
Andrew Cunanan: Murder on the Run
Andrew Cunanan spends the spring of 1997 crossing the country leaving five bodies behind him, ending with the most famous of his victims, fashion designer Gianni Versace, shot on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion. The film traces his run from Minneapolis, where his first two victims were friends and a former lover, through New Jersey and Chicago, to Florida, where he lived within blocks of Versace for weeks before the killing. On June 12, 1997, Cunanan becomes the 449th fugitive placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, and the manhunt that follows is covered largely through news footage and law enforcement accounts of a search that outpaced the agencies chasing him. Eight days after Versace's murder, Cunanan is found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on a houseboat, age 27, with no confession and no clear motive left behind. The film lays out the competing theories, fame, rejection, untreated psychological breakdown, without settling on one, leaving Cunanan's reasoning as unresolved as it was the day police found him.