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It turned up in Chicago. Lee Miglin, 72, was one of that city's more respected and better-known developers. A coal miner's son turned real estate baron, he had been a major player in Chicago's late-1980s building boom and was a generous philanthropist. His wife Marilyn, 58, was a successful and well-known cosmetics executive. On the morning of May 4, she returned from a business trip to find Miglin missing from their three-story brick row house in Chicago's Gold Coast district. Police searched the couple's garage across an alleyway, and found a grisly scene. Before killing Miglin, someone had wrapped him in plastic and brown paper and wound his face with masking tape, leaving only a hole for his nose. He was then repeatedly slashed and stabbed, and his throat was cut with a gardening saw. Afterward the killer or killers reportedly fixed a ham sandwich and shaved with the dead man's razor.
Miglin's death shocked even the most unshockable Chicagoans. Three days after the killing, Chicago police noticed the red Cherokee less than a block from the crime scene, accruing parking tickets. They called in its license number and learned its gory history. The killer had apparently traded the Cherokee for Miglin's green Lexus, now missing. On Thursday Philadelphia police got a call from their Chicago colleagues warning that the Lexus' phone had been activated in their area. The Philadelphia police went on alert, although, as a spokesman pointed out, "the guy [in the car] does not necessarily have to be the bad guy." That night, with the bulletin from Finn's Point, it became obvious the guy in the car was indeed the bad guy. He was now in the Chevy pickup, headed--where?
Andrew Cunanan has yet to be formally charged in any death but David Madson's, and the only publicly known evidence linking him to the last two deaths is the red Cherokee. Nonetheless, reporters located his mother, MaryAnn, in a central Illinois town and learned a little about his true identity. The Cunanans were once wealthy, as Andrew used to brag, but MaryAnn claims that in 1988 his father Modesto, a stockbroker, fled the country to avoid arrest on charges of misappropriating funds. MaryAnn Cunanan now gets food stamps. Before she stopped talking to the media, she told the Minneapolis Star Tribune, "No matter what he's done, he's my flesh and blood. I can't believe he could be a cold-blooded killer." She added a sentiment many would surely echo, about their own flesh and blood: "I hope he's not the next one."
--Reported by Cathy Booth/Los Angeles, Kevin Fedarko and Julie Grace/Chicago and Elaine Rivera/New York