*American Spree Killer*

[Faline]

Andrew Phillip Cunanan (August 31, 1969 – July 23, 1997) was an American spree killer who murdered at least five people, including fashion designer Gianni Versace, during a three-month period in 1997, ending with Cunanan's suicide, at age 27. On June 12, 1997, Cunanan became the 449th fugitive to be listed by the FBI on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list

The first known murder was that of his friend Jeffrey Trail, a former US naval officer and propane salesman, on April 25, 1997, in Minneapolis.

The next victim was architect David Madson, who was found on the east shore of Rush Lake near Rush City, Minnesota, on April 29, 1997, with gunshot wounds to the head. Police recognized a connection, as Trail's body had been found in Madson's Minneapolis loft apartment.

Cunanan next drove to Chicago and killed 72-year-old Lee Miglin, a prominent real estate developer, on May 4, 1997. Following this murder, the first of a non-acquaintance, the FBI added him 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 on May 9, 1997. 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. Finally, Cunanan murdered fashion designer Gianni Versace, on July 15, 1997.


The gun used by Cunanan for the murders was a Taurus semi-automatic pistol in .40 S&W caliber, which had been left behind in California by first victim Jeff Trail when he relocated to the Midwest.

Eight days after murdering Versace, on July 23, 1997, Cunanan shot himself in the head in the upstairs bedroom aboard a Miami houseboat.


At the time of the crimes, there was much public and press speculation that Cunanan's motives were tied to a diagnosis of HIV infection; however, an autopsy found him to be HIV-negative.

[zadfrackglutz]

i may be wrong bu ti believe most of these people he killed were involved with him "sexually".

[Faline]

Yeah i just looked it up and got the info i added at the bottom of my post maybe he thought one of them had given it to him.

[jaymes22]

the damn heivies cant live with em, and obviously cant live without em

[Jere]

[rere3343]

Ahhh good ol' America. We always have the best killers, minus Stalin of course.

[Faline]

I'm glad..you can keep all your killers

[1Monster666]

[MrBojangles73]

like it

[shooterb]

Good post, Kell- love the info-