| Abstract: | Investigators have dismissed the previously reported HIV diagnosis links in two prominent homicide cases. Serial murderer Andrew Cunanan, who shot renowned fashion designer Gianni Versace and four other men, was thought to have killed out of rage because his own life was doomed by HIV. Tests conducted during Cunanan's autopsy revealed that he was not HIV-positive. Darnell McGee, who was HIV-positive, had unprotected sex with more than 100 women and girls and did not inform them of his HIV-status. McGee infected at least 30 women with HIV through unprotected sex. When McGee was found murdered in St. Louis, MO, police suspected that the motive was revenge for intentional HIV transmission. It was later determined that McGee was the victim of a street robbery. |
