Five days later, Cunanan, who escaped in Miglin's car, continued his killing in remote Pennsville, NJ, at a cemetery, where he killed his fourth victim, caretaker William Reese for his pick-up truck. A case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. As the manhunt focused on Reese's truck, Cunanan remained in hiding in Miami Beach Finally on July 15, he chose fashion designer Versace for his fifth and final murder. Versace was gunned down in cold blood outside his Miami Beach home.

Eight days later Andrew Cunanan committed suicide with a shotgun blast to the head aboard a Miami houseboat. An autopsy showed that Cunanan had not contracted H.I.V., disproving speculation about what might have triggered his spree. No one will ever know his motives and after Versace's murder, the case was for all practical purposes closed.

The facts giving rise to the second story occurred much closer to home and involved one Carl Drega, a man from northern N.H, who killed 2 NH state troopers, a judge and a newspaper editor and wounded three other law enforcement officers before being shot to death in a fierce fire fight with police in the small town of Colebrook (not far from the Canadian border). Drega used an optically sighted AR-15 to do his horrific damage. A search of his property following the rampage chillingly revealed hundreds of pounds of booby-trapped explosives.

What made the Drega massacre intriguing involved the events leading up to the flash point. Drega had long battled with local government officials, starting with a dispute in the 70's over whether he could use tarpaper to side his house. Then in 1981, he claimed 80 feet of the riverbank along his property collapsed during a rainstorm. Drega decided to dump and pack enough dirt to repair the damage, saying this would restore his lot along the Connecticut River to its original size. But state officials accused him of trying to change the course of the river. A state conservation officer, Sergeant Eric Stohl, claimed to have spotted the project from the river while passing the Drega property on a fish-stocking operation. The state hauled Drega into court, attempting to block his tiny "project." This action was piled on top of earlier charges by the local town, some dating back more than 20 years, and starting when the town of Columbia hauled Drega into court and threatened him with liens, judgments and finally property seizure over a "zoning violation" which was comprised of his failure to finish a house covered with the aforementioned tarpaper within a certain time frame.