The season that began with a bang went out with a whimper. After tense moments and a thrilling chase across the country with a trail of murder victims, we finally see Andrew Cunanan scared and alone on a houseboat in Miami, before he puts a gun in his mouth and pulls the trigger.
There was so much this show got right – nuances in Cunanan’s many relationships, little details during the murder scenes – yet so much was made up, especially conversations after both participants were deceased. Even though Cunanan’s transition from flamboyant school boy to murderous sociopath was clearly traced, especially in last week’s episode, there are still huge chunks missing.
A steady theme throughout the entire show has been that Versace’s murder was seen as a gay-on-gay crime, and wasn’t taken seriously by law enforcement. Lee Miglin’s widow goes so far as to ask the FBI what they’ve been doing during the two months that Cunanan was on the run. Ronnie, the junkie from Cunanan’s flop house, tells them Cunanan’s been hiding in plain sight – he wants to be found. Clearly, big things were overlooked.
Naturally, questions remain. Did Cunanan really know Lee Miglin? Was David Madson wholly innocent? Why did Cunanan target Versace? Was he just an obsessed fan, or was there more to the relationship? Cunanan’s murder spree, up to that point, included two possible ex-lovers, a close friend and an unlucky bystander with a car that Cunanan needed. Wouldn’t it make sense, then, that since most of the people killed were close to Cunanan, he was also close to Versace? Andrew’s livelihood was all about collecting sugar daddies – could Versace have been another one?
We know Antonio and Versace enjoyed an open relationship at times. We also know that Antonio was cast out of the family upon Versace’s death. Could Antonio have hidden their relationship with Cunanan to avoid the wrath of Donatella, who would surely blame him? Or did Versace have a relationship with Cunanan that he kept hidden from Antonio? Because of the sexual orientation of the murderer and his victims, there has to be more to the story that the police chose to ignore.
Andrew seemed like a mystery at first, but we finally discovered that he had a lot of friends, a misguided family who loved him and even godchildren who wanted him to come home. He was never a mystery – he lived loudly. This season took a mugshot and transformed it into a living, breathing man with feelings, hopes, dreams, failures and mistakes. He was humanized, but never exonerated. It’s too bad we’ll never know the entire story.
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