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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 rapist from South Carolina who stabbed, shot, drowned, and poisoned more than a dozen people. Before his convictions for murder, Gaskins had a long history of criminal activities resulting in prison ...
- 15 confirmed (110 claimed)
- Death (1976 and 1983)
Jan 4, 2021 · Donald Henry Gaskins was born on March 13, 1933, in Florence County, South Carolina. His mother took little interest in him, and when he was just a year old, he accidentally drank some kerosene, from which he suffered intermittent convulsions for years thereafter. Later, he would reportedly try to blame his crimes on this unfortunate incident.
Oct 17, 2023 · Donald Henry Gaskins was born on March 13, 1933, in Florence County, South Carolina, one of many illegitimate children born to his mother Eulea Parrott. Due to his small size, Donald was called Pee Wee, a name that stuck with him. Pee Wee came from an abusive childhood. Filled with neglect and physical abuse, he never knew anything else.
Sep 6, 2018 · COLUMBIA, SC — In the hours leading up to September 6, 1991, Donald Henry “Pee Wee” Gaskins, 58, slit his wrists with a razor he had smuggled into his Death Row cell by swallowing it days earlier.
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Donald Henry Gaskins was known to law enforcement authorities long before they discovered that he was South Carolina's most prolific killer. Beginning at 13, when he hit his cousin in the head with a hatchet and left her for dead in a ditch, Gaskins spent most of his life in reform school and prison.
Soon after Donald Henry “Pee Wee” Gaskins’s execution on September 6, 1991, the author Wilton Earle published an autobiographical account of Gaskins’s life, The Final Truth, which Gaskins had dictated through tape-recorded conversations with Earle in the last fifteen months of his life.[xvii] The autobiography complicated the already ...
May 17, 2016 · Gaskins, Donald Henry. Gaskins is considered to be one of South Carolina’s most notorious murderers and career criminals. His diminutive height—he was barely five feet tall—and small body frame, gained him the nickname “Pee Wee,” a moniker he retained to the end of his life. Serial killer. Born on March 31, 1933, near the Florence ...
