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'The Assassination Of Gianni Versace' Traces Investigation Into Fashion Designer's 1997 Murder

Published January 31, 2018 at 11:20 AM CST
Private security guards stand in front of the house owned by Italian designer Gianni Versace on July 16, 1997, in Miami Beach, Fla., as a woman walking her dog stops to take a picture of the spot Versace was killed. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)
Private security guards stand in front of the house owned by Italian designer Gianni Versace on July 16, 1997, in Miami Beach, Fla., as a woman walking her dog stops to take a picture of the spot Versace was killed. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)

The fashion designer Gianni Versace was gunned down on the front steps of his home in Miami Beach, Florida, on July 15, 1997. The man who murdered him had killed four other men in the previous months. But police mishandled the investigation and failed to find him before he targeted Versace.

“The Assassination of Gianni Versace,” the latest season of “American Crime Story,” premiered on FX earlier this month, and the third episode airs Wednesday night. Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson speaks with Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson, the show’s executive producers.

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