DONALD GASKINS
“PEE WEE” ”JUNIOR PARROTT”
By: Justin Gaydos
BACKGROUND
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Born in Florence County, South Carolina
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Life: March 13,1933-September 6, 1991 (58 years old)
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His mothers name was Eulea Parrott
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His mother was on and off with many men
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Wasn’t married when she was pregnant with Donald
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He was beaten by the men his mother was meeting with (even his step-father)
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His violence at home was carried with him to the classrooms (fights with guys and
girls)
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He was always punished for his behavior at school
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He quit school to work on cars at a local garage and help at his family farm (age 11)
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A member of the Trouble Trio that burglarized, raped, and picked up prostitutes
BACKGROUND CONTINUED
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He had a hard time with hatred towards other people (especially with women)
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His early life was full of neglect
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His mother barely supervised him
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At the age of 1 he drank a bottle of kerosene that caused him to have convulsions until he was 3
years old
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Suffered from night terrors
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Didn’t learn his first name until it was read to him in his first court hearing that was for a brief crime
spree
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Sent to a reform school until he was 18 and was raped by his fellow inmates
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He escaped the school, got married, and then returned to the school to complete his sentence
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Worked at a tobacco plantation after getting out of the school
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Imprisoned many times throughout his life for many different things
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Nicknamed Pee Wee and Junior Parrott for his small body frame at 5’4”
CRIMES
Crime(s)
Date
Victim(s)
Punishment
Burglary, Rape
N/A
Young boys and Marsh’s
sister (sister of a member
in his Trouble Trio)
Parents bound and beat
the boys until they bled
Burglary, Assault with a
deadly weapon, Intent to
kill
1946
A girl he knew
Sent to a reform school
Escaping from custody
N/A
N/A
Finished his sentence at
the reform school until his
18th Birthday(March 1951)
Insurance fraud,
Accusation of arson,
Assault with a deadly
weapon, Attempted murder
N/A
Employers daughter and
her friend
5 years in prison
Manslaughter
N/A
Hazel Brazell (meanest
inmate)
6 months in solitary
confinement
Escaping from custody,
Motor vehicle theft, Assault
N/A
Fellow prisoner
9 months in jail
Burglary, Escaping from
custody, Motor vehicle
theft, Statutory Rape
November, 1968
12 year old girl
6 years at Columbia
Penitentiary
Rape, Assault, Murder,
Torture
September, 1969
Young girl
N/A
CRIMES CONTINUED
Crime(s)
Date
Victim(s)
Punishment
Torture, Murder
1975
80 young boys and girls
N/A
Rape, Murder, Assault
November, 1970
15 year old Niece Janice
Kirby and her friend
Patricia Alsobrook
N/A
Murder
N/A
Martha Dicks
N/A
Rape, Murder, sodomy with
a child
N/A
Doreen Dempsey (20 years
old) who was pregnant and
her child
N/A
Murder
1975
3 people in a broken down
van
N/A
Kidnapping, Murder
February 12, 1975
Silas Yates
N/A
Murder
N/A
Diane Neely and ex-con
Avery Howard
N/A
Murder
N/A
Kim Ghelkins (13 years old)
N/A
Murder
November 14, 1975
Johnny Knight, Dennis
Bellamy
Arrested
Murder
N/A
Rudolph Tyner
Death Sentence
CRIMINAL TERMS
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Assault: to make a physical attack on
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Murder: the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another
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Kidnapping: take (someone) away illegally by force, typically to obtain a ransom
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Sodomy: sexual intercourse
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Manslaughter: the crime of killing a human being without malice aforethought, or otherwise in circumstances not amounting
to murder
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Torture: inflict severe pain on
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Rape: the crime, typically committed by a man, of forcing another person to have sexual intercourse with the offender against
their will
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Escaping from custody: escapee have knowledge that his/her actions would result in his/her leaving physical confinement
without permission
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Statutory rape: sexual intercourse with a minor
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Burglary: entry into a building illegally with intent to commit a crime, especially theft
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Intent to kill: specific intent to end a humans life
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Accusation of Arson: the malicious burning of another's house or property, or in some statutes, the burning of one's own
house or property, as to collect insurance
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Insurance Fraud: any act committed with the intent to obtain a fraudulent outcome from an insurance process. This may
occur when a claimant attempts to obtain some benefit or advantage to which they are not otherwise entitled, or when an
insurer knowingly denies some benefit that is due
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Motor vehicle theft: the criminal act of stealing or attempting to steal a car (or any other motor vehicle )
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Attempted murder: to have deliberately, intentionally or recklessly with extreme disregard for human life, attempted to kill
someone
MOST RECENT CRIME
The most recent crime he got caught for was the murder of Kim Ghelkins
Evidence
Sentence
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Sentenced to death on 8 counts of
murder
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death
penalty unconstitutional in November
1976
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Made death penalty legal again in South
Carolina in 1978
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Neely showed police Gaskins personal
cemetery
Tried and found guilty of murder of
Rudolph Tyner (prisoner) and sentenced
to death again
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Bodies of his victims were found in
graves
He appeared as an innocent victim but
the jury found him guilty
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Gaskins confessed to 7 additional
murders to avoid more death sentencing
Day of execution slashed his wrists in
order to postpone execution but failed to
trick death and with stitched arms he was
placed in the electric chair and killed
through execution on September 6, 1991
at 1:05 am
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Kim Ghelkins disappearance was turning
up enough leads that pointed at Gaskins
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Gaskins apartment was searched and
uncovered clothing worn by Ghelkins
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Walter Neely cracked under pressure
and told the police what him and Gaskins
did
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QUOTES BY PEE WEE
• "I am one of the few that truly understands what death
and pain are all about”
• “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..”
BOOKS ABOUT PEE WEE
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Final Truth by Wilton Earle
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Pee Wee Gaskins America’s No. 1 Serial Killer by Dr. John Chandler Griffin
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Pee Wee Serial Killer or Homicidal Maniac: A Novelized True Crime Story, Volume I
by O. Grady Query
SHOWS ON GASKINS
• Twisted-Investigation Discovery Channel
• Donald Pee Wee Gaskins Documentary-YouTube
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCkQWv6QR_w
• Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins Serial Killer-Dailymotion
• http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwmu1g_donald-pee-weegaskins-serial-killer_shortfilms
THEORY
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The Sociological Theory of Deviance that best explains my criminal’s deviant and criminal behavior is the
Differential-Association Theory. I chose this theory because Donald Gaskins was clearly affected by the
company he had surrounding him. One of the reasons that this theory explains Donald is because of the
values of the ones that had the greatest influence in his life that Donald valued as a kid. By the way he was
treated as a child, with being abused, beaten, or not treated correctly around his house caused him to not
have good values. This caused him to act out in public and school due to how he was treated at home.
When Donald dropped out of school he started to engage in criminal behavior with his peers. As his
criminal activity became more frequent throughout the years, he began to think it was okay to commit
crimes, and each time he committed a crime they got worse and more intense for each crime that he
committed. Most of the reason for these crimes he committed originated from his childhood.
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There are many reasons that he committed so many crimes throughout his life that started from his
childhood. One reason is since he valued his mother so much. His mother showed little attention to Donald
when he was a child. This caused him to neglect women very much. Because his mother never really taught
him much of anything including his name, he found that criminal activity and bad behavior is the only thing
he could turn to, or learn from his childhood. Also, when his mother never stopped him from dropping out of
school he had no one to really tell him, or influence him on what was the right thing to do since she was the
only one he really valued during that time. All in all, due to Donald’s childhood and how he was raised, I
consider him to fall into the Differential Association Theory.
FACTS
• He claimed he killed over 100 people but many thought his
confessions were simply for publicity
• Highly debatable topic of how many people Gaskins really killed
• Some say he was never treated poorly
• Some say he was treated tremendously with love and attention
while he was growing up and was never beaten
• One fact that can’t be disputed is that he was a psychopath from
a young age and had no regard to human life