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Donald Henry Gaskins, Jr was born on March 13, 1933 in South Carolina. His mother lived with various men. Many bullied and beat him. His mother rarely intervened to help her son. When she had married his stepfather, the ongoing abuse continued. His small stature earned him the nickname ‘Pee Wee’. He later claimed he had never heard his proper name until he was a teenager.

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He was a little man with a high voice, dead eyes and a black heart. Infamous killer “Pee Wee” Gaskins was the definition of a human paradox. At first glance, Donald Henry Gaskins looked harmless. "But his barely 5-foot-5, 130-pound frame packed a lot of meanness. He confessed in 1978 to murdering 15 people and burying their corpses in three Pee Dee counties. At least four of his victims were 15 or younger."

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Donald’s education is marred by frequent fights with his classmates and regular punishments by his teachers. At age 11, Donald Gaskins quit school in discontent, and began working on cars at a local garage. While working there, he met two boys, Danny and Marsh. They were all around the same age and freshly dropped out of school, so they teamed up and called themselves “The Trouble Trio.” The newly formed trio burglarized homes, picked up prostitutes, and even sometimes sexually assaulted little boys. They would then threaten the little boys so they wouldn’t go to the police.

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Eventually the trio broke up after they were caught for gang-sexually assaulting Marsh’s little sister. For punishment, the parents beat the boys until they bled. Danny and Marsh left the area shortly after that. Donald Gaskins continued to burglarize homes alone. In 1946, a girl who knew Donald Gaskins interrupted him while he was burglarizing her home. She struck him with an ax. He managed to get it away from her, struck her in the head and arm with the intent of killing her with it, before fleeing the scene. Luckily, the girl survived the attack. Donald Gaskins was then, arrested and convicted.

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Donald’s sent to reform school. There, his size (he’s under five and a half foot) makes him an easy target. He had claimed he once endured being raped by 20 boys in one go. He survives by offering sex in return for protection under the "Boss Boy".

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Aged 20, Donald kills for the first time. Determined to avoid a repeat of his reform school experience, he shows he’s not an easy target by slashing the throat of another prisoner (while the prisoner was pooping). Claiming self defense, he receives only another three years.

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When his murders aren’t random he terms them ‘Serious Murders’. His first is in November 1970. His niece, Janice Kirby, is 15. He tries to sexually assault her, and her friend. In which both blatantly refused, in which results in him then beating them both to death.

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Gaskins is tried for eight murders on 24 May 1976 and four days later, he’s found guilty and sentenced to death.One small improvement to Gaskins lot is that he’s no longer subject to sexual or physical assault. On death row, Gaskins spends his last 15 months confessing his life of serial killing to a journalist. These memoirs form his autobiography, ‘Final Truth’ in which he explains he has a ‘special mind’ that gives him ‘permission to kill’. Gaskins claims to have killed over a 100 people. Many of his claims cannot, however, be verified.He never once expresses remorse for his actions. On the day of his execution, Gaskins tries to delay his execution by slashing his wrists. With stitched wounds, he’s placed in the electric chair. At 1.05 a.m. on 6 September 1991, Donald ‘Pee Wee’ Gaskins dies.