American serial killer Andrew Cunanan was BOTD in 1969. Born and raised in National City, California, his ambitious Filipino-born father enrolled him at a prestigious private school, grooming him for wealth and success. He came out as gay in high school, and began pursuing wealthy older men he met in gay bars. When he was 19, his father abandoned the family, fleeing the country to evade arrest for embezzlement. After violently attacking his mother, he dropped out of university and moved to San Francisco, living off drug dealing and gifts from wealthy older men, and making violent porn videos of his sexual liaisons. According to friends and acquaintances, he developed a dependency on alcohol and prescription drugs, and was thought to have antisocial personality disorder. In 1997, he travelled to Minneapolis and stayed with his ex-boyfriend David Madson. He is believed to have taken Madson and their mutual friend Jeffrey Trail hostage, beating Trail to death with a hammer in front of Madson, then taking Madson to Rush City, where he shot him two days later. Cunanan then drove to Chicago, where he brutally murdered 72 year-old real estate Lee Miglin and stealing his car. Miglin’s family later claimed that Miglin and Cunanan were unknown to each other, which was disputed by the FBI, who theorised that they may have been lovers. Cunanan then drove to New Jersey, where he shot and killed cemetery caretaker William Reese, stealing his pick-up truck which he used to drive to Florida. Landing on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list, he avoided capture for two months. In July 1997, he shot and killed Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace outside Versace’s mansion in Miami Beach. Cunanan’s motives for the killing remain unclear. Versace’s family maintained that he was unknown to Cunanan, though Vanity Fair journalist Maureen Orth later reported that the two men had met in San Francisco in 1990. Cunanan killed himself on a houseboat and was found dead on 23 July 1997. He was 27. His story became a national tabloid sensation, inspiring a series of homophobic theories about his motives for the killings, including his panic over being diagnosed HIV positive (later proven to be incorrect). His story has been dramatised many times, notably in Ryan Murphy’s 2018 TV series The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.