Due to the graphic nature of this killers, crimes lizard discretion is advised. This episode includes discussions of torture, sexual assault and murder that some people may find offensive. We'd buys extreme caution for children under thirteen Donald Gascons, gritted his teeth ass. He sped down the South Carolina Coastal highway. His breath was ragged. His arms were trembling with rage. He inhaled slowly and gripped the wheel tighter to make the shaking stop. He felt like you well at a ball of hot lead. There was only one thing now that could make him feel better, taking out his frustrations on someone else. Finally, after

Isles, he saw a young girl standing with her thumb out on the side of the road gascons pulled over waved to her. Hitchhiker climbed in the back seat before the girl. And told him where she was headed. Gascon started driving. He smiled ass. He turned onto a nearby dirt road soon it would all be over and he would feel better. The girl started to protest as gascons stop the car, but she fell silent when he, did a long knife at her throat. Gascons could tell she was about to cry he liked

liked that high on Gregg pulsing. This is serial killers. Parkhurst original every episode we dive into the minds of madness of serial killers today were exploring the gruesome crimes of Donald Henry Gascons, also known as the Mean man in America, I'm here with my co host Vanessa Richardson pie. Everyone find episodes of serial killers and all other Parkhurst originals for free on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcast to stream serial killers for free on Spotify, just open the app and type serial killers in the search bar

at Parkhurst Regretful, for you are listeners, you allow us to do it. We love, let us know how we're doing reach out on Facebook and Instagram at par, cast and twitter. At park ass network last episode, we discussed how Donald Pee Wee Gascons went from home, and data to blood thirsty murderer today will explore the height of gascons rampage and talk about the Grizzly prison murder that landed him on death row, in nineteen. Sixty eight thirty Five year Old Donald Henry Gascons was released from prison after serving for years for sexually assaulting a twelve year old girl. Soon after he moved to a small South Carolina town in search of a new life, but instead

enjoying his freedom. Gascons became restless. His anger started getting worse and even the slightest irritation flared his temper so too cool his head. He took to picking up female hitchhikers along the state. Highway. Extorting them for sex in exchange for around but soon his appetite for violence grew more ravenous, Gascon started having sadistic fantasies about the women who rejected him twisted seems that would play in his head day, night and by the beginning of nineteen, sixty nine, he knew He was on the verge of exploding in violent rage. If he didn't find an outlet for his anger, though Gascons was terrified at the prospect of returning to jail, he seemed unable to handle his temper or just stop picking up hitchhikers. So it was hardly a surprise when, in September of that year

the two urges finally collided. The Sunday morning, thirty six year old gascons went out for a new There are long drive to cool his head. He crews up and down the highway four hours trying to shake off what he described as a hot lead. In feeling, in the pit of his stomach around mid afternoon. He spotted a tall young woman by the side of the road who we guessed wasn't early teens gascons pulled over and she hoped in his car as he pulled back onto the highway. Gascons asked her where she was headed when she said Charlestown gasket.

Snorted, he delicately implied that the only reason he drive that far would be in return for sex. At that the woman laughed nervously and asked to be left out of the car. According to gascons, when previous hitchhikers shot down his advances, he always let them leave safely, but this time he hesitated. He couldn't stand to imagine dropping off only to have her shudder and discussed the girls nervously, Her had no effect on him. Gascons had already decided he couldn't let her go. He

going to make her suffer Gascon seemed particularly prone to outbursts when he felt humiliated repressed. Feelings of shame is a common trigger for many serial killers. Vanessa is going to take over on the psychology here and throughout the episode. Please note that this is not a licence ecologist your psychiatrist, but she has done a lot of research for the show thanks Gregg according to Doktor Robert hail serial killers, often report treating their victims as standards for people who ve personally humiliated than in the past. Hale rights in the mind of the serial killer. The victim serves to be. Back memories of someone who embarrassed them earlier in life, the killer, transfers, feelings of hatred, rage and fear onto the victim in an attempt to remove the memory of humiliation. That day you nineteen sixty nine, the brutal rage gascons had suppressed for over thirty five.

Veers came flooding out all at once. He pulled over to the sun. The road and slammed on the brakes, then he slowly turned and smiled at his passenger The woman returned his glance. Uneasily then reached for her bag in the back seat, but once she took her eyes off of gascons, he punched her hard on the side of the head, then slammed her face into the deep sport, he hid her twice more until she finally slumped into the passenger seat. Unconscious gascons bombed the woman using his belt and drove down to an old blogging road when she came to he began torturing her here. The woman at nice point and mutilated her chest. Then he threw her in the trunk of his car. Next he stopped by a gas station. By some clothes line with the young woman still in his trunk, then he

drove to the edge of a deep marsh. There Gaskins pulled her out of the trunk and made her plead for her life, but when she did, he just laughed at her face only after she was completely overcome by despair. Did he brutally kill her? Then he sunk her body in the spa, afterwards. Gascons claimed he felt better than he had in months. The tension in his God had seemed to dissolve, but it wasn't gone for long the next morning he woke with a start. He was overcome by panic and had even what the bed during the night Gascons chastised himself, not for killing the woman, but for doing it. So impulsive,

He resolved never to be so careless again over the next few weeks, gascons intricately planned his next murders. He bought cables and handcuffs and various tools to torture his victims, including a blow torch and a pump used to spray water at high pressure. Then he trolls around the backwoods near the state highway searching for deserted roads and out of the way places to stash bodies. After a few weeks, he knew every nook and cranny of the wetlands in the region. He was ready to go hunting about six weeks after gascons killed his first hitchhiker. He went back out to search for another victim soon

He found another young woman, tortured and killed her, and just six weeks after that, he went out again. Gascons later wrote, Eddie torture, the girls and women in a variety of ways. But generally his preference skewed to whatever was most painful. The more his victim suffered the more sadistic pleasure he took in there He never bothered to learn their names and after a while, he forgot most of their faces. Because of this, it's difficult to verify how many people he murdered this way, and it is important to note that many of his purported kills during this time are unconfirmed, because these murders are confirmed its possible. The gascons embellish, this part of his life, he loved for people to be afraid of him

He may have thought that exaggerating these stories would make him sound more ruthless and prolific than he actually was. In fact, it's possible. He never killed any hitchhikers at all, but according to gascons after his first three murders that here. He continued his killing spree for the next year and a half averaging about one victim every six weeks. By his count, he claimed the lives of ten women between September of nineteen sixty nine and October of nineteen. Seventy alone, including the man he murdered in prison years before by one thousand nine hundred and seventy Gaskin said, killed almost a dozen people. But despite all these murders, it was his 12th victim that mark a turning point for him in November of nineteen seventy thirty seven year old gascons got him a Cobb opportunity. He couldn't resist, while driving through the town of Sumter,

our load of young girls, including as fifteen year old niece Janis, flagged him down. Gascons was on good terms with jealous, though they weren't close. They often saw each other at a drive and restaurant at weekends, where gascons regularly eight and generous hung out with her friends, but that night he could tell the Janis wasn't herself when gascons hold up to the group of teenage girls. They told him that Janis had gotten drunk and needed to sober up before she could go home. They asked gascons to take care of her, while the rest of them rushed back to make their curfew. Gascons agreed and Janis, along with her sober friend seventeen year old, Patricia climbed in his car. He then took the girls to small house outside of town once inside. He suggested that Janis. Take us shower to sober up by women

Frisian started, helping Janis clean up gascons attacked. He attempted to sexually assault them both, but they fought back Patricia and ran from gascons and found a tube IFOR in the ground. She grabbed it ten swim it around wildly clipping gascons on the back of the head. He hit the ground hard and passed out, but a couple of minutes later he came to bewildered. He stood up and looked around the room. The girls were gone, gascons jumped up and ran outside He hoped in his car and race down the highway. Knowing the girls couldn't have gotten far, he eventually found them staggering back toward town in the dark, gascons jumped out of the car and held the girls at gunpoint. He threw them in the trunk and then took them back.

His house, where he again attempted to rape them, but when they nearly got away a second time, gascons realized he couldn't wrangle both of them at once. Instead, he decided he just have to kill them. First, he knocked both girls out with the butt of his pistol. Then he gathered up their belongings, drug Patricia and into his trunk and drove down the road a bit too an abandoned home. He knew well. What's he arrived, he managed to move for unconscious body to the back of the house, to the septic tanks

Gascons opened at the top of the putrid tank and dropped Patricia an inside while she was still breathing. He watched her sink waiting until the bubbles stopped coming up then replaced the lid. She was his twelfth victim, but he wasn't done yet. Gascons then drove back down to his house to deal with charges, but when he arrived, he found that she had already died. The blow to her head from the butt of his pistol haven't just knocked her out. It killed her so with the deed already done, gascons buried his niece behind his barn,

when Patricia Anne and Janis were reported missing. The very next day gascons got nervous. Their friends saw the girls get into his car. He knew it was just a matter of time before the cups were knocking at his door even Oh Gascons didn't put too much effort into coming up with an alibi. He hoped instead that he done a good enough job getting rid of the evidence that police wouldn't be suspicious. So a detective showed up at his home gascons play dumb. He claimed be taken. The girls to the drive and restaurant to sober up and that during that time they confided that they hated their small town and wanted to run away uncle gascons valiantly try

to talk them out of it, but he said he was interrupted when a car driven by some boys, Janice and Patricia and New, pulled up. They left with the boys, and that was the last. He saw of them apparently satisfied the police. They were more than happy to classify the girls as run away, so I can close the case, but guess family wasn't convinced. They continue to question him about Janis for years, but nothing ever came of their doubts, asking once again had gotten lucky and unsurprisingly, his brush with the law. Hadn't scared him one bit. In fact it only.

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In November nineteen. Seventy after killing nearly a dozen victims. Thirty seven year old, Donald Henry Gascons, murderous streak reached a turning point. For the first time in his killing career, he took the life of some one. He knew personally his fifteen year old, niece Janis and her friend Patricia at the local police investigated. Appearances they never rested, gascons for the crime and as soon as they moved on to another case. Just one month later, Gascon struck again in December of nineteen. Seventy gas and was fixing the roof at a local school. When he spotted thirteen year old, Peggy Container running past gascons claimed he knew who Peggy was because she was the daughter of a state senator so

She rushed by. He said hello, Peggy according to Gascons, hidden overheard, one of piggies friends asking her who we was Peggy, allegedly told your friend that Gascons was just white trash gascons was furious. He hated when he thought others were looking down on him, whether it was because of his height or his class. Nothing upset him more so well. He restrained himself in the moment the rage simmered inside him for a day until he couldn't stand it any longer. Gascons lied to his boss to set up an alibi, telling him that he was visiting Charleston for the weekend. Then he drove to the casinos home and waited after some time. Peggy walked out of the house by herself and Gascon seized the opportunity he grabbed. The girl held a knife to her throat and through her in the trunk of his car

He then drove back to his house where he claimed he tortured her using a bottle of corrosive acid afterward. He dumped the body in the middle of town where it was sure to be disk covered when police found the body they pursued a full scale investigation and because of his criminal record gascons an immediate suspect, but this time he was prepared. He'd pain, stay Lee constructed an alibi for the occasion, accounting for every second of you. Imaginary visit to Charleston and it worked months.

After another man was convicted of the crime and gascons walked free when he claimed credit for Peggy murder years. Afterward investigators refused to believe him, as we mentioned earlier, Gascons wasn't always a reliable narrator and there is reason to suspect that gascons confession to Peggy murder years later was false for one the story about Peggy inside bring. Him was remarkably similar to one of his first assaults. In that account he hit a young woman with a hammer for taunting him and calling him scum for another gascons didn't usually dump as victims into obvious locations. He later claimed. He made a special exception for Peggy, because her father was an important man, but this explanation seems suspect at best up until this point, Gascons had also been relatively careful about who he killed. He was terrified of returning to jail and

it seems unlikely that he would have considered murdering of politicians. Daughter to this day, investigators are confident that they put the right man away for Peggy staff. Despite Gascons confession. They believe that gascons most likely lied to take the credit for a higher profile murder, however, its worth noting that, although this may be possible, gascons already had plenty of publicity for other murders when he claimed he killed peg There wasn't a strong reason for him to lie about it other than wanting to take credit for as many mergers ass. He could. There are not gascons really murdered, Peggy Casino. He certainly didn't stop after her death as night Seventy one rolled around thirty eight year old gascons was still getting an intense craving for violence every six weeks or so and just like before he was unable to hold himself back.

Gascons claimed he murdered eleven more hitchhikers that year. However, he never provided many details about these kills and, as usual, he remained uninterested in his victims. Names it's possible, the gascons really did murder another dozen people in nineteen seventy one. But once again there is reason to doubt his story that year he would have been quite busy. For one around that time. He married his fifth wife, the what His name is known, but she was three months pregnant when they married and six months later she gave birth to gascons only son who they named Donald Lee Gascon

It would have been a tall order for gascons to disappear so often with a wife and new baby at home, where there are other inconsistency, is from a stories that cast doubt on his account, for example, and nineteen. Seventy two gascons also said he shot Eddie Brow a man who sold stolen guns for him, along with that, his wife birdie. According to gascons, he killed Eddie too then him from snitching to police, about the gun running, but there's no evidence that Eddie or Birdie ever even exist. There's a hind likelihood that gascons later confessed to these murders, and perhaps other kills as well simply to inflate his victim count, Just as he may have done with the murder of Peggy Katrina, Doktor Catherine Rams, lent notes that there are several reasons why a serial killer

my one to exaggerate their number of kills, including a twisted lost for fame. She writes some serial killers gave outrageously high victim cows to enhance their degree of infamy. This explanation rings true in the case of gascons. After all, his first murder wasn't committed out of blood lost, but to create a violent reputation that would protect from other inmates in prison. He hated to be humiliated and he found early on that fear and intimidation were his best weapons. If he could make people believe he was some kind of insatiable monster. No one would ever think of underestimated. And so he set out to make himself the most brutal killer. He could imagine, even if that meant- maybe embellishing here and there, but go gascons Certainly exaggerated and flat out lied to authorities about all kinds of things he undeniably

the terrorized an killed. Many people ass time went on his appetite for torture intensified and he began to subject, tis victims to more and more elaborate suffering, sometimes, as he browsed hardware stores for fun. Looking over the tools hanging in the aisles he dream up: new sadistic fantasies but Gascons perpetrated one of his most disturbing acts. Against a fourteen year old girl named Jackie Freeman, it's possible that Jackie was made up victim. Like many of us others, but she was one of the few hitchhikers whose name he bother to learn, making her and unusual case gascons claimed to have picked up Jackie on the high away in the latter half of nineteen seventy three, she was a young runaway who confessed to the forty year old gascons that she'd been abused by her stepfather gascons, told jerk, Hubert he'd had a similar upbringing knew her pain. What he didn't tell her is that he planned

makers suffer even more. Instead of bring Jackie to Myrtle, beaches promised gascons drove to an abandoned house outside of Sumpter South Carolina there. He sexually abused the girl and claimed that he spent multiple days torturing her. He even alleged he cooked and eight small parts of her body, his only disturbing foray into cannibalism, but it didn't last long according to Gascons, he finally killed Jackie after eating part of her leg, because she screamed watch while he caught her by then Gascons had fully embraced the devil in side himself. There was no line he wouldn't cross and the more victims he claimed the better he slept at night.

And soon, after murdering Jackie Freeman, he decided to let the world know in bold fashion what he was capable of. He came across a shady acquaintance, who is selling a use? Tourists for cheap for obvious reasons, gascons friend had trouble getting any want to buy it, but Gascons had no such reservations. He purchased the hearse on the spot and started driving it around town. He even made a custom signed to hang on the back, which said we hall anything living or dead. Vehicle made him somewhat of a local eccentric and his town. Whenever someone asked why he drove a hers, Gascon said because I kill so many people. I need a horse to haul them to my private cemetery. The locals took it ass, a joke at first, but no one could deny that people close to gascons seem to disappear people like Doreen Dempsey and her two year old daughter, Robin Gascons, had known

twenty three year old Doreen for years and in December of nineteen seventy three she came to visit gascons and his new wife to ask a favor during was seven months. Pregnant needed a place to stay until she gave birth. His I wanted to help, but Gascons claim there wasn't enough room in the house for them afterward. He took Doreen and her daughter for a walk in the woods away from his wife's prying eyes He told Doreen, he owned a trailer where she was welcome to stay. All she had to do was promise not to tell his wife about the arrangement because, instead of rent, he planned to collect sexual favours I'm Doreen agree

then she and her daughter got into gascons hearse and the three of them drove out into the middle of the woods to see the trailer. What followed is too graphic to describe, but the encounter M dead in the deaths of Doreen, her unborn child and. Her two year old daughter after he buried them in a shallow grave gascons returned home with a smile on his face and climbed into bed with his wife. The stench of death still clinging to him gascons later claimed that murdering Doreen and her daughter marked yet another turning point for him. At first, he killed hitchhikers to relieve the dark, not in the depths of the stomach, but after Doreen that changed, he didn't just murdered to quell his anxiety anymore. Now he was also doing it for sexual gratification.

And the sick pleasure of it. All this only made gascons violent, routine, even easier to repeat. He no longer felt the need to justify his murders and anyway, if there was any opportunity to inflict suffering at another person, he took it with relish no matter what kind of mood he was in gascons was unabashed pure evil. He wasn't running from his demons. Any longer he'd become his own, devil when we return Gascons is finally arrested.

But not even a maximum security. Prison cell can stop him from killing. Now back to the story. In late nineteen, seventy three forty year Old Donald Henry Gascons reached a turning point. After allegedly claiming almost thirty victims. He finally admitted to himself tat. He liked the way killing felt and when he and his wife move back to Charleston South Carolina at the beginning of nineteen, seventy four he was overjoyed at the prospect of terrorizing an entirely new community. It didn't hurt gascons long to find his first victims in his new town after local coffee refuse to pay gascons the money he owed. Gascons took the man into the woods and murdered him along with his girlfriend

after the pair went missing. It was obvious to many people in the local criminal underbelly that gascons was the killer, but his violent reputation was so notorious by this point that no one dared go to the police. Gascons newest stroller criminals were unlikely to report him, and so after years of taking great care to hide his murders, he started getting sloppy a few months after killing the car thief. Gascons murdered a con man named Horace after he came on to his wife. According to gascons, had Horace offered him something in exchange for his wife. He would have had no qualms about making an arrangement, but because horse had gone behind gascons back, he had to die. This reasoning

perhaps explains why gascons White separated from him soon after horses, death, though she didn't suspect, gascons of murdering Horace. She certainly didn't enjoy her husband's habit of disappearing for days and so, one morning, while he was gone, Gascons wife moved out and took their son Donald Junior with her gascons dealt with distress of the break up the way he always did by murdering any hitchhikers unlucky enough to flag him down on the highway, but in between

in these anonymous Lange's that year. He made plenty of time to torture and kill people close to him as well. Gascons described nineteen, seventy five as my business here and my killing last year, but this time the forty two year old wasn't just killing for pleasure. He was doing it for cash at some point in nineteen. Seventy five, an acquaintance offered him a job as a hitman gascons had never considered murder for higher before

was opened to anything that could make him a quick buck and pay was good. A woman named Suzanne Kippur offered to pay gascons one thousand dollars nearly five thousand dollars today to kill her former lover and older rich man named Silas Yeats, Gateshead, bankrolled Suzanne, extravagant lifestyle for months, but one day, possibly because his wife discovered the affair. He kicked his hand out of the home. He was paying for an repossessed. Her car gascons claim to find the story heartbreaking so for the chance to get revenge for Suzanne the malicious satisfaction of killing a rich man and a pile of money. He was

more than willing to get rid of Yeats. After all, he was practiced killer. He knew how to murder how to bury a body. The only trouble would be luring Yeats out of his house to help him out. With that gascons recruited, the Ex wife of one of his friends. He had the woman dressed provocatively knock on your store, feigning car trouble once she ate stepped out into the driveway. Gascons Preston gone into his face and had him climate. The truck of his car gascons gave his friends wife a couple hundred dollars to keep quiet. Then he drove Yeats out to an empty grave. He does. Out in the woods there. He slid Yeats Throat, then drove back to town to collect his payment, but Gascons decided that the money alone wasn't enough. As soon as he saw Suzanne and person, he decided to extort her for sexual favours as well. For months he sexually

businesses had calling her up whenever he wanted and threatening to kill her ass. She didn't do what he asked, but even after gas gins, finally left Suzanne alone, the consequences of his first murder for higher job lingered, though Gascons paid as France Ex wife not ask any questions. When she saw Yeats picture the paper she put two and two together and soon she let everything slipped, her boyfriend Boyfriend was furious that his girlfriend was tricked into being an accessory to murder, not because of the crime, but because Gascons head under paid her, so the boyfriend trying to blackmail him for five thousand dollars at if Gascons refused he threat. To go to the cops. It's not clear why the man or his girlfriend thought extorting a hit. Man was a good idea. Perhaps they believed their personal relationship with gascons would stop him from hurting them day

were dead wrong, gascons arranged a meeting to settle the payment. The couple pick gascons up in their cars and he directed them down a long dirt. Road where he claimed to have stashed is cash. Then, in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, the couple willingly ff with him to a nearby swamp. Of course, there was no money for them at the end of the road. Only an open grave dug deep enough for two asking shot them both in the back before they had time to scream and buried now that he tied up all the loose ends for his first hitman job. Gasket was ready to get back to killing for fun. In the summer of nineteen seventy five, he turned his sites toward thirteen year old, Kim Gillikins, his neighbors daughter over the course of a few weeks gap,

kins gained Kim's trust he invited Kim and other neighbour kids over to play at his house. He took them. Hot dogs took them to the beach. He even had the kids call him uncle, but the entire time he was targeting can eventually he found himself alone with a girl, then started to sexually assaulted. Her But when she began to cry he backed off and pretended predation was only just a game. Gascons was using a technique commonly used by child predators according to research, psychologist doktor, IE and Ellie,

Pedophiles often begin the grooming process. By attempting to build a report between themselves and their victim justice Gascons dead, then once they have established an intimate bond with a child predators begin their sexual abuse. Doktor Elliot writes that some offenders introduce sexual content by framing. It is a sort of game. This allows them to test how a victim will respond before slowly escalating the abuse, gascons eventually convinced him, but he didn't mean any harm and made her promise not to tell anyone a couple of weeks later, the child forgave gascons. She even trusted her uncle enough to go with them on a secret overnight trip she snuck out of the house without her parents, knowing when came showed up at his house with an overnight bag, Gascons pinned her down and spent the night torturing her the next move

nothing. He strangled the girl and buried her near the body of his niece Janis. When her parents, discovered Kim, was missing. They immediately suspected Gascons told them that he hadn't seen came in days, but Gascons could tell they worked buying a story he figured. The best thing to do was to get out of town for a while, so we drove to Florida and laid low for almost a month. Gascons hoped the suspicions would have died down by the time he was back, but he was sorely disappointed when he returned Kim's, Father still suspected him of somehow being involved in his daughters disappearance and to make matters worse. Gascons discovered that, in his absence, his business partners had stolen the tools he used to strip cars to gascons. It seemed ass. If his work would never be done, there would always be someone who he felt

He did to die so he track the tooth these down. With the help of his friend Walter Neely, First Gascons plied the two men with beer. Then he led them out into the woods. Along with Walter, though he had ideal would Gascons was planning. Walter was used to do whenever he asked so. The three men followed gascons into the dark, but only Walter came back of lie when the deed was done. Walter was horrified gascons made him, help buried the bodies and even confessed to embed these weren't. The first two people here

were killed. Normally gascons would have murdered Walter too, but he'd known the man for years. If he could trust anyone, he could trust Walter. In October of nineteen, seventy five Kim Galvin's father convinced a deputy to search Gascons house. He knew gascons have something to do with his daughters, disappearance and soon is worth. Suspicions were confirmed. The officer found some of the young girls, clothing, stuffed and Gascons closet gascons was arrested on an unrelated charge, while detectives built their case over the next few days. Authorities began questioning his friends and associates and soon Walter Neely began to crack.

After helping gascons bury the two men. Walter stayed silent, either out of loyalty or fear he kept what he knew from the police, but the guilt of watching gascons murder to men ate him up inside and soon had to talk about it with someone had to confess desperate for an outlet Walter turned to his minister and told the man, everything he knew about Donald Henry Gascons, and he knew a lot after recovering from the shock of the disturbing story. The minister convinced Walter to turn himself into police to save his soul into separate nineteen. Seventy five Walter, but authorities to the bodies of the two thieves he'd watched, Gascons murder, then because Gascons hinted to alter that he buried more bodies near by Paul

stood a sweep of the area in dad spot alone. They uncovered the corpses of four more victims before police had struggled to, PIN Kim Vulcans disappearance on gascons. Now they had evidence linking him to six murders. Ultimately, they decided to try gascons for each crime, one at a time they began with a trial for one of the thieves he killed. While Walter Neely watched using strong ballistic evidence, the prosecution linked a pistol gascons owned to the killing shot. It was all the jury needed on May twenty Eightth nineteen, seventy six, forty three year old gascons was convicted and sentenced to life in Prison Walter newly meanwhile didn't fair any better, since he had made a deal with police before leading them to the bodies. He was also sentenced to life for being

accessory to murder by the end of the following year, Gascons was tried for the deaths of eight more victims and given a life sentence for each one, when he returned to prison, he was one of the most notorious killers inside the Carolinas history, with infamy like that gascons had the respective every and made an estate penitentiary, He could get away with almost anything in prison short of escape, but what he really wanted to do was to keep killing one thousand nine hundred and eighty forty seven year old, Gaskins finally got his chance.

An inmate approached him with a job. Someone wanted a man on death row named Rudolf, Tyner Kill, Tyner had killed an elderly couple in a botched robbery and their son. A man named Tony Sima, wanted him to pay for what he done, but due to the high level of security on death row, the hit was nearly impossible. Gascons, however, was up for the challenge. Over the next few months, gascons befriended Tyner by smuggling drugs into a cell, then once they built a rapport, he tried poisoning him Gascons claimed he attempted this five different times: lacing diners food and drugs, with whatever Tony CMOS sent him, but nothing worked. Finally, Gascons was sick of the delays with a series of bribes. He was able to get C4 a plastic explosive smuggled into prison

he rigged it to a walkie talkie and sent it up to Tyner as a gift, claiming it would make it easy for Tyner to ask him for more drugs whenever he liked joiner believed him, then what he pressed the button to send a message to Gaskell's heed needed the sea for the explosion, rocked the entire cell block. It took weeks for investigators to figure out what had happened, but when they finally realised who was responsible, they were blown away. Donald Henry Gascons had killed someone on death row with military grade weaponry, but though the story was good for gascons, increasingly violent reputation in prison, it also gained him a formidable enemy. The prison board. The explosion was an embarrassment, add, had exposed the facilities flawed security. Now authorities were determined not just to seek justice but really

and they pressed to get gascons the death penalty and got it ten years and several failed appeals. Later fifty eight year Old Donald Henry Gascons was executed by electric chair September, sixth, nineteen. Ninety one at the time, gascons accepted his fate, but his impending death did nothing to humble him before his execution. He wrote. I have walked the same path as God by taking lives and making others of of me, I become gods equal through killing. Others I become my own master. Gascons believed that doing the devil's work somehow made him a God something transcendent that extended beyond his mortality, but really, if gascons proved anything it's that d,

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