The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey Into the Mind of the Serial Killer - Jason Moss

The true story of how an 18-year-old student put himself at risk contacting notorious killers and mimicking profiles of their ideal victims to gain interviews. Moss got an unprecedented glimpse of the depraved minds of Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, and John Wayne Gacy, who staked out Moss as his last victim. Moss's honors thesis became a basis for this book. Kottler is a psychotherapist and author. \nDEAR MR. MANSON... \nIt started with a college course assignment, then escalated into a dangerous obsession. Eighteen-year-old honor student Jason Moss wrote to men whose body counts had made criminal history: men named Dahmer, Manson, Ramirez, and Gacy. \n \nDEAR MR. DAHMER... \n \nPosing as their ideal victim, Jason seduced them with his words. One by one they wrote him back, showering him with their madness and violent fantasies. Then the game spun out of control. John Wayne Gacy revealed all to Jason -- and invited his pen pal to visit him in prison... \n \nDEAR MR. GACY... \n \nIt was an offer Jason couldn't turn down. Even if it made him... \n \nThe book that has riveted the attention of the national media, this may be the most revealing look at serial killers ever recorded and the most illuminating study of the dark places of the human mind ever attempted.\n