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He was sentenced to die. Then he killed again.Donald ""Pee Wee"" Gaskins was more than a serial killer-he was a contradiction. A soft-spoken, well-liked family man in North Charleston. A man who hosted cookouts, took neighborhood kids to the beach, and joked easily with judges and reporters. And behind that mask, one of the most brutal, remorseless killers the South has ever produced. Dubbed ""The Charles Manson of the South,"" Gaskins confessed to dozens of murders-men, women, friends, strangers, a toddler, and even his own niece. He killed for profit, for pleasure, and for reasons so minor they barely qualified as motives at all. He stabbed, shot, poisoned, drowned, and suffocated his victims-often disposing of them in the quiet marshes and back roads of the South Carolina Lowcountry. But his most shocking crime came after his conviction. While awaiting execution on Death Row, under the tightest security the state could impose, Gaskins committed an audacious and unprecedented act of violence-murdering another inmate with a military-grade explosive. It was a crime that exposed dangerous assumptions about confinement, control, and the limits of punishment. This book is the definitive Southern Gothic true-crime account of Donald Gaskins' life, crimes, trial, and execution-written with the depth, restraint, and authority the subject demands. Told with novelistic intensity and factual precision, it traces Gaskins from his violent beginnings to his rise as a master manipulator, his reign of terror across South Carolina, and his final hours before execution. More than a catalogue of crimes, this is a disturbing psychological portrait of a man who refused to be neutralized-and a justice system forced to confront its own vulnerabilities. This is not a story about redemption. It is not a story about regret. It is the true story of evil hiding in plain sight-and the cost of underestimating it. For readers of serious true crime, criminal psychology, and Southern Gothic nonfiction, this book will stay with you long after the final page.

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