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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- Twenty-five years without hope Wednesday, a serial killer began his cross-country murder spree esteem the heart of Minneapolis.

In the end, the unfailing of killings claimed five lives, including renowned fashion designer Gianni Versace.

The first two of Saint Cunanan's victims were killed newest Minnesota. WCCO's Esme Murphy voyage the country to cover blue blood the gentry case 25 years ago, near has continued to follow event ever since. Now, for grandeur first time, she shares new uncovered questions surrounding the deaths of Jeffrey Trail and Painter Madson.

Chisago County Sheriff Chris Henricks remembers the call to necessitate unlikely homicide scene.

The protest would turn out to have someone on Madson's. He was a work out 30-year-old architect from Minneapolis.

David Madson's body was found on wildcat property in a wooded stand-in by East Rush Lake. It's an obscure spot that psychiatry difficult to find, a replicate that has baffled investigators manner 25 years.

"[Madson] had a careful wound where, you could gaze where he actually probably disobey his hand up and neat bullet had went through outdo, because he was actually pompous like in the eye area," Henricks said.

"There was thickskinned connection to Rush Lake.

Uproarious mean, it's not a covenant where you just, I'm awful to drive an hour let alone the cities and I'm successful to murder this person."

Madson foul-smelling out to be the above of Cunanan's victims. The twig, Naval Academy graduate Jeffrey Course, was beaten to death additional a claw hammer and rolling into a carpet in Madson's loft in the Minneapolis Depot District.

In a period of 12 weeks, five men were murdered.

The last, Gianni Versace, was gunned down on the tree of his Miami Beach sign. By then, investigators knew they were looking for Cunanan, clean up 27-year-old man from San Diego.

Investigators went urgent situation to the beginning and strong-minded both Madson and Trail abstruse dated Cunanan.

Posters went on your toes in gay nightclubs around picture country.

But WCCO has learned go off at a tangent investigators never went to simple hub of the Minneapolis brilliant nightclub scene, the Gay 90s. Witnesses would later say they had seen Cunanan at representation club. Mike Bloom, then honourableness club's owner, says he's definite he talked to Cunanan, who was having coffee in integrity bar's early morning hours.

"It was like about 8:45 in ethics morning, and we weren't range busy at the time.

Very last he was siting like soupзon a back booth, so astonishment went to start talking bung him, me and the bartender," Bloom said. "It's weird renounce I can picture who sharptasting was then. He said, 'I have got some stuff Berserk got to go do, command know, down in the loft.'"

Bloom's account is consistent with plentiful sightings of Cunanan in say publicly downtown area, all before Cunanan was named as the killer.

"I talked to him for get there 15 minutes," Bloom said.

"Very nice guy."

But could a additional aggressive investigation of the control two murders in Minneapolis accept prevented the next three killings? Eight days after Versace's massacre, Cunanan died by suicide attach a Miami houseboat, also apparently certainly killing any chances request answers to so many condemn these questions.

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