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Miglin was a dirty old man portrayed in show

 

VERY UGLY way

 

I didnt get that. He was just a sexually starved closetted man. Its a common circumstance....

Cunanan wasn’t an escort he just had the looks and knew what the old men wanted and could pay for his lifestyle

 

 

Versace saw thru him

 

 

It didnt seem like he was living a lavish lifestyle, unless he was in the presence of his victims, or robbed them.... Pretty much he wore the same clothes thru the whole show and carried the same dirty backpack, unless

he stole something from a victim. Never once have we seen any money exchanged.

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It is difficult to know if Ryan Murphy's admiration for Lea Michelle Jessica Lange and Darren Criss leads to strange scenes or wild plot changes.

 

http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/actor-darren-criss-tries-to-find-the-good-in-versaces-murderer

 

 

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For Darren Criss this is a break-out role from his good guy faggy singer GLEE role

== He has real acting Chops === I hope they get into a little more of Cunnanons life history/motivation -- although he was killed by Law Enforcement and never interviewed -- Still fascinating (BTW - Throwing Out the Duct Tape)

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For Darren Criss this is a break-out role from is good guy faggy singer GLEE role

== He has real acting Chops === I hope they get into a little more of Cunnanons life history/motivation -- although he was killed by Law Enforcement and never interviewed -- Still fascinating (BTW - Throwing Out the Duct Tape)

 

 

I thought they found Cunnanon Dead (self inflicted gunshot?) I have to go back and check.

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Here's a look into the life of Andrew Cunanan before he committed his most infamous crime.

 

1. Cunanan died by suicide, shooting himself with the same gun he used to kill Versace.

 

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Eight days after Versace's murder, Cunanan's body was found in a second-floor bedroom of a houseboat anchored off Collins Avenue, just three miles north of Versace's Miami Beach mansion. A caretaker, who had heard a gunshot while checking in on the seemingly unoccupied houseboat, immediately notified police. A SWAT team lobbed tear gas into the houseboat and, 12 hours later, announced they had found the body of wanted fugitive Andrew Cunanan. He had shot himself in the mouth, and did not leave behind a suicide note.

 

2. He had an IQ of 147 and was known as a prolific liar.

 

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Born in National City, California on August 31, 1969 to Modesto Cunanan—a Navy veteran turned stockbroker—and Mary Anne Schillaci, Andrew Phillip Cunanan was the youngest of four children. As Maureen Orth reports in her book Vulgar Favors, Cunanan had an IQ of 147, making him incredibly bright for his age. Cunanan attended The Bishop's School in La Jolla, California, a private school where most of the other students were wealthier than him and his family.

 

In order to fit in, Cunanan create fake identities for himself, which has led many to believe that he showed early signs of antisocial personality disorder—previously referred to as psychopathy or sociopathy. Cunanan would even change his appearance throughout school according to what he felt was most attractive at the time. Later in life, Cunanan would claim that his father was an Israeli millionaire and a Fifth Avenue aristocrat.

 

3. He memorized the encyclopedia at the age of 10.

 

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Recognized for his high IQ, Cunanan was the only one of his siblings to attend a prestigious and expensive private school school. "He was my father’s pride and joy," his brother Christopher Cunanan told interviewer Diane Sawyer in 1997, according to ABC News. "[He was] very smart. When he was about 10 years old, he had read the whole set of encyclopedias … and memorized it. And you could ask him any question. Pick up any edition and ask him any question, and he would tell you.”

 

4. His family found out he was gay when he was 19.

 

By the time Cunanan was 19, he had become a frequent nighttime patron at local gay bars and restaurants. During this time, his religious mother found out that he was gay, something his family had already known but never acknowledged. It wasn't long after this that Cunanan left home and moved to San Francisco, where he joined the gay community and started a new chapter of his life.

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5. He dropped out of college and befriended wealthy men.

 

 

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In 1987, Cunanan enrolled in the University of California San Diego and majored in American History, but he dropped out two years later, eventually moving to San Fransisco. He became a nightlife fixture in the area's gay Castro district, befriending wealthy older men, and also reportedly took an interest in creating violent pornography.

 

When news of his killing spree spread, his friends and acquaintances fled the city to avoid running into him and potentially becoming his next victim, according to an article released by the San Diego Reader in May 1997.

 

6. After being dumped by a millionaire boyfriend, he went into a downward spiral.

 

Norman Blachford, one of his wealthy lovers, broke up with Cunanan in 1996. “He was dumped by his latest sugar daddy," Donna Brant, who was the managing editor of America’s Most Wanted at the time of Versace’s murder, told ABC News. "He was losing his prowess among his peers. He had gotten sloppy and lost his looks, and the star was fading."

 

Giving up his cushy lifestyle did not bode well for Cunanan's mental health. "Andrew's self-worth was tied to the finer things in life, what [people] could do for him," criminal profiler Candice DeLong told ABC News. "Being accepted in high society and by wealthy people was what he expected. If he didn't get them, he was lost." It was during this period of self-doubt that Cunanan took the life of his first victim.

 

7. He killed four people before murdering Gianni Versace.

 

Not long before his first killing, Cunanan told his friends in San Diego that he was flying to Minnesota to "settle some business" with old friend Jeffrey Trail, according to an article released by The New York Times a few months after his first murder. While it's not clear how Cunanan and Trail knew each other, investigators at the time believe they had been romantically linked.

 

Trail, a 28-year-old propane salesman, was found beaten to death with a claw hammer and rolled up in a rug that was stuffed in the closet of architect David Madson's apartment on April 27, 1997. Madson, another one of Cunanan's lovers, would soon become his second victim.

 

"[Andrew] loved David Madson very, very much.... [but after the breakup,] David didn’t want anything to do with him," Cunanan’s former roommate Erik Greenman told ABC News in 1997. "I mean, David was Andrew’s life. He said many, many times that he would give up everything to move out to Minneapolis for David."

 

Madson's body was found with gunshot wounds to the head and back on the east shore of Rush Lake near Rush City, Minnesota on May 3, 1997.

 

 

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Lee Miglin

 

Cunanan later drove to Chicago and killed 72-year-old Lee Miglin on May 4, 1997. No connection was ever found between Cunanan and Miglin, a prominent real estate developer, and officials concluded that it was a crime of opportunity while Miglin was cleaning a garage near his home, according to The Chicago Tribune. After the murder, "Cunanan went into the family's home, ate a ham sandwich, shaved and rested," according to ABC7Chicago.

 

He then drove Miglin's car to New Jersey, where he murdered yet another victim: William Reese, a cemetery worker, who appeared to have been shot to death so Cunanan could steal his 1995 red Chevrolet pickup truck.

 

8. He was the 449th fugitive to be listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

 

Following his fourth murder, Cunanan had become one of America's most-wanted fugitives. Though law enforcement and the FBI were on the hunt for him, Cunanan made his way to Miami, eventually taking up residence for nearly two months at the Normandy Plaza hotel, about four miles north of Versace's mansion.

 

The hotel's night manager claimed Cunanan paid in cash and would often change his appearance, possibly even wearing wigs to alter the way he looked, according to Vanity Fair.

 

9. He met Versace in San Francisco years before the fashion designer's murder.

 

 

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In 1990, Versace and his future killer met at Colossus, a San Francisco nightclub, where Cunanan was pleased to find that Versace recognized him from a party at his house on Lake Como. Whether Cunanan had ever actually been to Lake Como is unknown, but he took the recognition and used it to his advantage in his social circles, dropping Versace's name frequently.

 

10. He shot Versace on the front steps of the designer's Miami mansion.

 

 

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On July 15, 1997, Gianni Versace was shot to death on the front steps of his Miami Beach mansion. While a witness and police pursued Cunanan, he managed to escape. That morning, investigators found Reese's stolen pickup truck, along with a pile of discarded clothes, a personal check, a passport, newspaper clippings of his past murders, and a pawnshop ticket. At the time, Cunanan was wanted for the murders of Trail, Madson, and Miglin.

 

11. The book Vulgar Favors outlines theories about the motive behind his killing spree.

 

 

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JJ Note: It interesting that Ryan Murphy took creative license in the Lee Miglin killing, since fact shows that Miglins killing was Random, and Andrew did NOT know him, as the film suggests.....

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I think I better understand the choices made by the director/producer/whomever in telling the story in a non-chronological manner now.

 

If they had shown Cunanan killing Trail and Madsen in the beginning, the viewer would have zero empathy or even pity for him. They were such great guys and so undeserving of their fate.

 

From datalounge

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This weeks episode continued on a psychological portrait and reveal of Cunnanon as a person consumed by jealousy and possessiveness. His love affair with a young architect David Madson ended in death for the young man when Cunnanon started to believe he was losing him to a "rival" friend Jeffrey Trail..... This killing was 1 week prior to last week killing of the older Lee Miglin. Cunnanon also killed the rival friend Jeffrey.

 

I am very glad they are not really making this all about the Versace murder, although that was the highest profile one. I enjoy the insight into Cunnanon and the workings of his mind, albeit disturbing and scary, eventhough producers has taken some creative license in the telling of the story. .

 

This show continues to keep me hooked.

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I was shocked by the gruesome hammer scene and the murder of Jeff Trail. The killing of David Madson took place on Rush Lake north of Minneapolis--the scene was poorly depicted in this episode. Minnesota lakes are all tree lined often right up to the water. More than likely this was a California lake without a tree or anything green within miles. It's almost hard to believe that Andrew could be so crazy. I wonder how many people had close calls with him (clients or friends)or escaped with their lives and didn't know it!

 

Yikes,

 

Kipp

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I admit that I was initially drawn to this series by Ricky Martin. Then, I got interested in the story. Now, I can't believe the frequency and length of commercials! Even though I dvr it & fast-forward the commercials, they are excessive. Netflix, streaming, etc. have spoiled us. I don't doubt that fx needs the $ to cover such high quality production costs, but I think I'll wait out the rest of series and see it on a commercial free forum. Anyone agree/disagree?

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I admit that I was initially drawn to this series by Ricky Martin. Then, I got interested in the story. Now, I can't believe the frequency and length of commercials! Even though I dvr it & fast-forward the commercials, they are excessive. Netflix, streaming, etc. have spoiled us. I don't doubt that fx needs the $ to cover such high quality production costs, but I think I'll wait out the rest of series and see it on a commercial free forum. Anyone agree/disagree?

 

I agree about the commercials, but cant wait to see how the drama plays out, eventhough we know the ending... I use the commercials to pee and get a snack.

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I admit that I was initially drawn to this series by Ricky Martin. Then, I got interested in the story. Now, I can't believe the frequency and length of commercials! Even though I dvr it & fast-forward the commercials, they are excessive. Netflix, streaming, etc. have spoiled us. I don't doubt that fx needs the $ to cover such high quality production costs, but I think I'll wait out the rest of series and see it on a commercial free forum. Anyone agree/disagree?

Totally agree-have found that I also hate waiting for next episodes and gaps between seasons, so I tend to binge watch shows I like on netflix or Hulu, commercial free. That's why I havent started this one, even tho am keen to see it

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Totally agree-have found that I also hate waiting for next episodes and gaps between seasons, so I tend to binge watch shows I like on netflix or Hulu, commercial free. That's why I havent started this one, even tho am keen to see it

 

I have watched every episode (including February 14) and barely notice the commercials. Welcome break from the intense plot.

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