On this day in 1997, fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot and killed outside his home in Miami Beach, FL. Versace’s killer, Andrew Cunanan, had gone on a killing spree that started three months earlier in Minneapolis. Versace was Cunanan’s fifth and final (known) victim. Cunanan committed suicide on July 24th on a houseboat in Miami. His motive for the killings remains unknown.
Further reading:
FBI: Serial Killers – Andrew Cunanan Murders a Fashion Icon
Crime Museum – Versace Murder
Wikipedia – Andrew Cunanan
Nobody Move! 
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Johnny Versace. I remember, the photograph of Versace in a suit jacket with a beautiful woman on each arm. I asked,
“Who is, Johnny Versace, what crime family does he belong to?” Everyone at work was looking over the newspapers and speculating which crime family Johnny Versace was a member of. Then we find out, that he was a clothing designer. His name was pure Italian-American stuff of crime lore, and he was only a mild mannered designer of apparel.
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Cunanan looked like the captain of the chess club, and he was a freakin’ psychopath. I guess you can’t judge a book by its cover.
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John D.:
I didn’t think that Cunanan gave that stolen pistol a blow-job THAT soon after killing Versace…
The creepy part is never knowing WHY he did the five murders.
None of them didn’t seem to be related to one another.
Such a randomness to all of it.
Good story (and links)
Roll safe out there.
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Yeah, he just went off the deep end. But I wouldn’t be surprised if he had maybe killed before and was never caught for it. I guess we’ll never know.
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