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whom he claims prison officials left him alone and unsupervised with for two consecutive days and in which he alleges Gacy repeatedly threatened to rape and murder him while alone in his presence. For a time he suffered nightmares from the encounter. Moss felt that this misadventure allowed him to
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two months before the killer was executed. Moss believed that he became Gacy's "last victim" after this face-to-face meeting in prison, in essence being psychologically overpowered by the
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understand how a killer's mind works in controlling the vulnerable and forcing them to submission. He based the title of his book on this episode.
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