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Twenty years after serial killer Andrew Cunanan’s cross-country murder spree left five dead, including fashion designer Gianni Versace, a key question still lingers for investigators and the victims’ families: Why?

Even now, according to experts People spoke to on the anniversary of Cunanan’s slayings, it’s still not clear what drove the 27-year-old hustler to travel across the country killing people he knew and others he did not.

“Investigators really didn’t have what they felt was a concrete motive,” says John Kelly, a criminal profiler and serial killer expert.

A case that has already generated years of...

Jennifer Baichwal is an accomplished Canadian filmmaker whose ever-searching documentaries have taken up such diverse subjects as photography (The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams’ Appalachia), literary biography (Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles), the metaphysics of lightning strikes (Act of God), and the devastating underside of mass Western consumption (Manufactured Landscapes). In her latest film, Payback, loosely based on the prolific Booker Prize–winning author Margaret Atwood’s book-length study of debt as a structuring principle of life, language, and contemporary culture (the subtitle for her tome is The Shadow Side of Wealth), Baichwal investigates the disparate ways in which the idea of indebtedness has come to define everything from blood feuds to labor practices, prison terms to environmental clean-up efforts.

What does it mean to say we “owe” someone? How are debts created? Under what conditions do we seek justice or retribution, or attempt...

The Count & Sinden have announced a full UK tour and the details of the second single from their Mega Mega Mega LP. Jousha 'The Count' Harvey and Graeme Sinden release 'Addicted To You', featuring Bashy, as a digital download on November 8. It is the follow-up to 'After Dark', which featured William Rees and Kai Fish of the Mystery Jets. Included in the single package are remixes from Lone, Manhattan Clique, Wafa and others. The duo's full tour dates are as follows:

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Joshua 'The Count' Harvey has revealed that he is eyeing up the charts with his current single 'After Dark'. The track from The Count & Sinden was released on Monday and also features William Rees and Kai Fish of the Mystery Jets. Asked if he had any commercial expectations for the track, Harvey told Digital Spy: "I really want it to go in the charts because I think it's a fantastic record. I think it's one of the best records that I've been involved in. "We don't have the massive marketing budgets that all the major labels have and when you look at the charts it's 99.9% major labels pumping money into singles. Maybe to a lot of people it'd be a miracle if we got into the charts, but I always have high expectations of my work!" Asked if the Mystery (more)...