Dear Mr. Gacy (2010) on Netflix
Criminology student Jason Moss writes to John Wayne Gacy on death row, posing as a vulnerable young man the killer would favor. Gacy answers, and Jason must sustain the deception.
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Plot summary
Illinois, 1994. Jason Moss, a criminology student, wants a term paper that stands out, so he writes to imprisoned serial killers and impersonates the vulnerable young men they prey on. His letter to John Wayne Gacy, fourteen years on death row and awaiting a ruling on his final appeal, brings a questionnaire about Jason's personal and sexual life. Jason adjusts his persona, working out, posing topless for photographs and describing himself as lonely and confused. Gacy answers with encouragement, suggests Jason try hustling and coaches him on it, sends money and starts telephoning. Jason invents exploits to keep the contact alive, and the demands of the correspondence wear on his classes and on his relationship with his girlfriend.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dear Mr. Gacy (2010)
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- Dear Mr. Gacy is based on Jason Moss, a UNLV college student who wrote to five serial killers on death row while posing as a typical victim or an admirer. The film focuses on his correspondence with John Wayne Gacy, convicted of murdering 33 young men and boys.
- Screenwriter Kellie Madison and Clark Peterson, executive producer of Monster, were developing Jason Moss's memoir The Last Victim with him when they learned he had died by suicide on June 6, 2006. They later approached his widow and gained her acceptance of the proposal.
