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Donald Gaskins Pee Wee Murders
As a matter of fact, Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins had only three methods of killing all the innocent people, and that was by rape, torture, and murder. He assumed he would get away with all these terrible cases that he caused, but for some reason he always got caught of killing over more than one hundred innocent men, women, and children. Yet, all murders caused by Donald Henry Gaskins resulted all over South Carolina where “Pee Wee” was originally from. The grand motive that caused for Gaskins to murder so many people was for revenge, after all he was bullied at school and beaten up poorly after so many men his mother brought to the house. “Pee Wee” for over forty five years tortured, killed, and murdered so many lives, but for some reason he
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