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.
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.