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A review by rayarriz
The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey Into the Mind of the Serial Killer by Jason Moss
4.0
I was always fascinating by serial killers, their thinking and why they do the things they do. Before reading the book I totally understood why the author took on the challenge he did. I've always wanted to at least get to interview one of these awful people. And just like Moss was, I hate gore and I'm queasy, but I'm still very fascinated by this stuff. I've spent time researching them and looking through books on them. And while many people think Moss might have been inclined to do something evil himself, or that he was just being foolish, I totally understand why he tried to get in the minds of these killers. It's really just morbid curiosity.
I feel slightly different now about that part. His story is sort of a hindsight for me, minus the experience of having dealt with a serial killer. It was extremely dangerous, even though those these men were behind bars, and Gacy in cuffs when Moss visited. (But the camera was turned and the guards left the room while Gacy verbally harrased Moss. Yikes...)
However dangerous this whole mission was, Moss did an excellent job still to get as far as he did. I think he must have been extremely emotionally intelligent in that he learned what each serial killer wanted and how to pretend to be exactly that. And to carry on the pretense for so long without his cover slipping, to juggle all five of them (Gacy, Ramirez, Manson, Dahmer, Lucas) at the same time.
The book was creepy enough. Haha I went to bed and dreamed of creeps. At least I won in the dream though *shrug
I feel slightly different now about that part. His story is sort of a hindsight for me, minus the experience of having dealt with a serial killer. It was extremely dangerous, even though those these men were behind bars, and Gacy in cuffs when Moss visited. (But the camera was turned and the guards left the room while Gacy verbally harrased Moss. Yikes...)
However dangerous this whole mission was, Moss did an excellent job still to get as far as he did. I think he must have been extremely emotionally intelligent in that he learned what each serial killer wanted and how to pretend to be exactly that. And to carry on the pretense for so long without his cover slipping, to juggle all five of them (Gacy, Ramirez, Manson, Dahmer, Lucas) at the same time.
The book was creepy enough. Haha I went to bed and dreamed of creeps. At least I won in the dream though *shrug