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.