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Andrew Phillip Cunanan (August 31, 1969 – July 23, 1997) was a spree killer who murdered five people, including Gianni Versace, in a cross-country journey during a three-month period in 1997. He graduated from The Bishop's School in La Jolla, California, in 1987.

The first murder of the spree was that of his friend Jeffrey Trail on April 27, 1997, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The next victim was Cunanan's lover, architect David Madson, who was found outside of Minneapolis 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, and started an intensive manhunt. Cunanan next drove to Chicago and killed prominent real-estate developer Lee Miglin, 72, on May 4, 1997. Five days later, the intensive manhunt for Cunanan, who escaped in Miglin's car, culminated with the fourth victim in New Jersey, a cemetery caretaker named William Reese, 45, on May 9, 1997. Cunanan apparently killed him for his pick-up truck, while leaving Miglin's car behind. While the manhunt resumed for Reese's truck, Cunanan remained in hiding in Miami Beach, Florida, for months between his fourth and fifth murders. Finally, for his fifth murder he chose fashion designer Gianni Versace, who was killed on July 15, 1997. Eight days later on July 23, 1997, Cunanan committed suicide in the upstairs bedroom aboard a Miami houseboat apparently to avoid capture by the police, who finally discovered Reese's stolen truck nearby and obtained tips from neighbors that someone resembling Cunanan was living in the 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. Cunanan was widely reported to have engaged in prostitution with older men.[1]. Media speculation connected the fact that most of his victims were older, gay men to Cunanan's prostitution, but after Cunanan's suicide it is impossible to identify motives with certainty.

Despite being described as white by the FBI, Cunanan's father, Modesto, is from the Philippines.

The gun used by Cunanan for some of the murders was a Taurus semiautomatic pistol in .40 S&W caliber.

Trivia

• Was praised by PETA vice president Dan Matthews in Genre magazine for murdering Versace "because [that] finally got Versace to stop using furs." 1

Among the books written about Cunanan and his crimes are:

• Three Month Fever, by Gary Indiana.
• Vulgar Favors, by Maureen Orth.

• Cunanan's murder spree was the subject of a Cliff Notes Theater sketch on the Drew and Mike radio show in Detroit, Michigan in 2004.

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