Donald Henry jr. „Pee Wee“ Gaskins

At a carnival, young Pee Wee watched a well-fed cobra eat a rat. That’s where he first felt attracted to violence. Dubbed America’s meanest killer, Pee Wee was always in trouble with the law. He spent most of his youth in and out of reform school and later prison. Because his pint size Pee Wee had to be the „girlfriend“ of older, more powerful prisoners. He soon put a stop to it by killing a highly regarded inmate.

Pee Wee got back to killing in 1969 when he was out of prison. He made a distinction between his „coastal kills,“ people he found while driving around the roadways of the American South and his „serious murders,“ which consisted of people he knew, like his niece and her best friend. Aside from killing, Pee Wee had a thriving business fencing stolen cars for which he kept several properties around the Carolinas. There he also slaughtered many of his prey. His other favorite hunting grounds were the coastal highways where every six weeks he went hunting to quell his feelings of „bother-someness.“
In the early eighties, while in Maximum Security, Pee Wee was tagged the „Meanest Man in America“ when he killed another inmate. For his little homicidal stunt, he was moved to Death Row. Pee Wee was fried on September 6, 1991. His total hits might well be over two hundred, but law enforcement found it impossible to verify all his claims. In the excellent post-mortem of his life, „FINAL TRUTH,“ Pee Wee waxes poetic about how he had „a special mind“ that gave him „permission to kill.“