The Murder of Gianni Versace & Andrew Cunanan's Manhunt | NBC 6 

Imagine that Cunanan being the narcissist that he was wanted to be liked by everyone, but he ended up being reviled, hated and with everyone celebrating his death! What an irony!

R.I.P. Gianni Versace

Based on thorough investigations/interviews and on Orth's Vulgar Favors book, before the tragedy, Andrew Cunanan truly was well-liked and loved by most people around him. He was famous in school and in the gay community because he was fun to be with, handsome, good-looking, charismatic, well-educated, very articulate, well-read, well-dressed, reliable, super generous, clever, he was highly intelligent (near Genius IQ level of 147), flamboyant, openly gay, and with a big personality, according to his peers and former classmates. He knew a lot people in the gay community, that's how sociable he was. For them, he was the life and soul of the party. Sadly, his life was destroyed because of his increased drug abuse. His mental health issue (Narcissism, Antisocial Personality/Borderline Personality Disorder) "worsened" because of drugs. He had been "habitually" taking prohibited drugs (Crystal Meth, Cocaine, Ecstacy, etc...) since 1993. He was taking both stimulant and depressant. The said drug abuse affected his subsequent behavior and his way of thinking. And those who knew Andrew well were heartbroken because of the tragedy. They just couldn't believe that Andrew could be capable of killing others. From loving Andrew as their reliable friend... to them being underground/in hiding because of fear for their life. They were so scared that Andrew might come back to kill them, too, for no reason. They got really scared when they've heard that Andrew murdered David, the love of his life. There are lots of people who suffer from mental health disorder and/or who always want to be famous (just like Andrew), but they certainly do NOT kill people. There are lots of narcissists, sociopaths and pathological liars out there, but they do NOT kill people. They do not kill people. It was the habitual and increased drug abuse that turned Andrew Cunanan into a monster. Aside from being a drug dealer, he also was a DRUG ADDICT who was not able to undergo proper drug rehabilitation nor was able to receive enough support from his family/friends particularly during the time when he was depressed and when he said that he was "unhappy." While Andrew Cunanan was hiding in Miami for two months, he was smoking, drinking alcoholic beverages and taking prohibited drugs almost everyday. Drug abuse really was one of the biggest culprits. ©️ VULGAR FAVORS: Few knew that Andrew had started using morphine and Demerol in order to go to sleep... Late at night, Andrew’s roommate, Erik Greenman, would see Andrew injecting himself with his drug of choice, Crystal Meth. In the morning, “he’d be coming down and feeling awful,” remembers Erik. There was speculation that Andrew was also using heroin... Before Viagra, there was Crystal. Crystal Meth doesn’t necessarily make you hard, but it certainly makes you easy. San Diego is the crystal-meth capital of the world. “The biggest gay thing to do is the drugs,” says Ronnie Mascarena. “Everybody in San Diego is doing it.” Andrew Cunanan was right in the middle of the drug scene. Even the most dedicated barflies in Andrew’s group went home when the clubs closed at 2 A.M. But not Andrew. The predawn hours were when the really wild parties began, and anyone who stayed up night after night, as Andrew did, immersing himself in the after-hours places, was almost certainly “tweaking.” Tweakers are users and abusers of the drug Methamphetamine-“Crystal Meth” to the gay world, “Crank” to the straight. Yet despite Andrew’s typical drug behavior-his habitual nocturnal lifestyle, his volubility, his brash self-confidence in public, all of which are hallmarks of the effect of crystal-no one ever thought of him as a tweaker. But evidence now points to another of Andrew’s closely held secrets, one that many of his friends either did not suspect or chose to suppress or ignore: Andrew was a habitual closet user and dealer of crystal meth. It is a rough and extremely destructive drug, and it would strongly affect his future behavior. According to this dealer, Andrew began using crystal regularly in 1993, at parties during Gay Pride Week in San Diego, which takes place in the summer. That corresponds to a period when he in fact lost weight. Crystal can act like a permanent diet pill. The dealer says Andrew wanted his drug use to be a secret. “He tried to lay low with it; he was pretty closeted with it. I knew all the important people that nobody was supposed to know were using it-he was one of them who wanted it very quiet.” Vance Coukoulis: "I believed in the devil after I got involved with the gay society and crystal meth, and then I realized, evil existed in human nature and that human nature can be of good or of evil, and I really believe in evil now. Period. And I believe an evil spirit can overtake people, and I believe that’s what happened to Andrew. He changed through the use of that drug (Crystal Meth).” MIAMI, MAY-JULY 1997: "Ronnie is a 43-year-old gay Normandy Plaza resident. He saw Andrew Cunanan almost daily while the latter was hiding out in Miami Beach. Ronnie knows the street life around the hotel well. “I would always speak: ‘Hey, how are you?’ He finally came up and said, ‘Where can I get some rock [crack]?’ Cunanan regularly bought crack from Lyle, a dealer who sold him $10, $40 or $100 rocks. “He definitely liked his dope,” Lyle says. Cunanan spent several hundred dollars a week on crack, but nobody asked any questions."