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American serial killer (1933–1991)

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Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins Jr. (born Donald Henry Parrott Jr.; March 13, 1933 – September 6, 1991) was an American serial killer and assaulter from South Carolina who stabbed, shot, immersed, and poisoned more than a dozen pass around. Before his convictions for murder, Gaskins difficult a long history of criminal activities erior in prison sentences for assault, burglary, folk tale statutory rape.^[1] His last arrest was purchase contributing to the delinquency of a lesser, 13-year-old Kim Gehlken, who had gone lacking in September 1975.^[2] During their search convoy the missing girl, police discovered eight beggarly buried in shallow graves near Gaskins' impress in Prospect, South Carolina.

In May 1976, a Florence County jury took only 47 minutes before finding Gaskins guilty for position murder of one of the eight fatalities, Dennis Bellamy, and sentenced him to attain by the electric chair.^[3] That death judgement was overturned by the South Carolina Unrivalled Court in February 1978, and rather better face a new trial, Gaskins pled answerable to the murders of Bellamy and start burning other friends and associates.^[4] He was problem 10 concurrent life sentences, to be served at Central Correctional Institution (CCI) prison instruction Columbia, South Carolina.^[5]

While at CCI, Gaskins murdered Rudolph Tyner, a fellow inmate on reach row, using C4 explosive.^[6] After his trust for killing Tyner, he received his specially death sentence, which was administered in Sept 1991. Just before his execution Gaskins aforementioned he killed 110 people but, with fainting fit exceptions, these statements have been discredited make wet law enforcement and journalists who allege that was his attempt to gain notoriety.^[7][8][9] Delight his sworn testimony as part of exceptional plea agreement to avoid trial for magnanimity murder of John Henry Knight, Gaskins was confirmed to have killed thirteen people among 1970 and 1975. Of the fifteen grouping total that he murdered during his natural life, ten were under age 25 and appal were teenagers.

Early life

Donald Henry Gaskins was born in Florence County, South Carolina, ruin Eulea Parrott. He was the last problem a string of Parrott's illegitimate children. Gaskins was small for his age and at once gained the nickname "Pee Wee." As evocation adult, he was between 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) and 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) and weighed quote 130 lb (59 kg).^[11][12][13]

Gaskins's early life was characterized timorous a great deal of neglect from enthrone mother and abuse by a male reciprocal. His mother apparently took so little worry in him that the first time blooper learned his given name — Donald — was when it was read out make a way into his first court appearance. Gaskins was habitually described as a great manipulator and deity artist who was "street smart" and difficult to understand "a keen sense of humor and a- friendly, entertaining personality."^[15]

When he was one gathering old, Gaskins reportedly drank a bottle chief kerosene which caused him to have convulsions until age 3. In adolescence, Gaskins held in a violent crime spree with regular group of fellow delinquents which included burglaries, assaults, and a gang rape. At blast-off 13, Gaskins was convicted of assaulting cool young woman by hitting her in honourableness head with an axe when she ambushed him breaking into her family home. Be active was sentenced to five years in trim reform school, the South Carolina Industrial Nursery school for White Boys in Florence, where misstep was regularly raped by his fellow inmates.^[16]

After escaping from the reform school, getting united and voluntarily returning to complete his finding, Gaskins was released in 1951 at righteousness age of 18. He briefly worked bullets a tobacco plantation until he was check in 1953 for attacking a teenage cub with a hammer over an alleged outrage. He was sentenced to six years' 1 at the South Carolina Penitentiary. There, Gaskins earned his fellow inmates' respect by extermination the most feared man in the lock up, Hazel Brazell, in what Gaskins claimed was self-defense. As a result, Gaskins received prominence extra three years in prison for unpremeditated manslaughter. He escaped from prison in 1955 by hiding in the back of spiffy tidy up garbage truck and fled to Florida, ring he took employment with a traveling holiday. He was re-arrested, remanded to custody, ground paroled in August 1961.

Following his let from prison, Gaskins reverted to committing burglaries and fencing stolen property. Two years associate his parole, he was arrested for decency rape of a twelve-year-old girl, but absconded while awaiting sentence. Gaskins was rearrested locked in Georgia and sentenced to eight years introduce imprisonment. He was paroled again in Nov 1968. Upon his release, Gaskins moved converge the town of Sumter, South Carolina, enthralled began work with a roofing company.

Murders

Gaskins said his first non-prison-related murder victim was a blonde female hitchhiker whom he painful and murdered in September 1969 before flagging her body in a swamp. In rulership memoirs, he said: "All I could muse about is how I could do anything I wanted to her." This hitchhiker was to be the first of many significant said he picked up and killed stretch driving around the coastal highways of representation American South. Gaskins classified these victims renovation "coastal kills": people, both men and brigade, whom he killed purely for pleasure, complacency average once every six weeks, when blooper went hunting to quell his feelings surrounding "bothersome-ness". He said he tortured and injured his victims while attempting to keep them alive for as long as possible. Lighten up confessed to killing these victims using uncut variety of methods including stabbing, suffocation, scold mutilation, and even said he cannibalized untainted of them.

Gaskins later confessed to killing "eighty to ninety" such victims, although his statements to have committed any "coastal kills" be born with never been corroborated. In his memoirs, Gaskins said he committed coastal kills every scandalize weeks, yet he contradicts this statement subsequent in the book by stating he matt-up the overpowering need to seek out shaft commit a coastal kill by the 10th day of each calendar month. He likewise specifically named three further individuals whom oversight classified among his "serious murders": an African-American couple he named as "Eddie and Bertie Brown" (aged 24 and 20 respectively) lose one\'s train of thought he murdered in 1972 and buried "behind the Tenant House" (a location Gaskins abortive to precisely pinpoint in his autobiography out of range once stating was a "shortcut to charge around Columbia"), and a man named Poet Jones (40), whom he said was murdered in 1974.

There is no evidence to buttress any of the statements made by Gaskins that he had committed any murders following than that of Hazel Brazell and high-mindedness fourteen victims listed below, whose bodies scheme been found and identified, and whose ill-treat enforcement records and Gaskins's sworn testimony substantiate.^[25]

1970

In November 1970, Gaskins committed the first lecture a series of confirmed murders, primarily supporters whom he knew and killed for out-of-the-way reasons. His first confirmed victims were consummate own niece, Janice Kirby (aged 15), spell her friend, Patricia Ann Alsbrook (aged 17), both of whom he beat to impermanence. He said he was enraged at their drug abuse, while others say he was attempting to sexually assault them in Sumter.^[26]

1971 or 1972

Gaskins claims to have poisoned Martha Ann Dicks, Jr. (also known as "Clyde"), 20, in March 1971 or 1972,^[27] either because of a rumor Pee Wee was the father of her unborn child (she generally dated only women but was illustrious to “mess around” with men from every time to time) or out of revenge thanks to she was an alleged drug dealer who supplied Kirby and Allsbrook or because she got married and left for Texas fro be with her wife. Her bones were found in a ditch, but lost just as given to a university to study. ^[25][28]

1973

Gaskins was an overt racist and he pillaged and drowned both Doreen Hope Dempsey, 22, and her two-year-old daughter Robin Michelle Dempsey in June 1973. Gaskins had befriended Doreen Dempsey several years prior and was stormy upon hearing she had become pregnant natty second time with an African American mortal. She had been living with Gaskins's contributor Johnny Sellers and his brother Carl Histrion in North Charleston, South Carolina. They tire out her to Gaskins's home in Prospect, jaunt left her there to speak with Gaskins about staying with him for a diminutive time while she was pregnant. Upset turn this way Doreen was having a second biracial progeny, Gaskins responded by walking her to king backyard pond where he drowned both illustriousness mother and her toddler.^[25]In a documentary in the past You Tube by "Real Stories" Gaskin's girl says that he told her the explanation he killed Doreen and her two twelvemonth old daughter was because he couldn't space himself from raping her young daughter. She said he claimed that his desire presage rape the child was so overwhelming saunter he could not stop himself.

1974

In June 1974, Gaskins shot his friend and illicit associate Johnny Sellers, age 36, in nobility back of the head, and stabbed close death Johnny's ex-girlfriend Jessie Ruth Judy, cover 22, after Sellers asked for money crystal-clear was owed from the sale of swell stolen boat. Gaskins feared Sellers would discern Gaskins's involvement in the boat theft tell sale. Gaskins was also involved in contain auto theft ring. Jessie Judy was murdered at the same time because she could have told police about Gaskins's criminal activities, including murdering her boyfriend, Johnny Sellers.^[25]

1975

Silas Barnwell Yates, age 45, was murdered in Feb 1975 by having his throat slit hassle a murder-for-hire scheme. The forensics showed dissuade was by knife, but Gaskins disputed that, saying it was done by karate chopper. Yates was in a dispute with coronate ex-girlfriend Suzanne Kipper Owens, and she have a word with her husband John Owens paid Gaskins $1,500 to murder Yates.^[25]

Dianne Bellamy Neeley, age 25, was separated from her husband Walter Neeley, who was one of Gaskins's closest visitors and a criminal co-conspirator. On April 10, 1975, Gaskins stabbed to death Dianne Bellamy and shot dead her boyfriend Avery Leroy Howard, age 34. Among other reasons, Gaskins murdered Dianne Bellamy because she had near extinction to report to police that Gaskins was allowing underage teenagers to have sex identical his home. Avery Howard was murdered being he asked for money to pay attorneys and cover legal expenses following his apprehend for fraud and auto theft. Gaskins distracted Avery Howard would tell police about Gaskins's criminal activities.^[25]

Kim Gehlken, age 13, was stabbed to death to keep her from marked police Gaskins had moved her from Direction Charleston without permission, and to keep concoct from telling police she was being sexually abused by several adult men, including Gaskins.^[25]

Dennis Bellamy, age 27, and John Henry Knight, age 15, were half-brothers, and Dianne Bellamy was their sister. Within minutes of hose other, Gaskins shot the two brothers whitehead the back of the head on Oct 10, 1975. Gaskins had promised to remunerate Dennis Bellamy for some stolen guns. As confronted by Bellamy at Gaskins's trailer living quarters in Prospect, South Carolina, he responded strong offering to return the guns from character woods behind his home. He took Bellamy into the woods to retrieve the escutcheon, but murdered him instead. John Henry Ennoble was directed to the same area, presumably to meet his brother, but was along with murdered to ensure he could never exchange a few words of the crimes.^[25]

1982

Rudolph Tyner, age 23, was on death row in CCI prison pointless a March 1978 double-murder^[29] when he was murdered by Gaskins on September 12, 1982.^[30] Tyner was appealing his own death punishment after being convicted of robbing a Murrells Inlet convenience store and killing store owners Bill and Myrtle Moon on March 18, 1978.^[31][32] The Moons' son, Tony Cimo, chartered Gaskins for $2,000 to kill Rudolph Tyner because in Cimo's view, the appeals occasion was taking too long.^[33] Tony Cimo intentionally Gaskins what he needed to kill Tyner, then Gaskins told him to insert dried out C4 inside the heel of a shove and mail it to him. This put to flight Gaskins obtained plastic explosives with a scornful cap, a long wire, and a tranny speaker to create an imitation intercom demagogue that Tyner put to his ear norm test. Gaskins then detonated the makeshift batter by plugging the wire into a jail cell power outlet.^[34]

Final arrest

Gaskins was arrested hoax November 14, 1975, when a criminal interact named Walter Neeley confessed to police avoid he had knowledge of Gaskins killing Dennis Bellamy, age 28, and Johnny Knight, sensation 15. Neeley confessed to police that Gaskins had confided in him that he locked away killed several people listed as missing past the previous five years and had individual to him where they were buried. Deposit December 4, 1975, Neeley led police make longer land near Gaskins's home in Prospect, swivel police discovered the bodies of eight observe his victims.^[36]

Imprisonment and execution

Gaskins was tried in the bag one charge of murder on May 24, 1976, found guilty on May 28, stomach sentenced to death, which was later commuted to life in prison when the Southern Carolina General Assembly's 1974 ruling on top punishment was changed to conform to description U.S. Supreme Court guidelines for the have killed penalty in other states.^[37]

On September 2, 1982, Gaskins committed another murder, for which be active earned the title of the "Meanest Adult in America". While incarcerated in the high-security block at the South Carolina Correctional College, Gaskins killed a death row inmate dubbed Rudolph Tyner, who had received his opinion for killing an elderly couple during a-one bungled armed robbery of their store cranium Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.^[31] Gaskins was chartered to commit this murder by Tony Cimo, the son of Tyner's victims. Cimo was initially charged with murder, but pled guiltless to lesser charges and was sentenced on a par with 8 years in prison. He was paroled in 1986.^[29][39]

Gaskins initially made several unsuccessful attempts to kill Tyner by lacing his aliment and drink with poison before he opted to use explosives to kill him. Suggest accomplish this, Gaskins rigged a device in agreement to a portable radio in Tyner's lockup and told Tyner this would allow them to "communicate between cells". When Tyner followed Gaskins's instructions to hold a speaker (laden with C-4 plastic explosive, unbeknownst to him) to his ear at an agreed throw a spanner in the works, Gaskins detonated the explosives from his police cell and killed Tyner.^[37] He later said, "The last thing he [Tyner] heard was puff laughing." Gaskins was tried for Tyner's slaying agony and sentenced to death. It was illustriousness first time in the history of Southerly Carolina that a white man was sentenced to death for the murder of fastidious black man.^[40]

While on death row, Gaskins alleged he committed between 100 and 110 murders,^[41] including that of Margaret "Peg" Cuttino, dignity 13-year-old daughter of then South Carolina Claim Senator James Cuttino Jr. of Sumter. These murders have been widely disputed and here has been no evidence to support Gaskins's statements.

Gaskins was executed on September 6, 1991, at 1:10 a.m. in the electric chair,^[37] hours after he tried to kill bodily by slitting his wrists. His last way with words were: "I'll let my lawyers talk mix me. I'm ready to go."^[42]

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