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I think I want to be remembered
is what I will do tomorrow.

What I did is boring to me.

I think I'm too classic.

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Welcome to
"How It Really Happened."

I'm Hill Harper.

Even if you're not
a fashionista,

you've probably heard
of Gianni Versace.

Not only because of his work
as one of the world's

most beloved fashion designers,

but also because
of his shocking death.

Versace was cut down
in his prime in broad daylight

in a trendy Miami neighborhood
teeming with tourists.

What you may not know
is that Gianni Versace

was just one victim
of a troubled young man

whose murderous rampage had
people living in fear

from coast to coast in
the spring and summer of 1997.

Here's how it really happened.

♪♪

Gianni Versace was it.

Velez-Mitchell: I mean,
he was the perfect meld

of celebrity and fashion.

He came on the scene
like a meteor, like a nova.

The clothes were very sexy,
very revealing.

He brought sex back to fashion.

And he was associated with
the biggest names in the news.

Ball: He was friends
with Princess Diana,

who was the ultimate
trophy celebrity of the 1990s.

He was friends with Madonna,
who really turned to Versace

to remake her look
at a certain point.

Velez-Mitchell: Everyone from
Cher, Elton John, Calvin Klein.

Ball: He was friends
with Sylvester Stallone,

with Cindy Crawford.

He hung out with them.

He put them in the front rows
of his fashion shows.

He dressed them.

He really was the celebrity
designer of the 1990s.

Gianni Versace came from
the poorest area of Italy.

In the early '70s, about 1972,

he moved north,
he moved to Milan,

which was really just emerging
as a fashion capital.

From there, he embarked
in the world and started to open

more boutiques, and his brand
just really grew

exponentially from there.

He came to Miami in 1991
to open a second boutique,

and he fell in love
with the city.

He bought this
extraordinary place.

It was right on South Beach.

Woman: They call it
the crown jewel of Miami Beach,

Casa Casuarina.

A 23,000 square feet palace
with 10 bedrooms,

11 baths, including one
custom made suite for Madonna.

Velez-Mitchell:
It was truly spectacular,

and the notable thing,

it's right there on the main
drag in South beach.

Solomon: Versace decided to live
right in the middle

of Ocean Drive.

He was at the epicenter
of everything.

He felt secure enough
in this community,

he would walk up and down
Ocean Drive on a regular basis,

without escorts,
without body guards.

We mentioned that a couple of
times about not having security,

bodyguards or anything
like that.

But Gianni wanted to be
with the people.

His family was not
pleased at all.

Velez-Mitchell: Donatella
and other relatives

were telling Gianni, "Watch out.
You're too exposed.

You're too out in the open.
Anybody can target you."

But he wasn't afraid.

Velez-Mitchell: Poor
Gianni Versace probably has

no idea that there's this
mad man on a cross country

killing spree, and they are
on a collision course

and nobody has any idea
where this guy is.

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Cossack: We're looking at
the mysterious murder of

Chicago real estate mogul,
Lee Miglin.

Cronin: Lee Miglin was a very,
very rich man in Chicago.

He and his partner had
a real estate management team.

Lee was a very
prominent Chicagoan.

People knew Marilyn
and Lee Miglin

for many years on Oak Street.

Man: With Lee Miglin's
encouragement,

Marilyn was inspired to found

her own successful
cosmetic company.

She had just come back
from doing one of her

Home Shopping events in Canada,
and was surprised

when Lee wasn't at the airport
to pick her up

because he always
picked her up personally.

So she ended up going in a cab
and going home.

Martin: First of all,
their front gate isn't locked.

That strikes her
as a little odd.

Apparently it always it.

The front window curtains
are pulled closed,

which was also unusual.

But when she got into
the apartment, it was apparent

that somebody other than
her husband had been there.

Zwecker: She knew
something was wrong.

Reporter: Police found
the murdered Miglin

in a pool of blood.

We are treating this case
as a homicide,

and the investigation
is under way.

Fortunately, it was the police,
and not Marilyn,

that discovered the body.

It was torture,
plain and simple.

His head was fully
wrapped in masking tape.

His head was almost completely
severed with a garden saw.

Just for good measure,
he then throws two cement bags

on top of his victim's body

and he breaks every rib
in his body.

It was like something
out of a horror movie.

And then the killer stays in
the house, shaves, takes a bath,

eats a ham sandwich,
leaves all these clues behind.

There was some dirty dishes,
which was unlike her husband,

and there was also
some beard stubble

from an electric razor
in a bathroom

which is unlike
her husband apparently.

That level of comfort does not
exist in random burglaries

where they want to get in
and get out immediately.

There was a very close neighbor
of the Miglins

who saw Lee Miglin out in
the alley the night before

he was murdered
with a young man.

Here's the million dollar
question about

the Miglin murder.

Jordan:
Did they know each other?

Was there any kind of
prior relationship?

I mean, this man had no enemies.

Graves: The Miglin family
and the police have always said

that this was a random
act of violence.

Zwecker: Yeah, the line
"random act of violence"

became sort of the buzzword

for the entire connection
involving Lee Miglin.

If that was a random act
of violence, I'm George Clooney.

And my apologies
to George Clooney.

There was nothing random
about that.

It became what we call
in law enforcement,

"a heater case."

Because the governor's office
calls, the mayor's office calls,

even the cardinal's office
calls, "How's this going?"

A couple of days after
the Miglin murder,

a crucial clue turned up,
a red jeep parked

around the corner
from Lee Miglin's home.

Chicago Police realize from tips

that this jeep has
parking tickets on it.

It's nearby.
It's suspicious.

People said it had been
parked there

and that nobody had claimed it.

And so they ran the plate,
and that's when they tracked it

back to a murder vehicle
in Minnesota.

The Chicago Police Department
today announced

a warrant for the arrest
of Andrew Cunanan

in connection
with the Miglin murder.

King: Everyone was asking,
"Who is Andrew Cunanan?"

Fleissner: This is
a really bad person.

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Versace: Miami is cool.

Miami is a place
where you can be yourself.

It's simple, beautiful,
the weather's fantastic.

I'm very serene there.

Ball: In July, 1997,
Gianni Versace was in Paris.

He was planning and organizing
his last couture show.

So when he finished his show,
he was really looking forward

to having a couple of weeks
of rest in Miami.

He liked to be outside.
He liked to be in crowds.

The interaction was nothing
more than a wave and a hello.

He just had a very good time.

He had no clue, no idea that
a psycho is tracking him down

and about to kill him.

Reporter: A nationwide manhunt
is on for a California man,

wanted for murder in Minnesota,

and now suspected in the slaying
of a Chicago real estate mogul.

King: Everyone was asking,
"Who is Andrew Cunanan?"

If you think about all
the people that you've met

in your life, that you've shaken
hands with and talked to,

and you've been like,
"This is a really bad person."

It doesn't happen very often.

Maybe two times in your life,
maybe three?

I definitely felt that from
Andrew right from the beginning.

The one thing that everyone
seems to agree with about

Andrew Cunanan is that he was
an incredibly accomplished phony

and a fake and a narcissist.

Velez-Mitchell: He wanted
everything that comes to people

who work hard
without working hard.

The best cars, the best
homes, the greatest parties,

the fabulous dinners
at the best restaurants,

but he didn't want
to do a day of work.

Fleissner: He always had money.

We wondered, you know,
how does he have money?

Why does he have money?

First we were like, maybe
he's independently wealthy.

Maybe he was selling drugs.

Maybe he's a kept man.

White: His mother is the one
that actually originally said

that he was a high class
homosexual prostitute.

I never knew him as a gigolo.

He was very articulate,
very knowledgeable

in fine wines, clothes.

Velez-Mitchell: Here with a guy
who was very smart

and very educated.

That's why he was able to get
these wealthy sugar daddies,

because he read books,
he researched his sugar daddies,

what their interests were,

and then he would become
an expert in that subject.

Like, something out
of a film noir.

I never heard the word "gigolo",

just that he was
jet setting around

and had an elaborate lifestyle.

King: Did you wonder
how he got the money

to have that lifestyle?

Johnson: Yes, I often, you know,
questioned it.

Andrew Cunanan always had
his eye on the big prize,

a wealthy patron
or benefactor.

Now, there are rumors that
he actually met

Gianni Versace back in 1991.

We interviewed two people
in San Francisco that say that

Cunanan and Versace were seen
together at a club.

Gruenwald: Apparently Versace
was in San Francisco

designing costumes
for the San Francisco Opera,

and Cunanan told me
that when he met Versace,

he said, "Yeah, right,
you're Versace,

and I'm Coco Chanel,
nice to meet you."

He is probably thinking,
"Gianni Versace really likes me.

He's paying attention to me.

He's going to be
my next great patron."

And of course, this is
all a fantasy in his mind.

♪♪

He grew up in a relatively
modest, even poor family.

An Italian mother,
a Filipino father,

who had a terribly
dysfunctional marriage.

He was the youngest
of four children,

and absolutely
everyone agrees spoiled.

Cunanan: A spoiled kid never
hears the word "no" too often.

I used to think to myself,
"Well, one day

he's going to have to deal
with hearing the word no."

You know, but he was
so intelligent

that I think if he would
have applied himself,

he could have done
anything that he wanted.

Allegedly he scored a 145
on his IQ test,

and that was enough
to get him

into a very prestigious
prep school.

Reporter: Cunanan attended
the Bishop's School in La Jolla.

Jordan: Where he could
commute to school,

hobnob and rub shoulders
with the rich and famous kids,

learn from them,
study their ways,

be able to speak
their language,

and then go home
where no one was possibly

going to ever see the little
house that he lived in.

That's key, because then he saw
how the other half lived.

And he said, "Uh-huh, I've seen
both sides of the tracks,

and I know which side
of the tracks I want to live on.

The rich side."

Except he wasn't
from a rich family.

He began lying.

Klaidman: There does seem to be
a lot of evidence that

Andrew Cunanan was someone who
felt tremendous insecurities,

and had some kind of
a compunction

to tell tall tales
about himself.

Whitmore: Andrew had told me
that he held dual citizenship

in Israel and the United States,

and had served
in the Israeli Army.

White: He told us that he was
from the Philippines

and his family had money from
a sugar business

or sugar refinery there.

Horne: He told me that his
father was a big-time

businessman and had set him up
with a business making

pre-fabricated
sets for Hollywood.

He told me he went to Yale
and that he was an heir to

the Scripps newspaper fortune.

Cunanan: He always had a taste
for the finer things in life.

So maybe he fabricated
these stories

so that he could fit in better.

Everyone describes Andrew
as being obviously gay.

For his family, even though
it was as clear as day

to every around them,
they wouldn't believe it.

King: Are you saying
he was not gay?

By the way,
it's no sin to be gay.

No.

You're saying he was not.

He was not.
I knew the kid.

I knew him.

I knew his dates
when he was in high school.

Junior, senior prom,

I had to caution him
on several occasions.

and in no uncertain terms,
"Don't get that girl pregnant,

you're going to be
in trouble."

I was surprised because Andrew
never admitted it openly,

and I wanted him to know
that I loved him

regardless if he was an it
or a she or a he or what.

I gave birth to him.

Jordan:
In his high school year book,

not only was he voted
most likely to be remembered,

but he chose
under his own photo,

a famous quote from Louie XIV.

"Apres moi, le deluge."

Velez-Mitchell:
"After me, the storm."

He was really predicting that
he would go down in history,

that he would achieve something.

He really was a person
of two faces.

He was unraveling on drugs.

He was deeper and deeper into
this very rough pornography.

Velez-Mitchell: Andrew Cunanan
is coming apart at the seams.

You know, you have to really
break a barrier every day.

Fashion to me,
born and die every day.

It's really tragic
when you look at it

that there seem
to be parallel paths.

Gianni Versace,
rising in the world,

achieving more and more,

becoming a celebrity
in his own right,

and this Andrew Cunanan,
at the same time almost

living a parallel life,
but it's all fantasy.

♪♪

Fleissner: Jeff was
a Midwest guy.

Super warm, friendly, outgoing,
and a very genuine person.

So he was like a brother to us.

There were a few people
that he hung out with regularly

that were good friends of his,

and one of them was
Andrew Cunanan.

Whitmore: They were inseparable.
I mean, when they were in the --

King: Not lovers
but friends, or both?

As far as I know,
they never went out

with each other sexually.

But they were
close friends?

Very close friends.

Orth: Jeff Trail had
come to San Diego

as a young Annapolis
graduate in the Navy,

and he was just coming out
as a homosexual.

And Andrew was the bon vivant
in all the clubs,

and he introduced Jeff and set
him up and took him around.

Fleissner: Andrew wasn't ever
mean to Jeff.

He tried to be
controlling of Jeff.

If Jeff was in the room,
Andrew wanted

his full attention the whole
time that he was around.

"Look at me, look at me,
look what I'm doing."

He was just a braggart.

He was, you know,
just a total --

he was a total asshole.

Whitmore: He wanted to be
everybody's friend.

He would come up, and he'd
buy 6, 10 drinks, for people,

you know, a lot of times
for people he didn't even know.

With his sort of more
down to earth buddies,

he's buying drinks
and playing the big shot.

Then he's got a whole different
persona for the sugar daddies.

He's this high society,
affected guy

who's quoting this, that,
and the other

from books he's read.

For a while, he was supported
by a very wealthy man in

La Jolla who took him around
to Europe with him, et cetera.

So this sugar daddy gives
Andrew Cunanan

all that he wants.

You know, gives him
a luxury car to drive.

A $2,500 monthly allowance.

He really was a person
of two faces.

He simply had a life by day
and a life by night.

Then, in 1995, something
very unexpected happened

in Andrew Cunanan's life.

He fell in love.

Velez-Mitchell: David Madsen was
this good-looking,

clean cut guy,
just a poster boy.

Orth: Andrew met him,
he picked him up actually

when David was on a business
trip in San Francisco.

Hovland: Andrew probably saw
the same thing

that everybody did in David.

David had a charisma about him.

David's eyes were
beautiful blue.

He had an aura about him,
a big personality.

His laugh was contagious.
[ Chuckles ]

People just loved
being around David.

Velez-Mitchell: David Madsen was
intrigued by Andrew Cunanan.

Andrew Cunanan was mysterious

and was living
this glamorous life,

but David could never quite
figure out what was going on.

Benning: He told me about Andrew
Cunanan keeps calling him

and pursuing him, and that he
wanted nothing to do with him.

He says, "I think he's into
something shady, Dianne."

Orth: He was known as this
sort of happy go lucky,

sort of gay social director of
the gay community in San Diego.

But there were
darker sides to him.

He is alleged to be
a drug dealer.

He's alleged to have also
been into crack himself,

and S&M pornography
and S&M sadistic sex.

Velez-Mitchell: For a while,
things were going great

with Andrew, but there
was a point in 1996

where everything started
going to hell in a hand basket.

Andrew was, you know, trying to
establish this relationship

with David
and sort of all falls apart.

He wasn't paying his bills.

He had tons of debt
on credit cards.

He was in major depression.
He wasn't himself.

He let his weight
get out of control.

Fleissner: The last time I saw
him, it was a barbecue.

Everyone's in T-shirts,
flip-flops, and shorts,

and Andrew walks in his
three piece suit.

I hadn't seen him for a couple
months, and I just said,

"Andrew, oh, my God,
you look so fat.

What happened to you?"

Velez-Mitchell: His con jobs
weren't working anymore.

His sugar daddy was getting
tired of his demands

for more, more, more.

So sugar daddy said bye-bye.

At the same time,
the love of his life,

the man he really
wanted to be with

was getting sick and tired
of the lies and the mystery.

So David Madsen also said,
"Hmm, not so much."

Navarro: After the string of
really bad news,

it gets even more.

His friend Jeff Trail says
to him, "I'm leaving.

I'm moving to Minneapolis."

I vaguely remember him saying
something that he was upset

that Jeff was leaving town.

And he was just -- he wasn't
happy with Jeff's decision.

This was a double rejection
for Cunanan,

losing his best friend

and the man that
he really wanted to be with.

Orth: His whole facade
was crumbling.

He became filled with rage,

and he was going to get back at
those people who had used him,

he thought, because he was
always paying for the drinks

and hanging out in the bars
and taking care of everybody,

and what were
they doing for him?

In April 1997, Andrew Cunanan
makes a life-altering decision.

He buys a ticket to Minneapolis,
a one-way ticket,

first class, of course.

Apparently, he told friends
in San Diego

that he was going to Minneapolis
to visit David Madsen.

Graves: He also said,
"Hey, coincidentally,

while I'm there, I'm going
to see my buddy Jeff Trail."

Fleissner: Jeff said, "When he
comes up this weekend,

I'm going to tell him
that I don't want him

to come visit me anymore,

I don't want him
to be around anymore."

And I said, "You're actually
going to do that?"

And he said, "Yeah,
I'm gonna do that."

He told Madsen and Trail he was
just coming for a weekend visit.

Velez-Mitchell: A weekend visit?
That's one way of putting it.

What could go wrong?

Graves: Things became
very violent very quickly.

He could have just stopped there
and been like,

"Holy shit,
what did I just do?"

Why should people care
about fashion?

Even if the people who say
they don't care,

they care,
I promise you.

Into fashion, you can find
beauty, quality, life.

I think some puts color
to our life.

Welcome back to
"How It Really Happened."

By the early 1990s,

Gianni Versace was almost as
famous as his A-list clientele.

When he wasn't working,
Versace, oh, he was playing,

often at his mansion
in Miami's South Beach.

He felt safe walking among
the crowds, a man of the people.

Gianni Versace could not have
know that a deeply troubled man

had set out on a cross country
killing spree.

Their worlds were about
to collide,

but only one of them knew it.

Graves: Andrew Cunanan had come
to Minneapolis that Friday,

had flown in
on a one-way ticket.

He mentioned in San Diego
that he needed to go to

Minneapolis to
take care of business.

We believe Andrew Cunanan
made a call to Jeffrey Trail

based on some voicemail times.

No one knows what the call was,
why they wanted to get together,

why Andrew wanted to see Jeff.

Jeff Trail tells his boyfriend,

"I'll meet up with
you guys later,"

and heads over to see
Andrew Cunanan

at David Madsen's apartment.

Graves: By 9:45, Jeffrey Trail
had buzzed into the apartment,

and things became
very violent very quickly.

Velez-Mitchell: We don't know
what exactly happened

behind closed doors.

We do know there was
an argument,

and neighbors heard shouting
and something like,

"Get the 'bleep' out."

Jordan: My theory is
Jeffrey Trail got in

Andrew's face,
as only a friend could do

and called him out
on all of his lies,

all of his B.S.

"I can't believe you came here,
you're not welcome here.

I moved here,"
I think he probably said,

"To get away from you."

♪♪

He kills Jeff Trail
with a claw hammer?

Yeah, very brutally.
23 blows to the face.

[ Camera shutter clicks ]

There was blood on the walls
outside the apartment,

inside the apartment.

He rolled up his body in a rug.

[ Camera shutter clicks ]

Jeffrey Trail's watch
is frozen in time.

The face is busted at,

I believe it was
9:52 and 44 seconds.

He could have just
stopped there, and been like,

"Holy shit, what did
I just do?"

You know, "I just killed my best
friend, one of my best friends,"

and just stopped right there.

He didn't.

Hovland: I really don't
think he was even

in the apartment
when it happened,

and probably just walked into
a pretty horrific crime scene.

If Madsen walked in
and there's Trail

dead on the floor
with Cunanan holding a hammer,

Madsen is the loser
in this game.

There's no way to exit
the situation

and leave Madsen alive.

And I think it took him
a day or two to figure that out,

and he decided that
would be the plan.

♪♪

[ Gunshot ]

Reporter: David Madsen,
a 33-year-old architect,

is found dead in a lake
near Minneapolis.

He was found towards I guess
Friday night

or Saturday morning,
early by a fisherman,

and he had been,
you know, shot to death.

Graves: Once between
the shoulder blades,

once a grazing wound on his
face, and once in the eye.

Hovland: How terrifying
that would have been for him

to be in that predicament,

to die in that way
with this crazy person.

On checking personal property
left behind

at David Madsen's apartment,
we found a bag, Cunanan's bag.

In the bag, had an address
book, had his driver's license.

We're sure it's Andrew Cunanan,

and we're sure
he's fled the state.

That was truly
the point of no return,

where he realized,
"I'm on the lam.

I'm going to take Madsen's jeep,
and I'm going to start driving."

And the real question is,
"Where do I go now?"

Andrew Cunanan ends up
in a very fancy neighborhood

of Chicago called Gold Coast,
and it's in Gold Coast

where he crosses paths
with a wealthy, wealthy guy.

Jordan: And of course his
third victim, Lee Miglin,

is the biggest
question mark of all.

I believe he had been
in that house before.

Of course the Miglin family
denies ever having any

associations with
Andrew Cunanan,

but from a criminology
perspective,

he was much too familiar
with that house.

[ Heart beating ]

Then after killing Lee Miglin,

he takes his green Lexus
and heads east.

Tracking cellphone calls
from Miglin's stolen Lexus,

police thought they had
cornered Cunanan

near Philadelphia last Friday,

but he managed
to elude them again.

There is a media report,
a radio report, as I recall,

with a state police captain
that basically says,

"Hey, we're tracking
serial killer Andrew Cunanan,"

and that goes on the air.

Man: Be on the lookout
for a 187 suspect.

Suspect is
an Andrew Phillip Cunanan.

The suspect is believed to be
extremely dangerous and armed.

Graves: Andrew Cunanan
happens to hear that,

presumably gets mad,

tries to rip out the phone,
disables the phone.

He's freaking out.

He's trying to break
the antenna in two.

He's trying to ditch the car.
He doesn't know what to do.

And he pulls into this remote
civil war cemetery,

where William Reese
is the caretaker.

Graves: We just had to wait
to see what came next.

I heard two loud pops,
"Pop, pop."

Jordan: In studying and talking
to serial killers,

they do become numb
over time.

By this time, he's killed
three men in a number of days.

It's like, "I'm all in,
what does it matter

if I kill one more person?"

Andrew Cunanan pulls
the green Lexus up at

sort of the office area.

The cemetery caretaker is there.

His name is William Reese.

He marched him down the stairs
into the basement,

stood him against a concrete
wall and executed him.

Andrew Cunanan marches back up,
takes William Reese's

red pickup truck,
and is on the run again.

This is just a planned deal
to kill someone

to steal his pickup truck.

Just a heartless act.

Chambliss: That seems
to be the signature

that this man leaves behind.

He takes the car
of the last victim

and leaves it at the site
of the next alleged victim.

Graves: He heads south,
and then nobody hears from him.

I mean, everything is cold.

We just had to wait
to see what came next.

I believe he kept thinking,
planning, like,

a theatrical production,
"How is this gonna go down?

Am I gonna go out
in a blaze of glory?"

Urness: We're looking at a week,
two weeks after his

last known place was
Pennsville, New Jersey.

What happened?
Where is he?

Where is he going?

Andrew Cunanan
went to South Carolina,

went into a parking lot,

took the plates off
of the pickup truck,

obviously to avoid detection
by law enforcement,

slaps on a South Carolina plate,
and then heads south.

♪♪

[ Heart beating ]

Andrew Cunanan registers
under an alias

at the Normandy Plaza.

It's the type of hotel that you
would go to if you didn't have

a lot of money but you wanted to
be close to the beach.

This was no Fontainebleau.

June 12th, a month to the day
that Andrew arrives in Miami,

he's made the FBI's
Most Wanted list.

The FBI as well as all of
the local authority

believe that he is one of
the most wanted people

in this country today.

He was also on
"America's Most Wanted"

the TV show, twice, and I
remember one of his roommates

really giving some insight
into his personality.

Man: Ferris Bueller
in real life.

He can get away with anything,
everyone loves him.

He's bigger than life.

And that's how he attracts
everybody to him.

The hottest call we had was from
a Miami Beach sub shop.

A kid that worked there,
he called 911,

and said, "Have a guy here
that's ordering food,

and I know I saw him on
'America's Most Wanted.'"

The 911 operator tried to get as
much information as possible.

They missed Cunanan
by five minutes.

Your sister helps you
run the company, Donatella.

She does.
She does a lot.

She's kind of first
criticism to me.

We have a great
relationship.

She's my friend.
She's my first customers.

♪♪

Ball: So in the very early
morning of July 15th,

he awoke at about 3:00 a.m.,
which is 9:00 a.m. in Milan,

and he was thinking
right away of the fashion show

that Donatella
was organizing in Rome.

So he started calling
his sister,

and was starting
to give her orders

and pepper her with questions

and really interrogate her
about how that show was going.

Then he went back to sleep.

Gianni Versace was known
for paying attention

to every detail in every show.

Ball: He woke again
at about 8:00,

called Donatella
a couple more times,

and finally she just
wouldn't take his call.

She just put the phone down.
So he got up.

He decided to go,
as he did most mornings,

and take a walk down
to the News Cafe.

Velez-Mitchell: Everybody knows
the News Cafe in South Beach.

It's like the place to go.

And Gianni Versace
would go there in the morning

and get coffee and get magazines
and stroll back.

It was very public.

Ball: Antonio D'Amico,
Gianni's boyfriend, came down

after Gianni
had already left the house.

He came down, he had an early
tennis date with Lazaro,

a friend of theirs
who lived in Miami.

Antonio needed someone to play
tennis every time

they came in to town.

So I went inside,
and I stood by Antonio,

and he's sitting
at the end of the table.

After grabbing his newspaper
and magazines, Gianni Versace

made it back down here to his
mansion four blocks away.

Velez-Mitchell: Here's this
famous man, who's loved

by everybody, just going about
his life, planning shows,

waking up in the morning
in South Beach,

going to get coffee
and magazines,

just living his life,
enjoying his life.

Mr. Versace was walking back
from the News Cafe,

and as he's walking up
the steps to his house...

Orth: He passed a woman who's
just taken her child to school,

and they kind of smile
at each other.

He's up leaning over
to unlock the big iron gate,

and she turns around
to look one more time

just to sort of glance
at Versace,

and she sees this young man
walking very quickly,

diagonally across the street,
and all of a sudden,

he just sticks the gun out.

Bang, bang.

Antonio goes over to the window

that faces the entrance
to the mansion.

And he yells, "No, no!"

[ Heart beating ]

Escobar: Most of the news
organizations were in their

editorial meetings because
it happened in the morning,

and someone from
the assignment desk

comes into our meeting,
opens the glass doors and says,

"There's a shooting
in South beach."

Wow. This is going to be
one of the biggest stories

to hit Miami
in a long, long time.

I was out on
the beach, um, relaxing,

and I heard two loud pops.

Pop, pop.

He was laying right
on the steps.

It looked like
an execution style.

One shot to the head.

Miami Beach Police
are looking for the man

who walked up
to fashion designer,

Gianni Versace this morning

and shot him twice
in the back of the head.

Gianni was just laying there.

So I grabbed him, and I felt
to see if he was breathing,

but there was nothing.

It was not a survivable injury,

and indeed, he had no evidence
of neurologic function.

He was brain dead.

Velez-Mitchell:
It was such a shock.

The idea of a celebrity being
gunned down in broad daylight,

executed on their front steps
was just unthinkable.

Witnesses say,
"The man who fatally shot

Gianni Versace ran down an alley

and disappeared into
a nearby parking garage."

Navarro: He ran into
the garage.

He ran up to where
the red pickup truck was

with all his belongings in it.

He changed clothes.

He threw all his hot, sweaty
clothes on a pile on the floor.

Here's a guy that kept that
red pickup truck

for a couple of months.

Here's a guy that left
his passport

and a check with his name
in that pickup truck.

So now we know
it's Andrew Cunanan.

Miami Beach Police investigators
in cooperation with agents

of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation

and the Florida Department
of Law Enforcement

are currently looking
for Andrew Phillip Cunanan

as a suspect in the murder of
Gianni Versace.

Williams:
Where is Andrew Cunanan?

That was the question that hung
heavy over all of Miami Beach,

a place that was on edge.

I had never seen a manhunt
like that in my career.

We hope that he's still
within the state of Florida.

We hope.
But that's not a fact right now.

There was a whole segment of
the newsroom who believed

he left Miami a long time ago,
and he's probably

in Mexico somewhere or Cuba,
or you know, who knows.

♪♪

The family had Gianni's body
cremated immediately after

his murder in Miami, but they
wanted to return to Milan

to have a really extraordinary
funeral for him.

Donatella Versace
had told her assistant,

"They shot Gianni
like a stray dog.

I want to have a funeral fit
for a prince for him."

♪♪

♪ Oh, the Lord's my shepherd ♪

♪♪

Gianni's funeral was
an A-list affair.

There was Princess Diana,
who was comforting

Elton John, who was distraught
at the death of his friend.

There was Anna Wintour,
Karl Lagerfeld,

Sting and his wife,
Naomi Campbell.

Everyone was there,
and they were all in shock.

And of course, Andrew Cunanan
is still in hiding somewhere,

probably watching all
the coverage of it on TV,

knowing that he made
all of it happen

and loving the power of that.

♪♪

Reporter: The latest on
the manhunt for

the alleged killer of
Gianni Versace

and four other men.

Possibility a man involved
in gunfire

at a Miami Beach houseboat

might be that most wanted
suspect, Andrew Cunanan.

King: Authorities closed in
on a houseboat on Miami Beach.

We get a call into the newsroom
that there is police activity

on Collins Avenue
in Miami Beach.

That's a very quiet area.

Very little crime in that area.

There's a caretaker
that comes to check

on the houseboat for the owner.

Escobar: The caretaker sees

that the lock to the houseboat
has been broken,

and he steps in to see
what's going on,

and that's when he hears
a gunshot

and gets his son to call 911.

Reports began coming out,
and we could see that police

were converging
on a houseboat on Miami Beach.

Reporter: The houseboat is
located only two and a half

miles from the spot where
Versace was gunned down

last week in front
of his oceanfront villa.

Jordan: I think everyone
remembers watching it

live on 24-hour news.

The helicopters
over the houseboat,

and John Walsh pulling up
in his limousine and waving.

It was theater,
and sick as it is,

it's exactly
what Andrew Cunanan wanted.

King: Mary Anne, did you watch
the scene at the boat?

Mary Ann: I was in
the Miramar Lodge,

kept there by the FBI,

and I was not supposed
to leave my room.

And I was watching the TV,
and I was waiting.

Escobar:
There was a S.W.A.T. team,

major, major police presence.

Navarro: Right before
the S.W.A.T. team went in,

they threw I believe
five rounds of tear gas.

And then they made entry.

Penelas: After the police
stormed the home,

the first attempt was
to bring the suspect out.

King: Elana, did you try
to reach Andrew?

We did have
a spokesperson for us.

We prepared a plea.

But apparently
he didn't hear it.

Reporter: They have been
telling us all night,

they're going to tell us
something in 10 minutes.

That was two hours ago.

Then they said they're having
a press conference at 10:00.

We were here waiting for that.
It did not happen.

They made entry,
and they found a body

deceased in
the upstairs bedroom.

They find Andrew Cunanan dead
from a single gunshot wound.

Navarro: Big sigh of relief.

We fingerprinted the corpse
and identified him

as Andrew Cunanan for sure.

We think he was out of money.

He didn't have a stolen vehicle.

He may have been out
of ammunition.

Obviously it has turned out
to be his last stand.

Velez-Mitchell: When somebody
actually came to check on

the houseboat and just made
a little noise,

he knew it was over, and that
person heard a gunshot,

and that was Cunanan blowing
his brains out, end of story.

At 6:30 a.m. this morning,

the body of Andrew Cunanan
was removed from the scene

and delivered to the office

of the Dade County
Medical Examiner.

The medical examiner
has confirmed that he has died

of a self-inflicted
gunshot wound to the head.

We'll never know what motivated
Andrew Cunanan to kill,

but certainly we know now
that he'll never kill again.

I'm frustrated that we couldn't
have a sit-down

after he was caught.

Like reading a book
and stopping in the middle

and not knowing how it ended.

This is the picture we had
on our dart board

in the fugitive
task force office

for 79 days of Andrew Cunanan.

It's got just a few holes in it.

Fleissner: The whole thing
is just a tragedy.

He decided to make himself
a name and be this,

you know, splashy killer
of all these people,

and once again, had no interest
in the people

that he was killing
or the people

that were left behind that loved
these people that were killed.

That's Andrew's whole story,

is that he just basically
was all about Andrew.

It was the Andrew story.

More than 20 years
after Gianni Versace

was gunned down on the steps
of his Miami mansion,

the beloved
designer's legacy lives on.

The business he built into
a global fashion empire

continues to thrive with his
family still at the helm.

As for Andrew Cunanan,
we reached out to his family

for an interview,
and they declined.

But one of his sisters told us
that her children

don't know anything
about their infamous uncle.

I'm Hill Harper.
Thanks for joining us.

Good night.