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“Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all of its students.”

                                        Hector Berloiz

There are evil people out there and here is one of the worst. Some of you have read this before, but we need reminding from time to time how evil people can become.

                        Biography of Donald Gaskins

Donald Gaskins was born in Manning, South Carolina on March 13, 1933. His mother was not married when Donald was born but she had several live-in boy friends most of which treated Donald with disdain and administered regular beatings. Finally Donald’s mother did get married and this man also beat Donald and step-brothers and sisters systematically. His mother did little if anything at all to prevent these beatings. Donald was a small person which brought him even more disdain when attending school where he got the nickname “Peewee” and that moniker stayed with him the rest of his life. The violence he experienced at home did not slow down at school. He was constantly fighting with both girls and boys who harassed him about his size and then the principal would give him a paddling for fighting. He quit school at the age of 11 and began a life of dealing with stolen cars and “chop shop” auto parts. He struggled with the hatred of people in general and women in particular probably because his Mother did not protect him. His real passion was torturing and killing anyone he felt like, even down to infants. He was not above cannibalism either. He began a life of cruising the back roads of rural low country South Carolina and kidnapping anyone that suited his fancy and torture and kill them in the most unspeakable manner. He started his life of crime with one of his cousins at the age of 13. They broke in and burglarized several homes in the community. His cousin got scared and left the area but that did not slow down Peewee. He was caught in the act of burglarizing a home by a girl that he knew who came at him with an axe. Peewee was able to get the axe away from her and struck her in the head and arm before running way. The girl lived and named Peewee as the burglar. He was sent to the South Carolina Reformatory for Boys to stay until he was 18. Again because of his small stature he was repeatedly raped until he fell under the wing of the meanest son-of-a-bitch in there nicknamed “Boss-Boy”. Boss Boy protected Peewee in return for sex when he wanted it. This inflamed him to the boiling point. During his stay in Reform School he had escaped and joined a small carnival and ended up marrying a 13 year old but decided to turn himself in to do the rest of his time. He was released at the age of 18 a walking time-bomb. He found a job on a tobacco farm and could not resist but to find a way to quick but illegal money. He organized a gang that offered to burn tobacco barns that were not making money for the owners in return for a fee. Peewee’s gang gained popularity with the tobacco farmers. One day the daughter of one of the tobacco farmers accused Peewee as being the “Barnburner” whereupon he went crazy as hell and hit the girl on the head with a hammer splitting her skull. He then went to a real prison which was in another world than reform school. He was immediately assigned as the sexual partner of the alleged worst bad-ass in there, a man named Hazel Brazell. Peewee figured out that the only way he could gain any peace was to make himself be recognized as a “Power Man” or a brutal killer. He gained Brazell’s confidence and one night Peewee cut his throat. After this, nobody fooled around with Peewee. One day in 1955 he found out that his wife had filed for divorce and he wigged out, escaped, stole a car and went to Florida and joined a small carnival. He married again but that union lasted only two weeks. He became involved with another woman named Betty Gates in the carnival who persuaded Peewee to take her to Cookeville, Tennessee and bail out her “brother” from jail. The two made their way to Cookeville and Peewee went into the jail, delivered the money and a carton of cigarettes. The three went to a hotel and Peewee went to sleep and when he awoke Betty, her “brother,” who turned out to be her husband and the car were gone leaving Peewee dangling in the wind. The money was not bail money, and the carton of cigarettes held a razor blade by which Betty’s husband used to make good an escape. The police quickly found out that Peewee was an escaped prisoner himself and he was returned to prison and received and additional nine years. Since he drove a stolen car across state lines it became a Federal offense and that offense sent him to the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta. While there he met mafia boss Frank Costello who called Peewee “my little hatchet man” and offer him a job after he was released. Peewee was finally released in 1961 and returned to Florence, SC and took a job in a tobacco farm but just could not resist and began burglarizing homes once again. He finally became the driver and assistant to a traveling minister and that allowed him to burglarize homes in different areas making it difficult to detect. In a short time span he had re-married twice. Both brides were under age and the second wife turned him in for statutory rape. He was convicted and went to a prison in Columbia, SC and was released 1968. This is the beginning of a bloodbath seldom equaled in history. Peewee had mentioned many times about the “troublesome and aggravating” feelings he had all of his life. He found out what it meant on day in September of 1969 when he picked up a girl hitchhiker who laughed at him when he propositioned her for sex. She should not have done that because Peewee exploded in anger, raped and sodomized her then beat her to the point of death. He then put a weight around her waist and threw her into a swamp where she drowned. After this episode, Peewee said that now he knew what it would take to assuage the “troublesome and aggravating” feelings...torture and murder. By 1975 Peewee had honed his skills in torture and was able to keep his victims alive in agonizing pain for days and had tortured and killed over 80 boys and girls. He sometimes cannibalized and dined on a person’s flesh in the victim’s presence or forced them to join him. He considered his highway murders as “recreational” murders and the murder of his friends and acquaintances as “serious murders”. By this time he was living in Prospect, South Carolina and drove around town in a hearse stating that he needed one to take his victims to different burial places. Everyone thought he was joking and a little bit disturbed but eventually they found out what monster he was. There was a young girl living in town that had a two year old child out of wedlock and was pregnant. This girl had decided to leave town and start a new life and asked Peewee for a ride to the bus station. Peewee did not take them to the bus station but out into the woods and raped both the girl and her two year old daughter, killed them and buried them together. Not only did he murder for fun, he was an acknowledged hired assassin. Peewee took a job to assassinate a wealthy farmer. The farmer’s girl friend is the one that had hired Peewee and he did not disappoint. After the murder, two people and the girl friend notified Peewee that they wanted $5,000 hush money. Peewee agreed and met them at a designated place and he killed and buried all three. Eventually one of Peewee’s associates broke down under police pressure and took the cops to Peewee’s personal graveyard where the remains of 8 people were uncovered. He was tried and convicted of 8 counts of murder and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to 8 life sentences after the US Supreme Court declared the death penalty as being unconstitutional. Peewee, knowing that he would never see daylight again and would not be executed, accepted an assassination assignment of one of the inmates. This inmate had murdered a man and his wife...the family was not happy with the mandatory life sentence and hired Peewee to kill him. Incredibly, Peewee was able to convince this inmate that he had a radio that if you held it close to your ear you could hear what the other inmates were saying in the other cells. He said “All you have to do is hold the radio real close to your ear and plug it in”. As you probably have guessed by now it was not a radio, it was a bomb that nearly decapitated this guy. By then the death penalty had been reinstated in the state of South Carolina and Peewee got the death penalty for this indiscretion. While awaiting his execution he talked at length with a writer that was going to do his biography. During these interviews he admitted to at least 100 murders, be they “recreational”, “serious” or for hire. As his execution date drew near, Peewee became more and more philosophical. He said that for a while he felt he has been even with the power of God since he could kill or let live at will. In the final days he tried to cheat the execution by slashing his wrists but the guards stopped him. At 1:06a on September 6, 1991 with stitches in his wrist, this monster’s heart ceased to beat after a losing duel with “Old Sparky” the electric chair. I wonder where he is today.

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