Maureen Orth: Versace's killer might have found other outlets today

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🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Maureen Orth’s 1999 book, Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S. History, is now the backdrop of FX’s nine-part series, “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”. But while the TV show may shine the spotlight on Versace, Orth’s book dug deeper into the complex mind of Cunanan -- why he killed, how he hid in plain sight and why he targeted Versace.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
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0:08.4	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast.
0:10.7	My guest today is Maureen Orth.
0:13.0	Not only a member of the Meet the Press family, but she's an author and special correspondent
0:17.6	for Vanity Fair.
0:18.6	Her 1999 book, Vulgar Favors, which chronicle the assassination of Johnny Versace and,
0:24.4	of course, the manhunt for Versace's killer Andrew Conan, is now a nine-part television
0:29.9	series on FX.
0:32.3	The show is the second installment of FX's series, American Crime Stories, the first installment
0:38.4	aired in 2016, and focused on the OJ Simpson trial.
0:41.9	So in many ways, this is a natural second chapter of that series.
0:46.2	For those who need a quick refresher, famed fashion designer Johnny Versace was gunned
0:50.3	down in front of his mansion in Miami Beach, South Beach in 1997.
0:54.6	His killer was Andrew Conan.
0:56.4	He was a man who was on the run for other murders in Minneapolis and Chicago.
1:00.3	Conan and then took his own life about a week after shooting Versace.
1:04.2	He was a high-profile crime that drew international attention and it made it an irresistible story
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