The 20/20 True Crime Vault: Dying to be Famous: The Versace Murder

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🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In July 1997 fashion icon Gianni Versace was at the height of his fame. But his life was on a collision course with a killer who craved the life Versace led. Original Broadcast Date: 07/07/2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello to our 2020 listeners, this is David Muir.
0:03.3	You told us you wanted more 2020 stories every week, so we're bringing you the 2022 Crime
0:08.4	Vault.
0:09.4	Every week we'll take you into the 2020 archives to hear one of our most memorable stories.
0:14.1	Take a listen.
0:17.6	Coming up July 1997.
0:23.6	The murder of Gianni Versace, one of the world's most flamboyant and successful fashion designers
0:28.8	was gunned down this morning in front of his Miami Beach home and the hunt for the man
0:34.3	who killed him.
0:35.8	The murderer may have been a serial killer, one of the FBI's most one.
0:43.3	Kunanan, that summer, was America's terrorist, Kunanan, Andrew Kunanan.
0:48.3	He had people in a panic.
0:49.9	The serial killer is still out on the loose, I mean that scares me still.
0:53.3	I wouldn't say the killer walked up, shot Versace twice in the back of the head and
0:58.2	ran.
0:59.2	A fashion icon, gunned down outside his house execution style in broad daylight, it is so
1:10.4	prison.
1:12.4	The FBI says Kunanan is on a killing spree, it has involved five victims in four states.
1:18.0	Nobody knew where he was going to strike next, nobody knew what was motivating him.
1:23.3	27-year-old Andrew Philip Kunanan, now the bureau's prime suspect, question now, what's
1:28.7	driving Kunanan?
1:30.7	Dying to be famous.
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