Andrew Cunanan Analysis

Andrew Cunanan was the typical boy who had everything on his side to become a very successful individual in life. However, the life of constant parties, drinking and easy money made him a miserable man. It seems that as a young boy, his father, conditioned him to a life of insecurities and to be someone who he was not meant to be. At one point in his life he had the world at his feet and suddenly this world of luxuries and pleasures began to cease to exist. I think envy is not the main reason for his atrocities in this case, but the impotence of having had it all and losing it all of a sudden. Perhaps it was his conscience reminding him what his life could have been if he had chosen the right path; he spoke seven languages this means he had
the ability to succeed in life. I feel that many of these people, who commit a crime for the first time, awake in them a being that did not exist before. The desire to continue killing becomes an obsession, and eventually in a cowardly act they end up killing themselves therefore they don’t have to face justice.
He killed 5 people therefore the minimum he deserve it was life in prison. He was very clever and outwitted the authorities many times. He became a very evil person; he used cruel procedures to kill his victims. I do not share the idea that in most cases, people who commit these crimes are declared mentally unstable. It seems that we are agreeing with what they have done, because we see them as a victim of their mental instability. Cunanan had the ability to perpetrate his crimes very passively; after running over with a car a dead body, he slept, ate and stole from his victim’s home. Anyhow, this individual was a serious murderer well aware of what he was doing; therefore there is no justifying on his mental conditions.