Dig Me a Grave (eBook)

The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Who Seduced the South

Richard A. Harpootlian, Shaun Assael (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
400 Seiten
Citadel Press (Verlag)
978-0-8065-4290-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The definitive true ';Southern Gothic' account of the life, crimes, conviction, and execution of Donald ';Pee Wee' Gaskins, the charismatic, brutal, well-liked, remorseless South Carolina serial killer who was dubbed the Charles Manson of the Southwritten by the prosecutor who brought him to justice. Of the hundreds of murder cases that noted South Carolina attorney Dick Harpootlian has prosecuted, one in particular haunts him. Donald ';Pee Wee' Gaskins was a serial killer and rapist, a master manipulator who claimed to have killed over 100 people and is known to have murdered over a dozen, including a toddler, and his own teenage niece. Yet it was on Death Row that he pulled off his most audacious murderkilling another inmate with a military grade explosive. As personable as he was ruthless, Pee Wee defied easy categories. He killed to avenge minor slights as well as for pleasure, using any convenient methodincluding stabbing, shooting, poison, suffocation, and drowning. Evidence suggested he forced at least one victim to dig his own grave, stand in it, and be shot. With escalating callousness, Pee Wee murdered acquaintances, friends, family members, and strangers. Yet within his North Charleston community he was well-likeda family man who took neighborhood kids to the beach and hosted cookouts. Ice-cold within but outwardly charming, he joked with judges, reporters, and Harpootlian himself, but didn't hesitate to hatch a plot to kidnap the prosecutor's daughter in order to extort an escape.Dig Me a Graveis a haunting look at a prolific, remorseless killer, as well as a provocative exploration of justice and the death penalty.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.12.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 8 pages of photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe
• Schlagworte: Alex Murdaugh • Attorney • axe • Biographies • Carolina Correctional Institute • Charles Manson • Charleston • conspiracy • Courtroom • Crime • crime books • criminal justice • criminal justice system • Criminal psychology • criminology books • Death • Death Penalty • Death Row • death sentence • death threat • Deep South • Dick Harpootlian • Donald Gaskins • Donna Gaskins • Electric Chair • electrocution • Evidence • Execution • Explosion • FBI • fbi books • firing squad • Forensic • Forensic Psychology • Forensics • Forensic Science • grave • guilty • Helter Skelter • Hillbilly Elegy • I'll Be Gone in the Dark • Injustice • inmate • Justice • Killers • Kimberly Ghelkins • Law • Law and Order • Mass murderer • Mindhunter • Murder • North Carolina • Pee Wee Gaskins • political books • Politics • Prison • Prisoner • Prosecution • Prosecutor • Prospect, SC • punishment • Richard Tyner • Rudolph Tyner • Rural Noir • sentence • serial killer • serial killer book • serial killer books • serial killer encyclopedia • serial killers • serial killers true crime • Serial Murder • Shaun Assael • shotgun • Social Justice • South Carolina • South Carolina Law Enforcement Division • Southern Gothic • Southern true crime • Stranger beside me • the chair • The Hole • Tony Cimo • Trial • True Crime • true crime book • true crime books • true crime gifts • True stories • True story • true story books • victim • Walter Neely
• ISBN-10: 0-8065-4290-X / 080654290X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8065-4290-4 / 9780806542904