450 - Serial Killer Pee Wee Gaskins: Meanest Man in America

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Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 163 minutes

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Pee Wee Gaskin's diminutive size of 5'2" tall and 130 pounds soaking wet didn't stop him from brutally killing at least eleven people, and possibly up to 105. The South Carolina serial killer murdered for a lot of reasons: revenge and personal vendettas, fits of rage, but mostly to satisfy a deep-rooted urge to rape, torture, and kill young women. An urge Pee Wee called, his "bothersomeness.”

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0:00.0	Donald Peewee Gaskins was truly a monster. He was a cold-blooded sadistic rapist who first sexually assaulted a girl when he wasn't yet 13 years old himself. He was a serial killer and alleged cannibal from the state of South Carolina. He killed 10 confirmed victims, but confessed to more than 100 murders, the majority of which have never been verified. In a 331-page statement,
0:23.6	Gaskins described acts of murder, rape, torture, as casually as most people talk about what they
0:30.0	had for breakfast. We claim be laced his soda with acid and watched as his victim drank it,
0:35.2	beat his own niece to death, and drown a pregnant woman and
0:38.7	her baby. These are just a few of the brutal acts, he admitted to, before his execution in 1991.
0:45.0	But in the autobiography published after his death, he confessed to much more disturbing details of his
0:50.9	crimes. At one point, Pee-wee was known as the meanest man in America. He claimed to
0:56.8	have killed for many reasons, money, to save himself from going back to prison, revenge and
1:02.2	personal vendettas, fits of rage, but mostly he killed thanks to a deep-rooted desire to rape,
1:08.8	torture, and murder young women, which Pee-Wee called his
1:11.7	bothersomeness. He claimed that every time he felt those bothersome urges, he went hunting
1:17.2	on the highways along South Carolina's coast, looking for lone female hitchhikers to brutalize.
1:23.5	Was Pee-Wy Gaskins one of the most prolific serial killers in American history? Or was he a liar who was also still one of the most sadistic monsters you will ever hear about?
1:34.1	This week will cover the life and crimes of Pee-Wee Gaskins, his coastal kills and his, quote, serious murders.
1:40.9	We'll compare what credible sources have to say about him to what he claimed was his
1:45.0	final truth in another serial killer, morbid escapeist, be oh so glad that the lives of so many
1:52.1	of the characters in this story, including peewees, are not your own edition of TimeSuck.
1:57.2	This is Michael McDonald, and you're listening to TimeSuck.
2:02.2	You're listening to TimeSuck. You're listening to TimeSuck.
2:13.8	Happy Monday and welcome or welcome back to the cult of the curious.
2:18.0	I'm Dan Cummins, Suckmaster, podcaster who hopes he has not been compromised by Russian propagandists,
2:24.3	Soviet cheese meat nourishment held in solidarity by strong, selfless comrade, bread lover,
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