Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins, Jr. (March 13, 1933 - September 6, 1991) was an American serial killer.
Donald Henry Pee-Wee Gaskins was born on March 13, 1933, in Florence County, South Carolina. Gaskins spent much of his youth in reform school. In adulthood, Gaskins' small, slight build (5' 4" tall, hence his nickname) would make him a target for physical and sexual abuse in prison.
As a youth, Gaskins was both a poor scholar and a criminal, co...
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Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins, Jr. (March 13, 1933 - September 6, 1991) was an American serial killer.
Donald Henry Pee-Wee Gaskins was born on March 13, 1933, in Florence County, South Carolina. Gaskins spent much of his youth in reform school. In adulthood, Gaskins' small, slight build (5' 4" tall, hence his nickname) would make him a target for physical and sexual abuse in prison.
As a youth, Gaskins was both a poor scholar and a criminal, committing a number of petty thefts. During one burglary, he hit a woman on the head with a hatchet and left her for dead, though she survived. For this crime, Gaskins served his first custodial sentence at a reform school. Gaskins married for the first time in 1951, at eighteen, and fathered a daughter the following year. Upon his release from reform school, Gaskins took to committing insurance fraud, and was arrested for attacking a teenage girl with a hammer whom he claimed had been insulting him and was charged with attempted murder. Gaskins...
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