Donald Gaskins Biography

As Gaskins later wrote in his memoirs, he first became interested in death when he saw in some television program about nature as a cobra devours a rat. Sometimes human beings turn into real monsters. This happened with many serial killers and other criminals whose actions are simply impossible to explain. Among such persons, Donald Gaskins stands out, a serial murderer-Cannibal, who, in his own way, killed more than 90 people.

The offender from the very young age standing out with his ferocious cruelty, the serial killer Donald Henry Gaskin after death was called "the most prolific serial killer in the history of South Carolina." Seeking to become a “living god”, this monster, who, as a child, gave an indecent nickname, meaning a small children's penis, let there be a “shorty”, resorts to torture, murders and even cannibalism to achieve his dark intention.

Although this criminal committed his terrible crimes as an adult, his path to his gloomy fate began in childhood. Gaskins was born on March 13 in the district of Florence, South Carolina, and is the son of a single mother, who has no time to deal with it. In addition to the absence of someone from the relatives to whom he would be attached, Gaskin is experiencing because of his small stature, for which he receives the nickname "Shorty".

Classmates are constantly mocking him, it happens that they are striking. In the end, Gaskins at the age of 11, throwing a school and begins to work in a garage and on a family farm. In the memoirs of Gaskins, which were later converted into an autobiographical book called “The Last Truth”, the serial killer says that at about that time he had already begun to experience deep hatred not only for others, but also to people as a whole.

It is during work in the garage that Gaskins begins its criminal activity. So far, there is no talk of murders, but to commit armed robbery is easily. He becomes an active member of the gang formed from the employees of this garage.

Among his crimes of that time, one can note not only robberies and theft, but also the attack and rape of the child. And at the age of 13, he already makes the first attempt to kill, as a result of which he is sent to a correctional institution for minors, where he is until he is 18 years old. Soon after arriving in this children's colony, he is subjected to group rape. And then the local “authority” takes him under his custody, and Gaskin is forced to fulfill all his whims, including sexual ones.

The first murder ... While in custody, Gaskins are trying to run several times. One of the attempts is successful. In the wild, he meets a girl who is only 13 years old at that time, and they get married. Soon their daughter is born. But then he is caught and sent again to prison - to sit down their term. Having freed himself at the age of 18, he begins to work on a tobacco plantation.

Soon he again takes on the old. Gaskins, for example, suspect that it is he who performs numerous arson in the district. When one of his girlfriends begins to be interested in whether he is a arsonist, Gaskin attacks her and tries to kill, but he does not succeed. However, for this attempt to kill, he again goes to prison. In prison, he is familiar with everything, because he has a imprisonment experience.

In order to inspire the fear of the inhabitants of the prison and again not to become an object of sexual harassment, he, without thinking twice, kills his cellmate. However, he was lucky: the court considered that it was self -defense, and he was added only three years. While he is sitting behind bars, his wife is divorced with him. Enraged by this act, Gaskin makes an escape to marry again ...

on her, to the one who betrayed him. He is again caught and sent to sit down. Finally, in the year he is released. Neither the first term nor the second contribute to its correction. He again goes along a slippery path. And in the year the time comes when he becomes a serial killer. The first victim is the hitchhiker whom he selects and who, to his misfortune, awkwardly jokes about Gaskin's appearance.

It is after this murder that the “shorty” becomes those who are terrifying all over America, not just killing, but first with pleasure tormenting their victims, most of whom are women. For a long time, no one suspects that it was Gaskins that is behind these killings. Unlike other serial murderers, he does not adhere to a certain method: he strangles, cuts, even eats ...

Gaskins committing murders about once every one and a half months, leaving, from his words, “to hunt” to satisfy “his sense of concern”. In his autobiography, he calls one series of murders “coastal murders”, and the second series “serious murders” followed. At the end of the year, he even kills his own summer niece Jenis and her friend, the summer Patricia.But the truth, finally, pops up to the surface, and in the year the offender is in prison, from where it will never come out.

Gaskins was handed over to his friend-communal Walter Nili, who told the police that Gaskins had recently killed two young people. The police begins the investigation and finds 8 corpses. During the trial, Gaskins are recognized in the murder of at least 90 people. But even after that he is silent. He kills the prisoner, whose name is Rudolf Tiner, convicted of the murder of an elderly couple when robbing a store.

Somehow, the son of the dead manages to agree with Gaskin so that he killed Tiner. Gaskins first try to poison Tiner several times, but unsuccessfully. Then he independently collects a device that looks like a portable radio receiver, and passes it to Tiner, convincing that with the help of this “thing” they will be able to talk in different cells. When Tiner in the evening, wanting to talk with a new “friend”, brings the device to the ear and turns it on, the “radio” explodes.

It is not possible to save Tiner. For this murder, he is sentenced to the death penalty. And this time the verdict is not softened. Gaskins, sentenced to death, is trying to avoid an electric chair, committing suicide. The attempt fails, and in September 6, at 1 hour 10 minutes of night, he is seated on an electric chair. Gaskins refused the last word, saying only: “My lawyers will be told about me.

I'm ready".