Not long before his first murder, Cunanan told his friends in San Diego that he was flying to Minnesota to "settle some business" with old friend Jeffrey Trail , according to an article released by The New York Times a few months after his first murder. While it's not clear how Cunanan and Trail knew each other, investigators at the time believe they had been romantically linked. Trail, a year-old propane salesman, was found beaten to death with a claw hammer and rolled up in a rug that was stuffed in the closet of architect David Madson's apartment on April 27, Madson, another one of Cunanan's lovers, would soon become his second victim.
He said many, many times that he would give up everything to move out to Minneapolis for David. Madson's body was found with gunshot wounds to the head and back on the east shore of Rush Lake near Rush City, Minnesota on May 3, Cunanan later drove to Chicago and killed year-old Lee Miglin on May 4, No connection was ever found between Cunanan and Miglin, a prominent real estate developer, and officials concluded that it was a crime of opportunity while Miglin was cleaning a garage near his home, according to The Chicago Tribune.
After the murder, "Cunanan went into the family's home, ate a ham sandwich, shaved and rested," according to ABC7Chicago. He then drove Miglin's car to New Jersey, where he murdered yet another victim: William Reese, a cemetery worker, who appeared to have been shot to death so Cunanan could steal his red Chevrolet pickup truck. Following his fourth murder, Cunanan had become one of America's most-wanted fugitives.
Though law enforcement and the FBI were on the hunt for him, Cunanan made his way to Miami, eventually taking up residence for nearly two months at the Normandy Plaza hotel, about four miles north of Versace's mansion. The hotel's night manager claimed Cunanan paid in cash and would often change his appearance, possibly even wearing wigs to alter the way he looked, according to Vanity Fair. In , Versace and his future killer met at Colossus, a San Francisco nightclub, where Cunanan was pleased to find that Versace recognized him from a party at his house on Lake Como.
Whether Cunanan had ever actually been to Lake Como is unknown, but he took the recognition and used it to his advantage in his social circles, dropping Versace's name frequently. While a witness and police pursued Cunanan, he managed to escape. That morning, investigators found Reese's stolen pickup truck, along with a pile of discarded clothes, a personal check, a passport, newspaper clippings about his past murders, and a pawnshop ticket. At the time, Cunanan was wanted for the murders of Trail, Madson, and Miglin.
Criss looks nearly identical to Versace's killer in the FX series, and he seems to have found common ground with his character as well. So, what's kind of been a joy for me is to find as many redeeming things as possible in someone that you fathom as something so horrible and to really get the audience to ask themselves, 'At what point could this have been me?
Check out how the cast compares to their real-life counterparts here. View Iframe URL. In fact, when news broke in July that Gianni had been fatally gunned down on the steps of his Miami mansion, Orth was one of the first people to have a correct hunch about who the killer was.
She had spent the previous months extensively researching the mind-set and murder spree of year-old Cunanan, an intelligent, half-Filipino college dropout who suffered delusions of grandeur, a drug habit, and a dark sexual history. In a feature that was set to be published in Vanity Fair the following month, Orth reported that Cunanan had only encountered one of the celebrities he claimed to have met in his countless, fabrication-filled monologues: Versace. Because both Versace and Cunanan are said to have dabbled in sex-for-hire circles in San Francisco and Miami—Versace as procurer, Cunanan as purveyor—there is the slight chance that their orbits also intersected in unreported ways.
The first episode of Versace is filled with details about Cunanan that were first reported by Orth: that Cunanan, coddled from an early age by his parents and taught the importance of brand names by his father, coveted magazines like Vogue and Vanity Fair.
Amidst all of those character-study certainties, though, the fact that Versace and Cunanan did not actually have a deeper relationship than a onetime—possibly two-time—encounter may nag at viewers who are accustomed to tidy television crime procedurals where clear motives are uncovered in 60 minutes or less. In real life, even 20 years later, the world is no closer to knowing precisely why Cunanan murdered five people.
By Joanna Robinson. The actor discusses his turn as the fame-seeking spree killer with the author of the book upon which the new series is based. Since he shot in such close range, eyewitnesses saw him running — and the clothes he was wearing were found by the red truck in a parking garage. Finally, on July 23, a police team honed in on a Miami area houseboat where he had been hiding out. There had been evidence he was trying to get a fake passport to leave the country.
As the authorities approached, he shot himself dead. Without a suicide note, no explanation for why Cunanan killed Versace — or how long he targeted him — was ever revealed. Princess Diana , in one of the last times she was seen before her August 31 death the following month, sat next to John.
To keep his legacy going, the family focused on his fashion empire. Less than three months after his death, the Versace Milan fashion week show went on as it would have, on October 10, But instead of his rivals sizing up the collection, they all showed up in support. But for a long time it was a trauma…. I had to be strong for the company. But most of all I had to be strong for the family. The Miami estate was a luxurious home that showcased his creative vision — and also the same place where he was shot to death.
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