness. He went to Sunnyside Elementary school where he displayed a happy demeanor as a child. His parents believed he was a genius kid, because he was able to memorize the longest verse in the bible, and encyclopedia at age 7. When Andrew was in Junior High school, he became part of the mentally gifted minor program. In third grade Andrew’s IQ tested at 147. When Andrew was ten years old, he joined a program to be a stockbroker with Merrill Lynch.
Andrew, mother was a religious Catholic women who sent her kids to church and Sunday school every Sunday. Andrew was an altar boy at the church. He did not play outside like the other kids but preferred to read the encyclopedia and watch TV with his mother. He and his mother bonded very closely as an child. His mother would not allowed him go outside and play with other children because she was afraid he would get hurt. As time went on Andrew’s relationship with his mother become complicated because she used to cling to him by showing him too much attention, and how she would dress him up. At this point he began seeing himself as a superior.
Andrew father worked as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch for two years. He was not able to keep a job too long. His father lavished his son with attention and love. Andrew was more than a son to him, he saw Andrew has a friend. When Andrew was a baby his father created an indescribable bond with him. Andrew’s father did not showed his other children the same attention like he showed Andrew. All the attention he showed Andrew was geared at making Andrew greater than him. His father would tutor him on designer labels and image, carry him round the store to show him all the expensive shoes and jackets and ask him would you like to buy those. Andrew wanted to be like his father, he started mimicking his father confidence.
When Andrew was a small child his parents would dress him in suits and preppy clothes.

He did not dress like the other children in his grade. While other kids are wearing jean to school, he set himself apart by wearing khakis, Izod shirts and penny loafer shoes. He portrayed himself as a sophisticated boarding-school student. In middle school Andrew had become a pathological liar he would go around and tell stories how rich his family was. He did not want the other youngsters to know that his parents were not productive. He would bully the other children who did not have. Andrew wanted no one to know he was half Filipino. When he would read a book or magazine, he would embellish the story to make it fits his life. He told his classmate his father was a stockbroker and he owned stock in different company. Andrew felt the need to be recognized by the other children and teachers.

When Andrew was in seven grade he developed interested in celebrity and fashion. Girls found it easy to talk to him because they share the same interested. The other boys saw him as bizarre and flamboyant. In the playground the other children would whisper behind his back by calling him a fag. Andrew met another kid that was preppy just like him. After school Andrew and his friend would go to local shop and blew money in finest dining. Andrew began to developed connoisseurs of restaurants and gourmet of

sorts.
Andrew home life was unstable, there were tense situation at the home. Even though he was drawing all the attention from both parents, their unspoken validation that he was a prince. He was holding an enormous load on his shoulder. His parents wanted him to rationalize if they should stick together. The mother wanted him to become a priest and his father wanted him to become a rich socialite. They were different views of Andrew: he was a happy child, he was the worshiped baby idol, the growing boy being pulled in an adult world. Andrew was embarrassed of his mother's illness, and his father’s quick-tempered, unpredictable temper.
Andrew was ecstatic when he got accepted at Bishop the private school he wanted to go. Some of the kid’s belief he was a rich going to a fancy school. Andrew entered an environment of achievement and luxury that would have inspired others to take advantage of their ambition. Although for Andrew this was not the case as he was use to getting whatever he wanted he does not need to work hard to earn it, he was not grateful for the opportunity he received. He was having a hard time adjusting to his classmate life styles that he was envy of.
In high school Andrew had developed rapid intelligence, honesty, drive, and easy friendship and kind of Mediterranean lust for life. Andrew had developed an underlying anger for pretending to be someone he was not. He was externally flamboyant, enthusiastic; secretly he was extremely worried what other people would think of him. Some of his friends knew he was half Filipino and he had a brother and two sisters. In front of his class he masked his anxieties with bluff, audacity and acting maniacally happy-go-lucky. Andrew was going to debut at balls, dining out in fine restaurants, and attending parties in classmates’ extravagant house. The good life of materialism, his father had instructed him to covet was spread out in front of him every day. When Andrew was in high school he experienced his first homosexual encounter. Andrew liked being the feminine in his relationship. He started prostituting himself while he was in high school. He had got older man buying him gifts.

When Andrew graduated from Bishops, Andrew enrolled in the University of California to study history. He stayed out too late partying and going to a gay bar and he got detracted from doing his school assignment. College was his parents wish, not his.
When Andrew father lost his stockbroker job at Crowell, Weedon & Co. His father wanted out of his unhappy marriage to his mother. He decided to abandon the family and move back to Philippine. Soon afterward his father move to Philippine Andrew followed his father. Andrew thought his father had wealth in the Philippines. When Andrew arrived in the Philippine and saw how his father was living in poverty. Andrew wanted no part of his father’s diminished life. He was desperately wanting to go back to San Francisco. He did not have any money to get back to the state, he decided to become a male prostitute. He sold himself night and day, he did not care if the men were clean or dirty he needed money to buy a one way ticket to get out the country. He would do anything they ask him to do. He even dressed like a woman for them. Eventually he made enough to buy a one way ticket home.
Andrew visited the clubs with several specific elder lovers. From them, he received gifts, from one of his lover he received an automobile, from the other one he received credit cards to use at his will. He enjoyed the finest thing in life, the parties and their hideaway uptown apartments they kept him in, and their exclusive nasty secret. They would take him to society functions, usually as their "secretary" or "associate". Andrew met the city leaders, the celebrities. He learned the talk, the walk, and the styles. And he learned how to keep secrets.
Andrew finally found what he had been looking for in the Castro District the attention of very wealthy gentlemen. A lawyer named Eli Gould, had social connections and introduced him to a world that Andrew had long craved, a creation of limitless parties within the other universe, where Hollywood stars, super- rich personalities and international headliners assembled in wealth and were accessible across a coffee table.
One famous person he met was one with whom he would later share discourse of destiny, Italian-born fashion king Gianni Versace. Versace was gay and he was personable and, by all reports, shared dialogue with Andrew at the Colossus Discos after-opera party. When Versace met Andrew at the gala, he mistakes him for someone he had previously met overseas. Of course, Andrew played along.
Andrew had issued about catching the AIDS virus. He said “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. In 1997 he got tested and never went back to get the result. He convince himself that the contracted the virus. He began gain weight and he was not keeping up with his appearance and he let his hair get long.
Jeff Trail was a young Navy officer intern when he met Andrew in 1992. From DeKalb, Illinois, he was a good looking him with dark hair and he come from a good family. By the time he met Andrew, he was rejuvenated from the U.S. Naval Training Academy in Annapolis, serving on the USS Gridley docked in San Diego Harbor. He secretly lived as a gay man with a fellow officer until he and Andrew began an affair. They saw each other frequently throughout the next year. Jeff was tired of the restrictions of the military life. Trail resigned to accept a managerial job with a propane manufacturer located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Cunanan was heartbroken he did not want Jeff to move west. He promised to visit him regularly in his new city.
Andrew met David Madson in 1995 at Midnight Sun gay bar. He was an architect from Minneapolis. David was handsome with blonde hair and he was Andrew’s type, because he preppy looking. David was raised in Barron, Wisconsin.
Andrew Cunanan was jealous of David and Jeff friendship. Something troubled Andrew about the man’s in his life. He felt liked they had everything that he could not have. They had more in common with each other than him. In late April 1997 Andrew jealousy grew rapidly like something had overtaken him. He would call Jeff and accused him of having an affair with Madson. Jeff denied of having an affair with Madson, Andrew claimed he was lying. Before he slammed the phone down, Andrew yelled, “I’m going to kill you!”
When Andrew was on his way to the airport, he told his friend how he hated Versace and Andrew was jealous and resentful of how rich he was and he grow up from nothing and he became a famous person and a gay icon.

He told his “friend I will be gone for a while” Externally, Andrew was sought depress before he board the airplane.

On April 26 1997 David picked up Andrew at the municipal airport in Minneapolis. He brought him back to his loft apartment in an upscale neighborhood. Andrew brought David a Cartier watch. He wanted to settle Andrew suspicions once and for all by inviting Jeff to the house. Both man wanted to convince him there was nothing going on between them. A friend of David reach out to let him know that Andrew is acting very strange, "Well, I think he needs a friend and I think his trying to get his life straightened out. He just needs

somebody."
When Jeff and Andrew was inside David apartment the following evening there was tension among them. It was the first time they saw each other since the phone conversation. Andrew and Jeff started to argue and insult each other. Their argument turn to violence. At 9:55 the neighbors in the building heard a loud nose and wonder where the nose was coming from because is a quiet building. David was getting his kitchen remodel and Andrew found a hammer and clubbed Jeff angrily with a claw hammer between 25 and 30 times, mostly on his head and face. David was stunned by what happed to Jeff. His mind went blanked and he found himself helping Andrew wrap the body inside of a rug. When police began asking question to see what happened to Jeff. The tenant reported that they spotted Andrew and David coming and going like not happened and they saw David walking the dog.
At 10:45 in the morning two men were walking by the Minnesota Lake, they saw a body lying on its back facing the lake and they ran back to their jeep and called 911. David was shoot three time, and he was shot in the right eye, and between his shoulder blades.
Andrew h not done with his killing. He stayed ahead of the law by driving 45 miles from North Minnesota. He had become a heartless killer. Andrew began killing with the motivation of anger/ jealousy that’s when he his killing spree began.
Lee’s wife was out of town on a business trip. When she got to the airport she did not see her husband she caught a cab home. When she arrived home she notice something was wrong. She ran to her next door neighbor for help. Sunday morning May 4, 1997 around 8:15 the neighbor found Lee body in the garage. Andrew tortured Lee by warping his head with duck date and living a small hole for him to breath. Andrew had stabbed him with clipping clippers, then sawed through his throat with a gardening saw. Andrew also threw two bags of cement on top of Lee and fractured his chest.
Andrew had stolen Lee’s green a Lexus and headed out of Chicago. The FBI tracked his car to its next move. There was a high sensitive software that was in the car. Andrew did not know how to disable