Word: cunanans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...risky, and not only for Matt Damon's career. As a man capable of murder on a bad day (don't worry, I'm not really giving anything away), a gay Thomas Ripley might become some terrible variation on the mythic self-hating homosexual serial killed--a queasy Andrew Cunanan done up in old-fashioned clothes. But the change actually produces all kinds of new tensions that deepen the emotional weight of the story. Tom's confused sexuality is just another expression of his place outside the privileged world of golden boys...
...Andrew Cunanan was 27 in 1997 when he launched himself on a cross-country spree, killing five men, among them the designer Gianni Versace. This unleashed torrents of media coverage, much of it by trash-TV shows and their supermarket sisters. Now, as if that were not enough to sate prurient tastes, two books revisit the events. Orth, a writer for Vanity Fair, unloads her notebooks indiscriminately, providing an overdetailed, pedestrian chronicle. Cunanan, a gregarious, wickedly clever mythomaniac and petty thief, disported himself in the kinky gay netherworld of alcohol, drugs, prostitution and sadomasochism. In a jealous rage he murdered...
...Miami the mansion where Gianni Versace was shot in the head by hustler and spree killer Andrew Cunanan has become an ad hoc tourist attraction, as has the houseboat where Cunanan put a bullet into his own skull after setting off one of the most intensive manhunts in recent history. A book published this fall, Death at Every Stop: The True Story of Andrew Cunanan--The Man Who Murdered Designer Gianni Versace, by Wensley Clarkson (author of Slave Girls), added a few new details to the once inescapable but now nearly forgotten Cunanan legend: he reportedly fathered a child...
Fernando Carreira, the caretaker who tipped off police to Cunanan's presence on the houseboat, ultimately received $55,000 in reward money, although the highly publicized $10,000 promised by New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has yet to materialize (trying to wriggle out on a technicality, the city claims Carreira called the wrong tip line; a lawsuit may be in the works). Carreira used most of his windfall to pay off debts. His only splurge was on a horse named Princess, which he bought for his 15-year-old son. "It keeps him occupied," Carreira told the Miami Herald...
...suicide of Andrew Cunanan, the boyish serial killer who shot designer Gianni Versace to death on a Florida street; the conviction and sentencing to death of Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber; the conviction of the World Trade Center terrorist bombers; and the bringing to trial of alleged Unabomber Ted Kaczynski--all of whom, when they were on the loose, caused minipanics--reduced the nation's sleepless nights...