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This article is directly lifted from Mayhem.net, but as Mayhem is an anti-copyright source, it is allowed. That being said, someone should expand it, as there are some really interesting characteristics that seperate pee wee from other serial killers.

What a freak...
Even after he got executed, a lot of parents here in SC used him as a boogeyman ("Do as you're told or Pee Wee Gaskins will come for you"). Thanos6 03:44, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

I am related to Donald Henry " Peewee" Gaskins, A.H. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.243.184.106 (talk) 02:08, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Donald Gaskins
By: Robert Lawrence Gaskins

no I have no relation to Donald Gaskins

This information was found through multiple sources, including the book and http://crime.about.com/od/serial/p/gaskins.htm none of it is copywrited but my information was found here.

Ok I was looking at my own last name, Gaskins, and this dude came up. But since it intrested me i looked him up and found some information.

He had a book titled Final Truth. In this he states, "I have walked the same path as God, by taking lives and making others afraid, I became God's equal. Through killing others, I became my own master. Through my own power I come to my own redemption..."

Donald had know no boundries in his brutal ways. He had tortured, killed, raped, and canibalized huge amounts of victims, both male and female.

Donald was born March 13, 1933 in Florence County, South Carolina. His mother often had different boyfriends every other week, and many of them were abusive toward Donald. His mother had done little to none to try and protect him from her lovers. When she finally did marry, his step-father beat Donald and his four half-siblings regularly.

Pee Wee (Donalds nick-name) worked at a garage when he was thirteen. There he met two childhood friends named Marsh and Danny. They made a small posse they named the "Trouble Trio." Together they burglarized homes and raped prostitutes. Together they also raped young boys, drunk they threatened them so they would not tell the police.

They stopped their sexual habits after being caught gang raping Marshes little sister, yeah gross. For punishment, the three boys parents tied them and beat them until they almost bleed to death. Which really I believe they should have been thrown in jail, those dudes are messed up. Marsh and Danny left their parents never to be seen by Donald again.

Note that all this happened when he was ONLY THIRTEEN.

1946, Donald is still thirteen. He went to burglarize another home when a young girl who lived there attacked him with an ax. He struck her twice, in the head and arm before he fled.

After that incident he was sent to Reform School, here a lot of messed up stuff happened to Donald. Almost immediatly after his arrival he was gang raped by 20+ of his peers, gross!! Then he exchanged sex for a larger boys protection. Uh huh, extremely messed up. Often Donald would try and escape from the school, where his "protector" would beat him or sexually exploited among his peers.

Gaskins' many desperate attempts to escape resulted in a number of physical fights with the guards. So after about a year they sent him to a mental hospitol. After three nights the doctors told him he was sane enough to go back to reform school. After a week he escaped once again to join a traveling carnival. There he had married a thirteen year old girl. She convinced him to finish up his term in the reform school, which he did so he could be released on his eighteenth birthday.

After reform school, Donald got a job on a tabacco plantation. There him and an aquaintance got charged for insurance fraud. Him and his friend had pursuaded farmers into letting them burn their farms so they could get money from their insurance companies. They did this for a small fee, until nearby neighbors had suspected Gaskins' involvement.

After a few monthes Gaskins' employers daughter and friend had confronted him as the barnburner. When they did this he grew angry. He split her skull with a hammer, but not killing her. He was sentanced to five years in federal prison for assault with a deadly weapon and attemted murder.

For him prison life was much like reform school. He was immediately assigned for sexual servises to one of the gang leaders. He had told Donald he would protect him in exchange for sex, and if he didn't get it he would just take Donalds life. Soon Donald relized the only way he would live in prison was to be known as a dangerous person. If he could get a reputation for being brutal and dangerous, many people would fear him and stay away.

I am not sure about this so it would be great if someone aided in this. you see when Gaskin's was put to death, i was in the 12th grade. having saying that i had the normal class at that time that is called now current events and if you had a really "crazy event that no one else had brought up you got an A for that 6 week grading period. I got two, the most anyone had gotten, one was the 26th ammendment and the second was a prisoner in South Carolina was having his execution being covered on i think was WSPA from Greeneville S.C. at i think it was 2 AM. My question is this, was it PeeWee Gaskins? it was so long ago and i have since forrgotten and lost/thrown out all my School papers since then. if anyone can help me with this it would be appreciated. On a side note a few years late after i graduated from high school i was going to school for Broadcasting and working the morning shift at MCD's (great owners) i met a dude who would become my one of mine best friend's and we would always share stories that were crazy about growing up. well, he used to talk about this crazy dude who would drive a hearse and was just plain creepy. anywho this Gaskin's fella lived in his trailer court and me and my friend did not know if this was true, untill i saw his book and later another book came across our paths and there in black and white was all the things my friend had talked about. the local stores, Todd's store, the hearse, ropers crossing and the trailer and the little  girls he had killed. really odd and scarey living that close to evil and the chances my friend could have been kiled also. well if anyone could or would shed some light on this i would thank you for it. in closing if anyone deserved the death penatly it was this dude. they should have drowned him in a bucket and used CPR on him to bring him back and do it again and repeat untill every one family got to do it then somthing really painfull. i think he earned that much. Evilpressley 11:01, 29 April 2007 (UTC)evilpressley@yahoo.com
 * Thanks. Muttnick (talk) 04:56, 16 December 2019 (UTC)

Birthdate
The birthdate was changed from March 13 to March 31 by an anon IP used for many vandal edits. See. Since the article itself is so sparsely sourced and I couldn't quickly find a verifiable source, I didn't revert. Feel free.--Hjal 05:49, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Contradiction
Under "Murders" he started killing (again?) in 1969, but also his first victims were in 1970. Rich Farmbrough, 14:34 8 February 2008 (GMT). If you want the truth, contact retired Florence County Sheriff William "Billy" Barnes in Florence, South Carolina.

Reference to him driving a funeral house car...
Is there any truth to the "tale" of Pee Wee Gaskins riding around in a funeral hersh? I have heard that for years and  years. If it is true and can be verified, that would be an interest trivia fact to add.

I have heard this also. A Friend of mine used to talk about him. He said he drove around in a hearse. This was before his book came out. Years later i worked with a guy that grew up nears ropers crossing and he said the same thing. Neither knew each other. Rayghost (talk) 02:21, 30 April 2008 (UTC)Rayghost

There is an eye witness testimony found Charles Green Statement regarding automobile stating that he did indeed drive a herse and would "go off for days at a time". Interesting trivia, if only to bulk the story some. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xelous (talk • contribs) 14:03, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Style
Whomever it was that actually wrote this article is in dire need of an editor. Spelling and grammar mistakes prevail throughout: Scolar(sic)? -Laura —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.168.168.84 (talk) 01:20, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Alias
Redneck Charles Manson? Where did this come from? How can the two be compared? --Myersfa (talk) 19:26, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

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Movie dramatization
I'm pretty sure that there was a movie, probably a made-for-tv, depicting the murder of the other convict. Couldn't find it so far. WHPratt (talk) 01:29, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

I found it: Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo (1986), IMDB tt0092159. Names were changed to protect the not-at-all-innocent, as Gaskins is replaced by another homicidal convict. WHPratt (talk) 05:04, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

Error in text
"Of the fifteen people total that he murdered during his lifetime, ten were under age 25 and six were teenagers." Ten underage and 6 teenagers computes to 16. 88.75.98.139 (talk) 02:28, 26 January 2023 (UTC)