DONALD HENRY GASKINS: The True Story of the Meanest Man in America
Once described as "the meanest man in America", Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins is one of the most violent, horrific, yet lesser-known serial killers. Gaskins claimed to have killed over one hundred victims in his life-long stint as a serial killer.
Gaskins was born to a young, single mother and experienced abuse, ridicule, and neglect, all of which create a perfect storm of future violent and offending. Similar killers such as Henry Lee Lucas, Otis Toole, and many others came from a similar line of abuse and neglect. Gaskins has also been referred to as "the redneck Charles Manson" due to the similarities in their lives and statures.
After quitting school at only age 11, Gaskins unleashed years of violence, murder, threats, and other crimes on numerous victims. In his life of violent crime, Gaskins became the only person on death row to ever kill another death row inmate.
While in prison, Gaskins, with the help of a journalist wrote his own autobiography giving curious readers a rare deep look into the mind of a madman.
Along with holding several distinctive titles, Gaskins' story is also full of other crimes, littered with bodies, and pervasive violence. This is the shocking truth behind the Meanest Man in America.