It seems like every week there is a new TV special about a grisly crime that occurred in the Chicago area.
The 10th anniversary of the disappearance of Stacy Peterson recently sparked an onslaught of programming about her husband, former Bolingbrook police sergeant and convicted killer Drew Peterson, who is the sole suspect in Stacy’s disappearance. “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,” which aired earlier this year, explored Andrew Cunanan’s 1997 cross-country killing spree that included a stop in Chicago.
[…] Over at FX, a January episode of “The Assassination of Gianni Versace” imagined how Cunanan killed Chicago real estate tycoon Lee Miglin at his Gold Coast home weeks before killing Versace in July 1997.
Mike Farrell, who played Miglin, and Darren Criss, who played Cunanan, filmed last year outside a Lincoln Park house that doubled as the Miglin home. Brad Simpson, an executive producer, said the scenes of Cunanan and Miglin inside the fictional Miglin home were actually filmed in Los Angeles.
“We re-created the Miglin’s brownstone interior by dividing a home in Los Angeles with false walls,” Simpson wrote in an email. “For the exteriors our cast and crew flew to Chicago and shot on streets that had the same look and feel of the street the Miglins lived on. The particular feel and look of brownstones in Chicago are not present in LA.”
Chicago attracts true-crime TV, but with limits
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