1 00:00:07,774 --> 00:00:10,744 - I'm Kate Snow, and this is "Dateline: Secrets Uncovered." 2 00:00:11,711 --> 00:00:15,382 - Gianni Versace was not for the faint of heart. 3 00:00:15,415 --> 00:00:19,786 You didn't wear a Versace dress if you didn't want to be seen. 4 00:00:19,819 --> 00:00:22,389 - Gianni Versace was a true original. 5 00:00:22,422 --> 00:00:24,424 - Life always came with fireworks. 6 00:00:24,457 --> 00:00:27,460 - I don't think there was a model 7 00:00:27,494 --> 00:00:29,396 that wasn't in love with him. 8 00:00:29,429 --> 00:00:32,766 - He was on top of a mountain. 9 00:00:32,799 --> 00:00:36,636 - Andrew Cunanan lusted for a taste of that world. 10 00:00:36,670 --> 00:00:41,274 - Versace seemed to personify a lot that he wanted to be. 11 00:00:41,307 --> 00:00:42,742 - He always had a big want list. 12 00:00:42,776 --> 00:00:43,743 Oh, I want that. 13 00:00:43,777 --> 00:00:44,778 I would like that. 14 00:00:44,811 --> 00:00:47,147 - What was he willing to do to get it? 15 00:00:47,180 --> 00:00:48,415 - He looked at me, and he said, 16 00:00:48,448 --> 00:00:52,118 "You have no idea what I'm capable of." 17 00:00:52,152 --> 00:00:53,753 - There was a rug that was rolled up, 18 00:00:53,787 --> 00:00:55,422 and there was a body inside. 19 00:00:55,455 --> 00:00:57,223 - He killed the guy for his truck. 20 00:00:57,257 --> 00:01:00,627 - Cunanan really became their prime and only suspect. 21 00:01:00,660 --> 00:01:03,463 By that time, he was far away. 22 00:01:03,496 --> 00:01:06,066 - It seemed like we were always one step behind them. 23 00:01:06,066 --> 00:01:08,835 - Andrew just walked up right behind him and shot him. 24 00:01:12,172 --> 00:01:14,274 - A lot of things that were left unanswered. 25 00:01:14,307 --> 00:01:16,843 - He was determined to be remembered. 26 00:01:21,114 --> 00:01:24,317 If the only way to be remembered is to kill for fame, 27 00:01:24,351 --> 00:01:26,086 he was willing to kill for fame. 28 00:01:26,086 --> 00:01:34,127 ** 29 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:37,163 - Hello. And welcome to "Dateline: Secrets Uncovered." 30 00:01:37,197 --> 00:01:39,966 Charismatic, popular, and a connector-- 31 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,303 these qualities describe world-famous fashion designer 32 00:01:43,336 --> 00:01:46,306 Gianni Versace, and paradoxically, 33 00:01:46,339 --> 00:01:50,110 also Andrew Cunanan, the then unknown fan 34 00:01:50,110 --> 00:01:52,145 who would take Gianni's life. 35 00:01:52,178 --> 00:01:55,482 How did a gregarious young man secretly devolve 36 00:01:55,515 --> 00:01:58,518 from playful maverick to spree killer? 37 00:01:58,551 --> 00:02:00,887 Investigators were grappling with this question 38 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,891 as they raced to stop Cunanan before he struck again. 39 00:02:04,924 --> 00:02:08,428 Here's Keith Morrison with "The Death of Gianni Versace." 40 00:02:11,231 --> 00:02:13,433 - Once, there was a true genius 41 00:02:13,466 --> 00:02:15,568 who conquered the capitals of fashion 42 00:02:15,602 --> 00:02:18,371 and earned worldwide fame. 43 00:02:18,405 --> 00:02:22,676 And once, there was a man who earned fame another way. 44 00:02:24,644 --> 00:02:28,915 This is the story of how brilliance met bitter envy, 45 00:02:28,948 --> 00:02:32,252 of how and maybe why the bright light 46 00:02:32,285 --> 00:02:35,488 that was Gianni Versace was snuffed by a failure 47 00:02:35,522 --> 00:02:37,657 named Andrew Cunanan. 48 00:02:37,691 --> 00:02:41,094 - He was fixated by celebrity. 49 00:02:41,127 --> 00:02:45,098 He was determined to be remembered. 50 00:02:47,334 --> 00:02:51,805 - And what Cunanan killed was indeed true magic. 51 00:02:51,838 --> 00:02:55,008 No one understood that, magic, or the power of fame, 52 00:02:55,108 --> 00:02:58,445 the pull of celebrity, quite like Gianni Versace. 53 00:02:58,478 --> 00:03:00,046 - He was the hottest ticket in town. 54 00:03:00,046 --> 00:03:02,182 He was a major, major star. 55 00:03:02,215 --> 00:03:04,084 - That's why the stars would want to go and be there? 56 00:03:04,117 --> 00:03:05,285 - Yes. 57 00:03:05,318 --> 00:03:08,621 - All of them dying to see Versace's latest surprise. 58 00:03:08,655 --> 00:03:11,358 He dispensed with the tailored suits, 59 00:03:11,391 --> 00:03:14,227 and shoulder pads, and baggy pants of the '80s. 60 00:03:16,496 --> 00:03:19,199 He set out to celebrate the body. 61 00:03:19,232 --> 00:03:20,700 Suddenly, everything went sexy. 62 00:03:20,734 --> 00:03:23,269 - Everything went sexy, and it had colors, 63 00:03:23,303 --> 00:03:24,671 and it was loud. 64 00:03:24,704 --> 00:03:26,473 It was different. 65 00:03:26,506 --> 00:03:28,908 - Legendary model Beverly Johnson watched 66 00:03:28,942 --> 00:03:32,645 from the runway as Versace exploded on the world. 67 00:03:32,679 --> 00:03:36,850 - Even the name had that kind of appeal, Versace. 68 00:03:36,883 --> 00:03:39,352 - Versace, his big brother Santo, 69 00:03:39,386 --> 00:03:41,988 and little sister Donatella were born in the very toe 70 00:03:42,088 --> 00:03:45,225 of the boot of Italy, growing up, literally, 71 00:03:45,258 --> 00:03:47,560 among the ruins of the ancient Roman Empire. 72 00:03:47,594 --> 00:03:50,663 His parents were modest, hardworking people. 73 00:03:50,697 --> 00:03:53,566 Versace learned at the knee of his dressmaker mother, 74 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:55,602 learned that every stitch mattered, 75 00:03:55,635 --> 00:03:57,504 that quality was paramount. 76 00:03:57,537 --> 00:03:59,839 He was 25 when he set out 77 00:03:59,873 --> 00:04:03,543 for the capital of Italian couture, Milan. 78 00:04:03,576 --> 00:04:07,647 - This was the Versace house. 79 00:04:07,681 --> 00:04:10,650 - It's here we met Antonio D'Amico, 80 00:04:10,684 --> 00:04:14,454 Versace's partner in life and in business. 81 00:04:14,487 --> 00:04:17,357 - So here is, I'll see the Medusa there. 82 00:04:17,390 --> 00:04:18,625 - Yeah, yeah, on the door. 83 00:04:18,658 --> 00:04:22,662 He told us the story behind Versace's logo, the Medusa, 84 00:04:22,696 --> 00:04:25,331 and how Gianni spotted it right on the front door 85 00:04:25,365 --> 00:04:26,800 of his new house. 86 00:04:26,833 --> 00:04:27,767 - It was already there. 87 00:04:27,801 --> 00:04:28,868 - And that was the idea for the logo. 88 00:04:28,902 --> 00:04:32,839 - It was the idea to keep the Medusa as a logo. 89 00:04:32,872 --> 00:04:35,308 - What did Medusa say to you? 90 00:04:35,342 --> 00:04:38,111 - Medusa, you know, is a seduction. 91 00:04:38,144 --> 00:04:40,080 Something that you look at her, 92 00:04:40,113 --> 00:04:43,383 and you cannot take off your eyes. 93 00:04:43,416 --> 00:04:45,085 - Yeah, you can't look away. 94 00:04:45,085 --> 00:04:46,820 - That's why seduction is like. 95 00:04:46,853 --> 00:04:49,456 and that was the fashion of the Versace, 96 00:04:49,489 --> 00:04:50,523 seduction. - Sure. 97 00:04:50,557 --> 00:04:52,859 In myth, whoever looks on the face of Medusa 98 00:04:52,892 --> 00:04:55,695 turns to stone. 99 00:04:55,729 --> 00:04:58,131 In reality, the fashions behind that logo 100 00:04:58,164 --> 00:05:00,600 were impossible not to look at. 101 00:05:02,802 --> 00:05:05,538 Ballet impresarios, movie directors, 102 00:05:05,572 --> 00:05:09,242 rock stars came running. 103 00:05:09,275 --> 00:05:12,345 Elton John became a friend. 104 00:05:12,379 --> 00:05:14,948 And remember Miami Vice? 105 00:05:15,048 --> 00:05:18,585 In its final season, the stars wore Versace. 106 00:05:18,618 --> 00:05:20,620 Some of these photographs of famous people 107 00:05:20,653 --> 00:05:23,490 in those clothes are iconic. 108 00:05:23,523 --> 00:05:25,792 They're world famous still, 109 00:05:25,825 --> 00:05:28,094 like Princess Diana in that blue sheath. 110 00:05:28,128 --> 00:05:32,465 - She didn't want to wear like an English old style 111 00:05:32,499 --> 00:05:36,870 so she asked Gianni to make dresses for her. 112 00:05:36,903 --> 00:05:41,074 - His fashion shows made history like the one in 1991 113 00:05:41,107 --> 00:05:43,943 with Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, 114 00:05:43,977 --> 00:05:47,347 Linda Evangelista, and Christy Turlington, 115 00:05:47,380 --> 00:05:50,316 all on the same runway. Unforgettable, 116 00:05:50,350 --> 00:05:53,453 said the noted fashion journalist Hal Rubenstein. 117 00:05:53,486 --> 00:05:54,721 - The music was amazing. 118 00:05:54,754 --> 00:05:55,822 The color was amazing. 119 00:05:55,855 --> 00:05:59,359 The men and women were breathtaking. 120 00:05:59,392 --> 00:06:00,560 This was him. 121 00:06:00,593 --> 00:06:02,829 This is how he wanted you to see life. 122 00:06:02,862 --> 00:06:06,332 Life always came with fireworks. 123 00:06:06,366 --> 00:06:08,401 - Gianni Versace was not for the faint of heart. 124 00:06:08,435 --> 00:06:11,171 - Right. - Because when you put that on, 125 00:06:11,204 --> 00:06:13,039 from the time you walk out of your door, 126 00:06:13,039 --> 00:06:15,241 all eyes are on you. 127 00:06:15,275 --> 00:06:17,410 - Well, there are some famous ones too, right? 128 00:06:17,444 --> 00:06:20,113 - Oh, yeah. 129 00:06:20,146 --> 00:06:21,448 The safety pins. 130 00:06:21,481 --> 00:06:24,050 - Elizabeth Hurley, 1994, 131 00:06:24,084 --> 00:06:26,853 at her boyfriend Hugh Grant's movie premiere. 132 00:06:26,886 --> 00:06:28,922 She wasn't really a star back then, 133 00:06:28,955 --> 00:06:33,159 but she was after she wore the Versace safety pin dress. 134 00:06:33,193 --> 00:06:36,663 - It was a celebration of the woman's body 135 00:06:36,696 --> 00:06:40,467 and really being proud of your sexuality. 136 00:06:42,302 --> 00:06:45,538 - And Versace wasn't just a brilliant designer. 137 00:06:45,572 --> 00:06:48,842 An openly gay man, he became a champion for a community 138 00:06:48,875 --> 00:06:53,413 badly in need of one by embracing his sexuality 139 00:06:53,446 --> 00:06:55,582 and showing others they could, too. 140 00:06:55,615 --> 00:06:59,185 - It's even more amazing to realize what he did 141 00:06:59,219 --> 00:07:02,088 when you realize why and when he did it, 142 00:07:02,122 --> 00:07:04,324 and especially in America having come through the '80s, 143 00:07:04,357 --> 00:07:07,360 when AIDS was so devastating. 144 00:07:07,394 --> 00:07:09,596 We became terrified of sex. 145 00:07:09,629 --> 00:07:11,398 - But not Versace. 146 00:07:11,431 --> 00:07:14,934 His designs made a statement-- be bold, be brave. 147 00:07:15,035 --> 00:07:16,503 - Fantastic. 148 00:07:16,536 --> 00:07:18,638 - He talked to Katie Couric about his fashion philosophy 149 00:07:18,672 --> 00:07:21,875 when he visited the Today Show in 1996. 150 00:07:21,908 --> 00:07:24,911 - It's very important for people to look at themselves, 151 00:07:24,944 --> 00:07:26,279 to express themselves. 152 00:07:26,312 --> 00:07:29,849 That's the only heart in fashion-- to be yourself. 153 00:07:29,883 --> 00:07:32,285 And I think we, designer, have to help people 154 00:07:32,318 --> 00:07:35,488 to be glamorous, happy, and alive. 155 00:07:35,522 --> 00:07:38,158 - By 1997, he was getting ready to take his company 156 00:07:38,191 --> 00:07:39,659 to a new level. 157 00:07:39,693 --> 00:07:42,662 - This was an auspicious time in Versace's life. 158 00:07:42,696 --> 00:07:44,497 - Maureen Orth covered the Versace case 159 00:07:44,531 --> 00:07:46,066 for Vanity Fair. 160 00:07:46,099 --> 00:07:48,335 - He wanted to be the very first Italian designer 161 00:07:48,368 --> 00:07:50,503 to get on the New York Stock Exchange, 162 00:07:50,537 --> 00:07:52,172 and he was getting his whole business 163 00:07:52,205 --> 00:07:54,074 ready for an IPO. 164 00:07:54,074 --> 00:07:55,975 - Taking his company public. 165 00:07:56,076 --> 00:07:58,845 - He was on top of a mountain. He was happy as can be. 166 00:07:58,878 --> 00:08:02,515 Everything was right. Everything was going right. 167 00:08:02,549 --> 00:08:06,086 - So having met the moneymen in New York, Gianni Versace 168 00:08:06,119 --> 00:08:10,256 retreated to his luxurious mansion in Miami Beach, 169 00:08:10,290 --> 00:08:13,493 blissfully unaware that the name Versace 170 00:08:13,526 --> 00:08:16,896 would soon again be splashed across headlines, 171 00:08:16,930 --> 00:08:21,034 put there by a killer intent on stealing the fame of a genius 172 00:08:21,067 --> 00:08:24,404 and who, even now, was eluding police 173 00:08:24,437 --> 00:08:28,441 as he drove inexorably toward his destiny. 174 00:08:30,844 --> 00:08:34,614 - The killer, Andrew Cunanan, once an ambitious young man, 175 00:08:34,647 --> 00:08:37,650 with designs of his own. 176 00:08:39,119 --> 00:08:41,688 - Andrew spent time with wealthier men 177 00:08:41,721 --> 00:08:46,059 who could help keep him in a life that he aspired to. 178 00:08:53,066 --> 00:08:58,872 ** 179 00:08:59,639 --> 00:09:01,474 - Around the world, in San Diego, 180 00:09:01,508 --> 00:09:04,611 and a lifestyle away from the Versace empire, 181 00:09:04,644 --> 00:09:06,646 Andrew Cunanan started small, 182 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:10,550 but also had designs on doing big things. 183 00:09:10,583 --> 00:09:14,421 Andrew was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth, 184 00:09:14,454 --> 00:09:17,824 but he was raised as if he was. 185 00:09:17,857 --> 00:09:21,027 - He the adored baby fourth child, 186 00:09:21,027 --> 00:09:23,697 and he was treated like a little emperor. 187 00:09:23,730 --> 00:09:26,032 - Maureen Orth, a "Dateline" consultant, 188 00:09:26,032 --> 00:09:29,369 wrote the book on Cunanan, "Vulgar Favors." 189 00:09:29,402 --> 00:09:32,472 - He was the product of an extremely dysfunctional family, 190 00:09:32,505 --> 00:09:35,775 a very unhappy marriage, a Filipino father, 191 00:09:35,809 --> 00:09:38,345 who is incredibly materialistic and pretentious, 192 00:09:38,378 --> 00:09:40,447 and a Sicilian mother, 193 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:42,916 who was sort of beaten down by the father, 194 00:09:42,949 --> 00:09:45,218 who had her own mental health issues. 195 00:09:45,251 --> 00:09:49,055 - Andrew adored his father, mostly ignored his mother, 196 00:09:49,055 --> 00:09:52,592 and focused on getting what he wanted for himself, 197 00:09:52,625 --> 00:09:55,862 according to his close friend Stacy Lopez. 198 00:09:55,895 --> 00:09:57,430 - He always had a big want list. 199 00:09:57,464 --> 00:09:58,465 Oh, I want that. 200 00:09:58,498 --> 00:09:59,666 I would like that. 201 00:09:59,699 --> 00:10:01,301 - Fancy car? - Yes. 202 00:10:01,334 --> 00:10:04,004 And I think going to a school like Bishop's-- 203 00:10:04,037 --> 00:10:07,440 some kids drove to school in a Lamborghini. 204 00:10:07,474 --> 00:10:11,711 - The exclusive Bishop's School in ritzy La Jolla, 205 00:10:11,745 --> 00:10:14,681 Andrew's father pinched pennies to send him here. 206 00:10:14,714 --> 00:10:17,817 To get in, Andrew wrote this admissions essay, 207 00:10:17,851 --> 00:10:20,754 illustrating just how much he wanted it, too, 208 00:10:20,787 --> 00:10:22,288 despite the misspellings. 209 00:10:22,322 --> 00:10:24,858 "I long looked forward to my tour and interview 210 00:10:24,891 --> 00:10:27,727 "at Bishop's, envisioning classrooms and teachers 211 00:10:27,761 --> 00:10:30,363 "the like of Mr. Chips and Miss Jean Brodie. 212 00:10:30,397 --> 00:10:32,665 "I was not disappointed." 213 00:10:32,699 --> 00:10:34,701 - He knew even then that flattery 214 00:10:34,734 --> 00:10:36,169 will get you somewhere. 215 00:10:36,202 --> 00:10:37,871 - Roman Jimenez, a freelance journalist, 216 00:10:37,904 --> 00:10:39,272 was editor of "Update," 217 00:10:39,305 --> 00:10:42,409 a San Diego gay and lesbian newspaper. 218 00:10:42,442 --> 00:10:44,144 - He had brains, and he had looks, 219 00:10:44,177 --> 00:10:45,478 and he had charm. 220 00:10:45,512 --> 00:10:47,447 - I remember, when he came to school, 221 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:50,717 you know, he just had such a big personality. 222 00:10:50,750 --> 00:10:54,854 - Even at that stage, huh? - Oh, yes. Oh, yes. 223 00:10:54,888 --> 00:10:56,122 I thought he was very brave 224 00:10:56,156 --> 00:11:00,460 because back in the early '80s, generally, 225 00:11:00,493 --> 00:11:03,530 people were not openly gay, and he was. 226 00:11:04,931 --> 00:11:08,702 - Out and proud, but never at home. 227 00:11:08,735 --> 00:11:12,772 - Due to religious reasons, he felt his family 228 00:11:12,806 --> 00:11:14,240 would not be as accepting. 229 00:11:14,274 --> 00:11:17,911 - He hid his homosexuality from his family forever. 230 00:11:17,944 --> 00:11:21,815 - But Andrew and Stacy accepted each other unconditionally, 231 00:11:21,848 --> 00:11:25,118 as his inscription in her yearbook attests. 232 00:11:25,151 --> 00:11:26,920 Can you read that? - Sure. 233 00:11:26,953 --> 00:11:28,988 - Thanks. - "It's too bad I'm gay, 234 00:11:29,089 --> 00:11:30,990 "or I'd be madly in love with you. 235 00:11:31,091 --> 00:11:34,094 "Love always, Andrew." 236 00:11:34,094 --> 00:11:35,829 - Andrew started dating at Bishop's, 237 00:11:35,862 --> 00:11:38,598 but not boys his own age. 238 00:11:38,631 --> 00:11:43,203 - Andrew spent time with wealthier men who could help 239 00:11:43,236 --> 00:11:46,840 keep him in a life that he aspired to. 240 00:11:46,873 --> 00:11:49,209 - He was a boytoy. - Sure. 241 00:11:49,242 --> 00:11:52,712 - A boytoy who liked to show off the gifts he received. 242 00:11:52,746 --> 00:11:57,450 - He had come to the dance in this red leather jumpsuit. 243 00:11:57,484 --> 00:11:59,419 - Oh, boy. - And I remember going, 244 00:11:59,452 --> 00:12:01,621 "Wow, Andrew." He says, "Yes, 245 00:12:01,654 --> 00:12:03,923 "my boyfriend Antoni bought it for me." 246 00:12:03,957 --> 00:12:08,061 - Stacy liked to tease Andrew about his dating choices. 247 00:12:08,094 --> 00:12:10,730 - I said, "Oh, so who's your sugar daddy now?" 248 00:12:10,764 --> 00:12:13,133 And he was like, "Wouldn't you like to know?" 249 00:12:13,166 --> 00:12:17,303 - At Bishop's, Andrew cruised along academically. 250 00:12:17,337 --> 00:12:19,305 - Most of us had to study, 251 00:12:19,339 --> 00:12:22,075 but you never saw him in the library studying. 252 00:12:22,075 --> 00:12:24,144 - Coasted through. - Exactly. 253 00:12:24,177 --> 00:12:28,848 - So was it a prophecy when on graduation in 1987, 254 00:12:28,882 --> 00:12:33,119 he was voted "Most Likely to be Remembered." 255 00:12:33,153 --> 00:12:35,689 - He just had a very dynamic personality, 256 00:12:35,722 --> 00:12:39,993 and was very funny, and everybody loved him. 257 00:12:40,093 --> 00:12:42,662 - After Bishop's, Andrew tried college, 258 00:12:42,696 --> 00:12:45,231 but the boy who coasted through high school 259 00:12:45,265 --> 00:12:49,869 found UC San Diego altogether too demanding and costly, 260 00:12:49,903 --> 00:12:52,105 so he bailed. 261 00:12:52,105 --> 00:12:54,407 There were problems at home, too. 262 00:12:54,441 --> 00:12:57,644 Andrew's father, a stockbroker, was accused in a civil lawsuit 263 00:12:57,677 --> 00:13:00,547 of embezzling $100,000. 264 00:13:00,580 --> 00:13:03,917 And he fled the country, left his family, 265 00:13:03,950 --> 00:13:05,819 never came back. 266 00:13:05,852 --> 00:13:08,688 - Without telling them, he sold their house 267 00:13:08,722 --> 00:13:10,290 out from under them. 268 00:13:10,323 --> 00:13:11,758 He took the money. 269 00:13:11,791 --> 00:13:15,895 And he went to the Philippines and completely abandoned them. 270 00:13:15,929 --> 00:13:18,832 - Andrew is now on his own and he turned to the older man 271 00:13:18,865 --> 00:13:20,300 he knew could support him. 272 00:13:20,333 --> 00:13:23,103 He cruised Hillcrest, San Diego's gay area, 273 00:13:23,136 --> 00:13:26,439 and fell deeper into his world of sugar daddies 274 00:13:26,473 --> 00:13:29,509 who took care of his financial needs. 275 00:13:29,542 --> 00:13:32,112 - I think Andrew grew up thinking that maybe 276 00:13:32,145 --> 00:13:33,913 the world owed him a living 277 00:13:33,947 --> 00:13:36,616 and he didn't really have to work for things. 278 00:13:36,649 --> 00:13:38,585 For the older men in his life and others, 279 00:13:38,618 --> 00:13:41,087 Andrew invented a new identity for himself, 280 00:13:41,087 --> 00:13:44,424 Andrew DeSilva and made up stories 281 00:13:44,457 --> 00:13:47,160 about a gilded past, about accomplishments 282 00:13:47,193 --> 00:13:48,795 that never were, 283 00:13:48,828 --> 00:13:51,598 and impressed those men by appearing well-read 284 00:13:51,631 --> 00:13:56,970 and cultured, told them he loved art and opera. 285 00:13:57,003 --> 00:13:59,472 So Andrew was moving in more elite circles now 286 00:13:59,506 --> 00:14:01,775 and traveling. 287 00:14:01,808 --> 00:14:04,411 He went to the San Francisco Opera House in 1990, 288 00:14:04,444 --> 00:14:08,748 and a chance meeting afterwards would change his life 289 00:14:08,782 --> 00:14:10,684 and change history. 290 00:14:10,717 --> 00:14:13,153 That meeting was with Gianni Versace, 291 00:14:13,186 --> 00:14:16,089 who was in San Francisco designing costumes, 292 00:14:16,122 --> 00:14:20,060 as this sketch shows, for the Opera Capriccio. 293 00:14:20,093 --> 00:14:23,863 - There was a party where Versace was going to appear, 294 00:14:23,897 --> 00:14:27,467 and Andrew's friends scored some tickets. 295 00:14:27,500 --> 00:14:31,905 And so during the party, he claimed, 296 00:14:31,938 --> 00:14:36,743 and other people claimed, that Andrew met Versace. 297 00:14:36,776 --> 00:14:39,312 - Mind you, Antonio, remember him? 298 00:14:39,346 --> 00:14:40,714 Versace's partner. 299 00:14:40,747 --> 00:14:45,251 He was at the party and claimed that meeting never happened, 300 00:14:45,285 --> 00:14:47,854 but Andrew's excitement was off the charts. 301 00:14:47,887 --> 00:14:51,091 He couldn't contain himself with some of his friends. 302 00:14:51,124 --> 00:14:52,792 - And he jumped on the foot of their bed and said, 303 00:14:52,826 --> 00:14:56,429 "I met Versace. I met Versace. I met Versace." 304 00:14:56,463 --> 00:14:58,665 He was so thrilled that he had done it. 305 00:14:59,532 --> 00:15:02,068 - He admired everything the superstar designer 306 00:15:02,102 --> 00:15:05,238 had achieved-- fame, fortune, and freedom 307 00:15:05,271 --> 00:15:07,207 as a confident gay man. 308 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:11,144 But there was one difference as big as a runway as long, 309 00:15:11,177 --> 00:15:14,814 Andrew Cunanan wasn't willing to work for any of it. 310 00:15:14,848 --> 00:15:19,853 And that meant disappointment, and trouble might lay ahead. 311 00:15:19,886 --> 00:15:22,055 - I remember he looked at me, and he said, Stacy, 312 00:15:22,055 --> 00:15:25,392 you have no idea what I'm capable of. 313 00:15:28,928 --> 00:15:31,064 - As Versace's star rises, 314 00:15:31,064 --> 00:15:33,900 Cunanan finds a spotlight of his own. 315 00:15:33,933 --> 00:15:35,335 - He pretended to the whole world 316 00:15:35,368 --> 00:15:37,937 he was this rich kid living off a trust fund. 317 00:15:45,145 --> 00:15:50,750 ** 318 00:15:51,151 --> 00:15:52,352 - In the 1990s, 319 00:15:52,385 --> 00:15:54,788 almost anyone might have gotten a little thrill 320 00:15:54,821 --> 00:15:57,524 meeting the fabulous Gianni Versace, 321 00:15:57,557 --> 00:16:00,293 but Andrew Cunanan? 322 00:16:00,326 --> 00:16:03,730 Something more than that for him. 323 00:16:03,763 --> 00:16:07,334 - Versace seems to be somebody that he studied a lot 324 00:16:07,367 --> 00:16:10,270 because Versace seemed to personify a lot 325 00:16:10,303 --> 00:16:12,739 that he wanted to be. 326 00:16:12,772 --> 00:16:16,409 - But in 1991, when Versace was launching his fall line, 327 00:16:16,443 --> 00:16:18,845 a dazzling, supermodel-studded event... 328 00:16:22,349 --> 00:16:23,950 Andrew had dropped out of college 329 00:16:24,050 --> 00:16:27,053 and was working a menial job at a drugstore. 330 00:16:27,053 --> 00:16:31,257 He was also dealing party drugs to his pals. 331 00:16:31,291 --> 00:16:35,261 In six years, everyone would know his name, but in 1991, 332 00:16:35,295 --> 00:16:38,198 Andrew Cunanan was living in obscurity 333 00:16:38,231 --> 00:16:42,369 and scratching around for his next meal ticket. 334 00:16:42,402 --> 00:16:45,071 - Andrew didn't like to work really hard, 335 00:16:45,071 --> 00:16:46,406 but he liked to nice things. 336 00:16:46,439 --> 00:16:49,476 I fully expected him to be in a relationship 337 00:16:49,509 --> 00:16:54,514 with somebody older that was catering to his needs. 338 00:16:54,547 --> 00:16:58,752 - Sure enough, in 1994, Cunanan scored. 339 00:16:58,785 --> 00:17:01,287 He was still posing as Andrew DeSilva 340 00:17:01,321 --> 00:17:05,158 when he met a wealthy older man, who seemed, for a time, 341 00:17:05,191 --> 00:17:07,227 happy to pay the bills. 342 00:17:07,260 --> 00:17:09,262 - He's kept by this really rich guy, 343 00:17:09,295 --> 00:17:11,431 Norman Blatchford, who gives him an Infinity 344 00:17:11,464 --> 00:17:13,199 to drive around. 345 00:17:13,233 --> 00:17:15,535 - Now, Andrew was living at a beachfront condo 346 00:17:15,568 --> 00:17:17,671 in pricey La Jolla. 347 00:17:17,704 --> 00:17:21,708 This new relationship put Cunanan in rarefied company 348 00:17:21,741 --> 00:17:24,711 of the sort he liked, a lot. 349 00:17:24,744 --> 00:17:27,480 - Norman Blatchford belonged to a very secretive, 350 00:17:27,514 --> 00:17:31,317 very affluent gay fraternity called Gamma Mu. 351 00:17:31,351 --> 00:17:33,586 They would have these very lavish meals, 352 00:17:33,620 --> 00:17:37,157 and brunches, and dances. 353 00:17:37,190 --> 00:17:40,060 - And when he wasn't brunching and dancing with the older guys, 354 00:17:40,060 --> 00:17:42,595 he liked hanging out with the beautiful, young crowd 355 00:17:42,629 --> 00:17:44,330 in the Hillcrest neighborhood, 356 00:17:44,364 --> 00:17:47,067 San Diego's gay place to see and be seen. 357 00:17:47,100 --> 00:17:49,436 - This bar, right here, Flicks. 358 00:17:49,469 --> 00:17:51,871 - Maureen Orth learned a lot about Andrew Cunanan 359 00:17:51,905 --> 00:17:53,073 when she came here. 360 00:17:53,073 --> 00:17:55,442 - Because Andrew would come here almost every night. 361 00:17:55,475 --> 00:17:57,544 He would put people together here. 362 00:17:57,577 --> 00:18:01,114 He would hold course here. 363 00:18:01,147 --> 00:18:02,649 - Didn't seem to have any interest 364 00:18:02,682 --> 00:18:03,917 in having a job or career of any kind? 365 00:18:04,017 --> 00:18:07,554 - No, I think he pretended to the whole world 366 00:18:07,587 --> 00:18:10,023 he was this rich kid living off a trust fund 367 00:18:10,023 --> 00:18:12,425 and he didn't need to work. 368 00:18:12,459 --> 00:18:15,061 - And for some reason, people bought his story. 369 00:18:15,095 --> 00:18:16,863 Jeff Trail, for instance, 370 00:18:16,896 --> 00:18:20,200 an upstanding guy who became Andrew's friend. 371 00:18:20,233 --> 00:18:22,602 - Jeff Trail was the all-American boy, 372 00:18:22,635 --> 00:18:24,704 a graduate of the Naval Academy, 373 00:18:24,738 --> 00:18:26,906 politically conservative. 374 00:18:26,940 --> 00:18:28,308 He hated drugs. 375 00:18:28,341 --> 00:18:29,909 He didn't drink. 376 00:18:29,943 --> 00:18:33,213 - One of Jeff's closest friends was Jon Wainwright. 377 00:18:33,246 --> 00:18:35,515 - People like Jeff. 378 00:18:35,548 --> 00:18:37,317 He just had a lot going on for him. 379 00:18:37,350 --> 00:18:40,954 - Jeff was very tentative about coming out. 380 00:18:41,054 --> 00:18:44,657 He never came out to his family. 381 00:18:44,691 --> 00:18:46,793 - The friendship worked, for a while. 382 00:18:46,826 --> 00:18:50,797 And while Jeff shied away from drugs, Andrew didn't. 383 00:18:50,830 --> 00:18:53,600 Desperate to be noticed, he'd do almost anything, 384 00:18:53,633 --> 00:18:55,201 legal or not. 385 00:18:55,235 --> 00:18:57,070 - So he became the drug dealer. 386 00:18:57,070 --> 00:18:58,938 He became the procurer. 387 00:18:58,972 --> 00:19:01,841 He became the guy who connected people together. 388 00:19:01,875 --> 00:19:05,311 And he was the one who always picked up the dinner tab. 389 00:19:05,345 --> 00:19:06,813 - With Norman's money of course. 390 00:19:06,846 --> 00:19:09,883 But in 1995, as Norman's kept man, 391 00:19:09,916 --> 00:19:12,018 Andrew met a handsome young architect 392 00:19:12,018 --> 00:19:15,121 named David Madson and fell in love. 393 00:19:15,155 --> 00:19:18,024 - I think that David was a kind of a do-gooder, 394 00:19:18,024 --> 00:19:19,392 lovely human being. 395 00:19:19,426 --> 00:19:23,663 Everybody remembers him from his small town. 396 00:19:23,697 --> 00:19:26,232 - But David, according to Maureen Orth, 397 00:19:26,266 --> 00:19:28,234 did have a weakness for material things, 398 00:19:28,268 --> 00:19:32,672 which Andrew was only too happy to cater to. 399 00:19:32,706 --> 00:19:36,476 - He gave him fancy Cartier watch and fancy suits, 400 00:19:36,509 --> 00:19:39,446 and David always accepted his gifts. 401 00:19:39,479 --> 00:19:41,648 - And Andrew was on top of the world, 402 00:19:41,681 --> 00:19:45,185 finally living the good life he felt entitled to. 403 00:19:45,218 --> 00:19:48,121 This was the best it would ever get. 404 00:19:48,154 --> 00:19:50,090 - Didn't they call him the Mayor of Hillcrest? 405 00:19:50,123 --> 00:19:53,293 - That was one of the titles, and he reveled in it 406 00:19:53,326 --> 00:19:57,063 because he was the center of attention. 407 00:19:57,063 --> 00:20:00,467 - But, and this is no surprise, Andrew Cunanan's happiness 408 00:20:00,500 --> 00:20:03,203 was built on a fragile foundation. 409 00:20:03,236 --> 00:20:06,573 For months, he juggled his benefactor Norman 410 00:20:06,606 --> 00:20:08,208 and his lover David. 411 00:20:08,241 --> 00:20:10,744 Until, in the Fall of 1996, 412 00:20:10,777 --> 00:20:14,180 the man with the money got wise. 413 00:20:14,214 --> 00:20:19,019 - Andrew wanted a Mercedes and he tells Norman 414 00:20:19,052 --> 00:20:20,787 that unless he can have a Mercedes, 415 00:20:20,820 --> 00:20:23,957 he's going to walk out, and Norman says, okay, go ahead. 416 00:20:23,990 --> 00:20:26,292 And Norman let him walk, which stunned him, 417 00:20:26,326 --> 00:20:29,295 so that took away a big piece of his income. 418 00:20:29,329 --> 00:20:30,363 - And that mattered to Andrew. 419 00:20:30,397 --> 00:20:34,334 - Absolutely mattered, because that's who he was. 420 00:20:34,367 --> 00:20:37,737 - Norman's rejection began a kind of implosion. 421 00:20:37,771 --> 00:20:40,073 Jon Wainwright saw it. 422 00:20:40,106 --> 00:20:42,742 - Andrew started to let himself go. 423 00:20:42,776 --> 00:20:46,112 He was looking unkempt, which was so unlike Andrew. 424 00:20:46,146 --> 00:20:49,282 - And then like a line of dominoes, 425 00:20:49,315 --> 00:20:51,618 his social world came tumbling down. 426 00:20:51,651 --> 00:20:54,054 The love of his life, David Madson, 427 00:20:54,087 --> 00:20:55,889 broke up with him. 428 00:20:55,922 --> 00:20:58,792 His friend Jeff Trail moved on, 429 00:20:58,825 --> 00:21:02,062 told friends they'd had a falling out. 430 00:21:02,062 --> 00:21:05,865 And the Mayor of Hillcrest began a rapid decline. 431 00:21:05,899 --> 00:21:08,201 - When the allowance went away, there were lots of reports 432 00:21:08,234 --> 00:21:12,372 that surfaced about him during this time 433 00:21:12,405 --> 00:21:16,543 being more heavily involved in the drug trade. 434 00:21:16,576 --> 00:21:19,512 - Harder stuff now, like crystal meth. 435 00:21:19,546 --> 00:21:22,082 - At some point as he became more and more unhappy, 436 00:21:22,115 --> 00:21:24,718 I think he also became more dependent. 437 00:21:24,751 --> 00:21:26,986 And of course, crystal meth brings you up, 438 00:21:27,087 --> 00:21:29,422 but crystal meth also takes you down. 439 00:21:29,456 --> 00:21:31,124 - And as Maureen Orth discovered, 440 00:21:31,157 --> 00:21:34,094 Andrew developed a taste for violent sex. 441 00:21:34,127 --> 00:21:36,863 - The S&M part of this was very disturbing to me 442 00:21:36,896 --> 00:21:39,833 because I spoke to FBI profilers 443 00:21:39,866 --> 00:21:42,302 who told me that for certain people, 444 00:21:42,335 --> 00:21:43,770 if they don't have real relationships 445 00:21:43,803 --> 00:21:46,406 of any kind in their life and then they depend on this 446 00:21:46,439 --> 00:21:48,975 to excite them, then the fantasies 447 00:21:49,009 --> 00:21:52,679 have to escalate, and he was just living off 448 00:21:52,712 --> 00:21:56,216 a diet of porn magazines, S&M porn videos. 449 00:21:56,249 --> 00:21:58,118 They were always around him all the time. 450 00:21:58,151 --> 00:21:59,352 - And getting more and more intense all the time. 451 00:21:59,386 --> 00:22:01,588 - And getting more and more intense. 452 00:22:01,621 --> 00:22:03,556 - By early 1997, both Jeff Trail 453 00:22:03,590 --> 00:22:05,825 and David Madson had moved away, 454 00:22:05,859 --> 00:22:09,696 both coincidentally to Minneapolis. 455 00:22:09,729 --> 00:22:12,799 And a ruthless and unwanted Andrew Cunanan 456 00:22:12,832 --> 00:22:14,768 had put on weight. 457 00:22:14,801 --> 00:22:19,072 - He had told me that, um, he was very depressed. 458 00:22:19,105 --> 00:22:22,909 And he's like, "I'm fat, and I don't look good, 459 00:22:22,942 --> 00:22:26,913 "and nobody's going to want me." 460 00:22:26,946 --> 00:22:29,516 - And when he picked up a fashion magazine now, 461 00:22:29,549 --> 00:22:31,584 he read about all the things he didn't have, 462 00:22:31,618 --> 00:22:33,119 would never have. 463 00:22:33,153 --> 00:22:34,320 He could read about 464 00:22:34,354 --> 00:22:37,357 Elton John's glittering 50th birthday party in London, 465 00:22:37,390 --> 00:22:40,627 for instance, where Gianni Versace was a guest. 466 00:22:41,861 --> 00:22:45,231 That is when, in his own small world in San Diego, 467 00:22:45,265 --> 00:22:47,867 Cunanan planned a party of his own, 468 00:22:47,901 --> 00:22:51,671 a last supper with his few remaining friends, 469 00:22:51,705 --> 00:22:55,108 told them he was moving to San Francisco, 470 00:22:55,108 --> 00:22:56,509 but that first... 471 00:22:56,543 --> 00:22:58,011 - He was going to Minneapolis, 472 00:22:58,111 --> 00:23:01,114 "to settle some business," as he put it. 473 00:23:01,147 --> 00:23:02,315 - But it's clear now, 474 00:23:02,349 --> 00:23:06,453 Andrew Cunanan wasn't planning any move to San Francisco. 475 00:23:06,486 --> 00:23:08,655 What his friends couldn't have known 476 00:23:08,688 --> 00:23:12,125 was that he'd bought a one-way ticket to Minneapolis. 477 00:23:12,158 --> 00:23:13,960 Whatever happened there, 478 00:23:14,060 --> 00:23:16,930 he had no intention of coming back. 479 00:23:16,963 --> 00:23:19,132 - I spoke to the waiter from the restaurant, 480 00:23:19,165 --> 00:23:20,867 and at the end of the meal, 481 00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:24,804 he remembers Andrew Cunanan leaning back in his chair, 482 00:23:24,838 --> 00:23:26,306 and looking at his friends, and saying, 483 00:23:26,339 --> 00:23:30,510 "All of you think you know the real Andrew, 484 00:23:30,543 --> 00:23:32,912 "but none of you really know the truth." 485 00:23:36,416 --> 00:23:38,685 - A mystery in Minneapolis. 486 00:23:38,718 --> 00:23:40,653 - There was a rug that was rolled up, 487 00:23:40,687 --> 00:23:43,723 and you could see that there was a body inside. 488 00:23:50,130 --> 00:23:54,200 ** 489 00:23:55,168 --> 00:23:57,771 Welcome back to "Dateline: Secrets Uncovered." 490 00:23:57,804 --> 00:23:59,272 I'm Kate Snow. 491 00:23:59,305 --> 00:24:03,076 Andrew Cunanan told friends he was moving to San Francisco, 492 00:24:03,109 --> 00:24:04,711 but he had a secret. 493 00:24:04,744 --> 00:24:08,114 Andrew had bought a one-way ticket to Minneapolis, 494 00:24:08,148 --> 00:24:10,316 where his old friend Jeff Trail 495 00:24:10,350 --> 00:24:13,620 and old flame David Madson now lived. 496 00:24:13,653 --> 00:24:16,423 He was about to surprise them both with a visit, 497 00:24:16,456 --> 00:24:19,359 but this would not be a happy reunion. 498 00:24:19,392 --> 00:24:23,063 Back to Keith Morrison with "The Death of Gianni Versace." 499 00:24:24,864 --> 00:24:27,634 - Andrew Cunanan shed his life in San Diego 500 00:24:27,667 --> 00:24:30,136 like a man planning to die. 501 00:24:30,170 --> 00:24:32,639 - He gave his clothes away. He gave his shoes away. 502 00:24:32,672 --> 00:24:36,910 He had it all marked out about who he wanted to have what. 503 00:24:36,943 --> 00:24:40,213 By the time he left San Diego for the last time 504 00:24:40,246 --> 00:24:41,848 and came to Minneapolis, 505 00:24:41,881 --> 00:24:44,584 he was completely basically broke. 506 00:24:44,617 --> 00:24:47,921 - And angry. - And very, very angry. 507 00:24:47,954 --> 00:24:50,423 - Reeling from the loss of his benefactor, 508 00:24:50,457 --> 00:24:53,159 Cunanan landed in Minneapolis, 509 00:24:53,193 --> 00:24:56,229 and this is where it all began to go wrong. 510 00:24:56,262 --> 00:24:59,466 He first called on his old friend, Jeff Trail. 511 00:24:59,499 --> 00:25:02,102 Jeff may have sensed Cunanan's visit wouldn't go well. 512 00:25:02,135 --> 00:25:05,071 In fact, Jeff called Jon Wainwright in San Diego 513 00:25:05,105 --> 00:25:06,639 to talk about it. 514 00:25:06,673 --> 00:25:08,408 - I could just tell that there was apprehension 515 00:25:08,441 --> 00:25:09,342 in his voice. 516 00:25:09,376 --> 00:25:11,311 He definitely wasn't happy about it, 517 00:25:11,344 --> 00:25:12,579 but at the same time, you know, 518 00:25:12,612 --> 00:25:14,914 he invited Andrew to stay with him at the, uh, apartment. 519 00:25:14,948 --> 00:25:17,183 - Why would he do that? - I think he knew 520 00:25:17,217 --> 00:25:21,688 Andrew was on this downward spiral as well, 521 00:25:21,721 --> 00:25:24,391 so just trying to be a friend, being supportive. 522 00:25:24,424 --> 00:25:26,793 - Jeff left Andrew in his apartment 523 00:25:26,826 --> 00:25:29,896 while he and his boyfriend went away for the weekend. 524 00:25:29,929 --> 00:25:32,065 On Sunday, Andrew moved 525 00:25:32,065 --> 00:25:35,402 to his ex-lover David Madson's fourth floor loft 526 00:25:35,435 --> 00:25:38,505 in the city's eclectic Warehouse District 527 00:25:38,538 --> 00:25:41,808 and persuaded Jeff to drop by for a visit. 528 00:25:41,841 --> 00:25:44,811 - Sometime, in the next hour or so, 529 00:25:44,844 --> 00:25:48,181 a neighbor reported hearing somebody yell 530 00:25:48,214 --> 00:25:51,751 "Get the F out of here!" and heard banging. 531 00:25:51,785 --> 00:25:54,721 - The neighbor peered into the hallway, saw nothing, 532 00:25:54,754 --> 00:25:56,756 and the building went quiet again. 533 00:25:56,790 --> 00:26:00,193 But next morning neither Jeff Trail nor David Madson 534 00:26:00,226 --> 00:26:01,795 showed up at work. 535 00:26:01,828 --> 00:26:03,697 - Jeff's boyfriend called the police, 536 00:26:03,730 --> 00:26:06,132 and the police were-- just said, oh, give me a break, you know? 537 00:26:06,166 --> 00:26:08,401 We don't pay attention unless people are missing 538 00:26:08,435 --> 00:26:11,604 for at least 72 hours. - But Tuesday, 539 00:26:11,638 --> 00:26:13,807 worried friends persuaded the building manager 540 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:16,776 to unlock ex-lover David's apartment. 541 00:26:16,810 --> 00:26:19,245 David's dog darted out 542 00:26:19,279 --> 00:26:22,949 as the open door revealed something horrifying. 543 00:26:23,049 --> 00:26:26,119 - In the main room, there was a rug that was rolled up, 544 00:26:26,152 --> 00:26:30,056 and you could see that there was a body inside. 545 00:26:30,056 --> 00:26:34,394 - Dale Barsness was chief of the Minneapolis Homicide Unit. 546 00:26:34,427 --> 00:26:37,464 - Blood splattering on the wall and on the floor. 547 00:26:37,497 --> 00:26:40,934 He'd been bludgeoned with, we found out later, a hammer. 548 00:26:40,967 --> 00:26:43,536 - Police assumed David Madson was the victim. 549 00:26:43,570 --> 00:26:46,072 After all, it was his apartment. 550 00:26:46,072 --> 00:26:48,441 But when crime techs unrolled the rug, 551 00:26:48,475 --> 00:26:51,111 they found Jeff Trail. 552 00:26:51,144 --> 00:26:53,580 The attack was brutal and personal-- 553 00:26:53,613 --> 00:26:57,283 27 blows to the head and face and chest. 554 00:26:57,317 --> 00:27:00,220 David and his red Jeep Cherokee were missing. 555 00:27:00,253 --> 00:27:02,055 Friends of both Madson and Trail 556 00:27:02,088 --> 00:27:04,124 told police someone named Andrew, 557 00:27:04,157 --> 00:27:05,725 who was visiting from San Diego, 558 00:27:05,759 --> 00:27:07,794 but he too had vanished. 559 00:27:07,827 --> 00:27:11,631 So if Madson wasn't the victim, thought the police, 560 00:27:11,664 --> 00:27:15,568 maybe he and this Andrew killed Jeff. 561 00:27:15,602 --> 00:27:19,539 Evidence at the scene pointed police to a possible motive. 562 00:27:19,572 --> 00:27:23,777 - Duct tape, some handcuffs, uh, you know, stuff that-- 563 00:27:23,810 --> 00:27:27,047 that people involved in sex would use. 564 00:27:27,047 --> 00:27:29,449 It could have been a love triangle of sorts. 565 00:27:29,482 --> 00:27:31,384 - Witnesses even reported to the police 566 00:27:31,418 --> 00:27:33,453 they saw David and Andrew together 567 00:27:33,486 --> 00:27:35,155 after the time of the murder. 568 00:27:35,188 --> 00:27:37,157 - Neighbors saw them walking the dog. 569 00:27:37,190 --> 00:27:40,393 It means David was with Andrew 570 00:27:40,427 --> 00:27:43,229 and did not appear to be trying to escape. 571 00:27:43,263 --> 00:27:45,065 - Police believe, at this time, 572 00:27:45,098 --> 00:27:48,868 David and Andrew Cunanan are together, 573 00:27:48,902 --> 00:27:50,870 are together willingly, 574 00:27:50,904 --> 00:27:54,207 um, and are on the run. 575 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,409 - Minneapolis newspaper reporters Jim Walsh 576 00:27:56,443 --> 00:27:58,211 and Chris Graves started digging 577 00:27:58,244 --> 00:28:01,548 and quickly heard a different story from David's friends, 578 00:28:01,581 --> 00:28:04,484 who didn't buy the love triangle motive. 579 00:28:04,517 --> 00:28:06,619 - Everybody who knows David says that can't be true. 580 00:28:06,653 --> 00:28:09,856 It's not in his DNA. It's not who he is. 581 00:28:09,889 --> 00:28:12,225 - The reporters talked to those who said they, too, 582 00:28:12,258 --> 00:28:14,894 saw David and Andrew with the dog, 583 00:28:14,928 --> 00:28:17,263 but it looked like David had been crying. 584 00:28:17,297 --> 00:28:20,433 David was described moody, 585 00:28:20,467 --> 00:28:24,304 um, a bit withdrawn, and sort of grumpy, 586 00:28:24,337 --> 00:28:26,673 I think is the word that people used. 587 00:28:26,706 --> 00:28:28,842 It just didn't seem right. 588 00:28:28,875 --> 00:28:31,044 - Friends who knew David's dog walking routine 589 00:28:31,044 --> 00:28:33,313 insisted there was no way he was home 590 00:28:33,346 --> 00:28:35,181 at the time of Jeff's murder. 591 00:28:35,215 --> 00:28:37,050 - Madson walks the dog every-- - Madson walks at the dog 592 00:28:37,050 --> 00:28:38,485 before the 10 o'clock news every night. 593 00:28:38,518 --> 00:28:40,120 - Right. Right. 594 00:28:40,153 --> 00:28:45,125 And so the presumption is that Jeff comes to the house, 595 00:28:45,158 --> 00:28:48,661 has to be buzzed in, walks up. 596 00:28:48,695 --> 00:28:49,629 The door gets opened. 597 00:28:49,662 --> 00:28:51,631 There is a confrontation at the door, 598 00:28:51,664 --> 00:28:53,933 because, remember, we know the neighbors hear-- 599 00:28:53,967 --> 00:28:55,969 is, "Get out! Get out!" 600 00:28:56,069 --> 00:28:59,072 - Then sometime after the murder, went the theory, 601 00:28:59,072 --> 00:29:01,675 David and the dog returned to the apartment. 602 00:29:01,708 --> 00:29:03,677 - What we presume happens, 603 00:29:03,710 --> 00:29:06,012 David, not thinking anything, walks in, 604 00:29:06,046 --> 00:29:08,815 and Andrew had rolled up Jeffrey Trail in the rug 605 00:29:08,848 --> 00:29:11,484 and pulled him behind the couch. 606 00:29:11,518 --> 00:29:13,219 - Police searched David's bedroom 607 00:29:13,253 --> 00:29:15,021 and found Andrew's duffel bag. 608 00:29:15,055 --> 00:29:19,826 Inside was an empty gun holster and .40 caliber bullets, 609 00:29:19,859 --> 00:29:21,761 but no gun. 610 00:29:21,795 --> 00:29:25,398 Did that mean David and Andrew were now armed? 611 00:29:25,432 --> 00:29:27,500 Investigators certainly suspected 612 00:29:27,534 --> 00:29:30,704 David and Andrew killed Jeff Trail, 613 00:29:30,737 --> 00:29:33,740 yet they issued no bulletin for David's missing Jeep, 614 00:29:33,773 --> 00:29:37,844 no "Be on the Lookout" for either one of those men. 615 00:29:37,877 --> 00:29:40,547 It was the beginning of what Maureen Orth would later call 616 00:29:40,580 --> 00:29:44,351 the largest failed manhunt in U.S. history. 617 00:29:44,384 --> 00:29:48,121 - It's just one hapless mistake after another. 618 00:29:49,422 --> 00:29:50,590 - And four days 619 00:29:50,623 --> 00:29:53,793 after they found Jeff Trail's bludgeoned body... 620 00:29:53,827 --> 00:29:56,830 - We're going up to East Rush Lake. 621 00:29:56,863 --> 00:30:00,600 Uh, it would take 30 to 40 minutes, 622 00:30:00,633 --> 00:30:02,569 the drive from Minneapolis. 623 00:30:02,602 --> 00:30:04,771 - Saturday, May 3, 624 00:30:04,804 --> 00:30:07,674 Chris Hendrickson, a Chicago County Deputy at the time, 625 00:30:07,707 --> 00:30:10,477 was called to work on his day off. 626 00:30:10,510 --> 00:30:11,945 Fishing season was starting, 627 00:30:11,978 --> 00:30:14,414 and two men scouting a prime spot 628 00:30:14,447 --> 00:30:16,449 found a dead man instead. 629 00:30:16,483 --> 00:30:18,651 - He was well dressed. He wasn't dirty. 630 00:30:18,685 --> 00:30:20,253 He didn't appear to be in a fight, 631 00:30:20,286 --> 00:30:22,655 And he had a defensive wound in his hand 632 00:30:22,689 --> 00:30:25,592 and then a gunshot wound to his head. 633 00:30:25,625 --> 00:30:26,993 - The police confirmed 634 00:30:27,027 --> 00:30:30,096 the victim by the lake was David Madson. 635 00:30:30,130 --> 00:30:32,532 - And I said, whoa, wait a minute. 636 00:30:32,565 --> 00:30:34,434 This just changes everything. 637 00:30:34,467 --> 00:30:37,203 - A .40 caliber gun killed Madson. 638 00:30:37,237 --> 00:30:38,571 Shell casings matched 639 00:30:38,605 --> 00:30:41,174 the ammunition found in Cunanan's duffel bag 640 00:30:41,207 --> 00:30:43,243 in David's apartment. 641 00:30:43,276 --> 00:30:45,912 By this time, police knew the missing gun from the holster 642 00:30:45,945 --> 00:30:47,614 belonged to Jeff Trail, 643 00:30:47,647 --> 00:30:50,684 that Andrew had stolen it from Trail's apartment. 644 00:30:50,717 --> 00:30:53,453 An alert was now posted for Madson's red Jeep 645 00:30:53,486 --> 00:30:57,991 and for the man they now feared was a double murderer. 646 00:30:58,024 --> 00:31:01,294 - That's when I believe Andrew Cunanan really became 647 00:31:01,327 --> 00:31:03,430 their prime and only suspect, 648 00:31:03,463 --> 00:31:07,334 and by that time, he's far away. 649 00:31:07,367 --> 00:31:11,538 - And it was already too late for victim number three. 650 00:31:15,308 --> 00:31:16,576 - Whomever was in the home 651 00:31:16,609 --> 00:31:20,280 had helped themselves to ham, some ice cream. 652 00:31:20,313 --> 00:31:22,782 They had gone upstairs and shaved. 653 00:31:23,850 --> 00:31:26,753 - When "Dateline: Secrets Uncovered" continues. 654 00:31:37,263 --> 00:31:38,665 - Chicago. 655 00:31:38,698 --> 00:31:41,501 This is where America's romance with skyscrapers 656 00:31:41,534 --> 00:31:44,104 began more than a century ago, 657 00:31:44,104 --> 00:31:47,140 a romance that's called dreamers ever since. 658 00:31:47,173 --> 00:31:49,109 - When I saw that Sears Tower building, I said, 659 00:31:49,142 --> 00:31:50,777 "You know, that looks pretty good. 660 00:31:50,810 --> 00:31:52,312 "I think I can do that." 661 00:31:52,345 --> 00:31:53,880 - Paul Beitler made it happen 662 00:31:53,913 --> 00:31:56,850 when he joined forces with developer Lee Miglin 663 00:31:56,883 --> 00:31:58,618 more than four decades ago. 664 00:31:58,651 --> 00:32:01,388 - We were giants, and we didn't realize it. 665 00:32:01,421 --> 00:32:03,623 We were moving at a lightning speed 666 00:32:03,656 --> 00:32:07,093 and changing the skyline literally overnight. 667 00:32:07,127 --> 00:32:09,629 - You two were tied at the hip. 668 00:32:09,662 --> 00:32:13,099 - Yeah. He was my best friend. - As their company prospered, 669 00:32:13,133 --> 00:32:15,935 Miglin organized an annual thank you ceremony 670 00:32:15,969 --> 00:32:20,173 with a symbol for the employees, a special gold coin. 671 00:32:20,206 --> 00:32:21,574 - And he said, "You know, 672 00:32:21,608 --> 00:32:23,977 "people can hold that gold in their hands, 673 00:32:24,077 --> 00:32:27,480 "and they can say, 'This job got me this gold.'" 674 00:32:27,514 --> 00:32:29,516 - At the same time, Miglin's wife, Marilyn, 675 00:32:29,549 --> 00:32:31,518 was building her own empire, 676 00:32:31,551 --> 00:32:35,088 a cosmetics line popular on the Home Shopping Network. 677 00:32:35,121 --> 00:32:37,557 - She and Lee were a perfect couple, a perfect team. 678 00:32:37,590 --> 00:32:40,360 They worked together very, very well. 679 00:32:40,393 --> 00:32:42,462 - And then one Sunday morning, when Marilyn flew home 680 00:32:42,495 --> 00:32:45,165 from an appearance on Home Shopping Network, 681 00:32:45,198 --> 00:32:48,468 Lee wasn't at the airport as planned. 682 00:32:48,501 --> 00:32:51,538 At their townhouse on Chicago's fashionable Gold Coast, 683 00:32:51,571 --> 00:32:53,840 her worry turned to alarm. 684 00:32:53,873 --> 00:32:55,642 No sign of Lee. 685 00:32:55,675 --> 00:32:58,178 And then, down the alley behind his house, 686 00:32:58,211 --> 00:33:01,047 a neighbor found Lee Miglin, 687 00:33:01,047 --> 00:33:03,283 dead in his garage. 688 00:33:03,316 --> 00:33:05,285 Marilyn called Paul Beitler. 689 00:33:05,318 --> 00:33:07,554 - I was frozen. 690 00:33:07,587 --> 00:33:10,056 I-I-I couldn't believe what I was hearing. 691 00:33:10,056 --> 00:33:12,058 It didn't dawn on me to ask what happened, 692 00:33:12,058 --> 00:33:15,061 or how he was murdered, or when, 693 00:33:15,061 --> 00:33:19,165 only that I had just lost the most important person, 694 00:33:19,199 --> 00:33:22,068 next to my family, in my life. 695 00:33:22,068 --> 00:33:24,371 - Beitler rushed to the Miglin home 696 00:33:24,404 --> 00:33:27,073 and headlong into chaos. 697 00:33:27,073 --> 00:33:28,942 - It was like a three-ring circus. 698 00:33:28,975 --> 00:33:31,511 In the front yard were all the news media 699 00:33:31,544 --> 00:33:33,279 with the lights blaring. 700 00:33:33,313 --> 00:33:34,481 - Investigators could see 701 00:33:34,514 --> 00:33:37,484 that this was not a typical robbery homicide. 702 00:33:37,517 --> 00:33:40,954 Lee's Lexus was gone, as were clothes, 703 00:33:40,987 --> 00:33:43,323 and more than $2,000. 704 00:33:43,356 --> 00:33:44,824 The killer had left evidence. 705 00:33:44,858 --> 00:33:46,860 Looked like he'd spent the night. 706 00:33:46,893 --> 00:33:48,995 - Whomever was in the home 707 00:33:49,095 --> 00:33:52,999 had helped themselves to some food in the refrigerator, 708 00:33:53,099 --> 00:33:56,102 some ham, some ice cream, 709 00:33:56,102 --> 00:33:58,905 that they had gone upstairs and shaved. 710 00:33:58,938 --> 00:34:01,641 Apparently, the bristles from his beard 711 00:34:01,675 --> 00:34:03,309 were on the floor. 712 00:34:03,343 --> 00:34:06,046 - But the most disturbing evidence... 713 00:34:06,046 --> 00:34:08,648 - There are aspects of the homicide that indicate 714 00:34:08,682 --> 00:34:11,751 that there was some torture that occurred. 715 00:34:11,785 --> 00:34:13,453 - More than some. 716 00:34:13,486 --> 00:34:15,321 Much more. 717 00:34:15,355 --> 00:34:18,958 - He practically slit his whole throat with a bow saw. 718 00:34:19,059 --> 00:34:21,494 He put him in a kind of an S&M mask 719 00:34:21,528 --> 00:34:24,097 with just two holes for the nostrils. 720 00:34:24,130 --> 00:34:27,801 After he had been repeatedly stabbed, he'd been battered. 721 00:34:27,834 --> 00:34:29,769 There was so much hatred 722 00:34:29,803 --> 00:34:32,105 and so much anger in that murder. 723 00:34:34,240 --> 00:34:37,177 - Thousands packed Holy Name Cathedral to pay respects 724 00:34:37,210 --> 00:34:40,880 to the widely admired member of the Chicago establishment. 725 00:34:40,914 --> 00:34:42,682 The days were going by, 726 00:34:42,716 --> 00:34:45,318 and the investigation was going nowhere, 727 00:34:45,352 --> 00:34:49,089 until police stumbled on a red Jeep 728 00:34:49,122 --> 00:34:51,091 parked literally around the corner 729 00:34:51,091 --> 00:34:52,926 from the Miglin townhouse. 730 00:34:52,959 --> 00:34:55,762 You have a red Jeep Cherokee that's got three tickets on it, 731 00:34:55,795 --> 00:34:58,565 and nobody bothers to check the VIN number or anything 732 00:34:58,598 --> 00:35:02,268 until the fourth ticket, after four days or five days. 733 00:35:02,302 --> 00:35:03,470 - When the number came back 734 00:35:03,503 --> 00:35:06,172 a match to David Madson's missing Jeep, 735 00:35:06,206 --> 00:35:08,208 reporters Chris Graves and Jim Walsh, 736 00:35:08,241 --> 00:35:10,543 who'd been covering the murders in Minnesota, 737 00:35:10,577 --> 00:35:13,346 began reporting on the Chicago case, too. 738 00:35:13,380 --> 00:35:14,748 - The question right away was, 739 00:35:14,781 --> 00:35:17,283 what's the connection between Cunanan and Lee Miglin, 740 00:35:17,317 --> 00:35:21,054 who is a extremely wealthy older man? 741 00:35:21,054 --> 00:35:24,057 - Beitler tried to stop the media speculation. 742 00:35:24,090 --> 00:35:25,592 - We'd really like to make this known. 743 00:35:25,625 --> 00:35:29,195 The family has been-- the family does not know Cunanan, 744 00:35:29,229 --> 00:35:31,498 There's been no connection with the family whatsoever. 745 00:35:31,531 --> 00:35:32,899 - Then Beitler discovered 746 00:35:32,932 --> 00:35:36,569 a few Chicago police were leaking tips to the media. 747 00:35:36,603 --> 00:35:39,673 - What did they say? - They drew an inference 748 00:35:39,706 --> 00:35:44,077 that Lee was known to be 749 00:35:44,110 --> 00:35:48,148 involved in the gay community in Chicago. 750 00:35:48,181 --> 00:35:50,083 - Beitler, a major contributor 751 00:35:50,083 --> 00:35:52,752 to then-mayor Richard Daley's campaigns, 752 00:35:52,786 --> 00:35:56,322 called the Police Superintendent to shut that down, too. 753 00:35:56,356 --> 00:35:58,458 - I said, "This is a character assassination 754 00:35:58,491 --> 00:36:00,160 "that's going on right now. 755 00:36:00,193 --> 00:36:03,396 "If you have evidence that you can bring forward 756 00:36:03,430 --> 00:36:06,232 "that shows that what your detectives are offering 757 00:36:06,266 --> 00:36:09,102 "to the media is true, then let's see it." 758 00:36:09,135 --> 00:36:11,137 It didn't take much on the part 759 00:36:11,171 --> 00:36:14,074 of the various people within the police department 760 00:36:14,107 --> 00:36:18,244 to realize that there was no upside to this investigation. 761 00:36:20,113 --> 00:36:23,883 That if they got out in front of this thing too far 762 00:36:23,917 --> 00:36:25,318 and they made mistakes, 763 00:36:25,352 --> 00:36:27,854 this could be a career changer. 764 00:36:27,887 --> 00:36:31,858 - It appeared the investigation withered, said Maureen Orth. 765 00:36:31,891 --> 00:36:34,761 - You know, the Chicago Police were so intent 766 00:36:34,794 --> 00:36:36,796 on not finding out what happened. 767 00:36:36,830 --> 00:36:38,598 - They were so intent on not finding out what-- 768 00:36:38,631 --> 00:36:41,067 - They were intent on not finding out what happened. 769 00:36:41,067 --> 00:36:44,504 Lee Miglin was, quote, "A very happily married, 770 00:36:44,537 --> 00:36:47,841 "very upstanding member of the community." 771 00:36:47,874 --> 00:36:50,310 All the most important influential people 772 00:36:50,343 --> 00:36:52,879 were calling it a random crime. 773 00:36:52,912 --> 00:36:55,782 Therefore, the police aren't too stupid. 774 00:36:55,815 --> 00:36:59,786 They realized it was supposed to be a random crime. 775 00:36:59,819 --> 00:37:01,287 - In a statement to "Dateline," 776 00:37:01,321 --> 00:37:03,590 the Chicago Police Department said, in part: 777 00:37:11,398 --> 00:37:13,566 Yet in 1997, 778 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:17,037 Minneapolis reporter Jim Walsh flew to San Diego 779 00:37:17,070 --> 00:37:18,872 and thought he found a connection 780 00:37:18,905 --> 00:37:21,408 between Lee Miglin and Andrew Cunanan. 781 00:37:21,441 --> 00:37:22,942 - I interviewed a bookstore owner 782 00:37:23,043 --> 00:37:26,746 who said that Andrew Cunanan 783 00:37:26,780 --> 00:37:29,816 was friends with Duke Miglin, 784 00:37:29,849 --> 00:37:31,651 Lee Miglin's son. 785 00:37:31,685 --> 00:37:35,455 Duke was a small-time actor in Hollywood, 786 00:37:35,488 --> 00:37:38,692 and he said Cunanan always talked about Duke Miglin, 787 00:37:38,725 --> 00:37:40,060 talked about him all the time, 788 00:37:40,060 --> 00:37:43,196 that he knew him well. They played tennis together. 789 00:37:43,229 --> 00:37:45,598 - But less than 24 hours later, 790 00:37:45,632 --> 00:37:47,067 the bookstore owner denied 791 00:37:47,067 --> 00:37:51,137 he'd ever heard about Duke Miglin directly from Cunanan. 792 00:37:51,171 --> 00:37:53,840 Back in Chicago, Duke Miglin addressed the rumors 793 00:37:53,873 --> 00:37:56,209 with his father's staff. 794 00:37:56,242 --> 00:37:57,711 - And he was very forthright, and he said, 795 00:37:57,744 --> 00:38:00,480 "Look, I will tell you the truth. 796 00:38:00,513 --> 00:38:03,049 The truth is, no, I don't know Cunanan. 797 00:38:03,083 --> 00:38:05,919 I haven't been engaged with Cunanan. 798 00:38:06,019 --> 00:38:08,855 - But by then, Andrew Cunanan had escaped, 799 00:38:08,888 --> 00:38:11,658 another dead man in his wake, 800 00:38:11,691 --> 00:38:15,862 flushed with Lee Miglin's cash at the wheel of Miglin's Lexus, 801 00:38:15,895 --> 00:38:18,631 which was his first miscalculation. 802 00:38:18,665 --> 00:38:22,035 That fancy Lexus was equipped with a cell phone 803 00:38:22,035 --> 00:38:24,037 that could be traced. 804 00:38:26,573 --> 00:38:29,809 - Authorities had confirmed to the Chicago media 805 00:38:29,843 --> 00:38:33,713 that the FBI was tracking Andrew in Lee Miglin's car. 806 00:38:33,747 --> 00:38:36,483 That immediately went out all over the airwaves. 807 00:38:36,516 --> 00:38:38,718 - And Cunanan was listening. 808 00:38:38,752 --> 00:38:41,321 - He realized he had to get out of that car. 809 00:38:47,093 --> 00:38:53,066 ** 810 00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:56,236 Gianni Versace not only designed fashions 811 00:38:56,269 --> 00:38:58,905 for sexy and elegant supermodels, 812 00:38:58,938 --> 00:39:01,741 he made clothes that everyone could wear. 813 00:39:01,775 --> 00:39:03,276 In May 1997, 814 00:39:03,309 --> 00:39:05,478 he was unveiling his ready-to-wear collection 815 00:39:05,512 --> 00:39:07,647 on a runway in Istanbul. 816 00:39:10,417 --> 00:39:13,586 And what was Andrew Cunanan doing that May? 817 00:39:13,620 --> 00:39:15,555 He was running away. 818 00:39:15,588 --> 00:39:17,557 He had a big jump on the Chicago Police, 819 00:39:17,590 --> 00:39:21,161 who had taken three days to figure out he killed Lee Miglin 820 00:39:21,194 --> 00:39:23,730 and those two men in Minnesota. 821 00:39:23,763 --> 00:39:26,399 Police now realized an extremely dangerous killer 822 00:39:26,433 --> 00:39:29,035 was careening across the country, 823 00:39:29,035 --> 00:39:30,337 and they put the word out. 824 00:39:30,370 --> 00:39:33,273 - Police say the missing Lexus is Black Jade Pearl... 825 00:39:33,306 --> 00:39:34,741 - Cunanan was driving east 826 00:39:34,774 --> 00:39:37,577 in the fancy Lexus he'd stolen from Miglin, 827 00:39:37,610 --> 00:39:40,647 but had no idea that the car's built-in phone 828 00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:42,916 was pinging off cell towers, 829 00:39:42,949 --> 00:39:46,786 nor that by Friday, May 9, he'd picked up a tail: 830 00:39:46,820 --> 00:39:48,822 the FBI. 831 00:39:50,457 --> 00:39:52,625 Cell phone surveillance was primitive back then 832 00:39:52,659 --> 00:39:54,461 and lacked pinpoint targeting, 833 00:39:54,494 --> 00:39:57,697 but agents were closing in. 834 00:39:57,731 --> 00:40:01,001 - But that was when something really bad happened. 835 00:40:01,034 --> 00:40:04,838 The Chicago authorities had confirmed to the Chicago media 836 00:40:04,871 --> 00:40:08,808 that the FBI was tracking Andrew in Lee Miglin's car. 837 00:40:08,842 --> 00:40:11,578 That immediately went out all over the airwaves. 838 00:40:11,611 --> 00:40:14,547 - In Philadelphia, police say a cellular phone was activated 839 00:40:14,581 --> 00:40:17,851 from the stolen Lexus taken from murder victim Lee Miglin. 840 00:40:17,884 --> 00:40:19,986 - Andrew obviously heard it, and of course-- 841 00:40:20,020 --> 00:40:20,954 - He couldn't miss it at that stage. 842 00:40:20,987 --> 00:40:22,455 - He couldn't. - In her book, 843 00:40:22,489 --> 00:40:26,626 Maureen Orth called the police leak tipping off Cunanan, quote, 844 00:40:26,659 --> 00:40:30,597 "Probably the most serious blunder of the entire manhunt." 845 00:40:30,630 --> 00:40:33,633 - He then tried to destroy the antenna of the car. 846 00:40:33,667 --> 00:40:35,602 He tried to rip out the phone, 847 00:40:35,635 --> 00:40:38,471 but the phone box was in the trunk of the car, 848 00:40:38,505 --> 00:40:40,073 which he didn't know. 849 00:40:40,106 --> 00:40:43,343 But in any case, he realized he had to get out of that car 850 00:40:43,376 --> 00:40:48,148 and had to find a place where he could get a vehicle. 851 00:40:48,181 --> 00:40:50,684 - A place where he could fly under the radar, 852 00:40:50,717 --> 00:40:52,986 way off the beaten path, 853 00:40:53,019 --> 00:40:57,390 where no one would know he was coming with a gun. 854 00:40:57,424 --> 00:40:59,025 He drove through miles of marshland 855 00:40:59,059 --> 00:41:01,428 before finding this unlikely spot, 856 00:41:01,461 --> 00:41:03,663 a Civil War burial ground, 857 00:41:03,697 --> 00:41:08,168 Finn's Point National Cemetery in Pennsville, New Jersey. 858 00:41:08,201 --> 00:41:09,636 - If I gave you directions 859 00:41:09,669 --> 00:41:10,904 or told you to put it in your GPS, 860 00:41:10,937 --> 00:41:13,139 you probably would not be able to find it. 861 00:41:13,173 --> 00:41:14,174 - At the time, 862 00:41:14,207 --> 00:41:16,609 Allen Cummings was a 32-year-old patrolman 863 00:41:16,643 --> 00:41:18,278 with the Pennsville Police. 864 00:41:18,311 --> 00:41:21,514 - I've never heard of Andrew Cunanan before that date. 865 00:41:21,548 --> 00:41:23,416 - Neither had this man: 866 00:41:23,450 --> 00:41:25,919 William Reese, 45 years old, 867 00:41:25,952 --> 00:41:28,154 the caretaker of the cemetery. 868 00:41:28,188 --> 00:41:31,157 He was a kind and gentle man, said his wife Rebecca. 869 00:41:31,191 --> 00:41:33,727 She spoke with us in 1997. 870 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:34,728 - He was the kind of husband 871 00:41:34,761 --> 00:41:36,396 who would keep a list the entire year 872 00:41:36,429 --> 00:41:38,498 of things you said you wanted, 873 00:41:38,531 --> 00:41:40,867 so at Christmastime, he had them. 874 00:41:40,900 --> 00:41:43,336 - When my mom and I had off from school, 875 00:41:43,370 --> 00:41:46,639 we would always go see my dad and his workplace, 876 00:41:46,673 --> 00:41:48,708 like surprise him with picnics. 877 00:41:49,743 --> 00:41:52,112 - Troy Reese was adopted by William and Rebecca 878 00:41:52,112 --> 00:41:53,546 when he was six. 879 00:41:53,580 --> 00:41:55,882 They raised him with love and special nurturing. 880 00:41:55,915 --> 00:41:59,486 He'd been born with fetal alcohol syndrome. 881 00:41:59,519 --> 00:42:03,123 That Friday, 12-year-old Troy was waiting for his father 882 00:42:03,156 --> 00:42:06,659 to pick him up from school, but he didn't show up. 883 00:42:06,693 --> 00:42:09,295 - And then my mom said, let's go look for your dad. 884 00:42:12,132 --> 00:42:13,433 - At the cemetery, 885 00:42:13,466 --> 00:42:16,870 Rebecca noticed her husband's red Chevy pickup truck was gone. 886 00:42:16,903 --> 00:42:21,141 In its place, a black Lexus with Illinois plates, 887 00:42:21,174 --> 00:42:23,476 parked in front of the garage. 888 00:42:23,510 --> 00:42:27,380 - I could see a look in her eyes that a kid never wants to see, 889 00:42:27,414 --> 00:42:29,649 because she knew something was wrong. 890 00:42:29,683 --> 00:42:32,919 - She was right. Something was very wrong. 891 00:42:36,089 --> 00:42:38,358 What happened to William Reese? 892 00:42:38,391 --> 00:42:40,193 - From what my mom told me, 893 00:42:40,226 --> 00:42:44,230 there was a holy spirit guiding her away from the basement. 894 00:42:50,103 --> 00:42:54,341 ** 895 00:42:55,308 --> 00:42:57,977 Welcome back to "Dateline: Secrets Uncovered." 896 00:42:58,011 --> 00:42:59,412 I'm Kate Snow. 897 00:42:59,446 --> 00:43:03,149 Andrew Cunanan appeared to be on a cross-country rampage, 898 00:43:03,183 --> 00:43:07,620 and the media hungered for details about the FBI's pursuit. 899 00:43:07,654 --> 00:43:10,957 But Cunanan was also secretly listening, 900 00:43:11,057 --> 00:43:13,560 and after learning how police were tailing him, 901 00:43:13,593 --> 00:43:15,195 he changed course. 902 00:43:15,228 --> 00:43:17,630 The sequence of events about to unfold 903 00:43:17,664 --> 00:43:19,332 were so diabolical, 904 00:43:19,366 --> 00:43:21,601 they would destroy multiple families 905 00:43:21,634 --> 00:43:23,903 and stunned the nation. 906 00:43:23,937 --> 00:43:27,941 Back to Keith Morrison with "The Death of Gianni Versace." 907 00:43:27,974 --> 00:43:29,476 - When William Reese was a no-show 908 00:43:29,509 --> 00:43:31,845 to pick up his son, Troy, from school, 909 00:43:31,878 --> 00:43:33,847 the boy and his mom started to worry. 910 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,217 They went looking for William at the cemetery where he worked, 911 00:43:37,250 --> 00:43:40,253 and it wasn't what they found that concerned them, 912 00:43:40,286 --> 00:43:42,655 It was what they didn't find. 913 00:43:42,689 --> 00:43:45,892 His red pickup truck, for starters. 914 00:43:45,925 --> 00:43:48,094 Then they walked to William's office. 915 00:43:48,128 --> 00:43:50,663 The door was wide open. 916 00:43:50,697 --> 00:43:53,400 - We went upstairs, searched for him. 917 00:43:53,433 --> 00:43:54,768 Then we went to the middle floor, 918 00:43:54,801 --> 00:43:57,437 searched for him. 919 00:43:57,470 --> 00:44:00,573 - The only place they didn't look was the basement. 920 00:44:00,607 --> 00:44:02,442 - From what my mom told me, 921 00:44:02,475 --> 00:44:06,646 there was a holy spirit guiding her away from the basement. 922 00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:08,448 - She contacted the local police, 923 00:44:08,481 --> 00:44:12,585 and we sent an officer down there to look for him. 924 00:44:12,619 --> 00:44:14,688 - And there he was, 925 00:44:14,721 --> 00:44:18,491 William Reese, shot once in the back of the head. 926 00:44:20,093 --> 00:44:21,661 - When my mom was crying, 927 00:44:21,695 --> 00:44:24,097 I knew something bad happened to my dad. 928 00:44:24,130 --> 00:44:26,199 She told me your dad is never coming home, 929 00:44:26,232 --> 00:44:29,269 but he's in a better place, in heaven. 930 00:44:29,302 --> 00:44:32,205 The different police agencies, lacking coordination, 931 00:44:32,238 --> 00:44:34,874 had been slow to understand how dangerous 932 00:44:34,908 --> 00:44:38,378 and apparently desperate Andrew Cunanan was, 933 00:44:38,411 --> 00:44:38,445 but they realized it now. 934 00:44:40,213 --> 00:44:43,416 - The FBI has now joined local law enforcement agencies 935 00:44:43,450 --> 00:44:45,952 in San Diego, Minneapolis, Chicago, 936 00:44:45,985 --> 00:44:49,356 and New Jersey in the search for Cunanan. 937 00:44:49,389 --> 00:44:51,091 - They could piece it all together because 938 00:44:51,091 --> 00:44:54,661 Cunanan left so much evidence at the cemetery. 939 00:44:54,694 --> 00:44:56,129 In the basement, a shell casing 940 00:44:56,162 --> 00:45:00,066 from the same 40 caliber gun that killed David Madson. 941 00:45:00,100 --> 00:45:02,035 Outside, Lee Miglin's Lexus. 942 00:45:02,035 --> 00:45:04,337 And inside the car, his credit cards 943 00:45:04,371 --> 00:45:05,705 and a bloody screwdriver, 944 00:45:05,739 --> 00:45:08,174 evidently used in his brutal stabbing. 945 00:45:08,208 --> 00:45:11,044 The Pennsville PD was now part of the manhunt, 946 00:45:11,077 --> 00:45:14,047 but Officer Allen Cummings wondered then and still 947 00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:16,916 when we sat down with him, whether William Reese's murder 948 00:45:16,950 --> 00:45:18,618 could have been prevented? 949 00:45:18,651 --> 00:45:20,854 - We had found out that the Philadelphia Police 950 00:45:20,887 --> 00:45:23,890 was aware of him being in the area, 951 00:45:23,923 --> 00:45:25,425 but our police department was not advised 952 00:45:25,458 --> 00:45:27,727 of him possibly being in our vicinity. 953 00:45:27,761 --> 00:45:30,096 What if the information was put out to our community? 954 00:45:30,130 --> 00:45:33,500 Maybe we could have prevented this horrible tragedy. 955 00:45:33,533 --> 00:45:35,902 - One of the things about this investigation is that 956 00:45:35,935 --> 00:45:39,072 there were so many different police entities. 957 00:45:39,072 --> 00:45:40,874 And for a long time, 958 00:45:40,907 --> 00:45:43,476 they didn't cooperate sufficiently. 959 00:45:43,510 --> 00:45:45,945 - And because of that, by Friday night, 960 00:45:45,979 --> 00:45:48,815 Cunanan had escaped another murder scene 961 00:45:48,848 --> 00:45:51,918 and sped away in Reese's red Chevy pickup truck 962 00:45:51,951 --> 00:45:53,853 with Jersey plates. 963 00:45:53,887 --> 00:45:56,122 Which could be, probably, fairly easily identified. 964 00:45:56,156 --> 00:45:58,525 - Yes, but he stopped in South Carolina 965 00:45:58,558 --> 00:46:00,160 in a Walmart parking lot. 966 00:46:00,193 --> 00:46:01,861 He stole somebody's license plate 967 00:46:01,895 --> 00:46:04,497 to switch out Reese's license plate. 968 00:46:05,532 --> 00:46:06,766 - Clever? 969 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:08,902 No, mostly lucky. 970 00:46:08,935 --> 00:46:12,605 The stolen Carolina plate was never reported missing. 971 00:46:12,639 --> 00:46:15,775 And now, the red pickup truck was in the clear, 972 00:46:15,809 --> 00:46:18,812 and Andrew Cunanan was in the wind. 973 00:46:21,948 --> 00:46:24,918 He was hurtling down the East Coast... 974 00:46:24,951 --> 00:46:28,421 wanted now in four murders, some of them quite grisly. 975 00:46:28,455 --> 00:46:31,057 And police, slow to realize who he was, 976 00:46:31,091 --> 00:46:35,061 had no idea where he was. 977 00:46:35,061 --> 00:46:37,063 So now, they sounded the alarm. 978 00:46:37,063 --> 00:46:40,967 And after William Reese was shot to death just for his car, 979 00:46:41,067 --> 00:46:44,437 the national media jumped all over the story. 980 00:46:44,471 --> 00:46:47,741 Time and Newsweek both focused on the unlikely killer, 981 00:46:47,774 --> 00:46:51,678 a gay gigolo from San Diego. 982 00:46:51,711 --> 00:46:53,880 And network television noticed, too. 983 00:46:53,913 --> 00:46:55,849 - Police say there's a serial killer loose 984 00:46:55,882 --> 00:46:57,717 in the country tonight, and law enforcement officials 985 00:46:57,751 --> 00:46:59,719 are racing against time. 986 00:46:59,753 --> 00:47:01,855 - With murders in three states, 987 00:47:01,888 --> 00:47:05,291 the FBI was now overseeing the Cunanan case. 988 00:47:05,325 --> 00:47:08,228 And no one seemed safe after the random murder 989 00:47:08,261 --> 00:47:10,363 of victim number four. 990 00:47:10,397 --> 00:47:13,033 New York City, two hours from Pennsville, New Jersey, 991 00:47:13,033 --> 00:47:14,634 was on high alert, 992 00:47:14,668 --> 00:47:17,303 particularly in the gay community. 993 00:47:17,337 --> 00:47:20,407 - Cunanan could be in New York or on the way to New York. 994 00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:23,510 He seems to be targeting gay men. 995 00:47:23,543 --> 00:47:26,279 - But he was nowhere near Manhattan. 996 00:47:26,312 --> 00:47:29,416 In fact, he was 1,300 miles away, 997 00:47:29,449 --> 00:47:32,552 heading for another popular island. 998 00:47:32,585 --> 00:47:35,188 On the night of May 11, Cunanan quietly slipped 999 00:47:35,221 --> 00:47:37,791 into Miami Beach in that stolen pickup truck 1000 00:47:37,824 --> 00:47:40,427 with its switched out plates. 1001 00:47:40,460 --> 00:47:44,364 Andrew Cunanan came here, to South Beach, to the crowds, 1002 00:47:44,397 --> 00:47:46,166 the noise, the music, 1003 00:47:46,199 --> 00:47:49,169 the looky loos staring at each other. 1004 00:47:49,202 --> 00:47:51,137 Strange place to come for a man who had to know 1005 00:47:51,171 --> 00:47:54,240 he was a subject of a massive manhunt. 1006 00:47:54,274 --> 00:47:59,079 Andrew Cunanan decided to hide in plain sight. 1007 00:47:59,079 --> 00:48:01,014 Under an assumed name, 1008 00:48:01,014 --> 00:48:04,084 he shelled out $29.99 plus tax, 1009 00:48:04,117 --> 00:48:07,887 the daily rate, to stay at the Normandy Plaza Hotel, 1010 00:48:07,921 --> 00:48:10,690 five miles north of the Versace mansion. 1011 00:48:10,724 --> 00:48:13,460 It may as well have been 5 million miles 1012 00:48:13,493 --> 00:48:15,729 as far as luxury living goes. 1013 00:48:15,762 --> 00:48:18,765 The Plaza, what was the reputation of the place? 1014 00:48:18,798 --> 00:48:20,600 - It was a dump. - Police say that-- 1015 00:48:20,633 --> 00:48:24,371 - Correspondent Kerry Sanders covered the story for NBC News. 1016 00:48:24,404 --> 00:48:27,073 - You drive by, and maybe even lock the door 1017 00:48:27,107 --> 00:48:28,475 and roll the window up when you drove by. 1018 00:48:28,508 --> 00:48:31,478 It was just-- it was a nasty place. 1019 00:48:31,511 --> 00:48:33,480 - Which is why it went out of business 1020 00:48:33,513 --> 00:48:36,416 and was boarded up. 1021 00:48:36,449 --> 00:48:39,319 Back then, it was a good place to hide out, 1022 00:48:39,352 --> 00:48:41,955 especially for an unconventional tourist 1023 00:48:42,055 --> 00:48:45,625 choosing to avoid the sun, live in the shadows. 1024 00:48:45,658 --> 00:48:47,227 - He was lying low during the day, 1025 00:48:47,260 --> 00:48:48,595 he was out at night. 1026 00:48:48,628 --> 00:48:50,730 He was an easy guy to blend in. 1027 00:48:50,764 --> 00:48:52,699 He was half Filipino, half Italian. 1028 00:48:52,732 --> 00:48:56,369 He could have passed for any number of ethnicities. 1029 00:48:56,403 --> 00:48:58,872 - Once he lived large on a rich man's allowance 1030 00:48:58,905 --> 00:49:00,540 in an oceanside condo 1031 00:49:00,573 --> 00:49:03,643 and picked up tabs for pricey dinners. 1032 00:49:03,677 --> 00:49:05,078 Now? 1033 00:49:05,111 --> 00:49:09,049 - He's living off of maybe one submarine sandwich a day. 1034 00:49:09,082 --> 00:49:13,153 - And once again, he was doing drugs and turning tricks. 1035 00:49:13,186 --> 00:49:17,023 - Getting some old guys that probably had some money, 1036 00:49:17,057 --> 00:49:19,559 and he was robbing, doing petty robbery. 1037 00:49:19,592 --> 00:49:21,027 He brought one guy in, and he was wearing 1038 00:49:21,061 --> 00:49:23,029 a Cartier bracelet. And when he left, 1039 00:49:23,029 --> 00:49:24,698 he was no longer wearing it. 1040 00:49:24,731 --> 00:49:28,068 - By mid-June, Cunanan had been in Miami Beach for a month 1041 00:49:28,101 --> 00:49:31,538 and had settled into his seedy routine at the Normandy. 1042 00:49:31,571 --> 00:49:34,307 He wasn't moving, but for some reason, 1043 00:49:34,341 --> 00:49:37,210 he decided his truck needed to. 1044 00:49:37,243 --> 00:49:40,046 He drove that red pickup truck to this garage, 1045 00:49:40,046 --> 00:49:42,549 just two blocks from the Versace mansion. 1046 00:49:42,582 --> 00:49:44,217 Versace wasn't home. 1047 00:49:44,250 --> 00:49:46,186 He was preparing with his supermodels 1048 00:49:46,219 --> 00:49:49,055 to show his fall winter collection at Paris. 1049 00:49:49,055 --> 00:49:51,191 Cunanan, in his own way, 1050 00:49:51,224 --> 00:49:54,327 was also making a big name for himself. 1051 00:49:54,361 --> 00:49:56,129 The FBI had just put him on 1052 00:49:56,162 --> 00:49:58,698 its 10 Most Wanted list, publicizing it 1053 00:49:58,732 --> 00:50:01,568 on some relatively new computer technology. 1054 00:50:01,601 --> 00:50:03,937 - He was one of the very first people they ever put up 1055 00:50:03,970 --> 00:50:06,306 on the internet as a fugitive. 1056 00:50:06,339 --> 00:50:08,508 - The FBI had actually received a few tips that 1057 00:50:08,541 --> 00:50:10,744 Cunanan might be in Florida, 1058 00:50:10,777 --> 00:50:14,814 but they didn't communicate that to the Miami Beach Police. 1059 00:50:14,848 --> 00:50:17,083 - Well, the FBI is notorious 1060 00:50:17,117 --> 00:50:19,619 for sharing information one way. 1061 00:50:19,652 --> 00:50:22,088 That's from you to them. [chuckling] 1062 00:50:22,122 --> 00:50:24,924 - Richard Barreto was the Miami Beach Police Chief 1063 00:50:24,958 --> 00:50:25,992 at the time. 1064 00:50:26,026 --> 00:50:27,627 They could have probably done a little better job 1065 00:50:27,660 --> 00:50:28,895 in sharing information. 1066 00:50:28,928 --> 00:50:31,531 - Then a possible break, though it had nothing to do 1067 00:50:31,564 --> 00:50:32,966 with the FBI. 1068 00:50:32,999 --> 00:50:36,036 "America's Most Wanted" did a story on Cunanan, 1069 00:50:36,069 --> 00:50:40,173 and a counterman of the sub shop near Cunanan's hotel saw it. 1070 00:50:40,206 --> 00:50:43,877 - I looked up and saw his face, and I automatically 1071 00:50:43,910 --> 00:50:46,246 recognized him from "America's Most Wanted." 1072 00:50:46,279 --> 00:50:47,847 - He dialed 911. 1073 00:50:47,881 --> 00:50:49,349 He's inside the store now. 1074 00:50:49,382 --> 00:50:51,518 And they told me to try to delay his order. 1075 00:50:51,551 --> 00:50:54,220 - Miami Beach Police responded within minutes, 1076 00:50:54,254 --> 00:50:55,955 but it was too late. 1077 00:50:55,989 --> 00:50:58,558 If it was Cunanan, he'd already taken 1078 00:50:58,591 --> 00:51:01,828 his tuna sub and soda and left. 1079 00:51:01,861 --> 00:51:04,330 There was no doubt, however, that it was Cunanan 1080 00:51:04,364 --> 00:51:07,600 who walked into the Cash on the Beach pawn shop. 1081 00:51:07,634 --> 00:51:11,571 Running low on money, he decided to pawn a gold coin. 1082 00:51:11,604 --> 00:51:14,207 The shop owner, who didn't recognize him, 1083 00:51:14,240 --> 00:51:16,443 paid him $190. 1084 00:51:16,476 --> 00:51:19,379 Cunanan actually signed his own name. 1085 00:51:19,412 --> 00:51:22,449 And the owner submitted the paperwork to the Miami PD 1086 00:51:22,482 --> 00:51:25,352 as required by law. 1087 00:51:25,385 --> 00:51:28,888 Then Andrew Cunanan returned to the Normandy Plaza, 1088 00:51:28,922 --> 00:51:31,891 where the closest he got to his past life as bon vivant 1089 00:51:31,925 --> 00:51:35,095 and cultural wannabe was in fantasy. 1090 00:51:35,095 --> 00:51:38,732 - He was surrounded by Vogue, and Vanity Fair, 1091 00:51:38,765 --> 00:51:42,569 and all these upscale magazines, and he had art books, 1092 00:51:42,602 --> 00:51:45,839 and books of history, and architecture. 1093 00:51:45,872 --> 00:51:48,441 So obviously, during the day, 1094 00:51:48,475 --> 00:51:50,210 or the times when he couldn't go out, 1095 00:51:50,243 --> 00:51:54,180 he just lost himself in that world of antiques, 1096 00:51:54,214 --> 00:51:57,317 antiquity, art, architecture, 1097 00:51:57,350 --> 00:51:59,285 the lives of the rich and famous, 1098 00:51:59,319 --> 00:52:01,354 all the things we all aspired to 1099 00:52:01,388 --> 00:52:04,724 and that he pretended in his own fantasy world he was part of. 1100 00:52:06,059 --> 00:52:09,129 - No way of knowing what was in that mind of his, 1101 00:52:09,162 --> 00:52:13,500 but we do know that the latest Vanity Fair had just come out. 1102 00:52:13,533 --> 00:52:16,970 It had a splashy story and pictorial that featured 1103 00:52:17,070 --> 00:52:20,073 the richest and gaudiest house in all of South Beach, 1104 00:52:20,106 --> 00:52:24,511 owned by a man Cunanan bragged about meeting in better days... 1105 00:52:25,412 --> 00:52:27,180 Gianni Versace. 1106 00:52:27,213 --> 00:52:30,517 And the superstar designer was coming home. 1107 00:52:32,385 --> 00:52:33,520 - Coming up. 1108 00:52:33,553 --> 00:52:36,356 - He was astounded by what he saw. 1109 00:52:36,389 --> 00:52:37,424 - What did he see? 1110 00:52:37,457 --> 00:52:40,860 - Beauty everywhere. Beauty everywhere. 1111 00:52:40,894 --> 00:52:44,197 - Gianni Versace's love affair with Miami Beach, 1112 00:52:44,230 --> 00:52:45,732 it was mutual. 1113 00:52:45,765 --> 00:52:47,367 - Gianni's face was always big and open, 1114 00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:49,536 and his eyes were always wide, and he was-- I remember he was 1115 00:52:49,569 --> 00:52:52,939 staring at everybody so he was making eye contact. 1116 00:52:52,972 --> 00:52:54,741 How are you not going to say hello? 1117 00:52:54,774 --> 00:52:58,745 - But someone had a different greeting in mind. 1118 00:52:58,778 --> 00:53:01,848 When "Dateline: Secrets Uncovered" continues. 1119 00:53:05,185 --> 00:53:10,323 ** 1120 00:53:10,957 --> 00:53:13,059 - In the late spring of 1997, 1121 00:53:13,059 --> 00:53:16,296 the fugitive Andrew Cunanan was living in the shadows, 1122 00:53:16,329 --> 00:53:18,398 turning tricks, dealing drugs, 1123 00:53:18,431 --> 00:53:20,533 scratching around for a little sandwich money 1124 00:53:20,567 --> 00:53:22,502 in Miami Beach, 1125 00:53:22,535 --> 00:53:26,306 all while his one-time idol was on top of the world 1126 00:53:26,339 --> 00:53:28,742 and enjoying a very different kind of life. 1127 00:53:28,775 --> 00:53:31,845 ** 1128 00:53:31,878 --> 00:53:34,414 May found Gianni Versace in Milan, 1129 00:53:34,447 --> 00:53:38,251 attending a press conference about his new men's collection. 1130 00:53:38,284 --> 00:53:41,788 A stop in Venice for the city's famous art expo. 1131 00:53:41,821 --> 00:53:44,224 Then... 1132 00:53:44,257 --> 00:53:47,494 Paris, for the premiere of his new haute couture line. 1133 00:53:47,527 --> 00:53:50,163 The new collection was a smash. 1134 00:53:50,196 --> 00:53:51,798 - I had been to the show in Paris. 1135 00:53:51,831 --> 00:53:53,099 It was amazing. 1136 00:53:53,099 --> 00:53:55,969 - After Paris, Versace and his partner Antonio 1137 00:53:56,002 --> 00:53:58,304 stopped in New York to make final plans 1138 00:53:58,338 --> 00:54:00,373 to take his company public. 1139 00:54:00,407 --> 00:54:03,943 On July 10, they joined their friend Hal Rubenstein 1140 00:54:04,044 --> 00:54:05,545 for a dinner in Manhattan. 1141 00:54:05,578 --> 00:54:07,080 - Gianni loved to go out to eat. 1142 00:54:07,113 --> 00:54:08,948 He said, he would go eat anything, but frankly, 1143 00:54:09,049 --> 00:54:09,949 he would only eat at places 1144 00:54:10,050 --> 00:54:12,252 that basically had some version of pasta. 1145 00:54:12,285 --> 00:54:14,054 The only time-- so he would eat Chinese food 1146 00:54:14,054 --> 00:54:16,423 because they had lo mein. 1147 00:54:16,456 --> 00:54:19,492 - And then, it was time to relax. 1148 00:54:19,526 --> 00:54:22,862 - He was coming down to South Beach, where he often 1149 00:54:22,896 --> 00:54:26,332 loved to just kick back after having an intense time. 1150 00:54:26,366 --> 00:54:28,401 He was a fixture in South Beach. 1151 00:54:28,435 --> 00:54:31,071 He was the biggest celebrity they had 1152 00:54:31,071 --> 00:54:32,806 in the gay world down there. 1153 00:54:32,839 --> 00:54:34,474 - Mm-hmm. - He loved it. 1154 00:54:34,507 --> 00:54:35,809 It was his playground. 1155 00:54:35,842 --> 00:54:38,912 And he, and Antonio, his companion, 1156 00:54:38,945 --> 00:54:40,447 partied hardy down there. 1157 00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:41,948 They had fun. 1158 00:54:41,981 --> 00:54:43,717 ** 1159 00:54:43,750 --> 00:54:46,086 - Versace's love affair with South Beach, 1160 00:54:46,119 --> 00:54:49,089 the vibrant gay Mecca on the island of Miami Beach, 1161 00:54:49,089 --> 00:54:50,557 began five years earlier 1162 00:54:50,590 --> 00:54:53,693 when the town was enjoying a dazzling revival. 1163 00:54:53,727 --> 00:54:56,463 That's when he got to know Hal Rubenstein. 1164 00:54:56,496 --> 00:54:58,231 - Gianni was on his way to Cuba, 1165 00:54:58,264 --> 00:55:01,334 and his plane, his charter, got delayed by 10 hours. 1166 00:55:01,368 --> 00:55:03,370 And so he told the driver to take him someplace 1167 00:55:03,403 --> 00:55:05,138 that isn't boring. 1168 00:55:05,171 --> 00:55:06,840 So he took him to the News Cafe. 1169 00:55:06,873 --> 00:55:08,708 He sat there for about 5 or 10 minutes 1170 00:55:08,742 --> 00:55:11,878 and was astounded by what he saw. 1171 00:55:11,911 --> 00:55:12,946 - What did he see? 1172 00:55:13,046 --> 00:55:15,882 - Beauty everywhere. Beauty everywhere. 1173 00:55:15,915 --> 00:55:20,053 ** 1174 00:55:20,053 --> 00:55:22,355 It was the music. It was the rollerblading. 1175 00:55:22,389 --> 00:55:24,958 It was the bodies. It was the beauty. 1176 00:55:25,058 --> 00:55:28,461 - Antonio was with him. - Gianni was kind of like, 1177 00:55:28,495 --> 00:55:29,863 "Oh my God. 1178 00:55:29,896 --> 00:55:31,731 "Genius, this place is genius." 1179 00:55:31,765 --> 00:55:34,200 - Gianni took one look at this and basically, 1180 00:55:34,234 --> 00:55:37,203 in about five minutes, canceled his trip... 1181 00:55:37,237 --> 00:55:38,405 - To Cuba. - ...to Cuba. 1182 00:55:38,438 --> 00:55:41,574 And he said, I want somebody to show me around. 1183 00:55:41,608 --> 00:55:43,176 Show me around. Show me around. 1184 00:55:43,209 --> 00:55:44,778 ** 1185 00:55:44,811 --> 00:55:46,880 - Hal was then a New York Times reporter 1186 00:55:46,913 --> 00:55:48,515 and South Beach denizen. 1187 00:55:48,548 --> 00:55:51,418 A friend asked him to give Versace a tour. 1188 00:55:51,451 --> 00:55:53,253 - So what did he say when he came here? 1189 00:55:53,286 --> 00:55:56,389 - Oh, he was deliriously happy. He got to see people. 1190 00:55:56,423 --> 00:55:58,091 He got to see people interacting. 1191 00:55:58,091 --> 00:55:59,559 And he loved to watch people flirting 1192 00:55:59,592 --> 00:56:01,027 and coming on to each other. 1193 00:56:01,027 --> 00:56:04,431 There's a certain kind of exhibitionism, I think, 1194 00:56:04,464 --> 00:56:06,232 that is exhibited in Miami. 1195 00:56:06,266 --> 00:56:08,568 The fact that everybody is eating outside, 1196 00:56:08,601 --> 00:56:09,669 that everybody-- like I said, 1197 00:56:09,703 --> 00:56:11,237 everybody is watching everybody else. 1198 00:56:11,271 --> 00:56:12,505 - Yup. 1199 00:56:12,539 --> 00:56:14,774 Versace decided to make it permanent. 1200 00:56:14,808 --> 00:56:18,144 He set his sights on a tired old Mediterranean villa 1201 00:56:18,178 --> 00:56:20,046 on Ocean Drive. 1202 00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:22,816 It would need a gut renovation, of course. 1203 00:56:22,849 --> 00:56:25,185 - It was beautiful, but inside, 1204 00:56:25,218 --> 00:56:28,555 we have to change things. So we add, you know, the pool. 1205 00:56:28,588 --> 00:56:32,092 We add a second part of the house with the garden. 1206 00:56:32,125 --> 00:56:33,560 ** 1207 00:56:33,593 --> 00:56:37,864 - They made it spectacular in a Versace kind of way. 1208 00:56:37,897 --> 00:56:41,067 He chose every fabric, every bit of furniture, 1209 00:56:41,067 --> 00:56:43,336 every stone and tile, 1210 00:56:43,370 --> 00:56:46,806 insisted on getting it perfect, his way, 1211 00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:49,843 perfectly over the top. And from here, 1212 00:56:49,876 --> 00:56:53,813 he reigned as the Crown Prince of the New South Beach. 1213 00:56:53,847 --> 00:56:56,983 "The Today Show" came to call in 1994. 1214 00:56:57,083 --> 00:56:59,419 - Yeah, I think it's like a global village here. 1215 00:56:59,452 --> 00:57:02,188 Everyone is from Cuba, from New York, 1216 00:57:02,222 --> 00:57:04,524 from Italy, from Germany. 1217 00:57:04,557 --> 00:57:07,093 And that is more than to me, the mixture of people. 1218 00:57:07,127 --> 00:57:10,196 You don't care if you are a black or white. 1219 00:57:10,230 --> 00:57:12,298 You care just for your heart or for your mind. 1220 00:57:12,332 --> 00:57:14,467 It's cool. I like it. 1221 00:57:14,501 --> 00:57:17,437 - And the town loved him right back. 1222 00:57:17,470 --> 00:57:20,106 - People recognize him, and say, "Hello, Mr. Versace. 1223 00:57:20,140 --> 00:57:21,307 "How are you?" "Oh, good, good. 1224 00:57:21,341 --> 00:57:22,942 "Thank you. Ciao." 1225 00:57:23,043 --> 00:57:24,344 - He had a very distinctive look. 1226 00:57:24,377 --> 00:57:25,412 And he's just one of these people 1227 00:57:25,445 --> 00:57:27,280 who sort of carried himself a certain way. 1228 00:57:27,313 --> 00:57:29,516 Gianni's face was always big and open, and his eyes were 1229 00:57:29,549 --> 00:57:31,451 always wide, and he was-- I remember he was staring 1230 00:57:31,484 --> 00:57:34,521 at everybody, so he was making eye contact. 1231 00:57:34,554 --> 00:57:35,955 How are you not going to say hello? 1232 00:57:36,056 --> 00:57:38,425 - Of course. Did you worry about him? 1233 00:57:38,458 --> 00:57:39,826 He was a big star. 1234 00:57:39,859 --> 00:57:42,896 - Well, I never worried about that. 1235 00:57:42,929 --> 00:57:44,798 - But his brother worried. 1236 00:57:44,831 --> 00:57:48,068 Santo talked to Johnny about hiring some protection. 1237 00:57:48,068 --> 00:57:50,303 - So that conversation happened. - Yeah, yeah. 1238 00:57:50,337 --> 00:57:51,971 - His brother wanted him to have a bodyguard? 1239 00:57:52,072 --> 00:57:54,774 - Yes, but he didn't want it. 1240 00:57:54,808 --> 00:57:58,078 - And so there they were, in July of 1997, 1241 00:57:58,111 --> 00:58:02,015 fresh from a whirlwind trip to Europe, and Manhattan, and home, 1242 00:58:02,015 --> 00:58:05,452 in South Beach, a rare chance to relax 1243 00:58:05,485 --> 00:58:07,187 with dinner and a movie. 1244 00:58:07,220 --> 00:58:11,291 - We were to see a movie in Coconut Grove, 1245 00:58:11,324 --> 00:58:15,662 and then we start to watch TV, and then he was kind of 1246 00:58:15,695 --> 00:58:19,199 falling asleep on the couch 1247 00:58:19,232 --> 00:58:22,736 because after 9:00, it was always like-- 1248 00:58:22,769 --> 00:58:24,037 [chuckling] 1249 00:58:24,037 --> 00:58:26,840 - But then he'd been pushing himself for weeks. 1250 00:58:26,873 --> 00:58:30,076 A good night's sleep was certainly in order. 1251 00:58:30,110 --> 00:58:33,046 You never know what tomorrow will bring. 1252 00:58:34,547 --> 00:58:35,915 - Coming up. 1253 00:58:35,949 --> 00:58:38,585 Two shots heard around the world. 1254 00:58:45,358 --> 00:58:47,127 - I heard the shot. 1255 00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:50,363 My heart stopped beating. 1256 00:58:50,397 --> 00:58:53,566 Something said to me, 1257 00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:56,936 something happened. 1258 00:58:56,970 --> 00:59:00,173 - When "Dateline: Secrets Uncovered" continues. 1259 00:59:03,109 --> 00:59:10,083 ** 1260 00:59:10,684 --> 00:59:14,320 July 15, 1997, a Tuesday. 1261 00:59:14,354 --> 00:59:16,289 Gianni Versace rose early. 1262 00:59:16,322 --> 00:59:19,059 And before the heat and humidity became oppressive, 1263 00:59:19,092 --> 00:59:21,428 he left the mansion on Ocean Drive, 1264 00:59:21,461 --> 00:59:24,230 and strolled down the street to the News Cafe, 1265 00:59:24,264 --> 00:59:25,899 a morning ritual. 1266 00:59:25,932 --> 00:59:27,901 - He loved to buy magazines and newspapers 1267 00:59:27,934 --> 00:59:29,402 and get his coffee. 1268 00:59:29,436 --> 00:59:32,038 He was, uncommonly, alone, 1269 00:59:32,038 --> 00:59:34,674 and reading up on the latest fashion news. 1270 00:59:34,708 --> 00:59:38,511 His own runway show was over, but not the competition's. 1271 00:59:38,545 --> 00:59:40,814 So he went there early because he wanted to see 1272 00:59:40,847 --> 00:59:43,550 what was going on in Paris, in Fashion Week. 1273 00:59:43,583 --> 00:59:45,852 - Yes, usually we go together. 1274 00:59:45,885 --> 00:59:49,522 He has to go by himself. He couldn't wait. 1275 00:59:49,556 --> 00:59:51,524 - That same morning, said Maureen Orth, 1276 00:59:51,558 --> 00:59:54,894 Andrew Cunanan most likely awoke in the pickup truck he'd stolen 1277 00:59:54,928 --> 00:59:57,697 from his most recent victim, the truck he'd parked in 1278 00:59:57,731 --> 01:00:01,234 a public garage two blocks from the mansion. 1279 01:00:01,267 --> 01:00:04,104 But now as the sun heated the air on the Ocean Drive, 1280 01:00:04,137 --> 01:00:06,106 he stood across from the mansion, 1281 01:00:06,139 --> 01:00:08,141 watching, waiting. 1282 01:00:08,174 --> 01:00:10,477 - Andrew was wearing a pair of khaki shorts, 1283 01:00:10,510 --> 01:00:14,414 and a baseball cap, and a t-shirt. 1284 01:00:14,447 --> 01:00:17,917 - Just before 8:45 AM, Gianni walked home, 1285 01:00:17,951 --> 01:00:20,954 three blocks. He climbed his coral steps 1286 01:00:20,987 --> 01:00:23,123 toward his Medusa-logoed front gate, 1287 01:00:23,156 --> 01:00:25,125 fidgeted with his keys. 1288 01:00:25,158 --> 01:00:27,127 He had no idea. 1289 01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:29,396 - Andrew just very boldly crossed the street, 1290 01:00:29,429 --> 01:00:33,633 walked up right behind him, and shot him in the head. 1291 01:00:33,667 --> 01:00:36,302 - Two bullets, execution style. 1292 01:00:36,336 --> 01:00:39,072 and Andrew turned and walked away. 1293 01:00:39,105 --> 01:00:40,707 - I heard the shot. 1294 01:00:40,740 --> 01:00:44,144 My heart stopped to beat. 1295 01:00:44,177 --> 01:00:47,213 Something said to me... 1296 01:00:47,247 --> 01:00:51,451 something happened. 1297 01:00:51,484 --> 01:00:54,554 Anyway, so I ran out 1298 01:00:54,587 --> 01:00:58,758 and I saw Gianni lay down on the stairs, in the blood. 1299 01:01:04,064 --> 01:01:07,100 - From inside the mansion, Versace's chef called 911. 1300 01:01:14,708 --> 01:01:16,710 - And there was a woman who had just walked her daughter 1301 01:01:16,743 --> 01:01:19,346 to school, she saw it, completely. 1302 01:01:19,379 --> 01:01:23,583 And Andrew just nonchalantly walked fast down the street. 1303 01:01:27,854 --> 01:01:29,089 - What were you doing? 1304 01:01:29,089 --> 01:01:30,390 - I was in charge of the Bike Squad 1305 01:01:30,423 --> 01:01:32,892 here on Miami Beach at the time when the call went out. 1306 01:01:32,926 --> 01:01:34,961 - Howard Zeifman was a sergeant then. 1307 01:01:34,994 --> 01:01:37,263 What was the situation when you got here? 1308 01:01:37,297 --> 01:01:39,099 - The rescue had already arrived. 1309 01:01:39,099 --> 01:01:42,168 I saw that they were working on a gentleman on the steps. 1310 01:01:42,202 --> 01:01:43,737 I didn't know at the time-- - Right here? 1311 01:01:43,770 --> 01:01:45,438 - Right here. It could be anybody walking by 1312 01:01:45,472 --> 01:01:46,840 because this was a famous mansion. 1313 01:01:46,873 --> 01:01:48,808 People stop by all the time and took pictures. 1314 01:01:48,842 --> 01:01:50,744 And one of the officers said, hey, it's Versace. 1315 01:01:52,245 --> 01:01:55,582 - At 9:21, Gianni Versace was pronounced dead 1316 01:01:55,615 --> 01:01:57,217 at the local trauma center. 1317 01:01:57,250 --> 01:02:01,821 He was 50, murdered in broad daylight. 1318 01:02:01,855 --> 01:02:03,857 The Miami Beach Police Department is just blocks 1319 01:02:03,890 --> 01:02:05,191 from the mansion. 1320 01:02:05,225 --> 01:02:07,427 It was the hour of shift overlap, 1321 01:02:07,460 --> 01:02:09,696 the night officers still around. 1322 01:02:09,729 --> 01:02:11,931 Richard Barreto was the department chief. 1323 01:02:11,965 --> 01:02:15,168 - We had a whole lot more policemen on the street 1324 01:02:15,201 --> 01:02:16,469 than we would have an hour later. 1325 01:02:16,503 --> 01:02:19,205 - And I asked people as they were walking by, you know, 1326 01:02:19,239 --> 01:02:20,373 did you see anybody running from here? 1327 01:02:20,407 --> 01:02:22,542 Did you see anybody that-- moving in the area? 1328 01:02:22,575 --> 01:02:25,545 - One witness saw a man duck into the 13th Street garage, 1329 01:02:25,578 --> 01:02:27,080 two blocks away. 1330 01:02:29,315 --> 01:02:31,818 - Zeifman and other officers rushed over. 1331 01:02:31,851 --> 01:02:34,087 What did you find here on the third level? 1332 01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:37,090 - Truck parked there, out of state plates. 1333 01:02:37,090 --> 01:02:40,927 - But what looked suspicious was outside the trunk. 1334 01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:42,662 - From one of my recollection is there was clothes 1335 01:02:42,696 --> 01:02:43,997 laying on the ground. 1336 01:02:44,097 --> 01:02:46,266 - Zeifman thought the killer probably changed his clothes 1337 01:02:46,299 --> 01:02:48,168 to avoid being identified. 1338 01:02:48,201 --> 01:02:49,903 How would he have gotten out of here? 1339 01:02:49,936 --> 01:02:52,539 - You can go down the elevator, go down the stairs. 1340 01:02:52,572 --> 01:02:55,108 People walking out, you just blend in with them. 1341 01:02:55,141 --> 01:02:56,309 - You didn't catch him, but at least 1342 01:02:56,343 --> 01:02:57,444 you locked down the island. 1343 01:02:57,477 --> 01:02:59,813 - Lock down the island as quick as we could. 1344 01:02:59,846 --> 01:03:03,283 - Homicide Chief George Navarro was called in. 1345 01:03:03,316 --> 01:03:04,851 He was taking charge of what would be 1346 01:03:04,884 --> 01:03:06,953 the biggest case of his career. 1347 01:03:07,053 --> 01:03:08,688 - I went straight to the scene. 1348 01:03:08,722 --> 01:03:10,790 - It was now just past noon. 1349 01:03:10,824 --> 01:03:14,894 Blood was still on the steps, but so was a dead bird. 1350 01:03:14,928 --> 01:03:17,063 And that caused rumors to fly. 1351 01:03:17,097 --> 01:03:19,566 - Was that a signature of a mafia hit or something? 1352 01:03:19,599 --> 01:03:21,167 - It was, back in the day. 1353 01:03:21,201 --> 01:03:24,070 It turns out-- we autopsied the pigeon, and it was just 1354 01:03:24,104 --> 01:03:26,406 a fragment of the round, 1355 01:03:26,439 --> 01:03:28,274 one of the rounds that hit Mr. Versace. 1356 01:03:28,308 --> 01:03:30,110 It ricocheted and hit the pigeon. 1357 01:03:30,143 --> 01:03:33,613 It was the first and last time we autopsied a bird. 1358 01:03:33,646 --> 01:03:36,082 - It was that kind of a story. 1359 01:03:36,082 --> 01:03:40,420 I quickly realized that this wasn't just a... 1360 01:03:40,453 --> 01:03:41,755 another homicide, 1361 01:03:41,788 --> 01:03:43,390 because of the amount of media. 1362 01:03:43,423 --> 01:03:44,958 - They got there before you did? 1363 01:03:44,991 --> 01:03:47,093 - Oh, yeah, they got there before we did. 1364 01:03:47,093 --> 01:03:49,729 - So what did you see when you arrived? 1365 01:03:49,763 --> 01:03:51,798 - Media from all over. They just kept coming. 1366 01:03:51,831 --> 01:03:53,366 We had to shut down Ocean Drive. 1367 01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:54,768 - Those satellite trucks would pull up-- 1368 01:03:54,801 --> 01:03:55,969 - All over the place. 1369 01:03:56,002 --> 01:03:57,437 All over the place, from all over the world. 1370 01:03:57,470 --> 01:03:58,471 It was crazy. 1371 01:03:58,505 --> 01:04:00,407 [speaking Italian] 1372 01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:02,876 - The media from around the world is covering 1373 01:04:02,909 --> 01:04:06,046 the story of murder, mystery, and high fashion. 1374 01:04:07,614 --> 01:04:09,883 - Versace's murder was, of course, part of 1375 01:04:09,916 --> 01:04:13,119 a much bigger case, but Navarro, 1376 01:04:13,153 --> 01:04:17,490 like the rest of his department, knew nothing about it until-- 1377 01:04:17,524 --> 01:04:20,593 - An FBI agent approaches me, and... 1378 01:04:20,627 --> 01:04:23,663 says to me, "Can we talk about this case?" 1379 01:04:23,697 --> 01:04:25,365 I said, "Sure. What do you got?" 1380 01:04:25,398 --> 01:04:28,468 He goes, "I think we may know someone 1381 01:04:28,501 --> 01:04:30,236 "that may have done this." 1382 01:04:30,270 --> 01:04:33,340 - The FBI man, Cunanan's chief tracker, had eyeballed 1383 01:04:33,373 --> 01:04:36,810 the shell casings at the scene and told Navarro 1384 01:04:36,843 --> 01:04:39,679 they might match Cunanan's other murders. 1385 01:04:39,713 --> 01:04:42,982 - What was it like to hear that story from the FBI Agent? 1386 01:04:43,083 --> 01:04:47,320 - I got goosebumps because now, this was bigger than 1387 01:04:47,354 --> 01:04:50,490 just Gianni Versace getting murdered. 1388 01:04:50,523 --> 01:04:53,960 And then he mentioned the last homicide 1389 01:04:53,993 --> 01:04:57,230 of Mr. William Reese and the red pickup, 1390 01:04:57,263 --> 01:04:58,631 and it clicked. 1391 01:04:58,665 --> 01:05:01,067 - Navarro knew his guys in the garage were all over 1392 01:05:01,101 --> 01:05:03,603 a red pickup truck with South Carolina plates 1393 01:05:03,636 --> 01:05:05,071 that looked suspicious. 1394 01:05:05,105 --> 01:05:08,108 - So I called my detective that was running that scene 1395 01:05:08,141 --> 01:05:11,311 at the garage, on the radio, and I asked him to read 1396 01:05:11,344 --> 01:05:13,413 the VIN number on the vehicle. 1397 01:05:13,446 --> 01:05:16,383 - For Navarro, it was like winning the lottery. 1398 01:05:16,416 --> 01:05:17,517 - And we made a match. 1399 01:05:17,550 --> 01:05:20,153 We knew that was Mr. Reese's car. 1400 01:05:20,186 --> 01:05:22,222 - That night Chief Barreto held a press conference 1401 01:05:22,255 --> 01:05:26,292 to tell the global media that Andrew Cunanan was the killer, 1402 01:05:26,326 --> 01:05:30,330 and Gianni Versace was victim number five. 1403 01:05:30,363 --> 01:05:33,233 - Cunanan is known to be a male prostitute, 1404 01:05:33,266 --> 01:05:36,436 who services affluent clientele. 1405 01:05:36,469 --> 01:05:39,673 Cunanan is well-educated, well-dressed, 1406 01:05:39,706 --> 01:05:42,075 is very articulate. 1407 01:05:42,075 --> 01:05:44,511 - So at the end of day one, Chief Investigator Navarro 1408 01:05:44,544 --> 01:05:47,814 knew he had his hands full with a slippery killer 1409 01:05:47,847 --> 01:05:50,483 who'd gotten away four times before. 1410 01:05:50,517 --> 01:05:52,652 - You try to think like he thinks. 1411 01:05:52,686 --> 01:05:54,854 It's cat and mouse game, you know? 1412 01:05:54,888 --> 01:05:58,591 Our job is to catch him, and his job is to elude us. 1413 01:05:58,625 --> 01:06:02,662 - Cunanan was still at large, armed, desperate, 1414 01:06:02,696 --> 01:06:05,832 and more dangerous than ever. 1415 01:06:05,865 --> 01:06:09,803 - At large and about to pull off another disappearing act, 1416 01:06:09,836 --> 01:06:12,305 Cunanan, this time, doesn't leave much 1417 01:06:12,339 --> 01:06:13,340 of a trail to follow. 1418 01:06:15,608 --> 01:06:18,278 - The Director felt that Cunanan wasn't on Miami Beach. 1419 01:06:18,311 --> 01:06:20,580 He had slipped away. 1420 01:06:20,613 --> 01:06:23,683 - When Dateline-- Secrets Uncovered continues. 1421 01:06:27,087 --> 01:06:31,725 ** 1422 01:06:32,092 --> 01:06:33,059 Welcome back. 1423 01:06:33,093 --> 01:06:36,062 Fashion icon Gianni Versace was dead, 1424 01:06:36,062 --> 01:06:37,530 shot in broad daylight 1425 01:06:37,564 --> 01:06:38,932 in front of his home. 1426 01:06:38,965 --> 01:06:41,835 Miami investigators connected shell casings 1427 01:06:41,868 --> 01:06:45,171 and a red pickup truck to Andrew Cunanan, 1428 01:06:45,205 --> 01:06:48,942 who now had committed five murders in four states 1429 01:06:48,975 --> 01:06:50,477 then vanished. 1430 01:06:50,510 --> 01:06:53,246 Police would pore through thousands of leads 1431 01:06:53,279 --> 01:06:55,715 before picking up Cunanan's trail, 1432 01:06:55,749 --> 01:06:58,084 but could they catch him before he claimed 1433 01:06:58,118 --> 01:06:59,586 his next victim? 1434 01:06:59,619 --> 01:07:03,223 Back to Keith Morrison with The Death of Gianni Versace. 1435 01:07:06,626 --> 01:07:10,030 - There's a reason July is off-season in Miami Beach. 1436 01:07:10,030 --> 01:07:12,465 Temperatures that mirror the humidity 1437 01:07:12,499 --> 01:07:16,536 drive all of it hardcore sun worshipers inside. 1438 01:07:16,569 --> 01:07:18,371 In the days after Gianni Versace died 1439 01:07:18,405 --> 01:07:20,540 on his mansion's coral steps, 1440 01:07:20,573 --> 01:07:22,942 Detective George Navarro was most definitely 1441 01:07:23,043 --> 01:07:24,844 feeling the heat. 1442 01:07:24,878 --> 01:07:25,912 How much pressure was on you? 1443 01:07:25,945 --> 01:07:28,148 - Oh, incredible. 1444 01:07:28,181 --> 01:07:30,350 Never had that much pressure on me ever, 1445 01:07:30,383 --> 01:07:32,552 literally working around the clock, 1446 01:07:32,585 --> 01:07:34,754 sleeping two hours, three hours. 1447 01:07:34,788 --> 01:07:36,056 - How do you keep going? 1448 01:07:36,056 --> 01:07:40,093 - I was young back then. 1449 01:07:40,126 --> 01:07:42,328 - So much they didn't know. 1450 01:07:42,362 --> 01:07:43,596 Would he kill again? 1451 01:07:43,630 --> 01:07:46,700 Was this a vendetta against people who'd upset him? 1452 01:07:46,733 --> 01:07:48,468 Was he targeting gay men? 1453 01:07:48,501 --> 01:07:52,072 Was Versace, the most prominent gay man in town, 1454 01:07:52,072 --> 01:07:54,207 one of a list? 1455 01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:57,944 The Versace family wanted no part of finding out. 1456 01:07:57,977 --> 01:08:01,314 - Versace's family obviously was devastated. 1457 01:08:01,348 --> 01:08:02,382 How could they not be? 1458 01:08:02,415 --> 01:08:05,018 However, they wanted 1459 01:08:05,051 --> 01:08:08,421 to get him out of there. 1460 01:08:08,455 --> 01:08:10,323 They got all kinds of privileged treatment. 1461 01:08:10,357 --> 01:08:12,859 All kinds of protocols were broken. 1462 01:08:12,892 --> 01:08:15,762 And he was cremated immediately, 1463 01:08:15,795 --> 01:08:19,199 and they left with his ashes, 1464 01:08:19,232 --> 01:08:22,068 and that was it. 1465 01:08:22,102 --> 01:08:25,038 - The family skipped the Miami Beach memorial service, 1466 01:08:25,038 --> 01:08:27,841 which investigators attended, hoping, perhaps, 1467 01:08:27,874 --> 01:08:31,044 Cunanan would show up to revel in his kill. 1468 01:08:31,044 --> 01:08:32,212 He didn't. 1469 01:08:32,245 --> 01:08:34,914 - The police dragnet is intense in South Florida. 1470 01:08:34,948 --> 01:08:37,717 - The 230 investigators now assigned to the case 1471 01:08:37,751 --> 01:08:41,054 chased more than 1,000 leads in the 18 square miles 1472 01:08:41,054 --> 01:08:44,591 of Miami Beach, knowing, given the intense coverage, 1473 01:08:44,624 --> 01:08:48,294 that Cunanan had to be watching their every move. 1474 01:08:48,328 --> 01:08:51,231 - That's why we had to use runners, and cell phones, 1475 01:08:51,264 --> 01:08:53,400 and landlines instead of our radios. 1476 01:08:53,433 --> 01:08:55,568 - In other words, you're trying to keep the media 1477 01:08:55,602 --> 01:08:56,936 from finding out because the media would be 1478 01:08:56,970 --> 01:08:58,405 telling him directly. - Correct. 1479 01:08:58,438 --> 01:09:00,407 But when you do that, 1480 01:09:00,440 --> 01:09:03,009 it's kind of a double-edged sword. 1481 01:09:03,009 --> 01:09:05,612 When you don't give the media what they're looking for, 1482 01:09:05,645 --> 01:09:10,016 they kind try to go find it on their own. 1483 01:09:10,016 --> 01:09:12,052 - That's exactly what Minneapolis reporter 1484 01:09:12,085 --> 01:09:13,853 Chris Graves did. 1485 01:09:13,887 --> 01:09:15,555 She followed the Cunanan trail, 1486 01:09:15,588 --> 01:09:18,024 first to Chicago, then Miami. 1487 01:09:18,024 --> 01:09:20,260 And here discovered a missed clue. 1488 01:09:20,293 --> 01:09:22,829 - So I'm in South Beach 1489 01:09:22,862 --> 01:09:25,498 and there was a strip mall in the near vicinity. 1490 01:09:25,532 --> 01:09:28,935 And I just start going door to door to door to door 1491 01:09:29,035 --> 01:09:31,905 to ask people if they knew Andrew Cunanan. 1492 01:09:31,938 --> 01:09:34,474 - At Cash on the Beach Pawn Shop, 1493 01:09:34,507 --> 01:09:36,543 Graves hit the jackpot. 1494 01:09:36,576 --> 01:09:39,045 - This woman came up, and said, 1495 01:09:39,045 --> 01:09:40,947 yeah, we know him. 1496 01:09:41,047 --> 01:09:43,049 I said, what? 1497 01:09:43,049 --> 01:09:44,718 What? 1498 01:09:44,751 --> 01:09:48,521 - It was the shop where Cunanan had pawned that gold coin, 1499 01:09:48,555 --> 01:09:51,191 signed his real name on the pawn slip. 1500 01:09:51,224 --> 01:09:53,493 Gave the Normandy Plaza address, 1501 01:09:53,526 --> 01:09:55,562 and provided his fingerprint. 1502 01:09:55,595 --> 01:09:58,264 - The guy doesn't look like a serial killer. 1503 01:09:58,298 --> 01:10:01,167 - And remember, as required by law, 1504 01:10:01,201 --> 01:10:04,037 the pawn shop sent police the transaction. 1505 01:10:04,070 --> 01:10:07,440 They got it five days before the murder. 1506 01:10:07,474 --> 01:10:11,044 - Lo and behold, the South Beach Police had 1507 01:10:11,077 --> 01:10:14,047 a copy of that pawn slip days before 1508 01:10:14,080 --> 01:10:15,882 Gianni Versace was dead. 1509 01:10:15,915 --> 01:10:19,019 - So could they have prevented the murder? 1510 01:10:19,052 --> 01:10:22,522 - Up in Chicago, Paul Beitler read Graves' story. 1511 01:10:22,555 --> 01:10:24,657 And do you remember finding out about 1512 01:10:24,691 --> 01:10:26,726 this coin being found? 1513 01:10:26,760 --> 01:10:27,961 - Oh, I couldn't believe it. 1514 01:10:27,994 --> 01:10:31,031 I knew immediately what those gold coins were. 1515 01:10:31,064 --> 01:10:32,966 In fact, they were probably the coins that I had 1516 01:10:32,999 --> 01:10:35,702 actually handed to Lee Miglin. 1517 01:10:35,735 --> 01:10:39,339 - So that coin tied Cunanan to Lee Miglin's murder 1518 01:10:39,372 --> 01:10:43,009 and revealed where he was hiding in Miami Beach, 1519 01:10:43,043 --> 01:10:46,046 that is if police had been looking. 1520 01:10:46,079 --> 01:10:48,014 But before the murder, they weren't 1521 01:10:48,048 --> 01:10:52,252 even though Cunanan was on the FBI's Most Wanted list. 1522 01:10:52,285 --> 01:10:54,721 - Took a beating over the pawn shop, rightfully so. 1523 01:10:54,754 --> 01:10:57,691 - Because the one officer whose job was 1524 01:10:57,724 --> 01:11:00,860 to check pawn slips didn't get to it. 1525 01:11:00,894 --> 01:11:03,596 He was assigned elsewhere that week. 1526 01:11:03,630 --> 01:11:05,932 - So he was sitting on his desk for it almost a week. 1527 01:11:05,965 --> 01:11:07,834 - What did that detective feel like when he realized 1528 01:11:07,867 --> 01:11:09,202 what had happened? 1529 01:11:09,235 --> 01:11:11,438 - He felt terrible, but it's that old Murphy's law again 1530 01:11:11,471 --> 01:11:15,675 and a very antiquated system that we had back then. 1531 01:11:15,709 --> 01:11:18,912 - But the pawn shop discovery did point detective Navarro 1532 01:11:18,945 --> 01:11:22,349 to that rundown hotel, the Normandy Plaza. 1533 01:11:22,382 --> 01:11:23,350 - So let's talk to everybody. 1534 01:11:23,383 --> 01:11:25,118 Let's interview all the employees, 1535 01:11:25,151 --> 01:11:26,820 show pictures of Andrew. 1536 01:11:26,853 --> 01:11:28,355 Nobody's ever seen this guy. 1537 01:11:28,388 --> 01:11:32,392 - And then the next day, a memory suddenly improved. 1538 01:11:32,425 --> 01:11:35,929 - Which does he most closely resemble? 1539 01:11:35,962 --> 01:11:38,865 - When the manager of the hotel 1540 01:11:38,898 --> 01:11:42,802 all of a sudden remembered Andrew Cunanan 1541 01:11:42,836 --> 01:11:46,006 and remembered that he's under this name 1542 01:11:46,106 --> 01:11:49,676 Kurt DeMars from Paris, France. 1543 01:11:49,709 --> 01:11:51,978 - By then, Cunanan was long gone, 1544 01:11:52,012 --> 01:11:53,513 skipped out on his rent. 1545 01:11:53,546 --> 01:11:56,282 Another miss in a growing list of misses 1546 01:11:56,316 --> 01:11:58,718 across four states. 1547 01:11:58,752 --> 01:12:02,055 What was that like knowing that you can't see him? 1548 01:12:02,055 --> 01:12:03,623 He's not around. He's gone now but-- 1549 01:12:03,656 --> 01:12:05,058 - Very frustrating. 1550 01:12:05,091 --> 01:12:08,895 It seemed like we were always one step behind them. 1551 01:12:08,928 --> 01:12:11,131 - Then it got worse. 1552 01:12:11,164 --> 01:12:13,667 The FBI pulled all their special agents out, 1553 01:12:13,700 --> 01:12:15,201 except for four. - Why? 1554 01:12:15,235 --> 01:12:18,571 - The Director felt that Cunanan wasn't on Miami Beach. 1555 01:12:18,605 --> 01:12:20,340 He had slipped away. 1556 01:12:20,373 --> 01:12:22,676 At the time, I was pissed because we had 1557 01:12:22,709 --> 01:12:26,413 leads still coming in, hundreds. 1558 01:12:26,446 --> 01:12:28,782 - Then eight days into the search, 1559 01:12:28,815 --> 01:12:31,985 just when it seemed police would never catch a break. 1560 01:12:32,085 --> 01:12:36,756 - So we get a call on the radio, from dispatch. 1561 01:12:36,790 --> 01:12:38,958 - We got a blue houseboat. 1562 01:12:38,992 --> 01:12:41,094 - Shots fired at this houseboat. 1563 01:12:41,094 --> 01:12:43,129 And I thought to myself, 1564 01:12:43,163 --> 01:12:46,566 what a perfect place to hide. 1565 01:12:46,599 --> 01:12:47,901 - Coming up... 1566 01:12:47,934 --> 01:12:49,202 - Uniformed patrol had 1567 01:12:49,235 --> 01:12:51,438 a perimeter set around the houseboat. 1568 01:12:51,471 --> 01:12:54,407 We called marine patrol to cover the water perimeter. 1569 01:12:54,441 --> 01:12:56,943 Then we called the SWAT team in. 1570 01:12:56,976 --> 01:12:59,346 - Closing in on a killer. 1571 01:12:59,379 --> 01:13:00,246 - Come out now. 1572 01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:01,414 Come on. Let's go. 1573 01:13:01,448 --> 01:13:03,717 - He was like a trapped rat. 1574 01:13:03,750 --> 01:13:06,386 - When Dateline-- Secrets Uncovered continues. 1575 01:13:10,156 --> 01:13:13,093 ** 1576 01:13:16,296 --> 01:13:19,132 - Eight days after the murder of Gianni Versace, 1577 01:13:19,165 --> 01:13:22,235 leads were still coming in, hundreds every day. 1578 01:13:22,268 --> 01:13:25,505 And then July 23, late afternoon. 1579 01:13:28,341 --> 01:13:31,244 - The call came from a pier in Miami Beach. 1580 01:13:31,277 --> 01:13:34,447 A caretaker had been checking on a powder blue houseboat. 1581 01:13:34,481 --> 01:13:37,183 The owner was away, but it looked like 1582 01:13:37,217 --> 01:13:39,686 someone was inside 1583 01:13:39,719 --> 01:13:42,322 and something was wrong. 1584 01:13:42,355 --> 01:13:43,757 - You saw a light on? 1585 01:13:43,790 --> 01:13:45,258 - Yeah, all the lights was on. 1586 01:13:45,291 --> 01:13:46,893 - He approached the boarding door, 1587 01:13:46,926 --> 01:13:49,529 and then a gunshot. 1588 01:13:49,562 --> 01:13:51,564 - I heard a shot. 1589 01:13:51,598 --> 01:13:54,567 - In an instant, hundreds of Miami Beach Police, 1590 01:13:54,601 --> 01:13:56,903 the FBI, out-of-town investigators, 1591 01:13:56,936 --> 01:13:58,571 an army of reporters 1592 01:13:58,605 --> 01:14:01,341 were converging on the pier. 1593 01:14:01,374 --> 01:14:02,609 It's gone now. 1594 01:14:02,642 --> 01:14:05,178 The houseboat was knocked down years ago. 1595 01:14:05,211 --> 01:14:08,515 Only a few rotting posts and a square of concrete 1596 01:14:08,548 --> 01:14:10,917 marked the spot. 1597 01:14:10,950 --> 01:14:14,054 But that day, that moment. 1598 01:14:14,054 --> 01:14:16,322 - What color is it? - It's the blue one. 1599 01:14:16,356 --> 01:14:19,359 - So when we first got here, uniformed patrol had 1600 01:14:19,392 --> 01:14:21,428 a perimeter set around the houseboat. 1601 01:14:21,461 --> 01:14:24,597 We called marine patrol to cover the water perimeter, 1602 01:14:24,631 --> 01:14:27,767 to make sure whoever was in there wouldn't get away. 1603 01:14:27,801 --> 01:14:29,469 Then we called the SWAT team in. 1604 01:14:29,502 --> 01:14:31,071 - Where are the cameras of the world? 1605 01:14:31,071 --> 01:14:32,906 - We took over that parking lot right next 1606 01:14:32,939 --> 01:14:34,074 to the fire station. 1607 01:14:34,107 --> 01:14:37,077 So that's where we set up the media staging area. 1608 01:14:37,077 --> 01:14:39,479 So all the filming was being done from across the street. 1609 01:14:39,512 --> 01:14:40,747 It was too dangerous to be here. 1610 01:14:40,780 --> 01:14:42,182 - Sure, there were a few over there 1611 01:14:42,215 --> 01:14:43,416 on the other side of the water. 1612 01:14:43,450 --> 01:14:44,784 - There were some on the other side of the water 1613 01:14:44,818 --> 01:14:46,519 that snuck in. 1614 01:14:46,553 --> 01:14:47,520 - Snuck in? What do you mean snuck in? 1615 01:14:47,554 --> 01:14:48,788 - Snuck in, yeah-- 1616 01:14:48,822 --> 01:14:51,124 - We actually knew what he meant. 1617 01:14:51,157 --> 01:14:53,259 Some of us from NBC, including me, 1618 01:14:53,293 --> 01:14:55,228 found a perch across the waterway 1619 01:14:55,261 --> 01:14:57,464 where we got a direct view of the houseboat. 1620 01:14:57,497 --> 01:15:01,167 And when police cordoned off the scene around the houseboat, 1621 01:15:01,201 --> 01:15:03,703 NBC correspondent Kerry Sanders found 1622 01:15:03,737 --> 01:15:05,705 another way to get closer. 1623 01:15:05,739 --> 01:15:06,706 - There's a roadblock. 1624 01:15:06,740 --> 01:15:08,141 Police weren't letting anybody in. 1625 01:15:08,174 --> 01:15:10,043 And I looked over to my left, and I saw 1626 01:15:10,076 --> 01:15:12,846 a construction worker, who was on his bicycle, 1627 01:15:12,879 --> 01:15:15,215 and he was riding home on the sidewalk. 1628 01:15:15,248 --> 01:15:17,283 And I ran over to him, and I go, 1629 01:15:17,317 --> 01:15:19,319 can you give me a ride on your handlebars? 1630 01:15:19,352 --> 01:15:21,521 And I hopped up on his handlebars, 1631 01:15:21,554 --> 01:15:23,690 gave him $20, and he rode me down 1632 01:15:23,723 --> 01:15:26,226 on the bicycle, about four or five blocks 1633 01:15:26,259 --> 01:15:29,329 to get to where this was all going on. 1634 01:15:29,362 --> 01:15:32,065 - A siege atmosphere settled in. 1635 01:15:32,065 --> 01:15:33,833 - How did you try to reach him, to get word to him? 1636 01:15:33,867 --> 01:15:36,636 - So, we had hostage negotiators on scene, 1637 01:15:36,670 --> 01:15:39,172 from the FBI and from the local Sheriff's Office. 1638 01:15:39,205 --> 01:15:42,242 And they attempted to make contact 1639 01:15:42,275 --> 01:15:45,812 via the landline telephone, but he didn't answer it. 1640 01:15:45,845 --> 01:15:50,617 So we tried a bullhorn, and no response. 1641 01:15:50,650 --> 01:15:52,085 - Everybody waited. 1642 01:15:52,118 --> 01:15:53,653 The world, watching. 1643 01:15:53,687 --> 01:15:56,289 At one point, some officers moved in quietly, 1644 01:15:56,322 --> 01:15:59,159 busted a window, and tossed a listening device 1645 01:15:59,192 --> 01:16:00,560 into the houseboat. 1646 01:16:00,593 --> 01:16:02,762 - We were getting absolutely nothing 1647 01:16:02,796 --> 01:16:05,598 from inside the houseboat so we were pretty confident. 1648 01:16:05,632 --> 01:16:08,234 He was either gone or he was dead. 1649 01:16:08,268 --> 01:16:10,070 - Gone? How would he be gone? 1650 01:16:10,103 --> 01:16:14,174 He slipped away from us before, more than once. 1651 01:16:14,207 --> 01:16:17,243 - They gave it 30 minutes, and then it seemed clear 1652 01:16:17,277 --> 01:16:19,312 that if someone was inside that boat, 1653 01:16:19,346 --> 01:16:23,683 they were not going to come out. 1654 01:16:23,717 --> 01:16:26,052 There was a SWAT team standing by, 1655 01:16:26,086 --> 01:16:29,622 armed with tear gas. 1656 01:16:29,656 --> 01:16:31,825 - Come out now. Come on. Let's go. 1657 01:16:31,858 --> 01:16:34,294 - When they went in, what was it like? 1658 01:16:34,327 --> 01:16:35,862 - They cleared the houseboat. 1659 01:16:35,895 --> 01:16:37,831 And when they went to the second floor bedroom, 1660 01:16:37,864 --> 01:16:40,900 they discovered a white male with a self-inflicted 1661 01:16:40,934 --> 01:16:42,569 gunshot wound. 1662 01:16:42,602 --> 01:16:43,803 - Was it him? 1663 01:16:43,837 --> 01:16:45,705 Maybe, maybe not. 1664 01:16:45,739 --> 01:16:48,908 Detective Navarro had fans brought in to disperse 1665 01:16:48,942 --> 01:16:51,711 the tear gas, and then he and the FBI men 1666 01:16:51,745 --> 01:16:53,813 went in with a camera. 1667 01:16:53,847 --> 01:16:57,283 The space looked more like an apartment than a boat. 1668 01:16:57,317 --> 01:16:59,252 - We went upstairs without touching anything, 1669 01:16:59,285 --> 01:17:01,755 and we had booties on and gloves, 1670 01:17:01,788 --> 01:17:05,225 and went up there, and looked at him. 1671 01:17:05,258 --> 01:17:08,395 - And they knew, after staring at pictures 1672 01:17:08,428 --> 01:17:10,930 of that face for so many days, 1673 01:17:11,031 --> 01:17:14,267 it was certainly Andrew Cunanan. 1674 01:17:14,300 --> 01:17:16,736 - We were very excited that it was over. 1675 01:17:16,770 --> 01:17:18,638 We actually high fived each other. 1676 01:17:18,672 --> 01:17:22,042 We were happy that nobody else was going to die. 1677 01:17:22,042 --> 01:17:25,679 - The police camera captured Cunanan's last refuge, 1678 01:17:25,712 --> 01:17:27,914 his exit scene. 1679 01:17:27,947 --> 01:17:29,449 - What did he have in there with him? 1680 01:17:29,482 --> 01:17:30,950 - Books, and magazines, and stuff. 1681 01:17:31,051 --> 01:17:32,185 He was out of food. 1682 01:17:32,218 --> 01:17:33,753 He was out of money. 1683 01:17:33,787 --> 01:17:37,424 Actually, that houseboat gave me the sense 1684 01:17:37,457 --> 01:17:41,494 he was like a trapped rat. 1685 01:17:41,528 --> 01:17:44,731 - In the living room, a spread of glossy magazines 1686 01:17:44,764 --> 01:17:47,267 with their high fashion ads 1687 01:17:47,300 --> 01:17:50,570 and reminders of a life he could never have. 1688 01:17:50,603 --> 01:17:52,172 - There was some pecans and stuff 1689 01:17:52,205 --> 01:17:53,907 that were eaten-- like empty. 1690 01:17:53,940 --> 01:17:55,742 The whole bowl was eaten like there was 1691 01:17:55,775 --> 01:17:57,243 no food left in the house. 1692 01:17:57,277 --> 01:17:59,346 - There was a TV on the boat. 1693 01:17:59,379 --> 01:18:01,348 Police believe he'd been watching 1694 01:18:01,381 --> 01:18:03,750 and so knew, had to have, that he was 1695 01:18:03,783 --> 01:18:06,353 finally a famous man. 1696 01:18:06,386 --> 01:18:08,488 And so at that stage of desperation, 1697 01:18:08,521 --> 01:18:09,756 where he knew he couldn't go anywhere, 1698 01:18:09,789 --> 01:18:11,925 couldn't do anything, couldn't get food, couldn't-- 1699 01:18:12,025 --> 01:18:13,693 - I think that's why he killed himself. 1700 01:18:13,727 --> 01:18:17,630 I think what happened was, in Cunanan's mind, 1701 01:18:17,664 --> 01:18:21,368 when he hears the caretaker walk in, 1702 01:18:21,401 --> 01:18:23,036 and say something or whatever, 1703 01:18:23,036 --> 01:18:25,038 he thought that was the police. 1704 01:18:25,038 --> 01:18:28,775 I think he kills himself then. 1705 01:18:28,808 --> 01:18:31,578 - And when he did, he took his secrets with him. 1706 01:18:31,611 --> 01:18:32,946 He left no note. 1707 01:18:33,046 --> 01:18:36,750 No explanation for why he killed Jeff Trail, 1708 01:18:36,783 --> 01:18:38,718 and David Madson, and Lee Miglin, 1709 01:18:38,752 --> 01:18:42,889 and William Reese, and Gianni Versace. 1710 01:18:42,922 --> 01:18:46,359 But now, we've learned more about Andrew Cunanan 1711 01:18:46,393 --> 01:18:49,696 and the consequences, the aftershocks 1712 01:18:49,729 --> 01:18:53,366 of his terrible acts. 1713 01:18:53,400 --> 01:18:55,068 - Coming up. 1714 01:18:55,068 --> 01:18:58,672 Looking for answers and saying goodbye. 1715 01:18:58,705 --> 01:19:01,041 - He took somebody away at the height of their career, 1716 01:19:01,074 --> 01:19:03,243 at the height of their happiness. 1717 01:19:03,276 --> 01:19:05,845 - When Dateline-- Secrets Uncovered continues. 1718 01:19:14,020 --> 01:19:15,922 - While the world's attention was focused on 1719 01:19:16,022 --> 01:19:19,025 a fugitive killer, it shifted momentarily 1720 01:19:19,025 --> 01:19:22,662 to this exquisite, old cathedral in Milan. 1721 01:19:22,696 --> 01:19:25,765 If Gianni Versace brought celebrity to the runway, 1722 01:19:25,799 --> 01:19:29,269 celebrities paid their respects in kind. 1723 01:19:29,302 --> 01:19:30,837 - The world is coming. Everyone-- 1724 01:19:30,870 --> 01:19:33,440 - It's state funeral. - It is a state funeral. 1725 01:19:33,473 --> 01:19:36,376 - Versace's Memorial mass in Milan. 1726 01:19:36,409 --> 01:19:38,878 - He took somebody away at the height of their career, 1727 01:19:38,912 --> 01:19:40,847 at the height of their happiness. 1728 01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:44,084 Devastated a family, a close family. 1729 01:19:44,117 --> 01:19:46,920 - We watched on television as Donatella and Santo 1730 01:19:46,953 --> 01:19:48,588 made their entrance. 1731 01:19:48,621 --> 01:19:52,058 Fashion stars like Giorgio Armani, Karl Lagerfeld, 1732 01:19:52,092 --> 01:19:54,494 and Naomi Campbell were there. 1733 01:19:54,527 --> 01:19:57,697 And the greatest star of them all, Princess Diana, 1734 01:19:57,731 --> 01:20:00,066 the most famous woman of her time, 1735 01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:03,169 sitting with a tearful Elton John. 1736 01:20:03,203 --> 01:20:06,006 Even then, people couldn't help but wonder 1737 01:20:06,039 --> 01:20:08,541 what would happen to the House of Versace. 1738 01:20:08,575 --> 01:20:11,344 Didn't know then that another Versace was willing 1739 01:20:11,378 --> 01:20:12,846 to carry the torch. 1740 01:20:12,879 --> 01:20:16,750 Like so many others, model Beverly Johnson had her doubts. 1741 01:20:16,783 --> 01:20:19,486 - We thought that was it, that it was over. 1742 01:20:19,519 --> 01:20:23,823 And when Donatella was going to take over, 1743 01:20:23,857 --> 01:20:26,626 we were like, oh, wow. 1744 01:20:26,659 --> 01:20:27,994 - Good luck with that. 1745 01:20:28,028 --> 01:20:32,766 - And then we realized how uber talented she was. 1746 01:20:32,799 --> 01:20:37,537 It was a testament of the genius that family had. 1747 01:20:37,570 --> 01:20:40,807 And just when you thought it couldn't get any better 1748 01:20:40,840 --> 01:20:43,677 with Gianni Versace and all was lost, 1749 01:20:43,710 --> 01:20:47,213 that she just picked up the baton and just-- 1750 01:20:47,247 --> 01:20:50,083 and that's rare, that a brand can continue. 1751 01:20:50,116 --> 01:20:53,953 I think that's a real testament to Gianni Versace. 1752 01:20:53,987 --> 01:20:57,557 - In Miami, Moscow, New York, Tokyo, 1753 01:20:57,590 --> 01:21:00,260 or countless cities in between, 1754 01:21:00,293 --> 01:21:02,929 our reminders of the boy from southern Italy 1755 01:21:02,962 --> 01:21:05,065 who built a fashion empire. 1756 01:21:05,098 --> 01:21:08,468 When we last spoke, Antonio D'Amico was carrying on 1757 01:21:08,501 --> 01:21:11,771 with his own designs, working on a new sportswear line. 1758 01:21:11,805 --> 01:21:14,374 His first collection focused on golf wear. 1759 01:21:14,407 --> 01:21:16,810 He was living a quiet life outside of Milan, 1760 01:21:16,843 --> 01:21:19,846 surrounded by reminders of the man he loved. 1761 01:21:19,879 --> 01:21:22,515 - Do you find yourself thinking about that? 1762 01:21:22,549 --> 01:21:24,084 What you saw on the steps that day, 1763 01:21:24,084 --> 01:21:26,920 does it come back to you often? 1764 01:21:26,953 --> 01:21:31,758 - It was a nightmare for years, 1765 01:21:31,791 --> 01:21:34,094 but... 1766 01:21:37,130 --> 01:21:40,867 it's a question of timing. 1767 01:21:40,900 --> 01:21:43,703 Time is the side that heals you, 1768 01:21:43,737 --> 01:21:47,273 but it doesn't go away. 1769 01:21:47,307 --> 01:21:49,309 - The other men who lost their lives 1770 01:21:49,342 --> 01:21:50,744 are equally mourned. 1771 01:21:50,777 --> 01:21:53,747 The people who love Jeff Trail and David Madson 1772 01:21:53,780 --> 01:21:55,982 understand that these two men simply befriended 1773 01:21:56,016 --> 01:21:57,384 the wrong guy. 1774 01:21:57,417 --> 01:21:59,819 And Lee Miglin, friends and family 1775 01:21:59,853 --> 01:22:02,655 will not fully recover, ever. 1776 01:22:02,689 --> 01:22:05,792 And even now, his death remains a mystery. 1777 01:22:05,825 --> 01:22:07,794 Was it a random killing 1778 01:22:07,827 --> 01:22:11,931 or was there some connection that made Miglin a target? 1779 01:22:11,965 --> 01:22:15,068 It's an unfinished chapter for Paul Beitler. 1780 01:22:15,068 --> 01:22:18,071 - And the only two people who can solve that riddle 1781 01:22:18,071 --> 01:22:19,305 aren't on the Earth anymore. 1782 01:22:19,339 --> 01:22:20,640 - Are you done? 1783 01:22:20,674 --> 01:22:23,276 I mean, if you found a string to pull, 1784 01:22:23,309 --> 01:22:25,945 would you pull it? 1785 01:22:25,979 --> 01:22:28,281 - I'd pull it. 1786 01:22:28,314 --> 01:22:30,817 I haven't given up. 1787 01:22:30,850 --> 01:22:31,985 And if there's somebody out there 1788 01:22:32,085 --> 01:22:35,121 that can solve this problem and this riddle 1789 01:22:35,155 --> 01:22:37,757 and has more information, 1790 01:22:37,791 --> 01:22:39,225 love to hear it. 1791 01:22:39,259 --> 01:22:41,461 - Now, you live with it. - Yeah. 1792 01:22:41,494 --> 01:22:44,497 - What does he mean to you in memory? 1793 01:22:44,531 --> 01:22:47,300 - Only good. 1794 01:22:47,334 --> 01:22:48,702 Only good. 1795 01:22:48,735 --> 01:22:53,273 He was a giant of a human being. 1796 01:22:53,306 --> 01:22:55,241 - George Navarro, who now runs 1797 01:22:55,275 --> 01:22:57,310 his own security consulting business, 1798 01:22:57,344 --> 01:23:00,880 is also frustrated that Cunanan took the easy way out. 1799 01:23:00,914 --> 01:23:04,250 - So was it an upsetting thing to hear? 1800 01:23:04,284 --> 01:23:07,053 - Upsetting because I had a lot of questions for him. 1801 01:23:07,053 --> 01:23:09,723 There's a lot of things that were left unanswered 1802 01:23:09,756 --> 01:23:13,426 that I'd like to know the answer to. 1803 01:23:13,460 --> 01:23:15,261 Why he did it? 1804 01:23:15,295 --> 01:23:17,330 What the connection was with the victims 1805 01:23:17,364 --> 01:23:19,299 and that sort of thing? 1806 01:23:19,332 --> 01:23:22,369 - The ordeal, five murders, three months, 1807 01:23:22,402 --> 01:23:25,772 inexplicable violence did teach law enforcement 1808 01:23:25,805 --> 01:23:27,207 a tough lesson. 1809 01:23:27,240 --> 01:23:29,709 - One of the strong underlying themes 1810 01:23:29,743 --> 01:23:32,979 of this whole story is just really 1811 01:23:33,079 --> 01:23:34,514 the lack of participation, 1812 01:23:34,547 --> 01:23:37,350 the lack of collaboration, and cooperation 1813 01:23:37,384 --> 01:23:40,086 among law enforcement authorities 1814 01:23:40,086 --> 01:23:44,090 in so many different areas of the country. 1815 01:23:44,090 --> 01:23:46,459 Communication is so much better now. 1816 01:23:46,493 --> 01:23:48,228 Things do change. - Right here-- 1817 01:23:48,261 --> 01:23:51,097 - But one thing hasn't, the world's fixation 1818 01:23:51,097 --> 01:23:54,234 with the famous and the puzzle, 1819 01:23:54,267 --> 01:23:57,404 what drove a guy like Andrew Cunanan? 1820 01:23:57,437 --> 01:24:00,774 What made him a killer? 1821 01:24:00,807 --> 01:24:03,943 Stacy Lopez doesn't have any answers. 1822 01:24:04,044 --> 01:24:05,945 To this day, she thinks about her friend Andrew 1823 01:24:06,046 --> 01:24:09,282 and feels only confusion and pain. 1824 01:24:09,315 --> 01:24:11,885 - And it's not something that I talk about often. 1825 01:24:11,918 --> 01:24:14,587 I mean, who do you talk to about something like this? 1826 01:24:14,621 --> 01:24:17,290 Yes, I loved a serial killer. 1827 01:24:17,323 --> 01:24:21,261 I mean, it just-- it sounds so awful, 1828 01:24:21,294 --> 01:24:23,930 but he was a big part of my adolescence 1829 01:24:23,963 --> 01:24:25,532 and he was my friend. 1830 01:24:25,565 --> 01:24:28,568 - Did you find yourself mourning his passing or-- 1831 01:24:28,601 --> 01:24:33,807 - I found myself mourning the friend that I knew, 1832 01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:37,544 and I had a very hard time 1833 01:24:37,577 --> 01:24:40,880 accepting what he had done. 1834 01:24:40,914 --> 01:24:42,549 - Have you spent any time thinking about 1835 01:24:42,582 --> 01:24:43,583 what he was about or-- 1836 01:24:43,616 --> 01:24:45,785 - No, I don't care. I'll be honest. 1837 01:24:45,819 --> 01:24:47,454 I'm going to cut you short on that one. 1838 01:24:47,487 --> 01:24:48,955 - That's okay. - I don't care. 1839 01:24:48,988 --> 01:24:53,593 And to put it this way, he's a footnote in history, 1840 01:24:53,626 --> 01:24:56,229 just one more person with a gun, 1841 01:24:56,262 --> 01:24:59,466 so screw you. 1842 01:24:59,499 --> 01:25:00,900 You get nothing. 1843 01:25:00,934 --> 01:25:04,237 Hal Rubenstein would rather talk about his friend Gianni, 1844 01:25:04,270 --> 01:25:06,940 what that man taught him about life. 1845 01:25:07,040 --> 01:25:09,309 - If you're going to still be here, 1846 01:25:09,342 --> 01:25:10,944 don't sit there with one foot in the back door 1847 01:25:11,044 --> 01:25:13,146 waiting to stop. 1848 01:25:13,179 --> 01:25:16,583 No, no, no, you grab life as long as you get the chance. 1849 01:25:16,616 --> 01:25:19,386 And you grab it to yourself and you make the most out of it. 1850 01:25:19,419 --> 01:25:22,655 ** 1851 01:25:22,689 --> 01:25:26,292 - That's all for this edition of Dateline-- Secrets Uncovered. 1852 01:25:26,326 --> 01:25:27,494 I'm Kate Snow. 1853 01:25:27,527 --> 01:25:28,928 Thank you for watching.