Andrew Cunanan

**Andrew Philip Cunanan** (August 31th, 1969 - July 24th, 1997) was an American spree killer who, killed 5 men

Real Life

### Eye Color

Hazel

between May and July 1997. His case was the main subject in American Crime Story Season 2

## Early Life

Cunanan was born in National City, California, to Modesto "Pete" Cunanan, a Filipino American, and Mary Anne Schillaci, an Italian American, the youngest of four children. Modesto Cunanan was serving in the US Navy in the Vietnam War at the time of his son's birth.

In 1981, Cunanan's father enrolled him in the independent day school, The Bishop's School in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego. At school, Cunanan was remembered as being bright and very talkative, testing with an I.Q. of 147. As a teenager, however, he developed a reputation as a prolific liar given to telling fantastic tales about his family and personal life. He was also adept at changing his appearance according to what he felt was most attractive at a given moment.

When he was 19, his father deserted his family to avoid arrest for embezzlement. That same year, his mother learned that Cunanan was gay. During an ensuing argument, he threw her against a wall, dislocating her shoulder. Later examination of his behavior from reports indicate that he may have suffered from antisocial personality disorder, a personality disorder characterized by an abnormal lack of empathy (earlier known as psychopathy)

After graduating from high school in 1987, he enrolled at the University of California, San Diego, where he majored in American history. After dropping out, he settled in the Castro District of San Francisco.

## The Killing Spree

Cunanan's killing spree began in Minneapolis on April 27, 1997, with the murder of San Diego acquaintance

Jeffrey Trail, a former US naval officer and propane salesman. Following an argument, Cunanan beat Trail to death with a claw hammer and left his body rolled in a rug in a closet in a loft-apartment belonging to David Madson, his next victim.

Architect David Madson, who had once been Cunanan's lover, was the second to be killed; his body was found on the east shore of Rush Lake near Rush City, Minnesota, on May 3, 1997, with gunshot wounds to the head and back.

Cunanan next drove to Chicago and killed 72-year-old Lee Miglin, a prominent real estate developer, on May 4, 1997. Miglin had been bound with duct tape on his hands and feet and wrapped around his head. He was then stabbed over 20 times with a screwdriver and had his throat sawn open with a hacksaw. Following this murder, the FBI added Cunanan to its Ten Most Wanted list.

Five days later, Cunanan, who took Miglin's car, found his fourth victim in Pennsville, New Jersey, at the Finn's Point National Cemetery, killing 45-year-old caretaker William Reese and stealing his red pick-up truck. Reese had been shot to death. While the manhunt focused on Reese's truck, Cunanan "hid in plain sight" in Miami Beach, Florida for two months between his fourth and fifth murders. He even used his own name to pawn a stolen item, knowing that police routinely check pawn shop records for stolen merchandise.

## July 15, 1997, Assassination of Gianni Versace

On July 15, 1997, 27-year-old Cunanan saw 50-year-old Versace, an Italian fashion designer, walking to his home, Cunanan took out a revolver, walked up to Versace, and shot at him. Versace was hit once in the cheek. He died in the hospital at 9:21 am.