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  GASKINS Donald Henry jr. "Pee Wee" ... ... USA ... ... ... 100+
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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."

Es heißt, PeeWee fühlte erstmals die Faszination der Gewalt, als er bei einem Jahrmarkt sah, wie eine Kobra eine Ratte verspeiste. Wie viele andere Serienkiller auch, war PeeWees Jugend durch ständige Troubles mit dem Gesetzt geprägt - wechselnde Erziehungsheime, schließlich Gefängnis. Aufgrund seiner Statur mußte PeeWee als "Freundin" von älteren, kräftigeren Häftlingen herhalten - bis er den angesehendsten seiner Peiniger tötete.

Wieder aus dem Gefängnis begann seine Mordtour erst richtig. Dabei unterschied er explizit zwischen "Zufallsmorden" an Menschen, die er auf Fahren durch Amerikas Süden auflas und "ernsthaften Morden" an Menschen, die er kannte - wie seine Nichte und ihren Freund. Neben den Morden betrieb PeeWee Gaskins einen florierenden Handel mit gestohlenen Autos. Dafür hatte er einige Grundstücke angemietet. Hier tötete er auch einige seiner Opfer. Alle sechs Wochen machte er sich auf und machte Jagd auf Anhalter entlang der Küstenstrassen.
In den 80ern tötete PeeWee Gaskins einen Mithäftling im Hochsicherheitsgefängnis. Dafür landete am 6. September 1991 auf dem Elektrischen Stuhl. Seine Opferzahl könnte nach eigenen Angaben 200 übersteigen, jedoch konnte diese von Behörden nie nachgewiesen werden.

Copyright 1995-2005 by Elisabeth Wetsch
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