The family came from Florida about a year ago, the police and acquaintances said.

He is the kind of person, an acquaintance once said, who might press his jeans.

Acquaintances said last night that he was an only child who "tried to make friends with anybody."

Acquaintances and authorities say it could have been a lot of people.

The move seemed to be a signal of new problems in her life, friends and acquaintances said.

But acquaintances from the movie world said he never settled down.

Acquaintances say she'll stop them and ask "But how are you, really?"

But many acquaintances say he changed after his mother died of breast cancer two years ago.

One of those strangers was the woman he married nearly 10 years ago, acquaintances said.

She was the more outgoing member of the couple, an acquaintance said.