The Last Victim A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer

by Moss, Jason; Kottler, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9780446608275
• ISBN10: 0446608270
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Vision

Summary

DEAR MR. MANSON... It 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. DEAR MR. DAHMER... Posing 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... DEAR MR. GACY... It was an offer Jason couldn't turn down. Even if it made him... The 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.

Author Biography

Jason Moss graduated summa cum laude from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Jeffrey Kottler, Ph.D., is a practicing psychotherapist and professor of counseling.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. xi
The Bookstore	p. 1
True Crime	p. 5
First Target	p. 10
The Plan	p. 15
Research	p. 21
A Question of Motive	p. 29
Perfection and Fear	p. 37
Monsters	p. 44
In Training	p. 51
The Questionnaire	p. 56
Setting Bait	p. 62
Secrets	p. 69
Outside the Boundaries	p. 75
Perversity	p. 81
Fictional Friends	p. 87
What's Up, Buddy?	p. 97
A Back Door	p. 105
Incest	p. 112
Joining a Family	p. 118
Deeply Disturbed	p. 126
Cannibal	p. 133
Only the Lonely	p. 139
Doubts	p. 146
Night Stalker	p. 153
Weak Stomach	p. 160
Grooming a Killer	p. 166
The Experiment	p. 174
Hook, Line, and Sinker	p. 179
Q and A	p. 183
The Invitation	p. 189
FBI	p. 195
Journey	p. 199
The Attorney	p. 202
Long Walk	p. 208
Face-to-Face	p. 215
Jekyll and Hyde	p. 220
Breakdown	p. 229
Day Two	p. 236
Neighbor Down the Hall	p. 244
Goodbye	p. 251
Going Home	p. 255
Juggling Killers	p. 259
Blackmail	p. 265
Execution	p. 270
Aftermath	p. 276
Afterword	p. 285
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