Midwest Murder Suspect Sought in N.J. Slaying

PENNSVILLE, N.J. — Authorities expanded their search Saturday for a man wanted in connection with three slayings in the Midwest after a New Jersey cemetery caretaker was found shot to death.

Investigators said they had no solid leads on the whereabouts of Andrew Phillip Cunanan, who is believed to be traveling in the caretaker’s red pickup truck.

“He could be anywhere,” Sheila Horan, an FBI spokeswoman in Philadelphia, said at a news conference. “We’re obviously trying to run down leads.”

Authorities believe that Cunanan, charged with one murder count in Minnesota, is armed and dangerous.

The body of William Reese, 45, of Upper Deerfield Township was discovered Friday evening in the basement of a building that serves as the caretaker’s office at the Finn’s Point National Cemetery. Reese had been shot in the head, and officials estimated that he was killed in the afternoon.

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Reese’s death was linked to the earlier slayings because a 1994 Lexus that belonged to slain Chicago millionaire developer Lee Miglin, 72, was found parked near the cemetery office, officials said.

Cunanan, 27, of San Diego was the last person known to be driving the Lexus, said John Hagerty, a New Jersey State Police spokesman.

Chicago police have refused to comment, but authorities in Minnesota and California said Cunanan was a suspect in Miglin’s death.

Authorities had suspected Miglin’s killer was in the Philadelphia area since Thursday, when they traced a signal from the cellular phone in the Lexus.

Miglin’s slashed, stabbed and tortured body was found May 4, bound with masking tape and wrapping paper on his garage floor in one of the city’s most posh neighborhoods. Parked across the street was a Jeep belonging to slain Minneapolis architect David Madson, who police have said was Cunanan’s former lover.

Cunanan was charged with second-degree murder in Madson’s shooting and was wanted for questioning in the beating death of Jeffrey Trail, 28, whose body was found in Madson’s apartment.