Crime & Punishment: The V.F. Archive Collection

Smoking guns, bloody knives, stolen goods: re-visit Vanity Fair’s rich reportage on the murder of Gianni Versace, the trial of O.J. Simpson, the motivations of Hollywood’s most powerful madam, and more.

Vanity Fair
The Killer’s Trail
Vanity Fair - By Maureen Orth
The shocking Mob-style execution of fashion designer Gianni Versace appears to have been the crescendo of a cross-country murder spree that landed 27-year-old Andrew Cunanan on the F.B.I.’s Ten Most Wanted...
Sep 14, 1997
Vanity Fair
The Suspects Wore Louboutins
Vanity Fair
Mar 1, 2010
Vanity Fair
The Fugitive Heir
Vanity Fair - By Ned Zeman
Two decades after his lovely young wife vanished, Robert Durst, scion of a Manhattan real-estate family worth billions, faces new murder charges. A cold case is now red-hot news, with a gangland-style...
Feb 14, 2002
Vanity Fair
The Body in Room 348
Vanity Fair - Mark Bowden
Greg Fleniken traveled light and lived tidy. After so many years on the road, he would leave his rolling suitcase open on the floor of his hotel room and use it as a drawer. Dirty clothes went on the floor....
Apr 11, 2013
Vanity Fair
L.A. in the Age of O.J.
Vanity Fair - By Dominick Dunne
Barely recovered from four years of Menendez fever, Hollywood is obsessed with the O.J. Simpson circus. Every player in town has his own news and clues, sources and theories—as does the author. When I...
Feb 14, 1995
Vanity Fair
Mad About the Boys
Vanity Fair - Bryan Burrough
The crowds began gathering outside Orlando’s Church Street Station complex early on a sweltering June morning, waiting in line to wander through the abandoned offices of the unlikely multi-millionaire...
Oct 3, 2007